User Manual

Working with the Desktop
40
• Disable screen savers.
• Do not keep media on the same partition where you install your Avid editing application.
Avid recommends external media drives.
• Always use small fonts with the display driver to avoid missing characters in the dialog
boxes in your Avid editing application.
• After you move a drive from one system to another, restart your system. Windows does not
recognize the drive until you restart.
• Ensure you do not accidentally delete locked items from your desktop.
Right-click the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop > Properties > General tab > Display
delete confirmation dialog.
• When you advance by single frames through the Timeline, deselect Render On-the Fly to
enable faster response time.
In your Avid editing application, deselect Clip > Render On-the-Fly
• Do not name files with special characters (/ \ : ? ” < > | *). Windows does not recognize
special characters in file names. Bin names are limited to 27 characters (not including the
four characters reserved for the file name extension).
• Do not schedule automatic backups at times when your Avid editing system might be in use.
• Do not run any application that includes prescheduled or automatically scheduled activities,
such as a calendar program.
• Do not leave other applications running. Some applications, such as Microsoft Office, run
background processes.
• Do not allow the Find Fast background process (find.exe) to run. The process tries to update
its cache of file and folder locations. Check your Startup folder, and delete the file if it is
there. To locate the find.exe, select Start > Search > find.exe.
Optimum Performance (Macintosh)
The following list contains suggestions for ensuring optimum performance when working with
your Avid editing application on a Macintosh system:
• Do not select the option that puts the hard disk to sleep when possible.
In System Preferences > Hardware Energy Saver, deselect Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when
possible.
• Set sleep options to Never in Energy Saver preference.
In System Preferences > Hardware Energy Saver, select Never.
• Disable screensavers.
In System Preferences > Personal Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver, select Never.