Using international (non-US) versions of Avid Cinema 1.1.1 or earlier, you may notice strange characters or a message such as "48 sec ()" instead of the actual time remaining in the Disk Space Remaining field. This is due to the way Avid Cinema handles international number formats.
To temporarily avoid this, you can select the U.S. numbers format in the Numbers control panel. This behavior is corrected in Avid Cinema 1.1.2 and 1.1.3. Avid Cinema 1.1.3 should be available on Apple and Avid web sites by July 1997.
This article was published in the 16 June 1997 "Information Alley".