Specifications

Video Satellite Guide8
MXF Media Data Locations On the volumes you
have designated for media storage,
Media Composer stores all MXF media:
• When stored locally, MXF media is placed
in the Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1 folder.
Media Composer can also read MXF media
located at Avid MediaFiles/MXF/2, Avid
MediaFiles/MXF/3, and so on.
• When stored in a shared environment, MXF
media is placed in a folder called
Avid MediaFiles/MXF/client.1 (where client
represents the name of the client com-
puter).
This guide refers to the root folder name (Avid
MediaFiles) whenever referencing this folder.
OMF Media Data Locations On the volumes you
have designated as media drives, Media Com-
poser and Symphony store all OMF media in the
OMFI MediaFiles folder.
Metadata
Metadata is used to describe:
• Information about each media file. This
may include sample rate, bit depth, clip
names, the name of the videotape from
which the media file was captured, and
even timecode values that specify where a
file was used in a Pro Tools session.
• Information about Pro Tools sessions or
other sequences, including what files are
used, where they appear in a Timeline, and
automation.
• For AAF or OMF sequences, metadata also
includes information about unrendered
AudioSuite effects (such as real-time EQ)
on Avid workstations. Pro Tools skips un-
rendered effects on import. Rendered ef-
fects are media files, that can be imported
or skipped on import into Pro Tools.
• For AAF or OMF sequences, information
about clip-based gain, volume and pan au-
tomation.
Embedded Media and Linked
Media
There are two ways to handle media files when
exporting AAF or OMF files:
• Embedded media (in which the media files
are embedded in an AAF or OMF sequence)
• Linked media (in which media files are ref-
erenced by an AAF or OMF sequence)
Pro Tools lets you import AAF or OMF se-
quences containing embedded audio files. You
can also import AAF or OMF sequences contain-
ing embedded video files, but only if you are im-
porting them to a Video Satellite track. In such a
case, only the video metadata is imported.