This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Attic Weirdness- Is it a bad Gotcha?

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Attic Weirdness- Is it a bad Gotcha?

If you don't have anyone else on your machine, then the SITE settings won't have any bearing.

As a point of information for those unfamiliar:

There are three kinds of settings in Avid: User settings, that are the same for any given user on ALL projects; Project settings, which are the same for every USER; and SITE settings, which are universal, FORCED settings that are the same for ALL Users and ALL projects.

Some examples:
AUDIO PROJECT SETTING is a Project setting, so if I set it to 48K and then you open that project up using your user settings, the project remains at 48K because 48K is set for the entire project.

BIN VIEWS are USER SETTINGS, so if I create a custom bin view with all kinds of important custom columns, and then you log on to my Avid using YOUR user settings, you won't see those important columns in my bins.

Also, MEDIA CREATION is a Project setting.

Now, if you are in an environment where you want to FORCE All new projects to be created using 48K audio, you can go to the Special Menu and open the Site Setting option. This will open a very small empty window. You can drag any of your user or project settings into that empty window and whatever the settings are - like 48K audio in the Audio Project setting, or DNxHD 45 in the Media Creation Setting, or a specific bin view - will be FORCED on all future USER settings and all future new PROJECTS. This is a great thing. I remember when Avid was allowed to store stuff at DV25 resolution. The first few projects I started I accidentally captured HOURS of material at DV25 quality when I wanted to have it captured at 2:1. Using SITE settings, I went to the Capture Setting, set it to 2:1 and that forced all future projects to capture using 2:1... You can CHANGE the setting in each individual project later if you WANT to capture at DV25 or 1:1 or DNxHD220, but it at least gets things started in the right direction.

If you have a user setting or a project setting that you want all of the other projects to "default" to that, or all future users to "default" to, then use SITE settings. One of the HUGE ones that I always add on new systems is to change the BIN settings to a well-thought out number of saved bins and then save that bin setting as a SITE setting, so that one user's site settings don't blow out a bunch of important bins.

Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"

On Feb 26, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Tony Breuer tonybreuer@mac.com> wrote:

> Thanks Steve. I think maybe the name might have something to do with it so I have changed the name to _____Current Sequence.
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