9.5
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- Avid MediaLog
- Understanding Avid MediaLog
- Getting Started
- Working with the Project Window
- Logging Source Material
- Organizing with Bins
- Creating MediaLog Output
- Avid Log Specifications
- Working with a Film Project
- Avid MetaFuze
- Using Avid MetaFuze
- Film and High-Resolution Workflows using MetaFuze
- Opening a Project in MetaFuze
- Customizing the MetaFuze Window
- Scanning your Folders
- Transcoding your Files
- Configuring the MetaFuze Transcoder
- Using LUTs in MetaFuze
- Transcoding your Files in a Batch
- Exporting an ALE from MetaFuze
- Importing MXF Files into Avid Media Composer
- Avid MetaFuze Reference
- Using Avid MetaFuze
- Avid MetaSync
- MetaSync Overview and Installation
- Using MetaSync Manager
- Opening and Closing MetaSync Manager
- Using MetaSync Manager Help
- Exploring the MetaSync Manager Window
- Creating, Saving, and Closing an Enhancements File
- Opening an Enhancements File
- Creating an Enhancement
- Enhancement Attributes Reference
- Additional Enhancement Attributes in Spreadsheet
- Verifying Enhancement Paths
- Editing an Enhancements File
- Sorting and Sifting Enhancements
- Importing an Enhancements File
- Displaying ITV SMPTE-363M Enhancements
- Creating Enhancements File Templates
- Setting Default Options for Enhancements
- Printing an Enhancements File
- Running MetaSync Manager from the Command Line (Windows Only)
- MetaSync Manager Command-Line Syntax (Windows Only)
- Using MetaSync with Avid Editing Applications
- Importing Enhancements Files
- Viewing Enhancements in a Bin
- Working with Enhancements in the Bin
- Modifying the Bin Display for Enhancements
- Understanding ITV Modes
- Viewing Enhancements in a Source Monitor
- Editing Enhancements into the Timeline
- Editing with Overlay Mode (Windows Only)
- Previewing Enhancements in the Timeline (Windows Only)
- Using AutoSync with Enhancements
- Updating (Refreshing) Enhancements
- Understanding the Modify Enhancement Dialog Box
- Changing the Size and Position of the Video Image (Windows Only)
- Opening an Enhancement’s Native Application
- Exporting a Sequence with Meta Tracks
- Using MetaSync Publisher
- Avid EDL Manager
- Working with EDLs
- Edit Decision List (EDL)
- Avid EDL Manager
- Starting Avid EDL Manager
- Using Avid EDL Manager with your Avid Editing System
- Creating an EDL from a Bin or a File
- Saving an EDL
- Reading an Existing EDL from the RT-11 Disk
- Copying an EDL between Storage Locations Using RT-11 Disks
- Formatting an RT-11 Disk
- Viewing the Tape List in the Source Table
- Customizing EDLs
- Avid EDL Manager Settings
- Using the Avid EDL Manager Window
- Changing the Title of an EDL
- Video Tracks and Audio Channels in Avid EDL Manager
- Including or Excluding Specific Tracks in an EDL
- Assigning Sequence Tracks to EDL Tracks
- Combining or Isolating Tracks
- Creating Stereo Channels
- Displaying Different Views of an EDL
- Opening EDL Settings
- Selecting the EDL Format
- Timecode Format
- Setting the Source Timecode
- Setting the Record Timecode
- Changing Settings in the Options Window
- Choosing an EDL Type
- Selecting the Switcher
- Setting Source and Record Timecodes for all Project Types
- Selecting the Reel ID Type
- Sorting the Order of Events in an EDL
- Selecting the Pulldown Starting Frame
- Starting Event Number
- Setting the Starting Timecode
- Setting Up a Dupe List
- Using the Preread Option
- Adjusting the Options Tab Settings
- Setting the Tapename Truncation
- Selecting Options from the Comments Tab
- The Repair Notes Comment
- Saving Options to a File
- Changing Options in the Site Settings Dialog Box
- Editing and Troubleshooting EDLs
- Checklist for Online Editing
- Creating EDLs for Film Projects
- Using Serial Transfer to Transmit EDLs
- Working with EDLs
- Avid FilmScribe
- Understanding Film Lists
- Working with FilmScribe
- FilmScribe Workflow
- How to Start and Quit FilmScribe
- The FilmScribe Interface
- Working with Bins
- The Cut List Tool and the Change List Tool
- The Options Pane
- The List Window
- How to View Sequences as QuickTime Movies
- How to Save, Open, and Print Lists
- Special-Purpose Templates
- Multiple Cuts and Reels
- The Matchback Option
- Film List Options
- Preparing Sequences for FilmScribe
- Index
7 Avid Log Specifications
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Sample Avid Log
This is a sample Avid log for an NTSC video project.
Formatting keys (such as [Tab] and [Enter] (Windows) or [Return] (Macintosh)) display in
brackets.
Sample Avid log (Windows)
<source tape ID> [Tab] Under Tape Title. Enter the source videotape ID for this clip only.
<clip description> [Tab] Under DESCRIPT Title. Describe the clip.
<clip comments> [Tab] Under COMMENTS Title. Comment on the clip.
<information> [Tab] Under the Titles you create, type the appropriate information.
[Enter] or [Return] Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh) after the last entry
for the clip.
Do not press Tab after the last entry for the clip.
Enter an additional line of data for each remaining clip.
Heading [Enter]
FIELD_DELIM [Tab] TABS [Enter]
VIDEO_FORMAT [Tab] NTSC [Enter]
AUDIO_FORMAT [Tab] 44kHz [Enter]
TAPE [Tab] 001 [Enter]
FPS [Tab] 29.97 [Enter]
[Enter]
Column [Enter]
Name [Tab] Tracks [Tab] Start [Tab] End [Enter]
[Enter]
Data [Enter]
CU Josh & Mary [Tab] V [Tab] 01:00:00:00 [Tab] 01:15:05:00 [Enter]
CU Josh [Tab] VA1 [Tab] 01:15:06:00 [Tab] 01:20:00:00 [Enter]