Medianet Macintosh Fibre Channel Quick Start Card

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Avid Unity™ Macintosh® Fibre Channel Client Quick Start Card

Logging In 6. Type your user name in the Name text box. 7. Type your password in the Password text box. To log in to MediaNet: 8. Click OK. A dialog box appears, showing the work- 1. Select the Chooser from the Apple menu. The spaces you can mount on your desktop. Chooser window opens.

2. Click the Avid Unity™ icon in the upper-left portion of the window. Mounting Workspaces 3. Select your MediaNet File Manager name in the Select an Avid File Server list box. To mount a MediaNet workspace: n Your File Manager name might be different. 1. Select the workspace name you want to mount. If you want to mount more than one workspace, 4. Click OK. The Connect to dialog box appears. Shift+click the additional workspace names. 2. Make sure that the “Synchronize time with server” check box is selected. This synchronizes your MediaNet client time to the MediaNet File Manager time and helps prevent time-related file creation and access problems. 3. Click OK. The selected workspaces appear on the desktop. Or, click Cancel to end the login procedure.

Changing Your Password

To change your MediaNet password: 5. Determine how you want to log in: 1. Select the Chooser from the Apple menu. The Chooser window opens. • Click Guest if you don’t have an assigned user name. The administrator might have given 2. Click the Avid Unity icon in the upper-left portion of Guest limited access and permissions to work the window. with files. Continue with step 8. 3. Select your MediaNet File Manager name in the • Click Registered User if you have an assigned Select an Avid File Server list box. user name. 0519601A_QS.fm Page 2 Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:40 PM

4. Click OK. The Connect to dialog box appears. Sharing Media Files

If you cannot see media files after digitizing on another MediaNet client: 1. Make sure you have the correct workspace mounted on your MediaNet client. 2. On the client that digitized the files, close the Digitize tool and choose Refresh Media Directories from the File menu. 3. On each client that wants to play the media files, choose Load Media Database from the File menu. The missing media files should now be available.

5. Click Registered User. If you have shared media files that appear as MEDIA OFFLINE: 6. Type your user name in the Name text box. 7. Click Set Password. The Change Password dialog 1. Choose Load Media Database from the File menu. box appears. The missing media files should now be available. 2. Check with other users who have access to the media files to make sure that they were not deleted. If the files were deleted, you need to redigitize them. 3. Try to locate the media files using the Media tool. n Make sure that you have only the necessary workspaces mounted on your MediaNet client when running the Media tool. It will run very slowly if you have many work- 8. Type your current password in the Old password text spaces mounted on your client. box. 4. Quit the Avid Composer application and restart it. 9. Type your new password in the New password text box. 10. Click OK. A message appears, asking you to reenter Unmounting Workspaces your new password for confirmation. To unmount a MediaNet workspace: 1. Select the MediaNet workspace that you no longer want to use. If you want to unmount more than one workspace, Shift+click the additional workspace icons. 2. Drag the workspaces to the Trash. The icons are removed from the desktop. 11. Click OK. The Confirm password dialog box appears. 12. Type your new password in the New password text Logging Out box. 13. Click OK. A message appears, telling you that your To log out of MediaNet: password was changed. Click Cancel to leave your 1. Quit your Avid Composer software. current password active. 2. Select all of the MediaNet workspaces on the desktop. 3. Drag them to the Trash. 0519601A_QS.fm Page 3 Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:40 PM

Workspace Resize Utility

You can use the Workspace Resize Utility to view the workspaces that you have mounted. You need permission from your MediaNet Administrator to change workspace sizes.

To resize a workspace: 1. Navigate to the Avid Unity folder. 2. Double-click the Workspace Utility. A Login dialog box appears. 3. Enter your MediaNet user name and password. The Workspace Utility window opens with a list of the workspaces you can access.

4. Select a workspace by clicking its icon in the Work- space Name column. 5. Click Resize. The Resize Workspace dialog box appears. n If you do not have read/write access to the workspace you selected, you are allowed to resize it.

6. Use the resize slider, or type a number in the Size text box, to change the size of the workspace. To return to the workspace’s current size and start over, click Reset. n The minimum size for the workspace is equal to either 1 GB (the minimum size for any workspace) or the amount of the workspace’s storage that is already used. You cannot make a workspace smaller than the amount of data it cur- rently contains. 7. When the new workspace size is set, click Resize. The workspace’s new size is reflected in the Workspace Utility window. 0519601A_QS.fm Page 4 Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:40 PM