Just found this posted 2 weeks ago by Matthew Mullen on Creative Cow. Works a champ. Thought I'd repost here in the hope it helps some poor *** like me who has suffered with this "snag" for a while now. Forgive me if it's already posted herein and I missed it. Thanks Matthew.
| Re: Avid 8.2-8.4 hanging for 30 minutes or more at "Initializing Media Streams Manager" by Matthew Mullen on May 13, 2016 at 1:06:32 pm |
We were able to get this working by renaming the ManagedAMAFolders.xml file in Users/Public Documents/Avid Media Composer/AMA Management folder