Getting Assets into Your Media Composer Project

How it works...
The settings are separated by tabs, described as follows:

Drive filtering and indexing

ff Filter Network Drives Based on Resolution: Selecting this will not allow media files
to be placed on any network drives that Media Composer feels will not be able to
reliably capture or playback files of a particular resolution. For example, you open
your Capture Tool and set the resolution to 1:1. Then when you go to select a drive
to store your media files on, you may see that one is grayed out and not selectable.
If you then change your resolution to 3:1, you may find that it is now selectable as a
storage drive.
ff Filter Out System Drive: Selecting this will not allow the media files to be stored
on the same drive that your operating system is installed on.
ff Filter Out Launch Drive: Selecting this will not allow the media files to be stored
on the same drive that your Media Composer software is installed on.

Video resolution
Under each tab you can select a default resolution. You are not locked into this resolution.
Tools and dialog windows will still allow you to override this default whenever you want.

Apply to All: If you'd like to set a specific resolution and have it applied to all the different
media type tabs, rather than having to do it one by one, simply click on the Apply to
All button.

The benefit of breaking the media types into categories, such as Capture, Render, and
Import, is that you can then set different defaults for each. For example, on a project with
many hours of taped footage, you might elect to capture all of your footage at a low resolution
in order to increase how much media will fit onto your drive(s). This will mean that when the
project is creatively finished, you will go through a second process to recapture just the video
portions that are being used at a much higher resolution, a process frequently called the Up-
Res, so that the image quality will be higher. You may prefer to not have to go through a similar
process for all of the titles, still images, and motion graphics, so you could elect to set the
default for these media types at the level where you need them to be for the final master (for
example, 1:1).

Video drive/Audio drive

Under each tab, you can select a default location for the media types to be stored. You are not
locked into this. Various tools and dialog windows will still allow you to override this default
when desired.