Specifications

Chapter 3: Video Satellite Workflows 23
Chapter 3: Video Satellite Workflows
This chapter describes the following workflows
for using Pro Tools with Media Composer or
Symphony configured as a video satellite:
• Changing Video Output Settings
• Cross-mounting media storage on remote
systems
• Opening Avid sequences that have been de-
livered to you in an Avid bin
• Opening AAF sequences that have been ex-
ported from another Avid application or
Pro Tools
• Connecting Pro Tools to a satellite
• Linking Pro Tools to a satellite
• Capturing audio and video
• Batch capturing audio and video
• Laying back audio and video
• Digitally exporting audio and video
Changing Video Output
Settings
This section describes how to change the follow-
ing video output settings for projects in Media
Composer or Symphony:
•Video quality
•Full-screen playback settings
Changing Video Quality
The Media Composer or Symphony Timeline in-
cludes a Video Quality icon that lets you change
the video quality. This setting is saved for each
project.
Click the icon to change the video quality as fol-
lows:
Draft Quality (Yellow/Green) Outputs a 1/4-reso-
lution picture to all the monitors, but allows
more real-time video effects. This is the default
setting for every new project.
Best Performance Quality (Yellow) Outputs
1/16-resolution and supports the most real-time
effects, but is the lowest-quality output.
Full Quality (Green) Outputs full resolution pic-
ture using the attached video peripheral. The
DVI output is always Draft quality unless you
select both Full Quality in the Video Quality
Menu and Display Both Fields in the in the Full
Screen Playback dialog. When combined with
the Display Both Fields option in the Full Screen
Video Quality icon (at the bottom of the Timeline)
Full quality
Best Performance
quality
Draft quality