User Manual

Understanding User Profiles
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A dialog box opens asking if you want to close and save all opened bins.
3. Click OK.
This operation deletes cached data for the online master clips only. Memory might also be
used by other parts of your Avid editing application and will not be reduced by using the
Clear Memory button.
Understanding User Profiles
User profiles let you switch between settings without having to log out of your system and log
back in under a different user name.
User profiles let you establish separate settings for different editing functions. User “Jane,” for
example, can have separate profiles for “Audio editor,” “Film editor,” or for “Assistant 1,”
“Assistant 2,” and so on.
User profile folders are kept in the following folder:
You can do the following with user profiles:
• Create new user profiles
• Switch between user profiles
• Return to the original user profile
• Import settings from another user or user profile
• Create a user profile on one system, export it to a server, and then import the same user
profile from another system to the new system.
When you export a user profile, you can select either a Personal or Group profile.
- When you select Personal, the user profile performs an auto-load and an auto-save every
time you open a project. Every time the user profile is updated, it saves the new profile
information. For example, you can create the user profile Jennie on one system, export it
Windows XP drive:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents\Avid editing
application\Avid Users\UserName
Windows Vista and
Windows 7
drive:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Avid editing application\Avid
Users\UserName
Macintosh /Users/Shared/Avid editing application/Avid Users/UserName