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Media creation settings

Media creation settings - Media Composer Tutorial

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Media creation settings

- [Instructor] When you import media into Media Composer so that means taking a copy and transcoding it into some other format, rather than linking to the original media file, there are some default settings. So if I right-click in a bin here and choose input and import media and go to options, you can see we've a default resolution and a drive for the media to go on to. Settings are applied here and I'll just cancel out and go into my project window so you can see this. We've got a media creation setting. This is a project setting which makes a lot of sense. It wouldn't really be a user setting you'd move from one machine to another. I'm going to go into this setting and let's take a look at the key options. First of all, we've got the option to filter out. That really just means hide specific drives that your Avid editing system might be able to see. Now by default, Avid will have access to any drives that your operating system shows it so if you find the drive in Finder on MacOS or…

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