Use RED WATCHDOG

RED^® Watchdog is a menu bar tool available for Mac^® OS X^® that enables you to manage permissions for mounted RED^® media. By default, media is mounted as “Read Only” to reduce the chance of file corruption or unintentional changes.

NOTE: RED Watchdog automatically installs and runs in the background when you install REDCINE-X PRO^®.

Change Media Permissions

1. Click (RED Watchdog) in the OS X menu bar.
2. Select Preferences... and go to the Settings Tab.
3. Select Read-Write from the Mount RED Media drop-down menu.

   

   Figure: RED Watchdog

Remount Media as Read/Write

1. Click (RED Watchdog) in the OS X menu bar.
2. Select the media that you want from the list of mounted RED media.
3. Select Remount Read/Write.

   RED Watchdog unmounts and remounts the media, enabling you to edit R3D^® files directly from the media.

Safely Eject Media

WARNING: Always properly eject media before removing it from the computer. Failure to safely eject media may result in corruption or lost files.

Methods of safely ejecting media on Mac OS X include:

• On the desktop, right-click a mounted drive and select Eject.
• On the desktop, select the media that you want to eject and press Command+E.
• On the menu bar, click (RED Watchdog) and select the media drive. Select Eject.
• Open Disk Utility. Select the mounted media that you want to eject and click Eject.
• In REDCINE-X PRO, go to the Import tab and right-click the media source. Select Eject.