Bin Locking

Mimiq offers both Bin Locking and Bin Refresh for a multitude of storage options.

Bin Locking stops others from overwriting your bins while you're working on them. It allows editors to collaborate, and was introduced by Avid in Media Composer.

With Bin Refresh, when changes occur on a bin locked by another editor, Media Composer will refresh a locked bin's state in your Project, exposing those changes. Bin Refresh also allows you to take command of a bin once it's no longer in use by another editor.

Lock States in Media Composer

Lock Color	Who's using this Bin?	Can you read the Bin?	Can you write to the Bin?
🟢	You	✅	✅
🔴	Someone else	✅	❌
🟡	Someone else	✅	❌
🔵	No one is at the moment	✅	✅

🟢 - You're in control with full read/write access to the Bin.

🔴 - Somebody else is working in this Bin. You have read-only access to it.

🟡 - The locked Bin you have open was updated. Click the Bin's padlock to see the latest version.

🔵 - The user who previously held the lock on this Bin has since released it. Click the padlock to acquire read/write access.

You must open this Bin on your computer while someone else is using it on their computer to see the lock change from 🔴 to 🌕 or 🔵.

SMB, NFS, and AFP

Bin Locking works out of the box on local network shares that use the SMB, AFP, and NFS protocols. These are typically NAS shares, but can also be a Mac or PC that share drives or folders.

RAID, SSD, and SAN

Through the Workspaces features, Mimiq can enable any folder (including the root of a drive) to work in Media Composer. This works for every type of block-based storage, including SSDs, HDDs, RAIDs and SANs.

Workspaces is a Pro feature.

Cloud Drives

Remote workflows often use cloud vendors like LucidLink and Suite Studios. Mimiq supports both of these directly, by recognizing their mount points and enabling them for Media Composer. Alternatively, you can ignore that drive and set up Workspaces. The latter also works for other cloud vendors that have not yet been certified for use with Mimiq.

Cloud Drive support is a Pro feature.

NEXIS

Mimiq packs a technology dubbed NEXIS Coexistence, which allows you to use any combination of NEXIS and third-party storage at the same time.

NEXIS Coexistence is a Pro feature.