Hi, I have an Avid Media Compose 8.4.4

I used to use the Mediareactor plugin to read the clips from the sony A7SII, but I only used the one month free plug in. No It appears the watermark. So I bougth a new AMA plugin from Sony. But whole project is linked to the first AMA plugin (Mediareactor)

How can I ask AVID to read the other plugin instead of the older one?

I'm unable to export a 4096x2160 H.264 Quicktime from MC 2018.12.5. 

I get this error: Exception: Movie export from procedures FAILED!; errcode: -108

https://www.dropbox.com/s/on8aq2c7dpi6t3i/Capture.PNG?dl=0

Anyone else have this problem? 

I am experiencing a delay dragging between interface windows in Media Composer 2018.12.7 on Windows 7 and 10.

The "pointing finger" drag cursor doesn't turn into the "arrow with a plus sign" drop cursor for several seconds, and only after one wiggles the mouse. Otherwise, you cannot drop the item while the cursor is still the "pointing finger."

This happens when dragging items between bins, when dragging bins into folders in the project window, and when dragging clips to/from the composer window.

Creating a new user setting initially solved this. I had created new users on multiple machines, and the bad behavior eventually creeped-back to multiple machines.

I figured out that this would start happening after Exporting. I had recently started using the Avid Media Processor regularly.

I just discovered that in a brand new user setting, I can cause this behavior by changing the untitled default Export setting use the Avid Media Processor, and performing an Export.

When the Avid Media Processor is the selected Export method, I get the cursor-change delay when dragging between windows. When I switch the active Export setting to QuickTime, there is no delay dragging-and-dropping items between bins or the composer monitor.

I have not yet determined if I can keep Avid Media Processor export settings stored in user settings, and just keep them inactive when I do not need them.

Hello Avid!

I'm currently on MC 5.5 and I do a lot of layer blending (Transfer modes)! It's a part of almost every project that I do and I use the great free plugin from Profound Effects called DMN Transfer. The problem is that it is a 32bit plugin and therefore can not be used with MC6.

It's 2013 and Avid MC still can't do layer blending natively. I know this is a MAJOR issue for many editors. Just do a quick google search. This should at least be available as a native plugin but even better as a right click option in the timeline!

I don't know if you guys have an agreement with BorisFX or something like that but right now this is the reason why I'm not upgrading from MC 5.5 to 6.5 and the reason why I'm considering switching to Premier Pro.

To some people this may be a small thing but to me it is major. As I said - I do a lot of layer blending.

So my request is: Give us a way to do layer blending inside Media Composer! Not using Avid FX or expensive 3rd Party plugins.

Cheers, Jeppe

Fresh install of OSX Mojave 10.14.5. First installed Pro Tools 2019.6, rebooted run the software once. Installed Media Composer 2019.7 on loading Autoconfiguring Transport Machines in the box on the load screen I get an error.

Exception: OSXMIDIio MIDIClientCreate Failed, OSStatus:-50.

On looking at Google I am brought to this Avid article

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/Error-launching-Media-Composer-Exception-OSXMidiIO-MIDIClientCreate-failed-OSStatus-268451843

Go to the following directory:

Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers/

Drag the file: DigiDioMidiDriver.plugin  to your Trashcan, and empty it


Now you should be able to launch Media Composer.

The plugin was used for digi 002/003, and is no longer needed.

I don't see any file in this folder??

Thanks,

Leo

Hi Does anybody edit on a new HP Z4. single precessot w 6 threads.

Is MC stable here and is it worth it over a z8400 dual processor

Since upgrading to 8.9.1, I have noticed a conflict with Boris RED 5.5. When I apply the effect to a clip in my timeline, I get an error:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library "This application requsted the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way."

This error is a hard crash that kicks me out of the software.

The project is 1080p2997 at DNx100

I have opened a case with Avid.

The Boris application still works. I will contact Boris RED support, as well.

Does anyone else have this problem?

MC will crash. If I relaunch and try again, then it seems to work.

We are on Windows 10. Dell Precision 7810. 32GB RAM

I've been working in Premier Pro and Resolve for a little while and came back to Avid for a project. The finishing part required adding some 4k Lens Distortions effects. Super easy to do in PP and Resolve. Can't do it in MC.  Why?  After searching the web, there don't seem to be any viable ways of doing it right in MC - except to buy Boris - but have you seen their prices!?

Blend modes are SO basic. Why after 28 years are they still not included?  MC gets lots of dopey little upgrades but often seems to miss out on many of the important basics. It's tiresome . . .

Hi, trying to confirm if Avid FX (last version 6.4) has broken for everyone else on media composer version 2018+.

We use Avid FX on all our edit machines to achieve transfer mode / composite / screen for flares and texture overlays. I'm aware it was not bundled after version 8 or so, but kept working fine for this up until at least 8.6.5 which is the last "stable" version we've been using on our edit machines.

We-re on HP z420-440 mostly, and on windows 7. Using Avid FX has now (on 2018.4) become unstable and crashes avid randomly when either adding preset to a segment or entering effect mode. Not usable so we're rolling active machines back to 8.6.5 which is the last safe version we've had good success with. (versions inbetween might have worked fine)

Adding Continuum at 1000$ to all the edit machines is overkilll when we only need transfer mode and adding all flares and such on the online machines would be a bad solution for us. 

Are there any solutions out there? Waiting for the feature to be added by Avid is a long time to wait since it's marked only as "under investigation" on the aca vote road map.

Workarounds like blending, keying or making a matte out of the flare itself don't look as good as the real deal.

The cheapest solution i've found for transfer mode on Avid so far is buying BMD Fusion 9 at 300$ and using fusion connect, but haven't tried it myself. Anyone tried it and been able to use it drag and drop on top of segments for transfer mode?

Thank you
Fred

Avid 2019.7 crashes when searching effects. Was a problem in previous versions. 

i have a Media Composer + RedGiant Looks scaling trouble

the effect editor of LOOKS HD is unscaled an my 4K display...if i overwrite the Windows scaling rule of MC to "System" the fonts and windows are blurred...?

in Avid store I can only buy one license at a time....

Hi,

I just downloaded and installed the Trial version of Media Composer but when I try to open it I receive the following message: No License Storage found on system, Media Composer will now quit. Laun (or re-launch if already runnin) Avid Link.

Could anyone help?

Maria

Media Composer 2018.12.7 Avialable 8.8.19

As part of Avid’s Long Term Maintenance Release commitment, Media Composer 2018.12.7 launched today, Thursday August 8. 2019.

Location at Launch: The Updates to Media Composer 2018.12.7 ( Mac and Win ) is available from the Avid Download Center (login and password required) only. The Download Center is accessible via the MyAvid Master Account.

Status of Support Plan:  The ability to launch this Media Composer 2018.12.7 software is dependent on the status of your Upgrade and Support Plan on the date this software version is released.  

Changed in Media Composer 2018.12.7:  The following has changed with this release.

 -  Simplified Installer - A change has been made to the Installer to remove an install menu window. When you download Media Composer v2018.12.7, simply double-click Install Media Composer.exe to install Media Composer. 

-  Open I/O NDI Plug-In - In previous releases, the Open NDI Plug-In was automatically installed when you installed Media Composer.  With this release, you have the option to install or not during the install process.  For details on this plug-in, see “Support for NewTek NDI Video over IP” in the Media Composer Help. 

Fixes: there are a lot of fixes in this release.   See attached ReadMe 

Enjoy all of you on the old UI.

Marianna

MC 2019.7 now available

The new Media Composer 2019.7 release along with Media Composer | First 2019.7 was made available, Tuesday July 23rd, 2019.

Location: Updates to Media Composer are available from Avid Link, MyAvid and the Avid Download Center (login and password required).

Dongle Info (Mac Only): If you have a dongle, the dongle Sentinel driver installer is no longer automatically installed when you install the editing application. The driver is now located in the Avid_Utilities folder. If you have a dongle, manually install the driver from this location (/Applications/Utilities/Avid_Utilities/Sentinel_Driver).

Status of Support Plan:  The ability to launch this Media Composer 2019.7 software is dependent on the status of your Upgrade and Support Plan on the date this software version is released.  

What’s fixed in 2019.7:  The following have been fixed:

-  Bug Number: MCCET-2905. Using the arrow up and arrow down keys to move clips from one track to another did not work when a nested effect was open.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3016. Audio meters did not display in the Audio Tool, Audio Mixer or Timeline window during a Digital Cut.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-2986. In some instances, adjusting audio level from the Audio Mixer, while playing a sequence, did not affect the volume.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3006. (Windows) Media Composer would crash when importing embedded AAF into a 25fps HD project.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3112. (Script View) In some instances, Media Composer would crash when scrolling in a large bin and while playing in the Source/Record monitor.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3003. You could not rename group clip tracks.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-2899. All related media object where not highlighted when selecting

media relatives if you grouped clips and selected Select Sync Clips Using “Film TC/Sound TC”.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3031. In some instances, when I/O hardware was enabled, you could not import/transcode to AVCIntra50.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3036. When working with an HD 1080p 25 project, transcode options changed if I/O hardware was enabled/disabled.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3032. You might have received an “Exception: No Source” error when performing a video mixdown and choosing over/under as a Stereoscopic option.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3086. You could not copy and paste markers using Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3059. You could not save newly created and renamed shared bins in project sub folders.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3041. If you pressed ESC a few seconds after performing a trim, the Timeline did not update correctly.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3026. When consolidating a subclip with “Delete original media files when done” enabled, an unrelated Transcode notification message was displayed.

-  Bug Number: MCCET-3073. AAF exports did not include the media if the clip was muted.

-  Bug Number: ETE-1512. A dark gray fill (instead of black) is provided now in the viewer for Pillar and Letter box areas that are not masked.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11146. Removed Show Position and Show Effect Contents from the Timeline settings.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-8227. When switching between MXF and OMF media types in the Media Creation window, the window would not refresh until it was reopened.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-8527. The Tool Palette moved position after resizing.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10060. Precomputes were lost when reentering the Avid Titler+Title tool.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10346. An asterisk might have appeared in the Bin name even if no changes had been made to the bin.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10412. You might have experienced problems loading sequences with Avid Titler+ titles between Windows and Mac systems.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10512. Avid Titler+ characters did not maintain relative position between each other during animation playback.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10624. Scrolling in Text view in a bin was column by column rather than by pixel.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10632. Even when a change was made, the Bin View name did not display in italics to indicate a change to the view had been made.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10801. Changing the sequence name in Frame View did not update the name in the Composer monitor or in the Timeline.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10818. Floating a bin might have resulted in the bin resizing too small.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10880. When creating a Volume Bin, “Export Folder” and “Set location” text does not display correctly if you are working in a Russian locale.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10918. Mapping “Set Bin Display” to a letter on the keyboard did not work.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10934. Typing the first letter of setting displayed the setting at the bottom of the window rather than in the middle of the window.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-10995. When in Frame view, if you dragged a clip to the Source Monitor, the clip would load into the source monitor, but the clip’s thumbnail was moved to an unintended location within the bin.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11131. In some instances, effects with graphic backgrounds did not draw correctly in the track effect dialog.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11145. An Interlaced Roll/Crawl motion effect created with Titler + appeared as a frame motion rather than field motion effect.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11191. Double clicking to float an existing bin always stacked the bin in same position/size and did not retain its last known state.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11231. You might have experienced an occasional crash on exit with AJA 4K hardware attached. You must update to AJA Desktop software v15.2 to see this fix.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11245. The File Cache tab in Media Cache Settings window was cut off and difficult to activate.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11299. The font appeared bold in the Name fields for the Source and Record side of the Composer window.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11317. Titler + titles appeared in the bin without an icon. 

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11429. The Name column did not appear as the first column in the Media Tool.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11442. (Bin Frame view) Clicking near edge of a selected item in the bin while in text-edit mode deselected the item.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11453. The Audio Clip Gain window did not remain open when you tried to enter a value from the keyboard or if you tried to move the slider up with the mouse.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11491. Pressing and holding the ALT key while dragging a number of clips onto the Record monitor did not create a sequence with the clips in the order they were sorted in the bin.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11492. If you selected a dropdown menu in the Inspector Tool and then clicked on another window, focus remained on the Inspector Tool.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11530. Double clicking a clip in Bin Frame view to load in the Composer monitor did not leave focus on the Composer monitor.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11534. The Lock/Unlock Bin options were missing from the Bin Container sidebar context and Fast menus.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11546. You might have received a “Crumb not found” error when deleting markers in the Source monitor.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11550. Perf information was missing in the Setting format pane of a film project.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11562. Tab and Shift+Tab did not allow you to move to the next or previous column in Bin Text View.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11568. With the Interface Brightness set to dark, track numbers were too light when you expanded the Audio Mixer Tool.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11569. You might have received a “PMM_SYNC_FAILURE” error when performing an Audio mixdown of a sequence with sub-clips and sample slip.

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Limitations Media Composer 2019.7:  Listed below are the known limitations in v2019.7.

-  Bug Number: If you launch a project and receive an “Enable 3rd Party Emulation” warning, even if you select Enable in the warning dialog, you should also perform the following: Select File > Settings and click the Project tab. Click General Settings and select “Enable Bin Sharing on 3rd party storage emulating Avid NEXIS/ISIS.”

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-11197. In some instances, the Interleave option might not appear in the Export As dialog box. If you are performing an Export using the Avid Media Processor, the Interleave option should appear when you choose Stereo, 5:1, or 7.1 Audio.  Workaround: If it does not appear, briefly toggle back to the Mono setting, then toggle to Stereo Mix once again. Doing so should reveal the Interleave option.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-8641. (AMD Graphics). Systems with AMD graphics cards might display tearing when performing Full Screen playback.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-9460. Windows 7 systems with Nvidia Maxwell or Nvidia Pascal cards might experience playback issues that could result in “Play Consumer timeout” errors. Workaround: Select “Disable GPU Effects” in the Render Settings dialog box.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-9269. (Media Composer | Cloud) After performing a remote download operation on a sequence containing AVC-I 100 remote media, the downloaded media appears as XAVC-I 100. Workaround: Download the entire master clips.

-  Bug Number: (Mac). You may occasionally see the menu bar flash followed by a brief beach ball. To fix this, deactivate “Displays have separate spaces” under System Preferences > Mission Control settings.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-9011. Intermittently, when working with the XDCAM Nablet Plug-in, you might see “Failed to get the sample position from the AMA Plug-in” errors if you have waveforms enabled in the Timeline.

-  Bug Number: COGS-2560. While working in the Script Window, text operations (cut/copy/paste/delete/editing) can only be done in edit mode. See “Editing a Script” in the Help.

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-5650. When working with Panasonic LongG media, you might receive an “SFPlayConsumer Timeout” error if audio waveforms are enabled. Workaround: Turn off audio waveforms. 9

-  Bug Number: MCDEV-5385. MultiCam editing with Panasonic LongG media is not supported with this release.

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Media Composer 2019.6 Documentation: The “ReadMe” document for this release of Media Composer 2019.7  has been uploaded to the Knowledge Base - Media Composer 2019 Documentation Page

Hey y'all,

So I went to use the new 2019 release, and can't find my edit buttons in the center between the source and record monitors.

Do I need to reconfigure my composer buttons and add them (splice, replace, overwrite) if I wish to use them now?  Obviously there are the keyboard shortcuts, but I find that I do use the mouse about 50% of the time....

I know thw new UI has a bunch of timeline oriented editing capability too, in deference to the young 'uns and their Final Cut Premier Pros, but I'm old and like me my "film" metaphor of operation.

Thanks!

-pt

I would love to have the ability to map the "Set level On Track - In/Out" command that's in the mixer burger menu. Why can't we map this to a key or button?

I have been noticing this since upgrading from 2018.11

I work in a bin for awhile, close it.  Open it later and it opens somewhere else.

And with my recent experiences with the Background Bin Save feature, I am wondering if they are somehow related?

Jef

Hi,

I downloaded the trial version for 2019.7 (running Windows 10) - when starting AVID it gets stuck in Initializing Plugin: AMPIPluginDSM.avx.

I went to my plugins folder and tried to find any AVX folder but there is none. Is it failing to start because I am missing this plugin?

Thanks,

Maria

Hi,

Let's say I have a bin container where I have multiple bins open, tabbed. I can drag a bin out of this container to become floating but can I drag it back to the container to be tabbed again?

thanks,

Revenger