This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] How to exclude a drive in Avid

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] How to exclude a drive in Avid

Roger,

Thank you for my new editing word of the day.

bodge: informal to make a mess of; botch

informal: to make or adjust in a false or clumsy way: I bodged the figures.

Right up there with upbraid and defenestrated!

Cheers,

Robert Alsop @
Red Truck

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger" <rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] How to exclude a drive in Avid

> Your 'solution' is what even the Avid engineers use, Steve, but it is a
> bodge as I'm sure you appreciate. Allowing selected users access to some
> workspaces/partitions is something that needs to be addressed properly.
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> On 10 Jun 2012, at 19:53, Steve Hullfish wrote:
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>> You are correct. So there are two problems here really. The way to solve
>> the issue of having a Unity workspace reserved exclusively for Avid
>> Projects instead of Avid MEDIA is to FAKE the Avid MediaFiles folder.
>> Create a dummy of it using a texteditor so that the Avid THINKS that
>> there is a MediaFiles folder, because you don't want it to create a NEW
>> one, but to have to be something that CAN'T be written to.
>>
>> THAT solves the problem of accidentally writing media to a drive where
>> you want NO media, but sometimes the real problem is to allow SOME people
>> to read and write media to a specific drive or workspace, but not
>> EVERYONE. I don't have a solution for THAT one, but it's clearly
>> something that would be good. In Unity, I think you can assign
>> permissions. Not so much with shared drives or specific drives on a
>> system other than Unity.
>>
>> Steve Hullfish
>> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
>> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
>>
>> On Jun 10, 2012, at 5:25 AM, Roger wrote:
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>> > My specific concern was inexperienced users chucking media on to drives
>> > or partitions that they are not supposed to be using. For instance, in
>> > a newsroom, there is often a Unity workspace designated for shared
>> > projects, not media. Your idea would not work as the Avid system would
>> > simply create a new MediaFiles folder.
>> >
>> > On 10 Jun 2012, at 03:03, Steve Apter wrote:
>> >
>> > > I always just add the project name to the end of the Avid Media Files
>> > > folder when I want to keep it separate. This disables the folder from
>> > > further writing.
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> With best wishes,
> Roger Shufflebottom
> +44 7973 543 660
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