Using the Media Manager Tool with Multiple Computers

If you have multiple computers in your production environment, you can easily share media libraries.

The following guidelines will help you make the most of your media libraries in a multicomputer setup:

• Save your media in shared folders where all necessary users have access.

• Use common drive letters or UNC (universal naming convention) paths for the folders where your media files and libraries are stored on all computers.
  
  For example, your media files could be in a shared folder called \\studio_a\media ("studio a" is the computer name, and "media" is the name of the shared folder), or you could map the shared folder "media" to drive letter M for all computers.

• After tagging your media or otherwise changing properties, save the metadata to the media files by clicking the Save Tags and Properties to Files button . Saving this information in the files makes the information more portable across computers.