User Manual

11 Managing Media Files

When you capture footage, the system creates digital media files on the media drives connected

to your system. In addition to the bins where you organize the clips that reference these media

files, your Avid editing application provides tools for directly managing these media files. These

tools and features are described in the following topics:

• Working with Media Files in an Avid Interplay Environment

• Using Avid Editing Systems in an Avid LANshare Workgroup

• Viewing Media with a 100Base-T Connection to Avid ISIS

• Understanding Drive Mounting

• Mounting and Unmounting Drives

• Using the Media Tool

• Consolidating Media

• Using the Consolidate Command

• Using the Transcode Command

• Background Consolidate and Transcode

• Loading the Media Database

• Refreshing Media Directories

• Deleting Unreferenced Clips and Media

• Backing Up Media Files

In an Avid Interplay environment, your Avid editing application uses the Interplay Media Indexer

service to keep track of media files in the locations that you identify. As a result, features such as

the Media tool and relinking work differently in an Interplay environment. This chapter includes

notes and cross-references where appropriate. For more information, see “Using MultiRez and

Dynamic Relink” on page 1245 as well as the Interplay documentation.