Avid Assistant

Every Avid operator should have a thorough understanding of Media Composers Attic. At some stage in your editing career, you will need to rescue an edit from within the Attic, either owing to accidental deletion or plain old-fashioned corruption not allowing a bin to be opened. The Attic is your friend, so let's get to know it a little better. What does the Attic do? Avid editing systems allow you to organise your edits and clips into 'Bins.' If these bins become damaged or content accidently deleted from it then thsi can cause and issue. Avid saves a copy of your opened bins and after a fixed period of time (usually every 15mins by deafult) the bin is saved into a specific location, the Attic. Where is the Attic? On standalone Avid systems the Avid Attic is usually found in one location. PC: \users\public\documents\avid media composer\avid attic\ Mac: /users/shared/avid media composer/avid attic/ What's in the Attic? There is a folder inside the Avi...