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Avid Auto Save – during and after Render, can I turn off?
Hi All,
Whilst I admit autosave is a good invention, I seem to have too much of a good thing and my Avid MC 5 is constantly interrupting me or itself to save. It saves at the start of a render and then again at the end, each time takes a few seconds and holds everything up.
I’m sure you used to be able to turn off Save After Render but I could be wrong. I’ve changed the auto save and turned off the force save to no avail.
Any ideas?
Please noone say – “You should leave it on eles you’ll forget”, CTRL-S or Apple-S is like a nervous twitch for me and I always do it!!
Best
Alex
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The next time you crash right after a long render you might not feel the same…
Just sayin’
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Set the autosave to 5 min.
Set the time to 20 seconds
Set the force autosave to 15 min.Now, every 5 min the avid will save IF you’re not doing anything for a stretch of 20 min. At the 15 min mark, REGARDLESS, it’ll autosave.
Best,
Jeff G
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Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
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If you configure your keyboard with a render keystroke (I use the tilde key beside the 1 key), it won’t autosave at the end of the render. That makes no sense but that’s the way it is.
Two notes on that trick:
First, also put the ALT key on your render keystroke so that it doesn’t ask you to select a render drive everytime you render.
Second, the render behavior is a bit different from using “Render in to out” or “render at position”. If you have selected clips in the timeline, it will render those clips regardless of any track selection or mark in mark out. If you have nothing selected, it will act like “render at position”.
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