User Manual

Mounting and Unmounting Drives
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On systems with multiple media drives, unmounting unused drives can improve the performance
of the Media tool. You need to unmount the drives before you open the Media tool. See “Using
the Media Tool” on page 443.
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If you need to physically add or remove drives, see the documentation that came with your
drive. You cannot physically add or remove drives from your Avid editing application.
Before you physically remove or add drives, shut down your system completely.
Mounting and Unmounting Drives
For more information on mounting and unmounting drives, see “Understanding Drive
Mounting” on page 442.
To mount all drives:
t Select File > Mount All.
All drives turned on and connected to the system become available to your Avid
editing application.
To unmount a drive or make a drive unavailable to your Avid editing application:
1. With your Avid editing application running, select File > Unmount.
The Unmount Disk or Drives dialog box opens.
The list displays all drives currently available.
2. Select a drive to unmount.
3. Ctrl+click (Windows) or Command+click (Macintosh) to select additional drives.
4. Click Unmount.
The drives are no longer available to your Avid editing application.
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If you receive an error message that prevents you from unmounting a drive, it might be that you
have Avid Media Access (AMA) enabled. AMA does not require you to mount and unmount
drives. AMA is on by default. To turn off AMA (and unmount your drive), see “Selecting the AMA
Settings” on page 378.
Using the Media Tool
The Media tool is your window into the captured video and audio data files stored on your media
drives. The Media tool provides similar database tools for manipulating digital media files to
those provided by bins for manipulating clips and sequences.