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Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Understanding MediaLog
- Getting Started
- Logging Source Material
- Organizing Clips and Bins
- Creating MediaLog Output
- Avid Log Specifications
- Using Help
- Opening and Closing the Help System
- How Help Windows Work
- Finding Information with the Help Topics Dialog Box
- Using Buttons in a Help Topic
- Printing Help Topics
- Copying Information from a Help Topic
- Changing the Font Size of Help Topics
- Keeping Help on Top
- Changing the Color of Help Windows
- Adding a Note to a Help Topic
- Regulatory and Safety Notices
- Index
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CHAPTER 1
Understanding MediaLog
This chapter answers the following questions:
• What Is M ediaLog?
• How Does MediaLog Work?
• What Are the Basic Logging Steps?
What Is MediaLog?
MediaLog is a tool that helps you select and log footage before your
edit session. Although you can log footage w ith Avid editing system
products, using MediaLog can free up your Avid editing system for
editing rather than for logging footage. After logging shots, you can
use your Avid editing system to digitize and edit the footage. In addi-
tion, you can transfer film to National Television Standards Committee
(NTSC) or Phase Alternating Line (PAL) video, use MediaLog to log
the material, and then transfer the logged shots to an Avid editing sys-
tem for digitizing and editing.
MediaLog is portable; you can install it on a laptop and on most desk-
top computers that are running the Windows NT
®
or Windows
®
98
operating system. To log clips from a source tape, your computer must
be connected to a deck that uses Sony
®
serial deck protocol. MediaLog
allows you to control the deck while viewing your source tapes and