Turning Off Your Equipment

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To turn off your equipment without damaging your computer or media storage drives:

Quit the Avid application before turning off your equipment. See Quitting the Avid Application.

Turn off the system:

(Windows) Select Start > Shut Down.

(Macintosh) Select Apple menu > Shut Down.

Turn off your speakers and monitors.

Never remove drives from your Avid system when it is turned on.

Turn off each drive.

Move your drives only when the system is completely off.

Turn off all other hardware.

Some features described in Help are available only in Avid Xpress Pro or Avid Xpress DV. For more information about Avid Free DV go to