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Viewing Media with a 100Base-T Connection to Avid ISIS
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Viewing Media with a 100Base-T Connection to Avid
ISIS
Avid editors can access MPEG-2 low-resolution video and MPEG-1 Layer II (or MP2)
compressed audio stored on an Avid ISIS media network. This is useful if you connect to the
media network with a 100Base-T connection in a Zone 3 configuration, instead of the higher
bandwidth connection used for Avid ISIS clients in a Zone 1 or Zone 2 configuration. For more
information on Avid ISIS media networks, see the Avid ISIS Setup Guide.
You cannot output, consolidate, or transcode media using MP2 compressed audio. Instead, use
dynamic relink to link the low-resolution media to the high-resolution source media stored on the
media network. You can then output or transcode the high-resolution media.
Understanding Drive Mounting
By default, all media drives connected to your system are listed and can be seen by your Avid
editing application. You can remove one or more drives from the list at any time by using the
Unmount command. For example, if you want to use only some of your drives for a particular
project, select Unmount to prevent other drives from appearing in your Avid editing application.
If the drive being ejected supports the auto-eject feature (for example, Jaz
®
drives), the command
ejects the disk from the drive. The Unmount command does not remove drives from the
Windows system.
You can unmount one or several drive volumes mounted on the desktop at any time from within
your Avid editing application. You can also remount all the drives and return them to the
desktop. However, you cannot mount selected drives because your Avid editing application
cannot interface with selected drive individually. For more information, see “Mounting and
Unmounting Drives” on page 443.
This is useful in several circumstances:
• If you work with optical drives for backup and retrieval of low-resolution material, you can
unmount drives and mount them as needed to avoid cluttering the desktop during normal
use.
• If you work with an extensive array of fixed-storage drives, which might involve many
partitions divided among several projects, you can selectively mount and unmount drives
according to use.
• If you work with an Avid shared storage environment, you might have to unmount and
remount icons on the desktop. See “Working with Bins and Projects in an Avid Shared
Storage Environment” on page 100.