As of September 2022, PostLab's Remote Locking for Media Composer is End Of Life and replaced by Mimiq Pro.
The following documentation is only available for legacy reasons.
For Avid Media Composer, Bin Locking is the preferred mechanism for collaboration. Once Remote Locking is enabled for your PostLab Team, Avid Media Composer recognizes PostLab Drive as third-party shared storage. Teams of Avid editors can then work together using Shared Bins with Bin Locking in shared Avid Projects.
At Hedge, we like to make things uncomplicated. But, Avid being Avid, you must set up your computer correctly first: Requirements
Only the Team Owner (not a Team Member with an Owner Role) can enable or disable Remote Locking for each Team Member. To verify whether you're the Team Owner or a Team Member, go to Settings... > Account > TEAMS.
Once Remote Locking is enabled for that Team Member, it's automatically activated on all Drives and Workspaces they're allowed to access.
POSTLAB CLOUD > Drive: Remote Locking Enabled
Go to POSTLAB CLOUD > Drive and click Connect next to the desired Drive or Workspace.
In Avid Media Composer
Once PostLab Drive is connected, launch Media Composer (not the other way around), then create a shared Project (or upload and open one) from PostLab Drive.
When Media Composer prompts you with the non-Avid storage alert, click Yes.
Media Composer 2018.12.15
Media Composer 2021.9 and newer
Then you can start working.
Shared Bins opened from PostLab Drive will display:
The Team Member's Computer Name currently accessing it.
A lock status indicator.
Confirm Remote Locking is Enabled in Avid Media Composer
If you need to confirm Remote Locking is enabled on your Drive or Workspace, confirm these preferences and settings in Media Composer:
✅ Avid Media Composer > About Avid Media Composer > Hardware > Avid NEXIS Drives: your Team's Drive or Workspace is listed.
Avid Media Composer > About Avid Media Composer > Hardware > Avid NEXIS Drives
✅ Settings > General > Enable Bin Sharing on 3rd Part storage emulating Avid NEXIS/ISIS
Settings > General > Enable Bin Sharing on 3rd Part storage emulating Avid NEXIS/ISIS
✅ Settings > Project > Media Creation: your Team's Drive or Workspace appears as a selectable destination.
Apple discontinued support for macOS Mojave 10.14 in November 2021. The final update for macOS Mojave is Security Update 2021-005 (Mojave), which results in Version 10.14.6 (18G9323).
If you must continue working in a macOS 10.14 Mojave and/or Avid Media Composer 2018 environment, consider using Mimiq 18.1, available with the purchase of Mimiq Pro.
