Hello Everyone,

I think native, flexible media managementis lacking in Avid. "Have you tried Media Tool?", you might ask. Here's my problem with Media Tool - it's not easy to use. For example:

1. An Assistant Editor finishes logging, then wants to transfer the project to an Editor. He'll bundle up the assets in one folder, grab the Avid project folder, and send them over to the Editor. Might be over the network (peer-to-peer) or through sneaker net.

2. An Editor finishes his project, and wants to do a backup. Same as before - he'll bundle up the assets, grab the Avid project, and store them on backup drives.

3. We produce events that require last-minute changes. Plus, there's on-location editing that requires gathering assets from multiple users. So bundling all the assets you need before traveling is critical. Hotel networks aren't built for large file transfers.

For years, the alternatives were MediaMover and MDV. MediaMover can do all the above, but MDV is the best I've ever used. It's simple, easy, and fast.

Here's the problem with MDV. (Problems, really.)

1. It's Windows only. There are ways of making it work in OS X, but you hate them all. How do I know? Because it keeps coming up.
2. It has limitations in Wine - neither bin sifting nor folder scanning works.
3. It's abandoned.

So what would it take to create a native OS X media management tool?

First, we need to know what we're working with, the data. Are there available file specs on:

1. Media Stream Managers (MSM's)
2. Projects
3. Bins
4. Metadata layout on individual MXF's

Is it just a matter of asking someone from Avid HQ? Do you know anybody?

It's clear we need something. But everyone's busy, you know... editing. Plus you're thinking, "What can I do? I'm not a programmer!" Well, I'm an anomaly. I do what you do, but I also have some development/IT chops. They just need some refreshing. And this project would be worth refreshing them.

So what do you think? Is it worth making the next MDV? Are there any others like me who would be interested in contributing? Do you have any contacts that could help point me in a direction?

Thanks!

Due to the discontinuation of Sorenson Squeeze by Sorenson, Avid can no longer offer Sorenson Squeeze either for purchase or as part of a Media Composer | Subscription or Production Pack bundle.

Customers who have purchased Sorenson Squeeze can continue to use it while the license is valid.

Customers who have purchased the Production Pack can continue to use Sorenson Squeeze while the license is still valid. They will not receive any software updates to Squeeze, however, and cannot receive support from Avid on issues related to Squeeze.

Customers who have a Media Composer subscription that includes Sorenson Squeeze can continue to use it until January 31st, or the next time they renew their subscription in 2019, whichever comes first, at which time it will be disabled (will cease to run) and will be removed from their Avid Master Accounts.

For further questions, please refer to this FAQ

FAQ:

What’s happening to Sorenson Squeeze?

Due to the discontinuation of Sorenson Squeeze by Sorenson, Avid can no longer offer Sorenson Squeeze either for purchase or as part of a Media Composer | Subscription or Production Pack bundle.

Customers who have purchased Sorenson Squeeze can continue to use it while the license is valid.

Customers who have purchased the Production Pack can continue to use Sorenson Squeeze while the license is still valid. They will not receive any software updates to Squeeze, however, and no support from Avid will be available on issues relating to Sorenson Squeeze.

Customers who have a Media Composer subscription that includes Sorenson Squeeze can continue to use it until January 31, 2019, or the next time they renew their subscription in 2019, whichever comes first, at which time it will be disabled (will cease to run) and will be removed from their Avid Master Accounts.

Why is this happening?

Earlier this year, Sorenson Media announced that Squeeze was no longer part of their portfolio and ceased all licensing, development and support of that product line. Avid is therefore no longer able to sell or support the product.

Can I still get help with issues?

Customers who require support for Squeeze should refer to the Sorenson Media website. Avid cannot provide any support for issues related to Squeeze.

When will I stop being able to use Squeeze as part of my Media Composer subscription?

Sorenson Squeeze installers will be removed from accounts on January 31st. Starting January 1st, the next time a subscription license is reactivated – either as part of an annual renewal, a monthly payment, or a monthly “call home,” – Squeeze will stop running as part of a subscription license.

What about an alternative software solution?

Avid will not be replacing Squeeze with an alternative software option.

Questions, let me know

Marianna

 Present in 2018.12.1 on OSX High Sierra.

   ‘Clip name bug’: AMA linking of a file that is deep within a folder structure results in a clip name of "/" - I suspect related to illegal characters used in folder naming -  fixed by copying source file name from the bin column to the name column.

   ‘Multiple wavs link as one bug’: Possibly related, I linked to several (audio network) wavs but only 1 file linked. Any attempt to link to any of the files results in just one file being linked. Noticed in media browser that the files report different sizes but reports same durations. 

   ‘Incorrect AMA source audio track played back bug’: (on PC & Mac since at least 2018.5). My linked source tracks were cut into the same timeline track (so host was on A1, interviewees on A2 and boom on A3). Occasionally I’d cut the wrong track from the room tone subclip in to the sequence, so I’d have A3 boom  followed by A1 host lav. This resulted in INCORRECT source track being played back from the next clip in timeline (the A1 host clip source would actually play A3 boom source). Fix was to add a 1 frame dissolve. Any abutted content from different tracks, without a transition, will play incorrect track following from first instance. TO REPLICATE - download https://preview.tinyurl.com/yxlzv5mg and link to file (as dual mono). Edit source A1 into a fresh timeline and immediately add source A2 after. Waveform will be correct but playback will be source A1 twice ("Left, Left" instead of "Left, Right"). 

 ‘Grouped AMA files are vertically stretched bug’: (200%, top of raster shown) when loaded (or match framed) to source monitor. Sources were 25P, modified to be interpolated, in a 50i project. Have also seen stretching in timeline - fix was to switch project to 25P and back. (Seen on Mac & PC)

Is there any way for pan and zoom to display the source it is expecting to find?  I thought it used to throw up a source path to the image it was expecting.  It doesn't seem to do this any more.  Am I making this all up?

Andi

Hi all,

We're currently implementing AMT v3 SDK for just re-wrapping video/audio essence into Avid OP-Atom files - things are going fine so far for the most part but had some quick observations and questions

A couple of observations:

(1) on Windows - AvOmfToolkit.dll and libjpegV4.dll are not included in the Windows distribution - so there was a linking issue when trying to link with the Avid AMT3 dlls until we put in the AvOmfToolkit.dll and libjpegV4.dll from AMT2 in our AMT3 dll folder - then everything was fine - those libraries are included in the macOS Avid AMT3 SDK - is three a reason why they're not in the Windows distribution

(2) on macOS - all of the AMT3 dylibs use @rpath - except for il.dylib, ml.dylib, libtbb.dylib and libtbbmalloc.dylib - once we changed those to @rpath then all linking was fine.


Questions:

(1) What's the minimal libraries needed to install with our app for just re-wrapping - it seems that when we  start up the MediaProcessor in our app that it tries to load all the AMA plugins and in the Avid MC plugins directory too  (based on looking at the output window in VS Studio and the Console in macOS)

Basically - We'd only want to include the libraries needed for re-wrapping and not have the SDK trying to load AMA plugins from the Avid installation.

(2) How do you set UserComments in the MAD? We've tried a variety of combinations but nothing seems to work (i.e. no exceptions get thrown for setupSampleBasedPushInput for our MAD but no UserComments are written either to the MXF or AAF file) - it seems like UserCOmments are possible per the XSD's

(3) Can we set the filename prefix (i.e. the Video/Audio label of the filename) of the outputted Avid MXF OP-Atom files by set to something other than Video***, Audio*** in the MAD?

(4) Do we always have to write to a folder that doesn't exist for Avid MXF OP-Atom? Trying to write to a folder that does exist seems to throw an exception and trackSink->write blocks forever



Hopefully all of the above questions made sense and please let me know if we're doing doing something wrong AMT v3 per the aobve observations/questions.

Thanks in advance!
Bruce

Wondering if anyone else has run into this.

Prior to 2018.8, Export > MXF OP1a XDCAM HD was limited to 8 channels of audio. Always 8. There have been other threads asking why they could not export only 2 or 4 channels.

In 2018.8 XDCAM was moved to Avid Media Processor and that implementation allowed for any channel selection from 0 to 16. This was great for us as we deliver to any number of clients who need 10 to 16 channels of audio. Also a few that would like 2 and 4. This has saved us a great deal of time not having to rely on third party.

I just discovered that 2018.12 errors out if I select > 8 channels. Many lines of error messages are sent to the console but this looks like the key: "Avid MediaProcessor Plug-In : Media Processor failed to run chain manager:Annex B @ SMPTE RDD 9:2013: SMPTE RDD-9 requires the audio to have 2, 4 or 8 channels. 10 channels have been provided." If Avid has intended to go back to the RDD-9 compliance it would be SO NICE if it was a check box selection. I have not yet tried 2018.12.1 for a number of reasons so I'm not sure if this is a glitch in .12.

Any thoughts?

Don

For a speedy export (that is then converted to H264 in a 3rd party app) I'm exporting DNX120 as an MXF OP1a.

It would be very useful to be able to view that MXF in Avid, however the regular MXF plug-in does not allow it. 

(Interestingly I can export the MXF OP1a via Adobe Media Encoder (As DNX SQ MXF OP1a) and that links just fine in Avid)

I threre.

I'm evaluating Media Composer.

No way to use it till now, if fails in linking and importing any media contents.
Fails to open H264 streams, DTS, Dolby and AAC streams, MKV (H264+DTS/Dolby/AAC/Wave), M2TS (H264+DTS/Dolby/AAC/Wave).
Succeeds only in importing Wave streams.

Any suggestions?

Tks.

Hi

any comments on media cache settings?

internal HD or external cache location?      

I'm having an annoying delay of seconds when hitting play or any form of editing really. it plays fine when it then plays. but avery time you do something there's a delayfirst. sometime it goes into spinning beach ball for a few seconds.        

Our company owner wants ot get read of our tape library. He doesn't want to keep supporting tape machines. We have 20 plus years of Standard Definition and High Definition footage.

I'm thinking of digitizing the HD footage at DNX145 and then export DNX145 QT files to be stored and backed up on multiple hard drives. 95% of our HD footage is shot on DVCPro HD tapes. with a mixture of 1080 and 720 formats. I am planning to digitize in the native formats the the footage was shot in.

I planning to digitize the SD footage at MXF 1:1 and export MXF Qt files for backup. Has anyone else been tasked with something similar and do you have any words of wisdom I need to know before we embark on this many months project.

Richard R.

I have searched and find Versions 2.0 and 2.5 for Avid but nothing fpr this new 5.

Anyone have any links?

Is it possible to get 2.5?

Thank,

Bill

Hello all,

The wierdest thing is happening.  Imagine computer A, B and C.

Computer A renders in to out.  Set to render to the media partition on the Nexis in media creation.

Computer A sees it as rendered. Computer B see it as unrendered.  Computer C see it as unrendered.
Delete render on Computer A

Computer B renders same in to out.  Set to render to the media partition on the Nexis in media creation.

Every computer sees the render.

The data bases off Computer A's have been rebuilt.

The media has been moved into Computer B.2 media directopry.

Deleted Computer A's project reference so that rebuilt on Media Composer start up.

Changed the user settings to default.

Reinstalled the Media Composer. 

No matter what Computer A cannot render properly so that other Computers can see the render?

Currently Media Composer 8.6.5 is being uninstalled to install 8.5.3 (computer A is 8.6.5, B is 8.5.3)

But there is other 8.6.5 in the company that work perfectly with other versions of Media Composer.

Has anyone had anyone had any similar experiances?
Any ideas about what to try next if this downgraded doesn't fix it or what might be cause the issue?

Any help is greatly apreciated,

Regards,

Rory

Hello

I am writing about an export problem. I export a Quick time reference from Avid then I am using sorenson squeeze 4 to create the file. No problem to make .mov or mpeg but when I want to do a MP4 it transforms my original 16:9 into a 4:3. I have been searching on the internet for hours to get an answer but I can't find anything. I have tried with different footages and MP4 always has the same issue. so the problem does not seem to come from Avid but sorenson. What is really strange is that when I play the video with the actual windows media reader there is no problem (good 16:9) but when I play it with VLC or Quicktime player or upload on vimeo then comes the 4:3. 

Thanks a lot for your help

all the best

Ricci

I have had a bin of premade FX for a few years and after upgrading to the most recent version of Media Composer they no longer seem to translate properly to clips when dragged over.

I have only noticed it with animated scaling, for example going from 100 to 105%.

I drag my premade effect across and the clip will have a start keyframe but no end keyframe, usually when I go to the end of the clip it has scaled up by 0.1 or 0.2.

Anyone else come across this? I'm loathe to recreate all of my premade FX.

Thanks very much

S

Previously, with Matrox MXO2 Mini and MC 2018.5, when clicking on Audio Monitor Control, I could choose between the Matrox box or the Windows default audio device for audio playback with client monitor.

Now on my new system with 2018.9 and a BMD Ultrastudio mini monitor, when I click on this button, the BMD config utility appears with no choices for audio device: is this a feature/limitation of the BMD I/O device or has this changed in MC somewhere between 2018.5 and 2018.9 ?

I'm not sure if this option was an internal MC feature or not.

Todavia trabajo con AviD Media Composer 6, 6.0.1 instalado en un Mac Book Pro 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 con la Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)...y alli esta el problema. Como ya no me actualizan Goggle etc, deberia cambiar el sistema del Mac pero me temo que luego mi Acid MC6 ya no funcione...

Quien me peude decir donde encuentro la informacion sobre la compatibilidad del MC6 hast que version de OS X? Quien sabe si MC6 funciona con OS X 10. 11. por ejemplo.

Gracias, Carluman

I had some trouble bringing an AAF into MC and just got a great workaround from Avid tech support.  Posting here in case other people run into the same issue & find that it isn't covered elsewhere. 

My AAF is created in Cat-DV as a vehicle for transfering metadata to the Avid at the time I'm bringing the media in.   The AAF import creates Master Clips but all the media shows as offline (even though the path & filename info is all showing correctly in the MC bin).  I tried relinking & batch capture to no avail.

The workaround:  relinking fails because the source media hasn't been logged in the Avid database.  So the solution is to open a new bin (call it TEMP) and use the source browser to link to all the actual media files.  This gets them into the Avid database.  Then you can either import your AAF or if you've already imported it, go to the Master clips and Relink using the settings shown on the attached screenshot.  Once you have the master clips from the AAF import linked to the media files, you can delete the TEMP bin.

Thanks to April of Avid support for this one...

Folks:  Needing some advice on a mixed aspect ratio project. I am working with decade-old video shot 4:3 and newer 4K media shot 16:9. The final project will be 16:9 so I have no problem with the newer footage but ideally we’d like to avoid the black sidebars when integrating the 4:3 footage – but that means pushing in enough so that the 4:3 left/right edges meet the wider 16:9 aspect ratio (and then also cropping top/bottom of the image).

The biggest problem we’re seeing is the noticeable degradation of the 4:3 image when we push in as much as we need to. Is there any way to maintain decent quality if I’m zooming in as much as 20-25% on the image? I’ve played a little with programs like Fonepaw Video Converter but it doesn’t seem like it does much (and aren’t these things just line-doubling)?

The majority of the material we’re using is in the 4:3 ratio – what does any of you recommend to maintain the highest image quality in such a situation?

Thanks, as always!

Tom

After upgrading to the latest Avid Media Composer yesterday I can no longer open Avid.  When I tried to restart after upgrade it said something about my licence being invalid (can't remember now exactly)

I tried the trick of deactivating and reactivating but now I can't reactivate at all.  When I put my valid system ID and activation ID it gives me "Activation Failed - System ID does not mtach System ID etc

I've uninstalled/reinstalled Avid Link and Media Composer - still same problem.

I've contacted support who still haven't given me a solution.

I know it's Sunday, but I've got to finish an edit.

Is there anyone there who can help me?

Thanks

Simon

Hi, 

I am new to Avid having just purchased Media Composer 8.10 a few days ago.  All the video tutorials and guides that I have seen effortlessly bring footage into the project via the Source Browser and then using 'Import' or 'Link'.  When I attempt to use the 'Link' option on a file I always get a notification saying that Avid is unable to link to that file and would I like to Import instead?  If I say yes then the file begins to import, but it's painfully slow.  I have almost 200 files that I need to work on in this project, some of them are several GB.  It would take me a week of importaing before I could even begin editing.  This can't be right??  

I'm used to FCP and Premiere Pro where it takes literally seconds to bring any variety of footage into a project.  From what I've read 'Linking' is much quicker than 'Importing', but for some reason it's not letting me do so.   I don't think it can be an issue with the files that I want to Link to, one of them is an H.264 MP4, and another is an AVdn MOV, yet they both produce the same message saying they cannot be linked.  Is it something to do with my external hard drives?  I'm working on a Mac OSX 10.9.

Any help regarding my problem would be very much appreciated.  I've tried calling the support team and they've been no help.  At this rate it's looking like a swift return to Adobe is inevitable.  Please help!

Thanks