Specifications

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Capturing Tape-Based Media
2. Click the Media Type tab, and select either OMF or MXF. (OMF stands
for Open Media Framework, and MXF stands for Material Exchange
Format; MXF is selected by default.)
3. Click the Capture tab, then click the Video Resolution menu, and finally
select a video resolution.
4. Select the drive to which you want the media to be captured.
5. To apply your drive selection to al l the Media Creat ion t abs and the
rest of the application, click Apply to All.
6. Click OK to save your settings.
7. (Optional) To avoid accidentally capturing media to your system drive
or launch drive—usually the C:/ drive (Windows) or Macintosh HD
(Macintosh)—it’s a good idea to select the Filter Out System Drive and
Filter Out Launch Drive check boxes on the Drive Filtering & Indexing
tab. It’s not good practice to capture media to the same drive partition
where Media Composer is installed because of the increased chance
of media corruption.
NOTE Both MXF
and OMF are industry-
standard, platform-
independent file formats
that let you exchange
media- and sequence-
editing information
between applications.
These formats are essen-
tially wrappers for media
files; your format choice
will not affect the quality
of the media. Your choice
will, however, affect which
additional applications
can use your media.
Most Avid assets are
captured as MXF files.
However, if you’re work-
ing with an older Avid
system, you may work
with OMF (or OMFI)
media. (If your project
uses HD resolution, you
cannot select OMF as a
file format.)
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