User`s guide

AVoption & AVoption XL Guide16
Pro Tools to Avid
When a drive is being sent from a Pro Tools sys-
tem to an Avid picture workstation, the drive
should be initialized as HFS using ExpressPro-
Tools. When an Avid system is inheriting files
from Pro Tools, a “finder copy” of these files
may be necessary to transfer them from the
Pro Tools drive to an Avid/AU2 initialized drive.
If a drive is sent from a Pro Tools system to an
Avid workstation so that files can be consoli-
dated and copied to that drive for use on
Pro Tools, the same procedure is required. The
drive should be initialized as HFS in ExpressPro-
Tools before being mounted on the Avid work-
station.
Media Management
It is recommend that you dedicate one SCSI
channel to audio drives and one SCSI channel to
video drives. Doing this will help you to keep
the data bandwidth balanced on your system
(and avoid the necessity of constantly moving
files around to consolidate bandwidth).
If your Pro Tools system is mounting an inter-
change drive originated by an Avid picture
workstation, it is recommended that this inter-
change drive be installed on the SCSI bus dedi-
cated to video data.
If your Pro Tools system receives an ADU2 drive
with data from an Avid picture workstation, it
recommended that you do not record additional
audio files or tracks onto this drive.
AVoption Video Connections
The ABVB Video Cable
AVoption includes a cable that provides nine
coaxial video connections to connect video and
sync components of your system to the ABVB
card.
To connect the ABVB cable to the ABVB card:
1 Remove the ABVB cable from the protective
plastic bag.
2 Connect the single connector end to the
matching connector on the ABVB card.
3 Tighten the screws to lock the cable in place.
Video Connectors on the ABVB Cable
GL IN This “Gen Lock” connector is used to con-
nect the ABVB card to an external reference
video (black burst) source.
CV OUT This connector provides Composite
Video out. You can use this output to connect
an NTSC or PAL video monitor for video view-
ing. You can also connect this output to a com-
posite input on your VTR.
ABVB video connector cable