If not, go to Tools > Project (or Avid Media Composer > Preferences…) and click the Settings tab: You can control almost every setting about your system and project from this place. Once you’re in a project, you can access the Settings by going to the Project panel, which should be open by default. You can always change your destination drives and folders once you understand your workflow. If you’re on a single system, let Avid set its defaults at the beginning. It is the job of the system designer to ensure a good folder structure and drive architecture is maintained. The User settings are similarly structured:īackups are written to a folder with the title ‘Avid Attic’. *.avd – information related to bins, one file per bin created.It has a sub-folder with the following structure: Remember, when you choose names of objects, bins, folders, etc., keep it under 27 characters.Ī project is stored in …Documents/Avid Projects/NameOfYourProject. The codecs you have installed will show up in the light-grey box. All other resolutions are forced to work in YCbCr 709. We’ll look at how Avid Media Composer handles high resolution media and color space a bit later. The choices here will depend on what plug-ins you have installed on your system. Raster Dimension is the resolution, of which, you’ll only have 1920×1080 by default. Unlike what is shown above, you must uncheck ‘Film’ if you’re not working from film. Under Format, you have options from standard definition to 1080p with the frame rates 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 50 and 59.94 only. To create a new project, click on New Project: There is a fourth type, called ‘Synced’ projects, but we won’t be going into that in this series. External – the project can be stored anywhere on the network.Shared – project is stored locally but can be accessed over a network.Private – only accessible to the computer it is on.When you first launch Avid Media Composer, you’ll be required to select two things:
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