Set up Avid e-mail notifications to get updates to your cellphone.

Every week, Frame.io Insider asks one among our skilled contributors to share a tip, instrument, or approach that they use on a regular basis and couldn’t dwell with out. This week, Jack Brown shares the way to arrange Avid e-mail notifications.

As long-form editors, we frequently cope with giant timelines. This can typically result in lengthy wait occasions when exporting, rendering or consolidating/transcoding media. Staring on the progress bar gained’t make it transfer quicker, however what if Avid may inform you when it’s completed?

That’s the place Avid’s e-mail operate is available in. This has been within Avid Media Composer for so long as I can keep in mind (I began utilizing Avid in 2010 on v3.5) and works very reliably as soon as arrange.

How to arrange Avid e-mail notifications

• Just go into your consumer settings and discover the setting labeled “Email”.
• Double click on and you can see the setup menu for e-mail notifications.

On the left are the fields the place we arrange our e-mail login. (You can get any information you don’t know just like the SMTP server from a quick Google of your email provider.) On the suitable, you possibly can arrange the duties you need notifications for, the e-mail you need to use, and a useful button to ship a check e-mail.

I strongly advocate utilizing this as soon as you’re feeling such as you’ve entered every thing appropriately. When you’ve efficiently acquired the check, you gained’t have to the touch this setting once more. (Don’t overlook to examine your Junk/Spam folder.)

Set your cellphone to inform you instantly when emails come by way of and you may seize a while away out of your desk whilst you look forward to Avid to complete. It’ll ping you when it’s completed.