Can't relink to AMA footage in 8.6.3
I had to change the drive path to my AMA footage and it all went offline. When I selected all of my clips and chose "Relink to file(s)..." it only asked for the location of the DSLR MOV files, but not...
View ArticleExpired Support Contract
My support contract expired Agust 2015, I thought it was on an automatic renewal but apparently not and Avid were not at all cooperative, supprtive or empathetic to my plight.So any way apparently I...
View ArticleIs the Symphony option included in the subscription or not?
So I'm a bit confused with if the symphony option is included in the subscription model of media composer or not? I know in the perpetual license it doesn't and I would need to pay $749 to add it.Can't...
View ArticleClosed Captions?
Is there any way to add Closed Captioning directly in the Avid (maybe with the subcap tool?). And additionally I wonder if an output of a Quicktime file with that Closed Captioning can be output...
View ArticleClient license activation on a clustered Interplay server setup
Just discovered a very interesting difference with the new license activation methods in interplay. When using a cluster in the past the interplay client licenses (Key-J, Key-G, etc..) were stored...
View ArticleV-Chip and Closed Captions
Hey Guys,Wondering if I could get some advice on an issue I'm trying to workout.I'm getting cap files from a captioning company and I'm putting them into MacCaption to add V-chip information and...
View ArticleFS700 footage shot at 1080 30P comes into my bins at 1080I 29.97 on 8.6.3
Something is very strange with 8.6.3 - or I am not doing something right. When I link to FS700 footage which is shot at 1080-30P media compsoer brings it in but the bins say it it 1080I - 29.97. I...
View ArticleMC 8.6.1 and Magic Bullet Looks 3.1.7 on Mac
I can't find anything on Red Giant's site that says I shouldn't be able to run this plugin, but it endlessly crashes MC just by being installed. Is anyone else having this experience?Martin
View ArticleImport Photos to Media Composer 7 Help
Hello.This may seem like a simple problem, but I'm having a lot of dificulty importing .jpegs into Media Composer 7. They lose their quality and become blurry.Basically, the pictures are from a 35mm...
View ArticleVideo stutter when play
MC 8.5.3 - Mac Pro (Black - 2013) - Mac OS X 10.10.5 - Mojo DX and AJA Io XT - 1080p 24 and 1080p 23.976 - DNxHD 115Hi fellow MC users. We have two projects on a Avid Nexis Pro, 6 clients (2 of them HP...
View ArticleMC Editor Guide no longer accessable from the Help menu
In earlier versions of MC I could copy the MC Editor Guide und MC Effects and Color Guide intoC:\Programme\Avid\Avid Media Composer\Online Library\DOCS. By this way, they were accessable in the Help...
View ArticleEDL manager settings to export EDL for Nuendo 7
We need to export EDL files for an old and newer cut so audio post guys can re-conform their project in nuendo. They use nuendo 7 that has its own reconforming tool but neither of us has done this...
View ArticleBoris FX BCC Drop shadow not work with source with alpha channel
BCC Drop shadow on source with alpha channel (like a title) don't work at all with Media Composer 8.5.3. I used this plug-in a lot in Avid DS, but with Media Composer, not work at all !
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GPU hardware unsupported on qualified macbook
Hi guys, I'm looking for some help I have a qualified macbook pro mid 2015 with the AMD Radeon R9 2GB discreet GPU. I'm running the latest MC v8.6.3I get pretty poor playback on effects (in 4k...
View ArticleMC 8.6 Error Unable To: SetVideoFormatBlk
Getting the following error while trying to open any projet that has a higher res than 1080. I have a 2k scope project I'm working on and the weird thing is it used to work perfectly, but I had to do a...
View ArticleAMA linking issues with XDCAM plugin
I am using Media Composer 8.6.1 on Mac OS 10.11.6. Whenever I try to AMA link video files from a JVC GY-HM100U I get a "can't be linked" error in the source browser.I have updated to the latest Sony...
View ArticleAm i missing something silly? Reversing direction of the Horizontal edge wipe ?
not every day i use edge wipes, but it came up today. I picked horizontal edge wipe, but how do i change the wipe from left to right, to right to left? i dont see it the effect controls and couldnt...
View ArticleMC 8.6.3 Using mix tracks instead of a multitrack
is there A way to view only a stereo mix for a multitrack dialogue audio that has been autosynced with video during the edit so that the timeline doesn't look messy? i also need to use the tracks...
View ArticleBandwidth issue..?
MC 8.5.3 - Mac Pro (Black - 2013) - Mac OS X 10.10.5 - Mojo DX and AJA Io XT - 1080p 24 and 1080p 23.976 - DNxHD 115Hi fellow MC users. We have two projects on a Avid Nexis Pro, 6 clients (2 of them HP...
View ArticleAAF export from ProTools to MC
Hi,My sound editor exported the mix as a wav bounce and as an AAF with MXF enabled. Funnily, the bounce is 700MB and the MXF folder is 500MB. How is this possible? I thought MXF is just a wrapper, not...
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