How to Prevent Offline Media Using Media Creation Settings in Avid Media Composer

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This tutorial explains how to use Media Creation settings to prevent offline media in Avid Media Composer. Avid Media Composer’s Media Creation settings allow you to set what drive and resolution media is created to.

TL;DR set this drive and resolution when you first open up a project so the next time you open the project none of your media is offline because it was created to the correct drive.

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