AVID - How to download and create AVID Project Tomato on a personal computer - A. Lewis

When they are finished the progress circle will complete and there will be a zipped folder in your downloads folder

Open the zipped folders

You don't need the zipped files anymore you can trash them but wait till we're done setting up the AVID Project

Then open Media Composer

click on "New Project"

then click on the folder icon to navigate to where you want to save your project then

Name the Project "Beauty" - YOUR Name

Set the Format 30i

Aspect Ratio 4:3

Color Space YCbCr 601

Choose Create

Now import the files into AVID

In the open BIN right click in the bin and go to

>Input>Import Media

On the Image Tab

Make sure you choose

Image Sized for current format

Do not modify Color Levels

Choose Lover Field First

Alpha Channel Ignore

Then click OK to set the import settings

Navigate to your downloads folder and select the files all beauty files you downloaded

Next Choose the Resolution as

Apple ProRes 422 Proxy

Choose your storage drive as the file destination for import and then

Select the 4 Beauty files to import

The files will take a while to import but after that you can start editing.

As the files complete importing they will load into the bin.