Application Manager not connecting
Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this. When I run the Application Manager, the application shows the Connecting... message and the spinning Wait icon, but it never connects. THe list of...
View ArticleSpectraMatte Foreground Color Correction
I am trying to color correct the ouput of my SpectraMatte key. More specifically, I'm trying to remove all the chroma from the foreground image. How is this done?The Ultimatte tool on my Meridien...
View ArticleAudio TC import bug in MC 8.5
Hi everyone,I've been experiencing a weird issue while importing Audio in Media Composer 8.5.2.Something that didn't happen in 8.4.5. When we get audio mix from our sound studio, we import it and put...
View ArticleMaterial Source
Hello,my name isMarius. I'mbeginner withAvidMediaComposerprogramand wantto help meif you can,thenext question: Wherecan I getmaterialthat I canstart working?I must learn tomountatelevisionnewsand...
View ArticleHang on Marianna
Hello Marianna,I see that Florida is getting a battering from a big hurricane just now.Hang on!I hope that you and your home there escape the worst of the storm and that you will be back soon and safe...
View ArticleSecondary color correction is broken in 8.6.3
Hi, making a new post for visibility and since it's a separate issue/bug.Secondary color correction now returns way wrong results making the tool useless.It was already starting to get buggy in 8.6.1...
View ArticleSync Lock Keeps Turning Itself Back On
I only rarely use Sync Lock. However, on my current project it keeps turning on (the slash marks show in the control panel of the timeline) without my knowingly having set it. Is there a shortcut I may...
View ArticleGroup by waveform - new feature in 8.5 - test results
I think its fair to say this is a feature everyone has been waiting for. It puts Avid on basically the same level as Premiere Pro for this functionality.In fact the implementation for group by waveform...
View ArticleXDCAM MXF export shows big glitches with pulldown
Hi,I'm stumping on a very strange behaviour:We have this sequence edited in 1080p23,976 that we have to output to a 1080i59,94 MXF-OP1a XDCAM. So we do a mixdown of the 23 sequence in DNxHD175X, place...
View ArticleRenders disappear between suites
Hi everyone, We're on v8.4.5 of Media Composer at our facility and we're having a slight issue between our online suites, our online editor has rendered all material to the correct ISIS partition,...
View ArticleWorkflow Avid with 4k XAVC
Hi everybody.Need help with 4k workflow.I've AVID MC 8.6.3 and I need to start to make an editing of an documentary.The documentary was shoot in 4k with a SONY FS7 in XAVC-I at 250mb/s of bitrate.So...
View ArticleCan't import or link to Sony FS7 footage
I can't seem to get any joy with importing or linking to some Sony FS7 footage I have. I have installed these AMA plug-ins: PLAV-RW1 v2.5 XAVC/XDCAM.Import won't happen at all ('You cannot import this...
View Articlerenders show as offline on second machine
I have an ISIS setup with two machines. All media on the ISIS.Machine 1 renders all the effects of a sequence.Machine 2 opens the sequence and some of the effects (mostly V2 titles or resizes, but no...
View ArticleUnity 5.1.3 Error
Hello everyone,This might be a long shot but was wondering if anyone could shed some light on an ancient Unity 5.1.3 system.We picked up an 8TB Media Engine with version 5.1.3 and midway_server.exe...
View ArticleApplication Manager 2.5.10.13590 crashing avid
Since I updated Application Manager to the Version 2.5.10.13590 I have to quit it otherwise Avid won't even boot up.When I close it before starting AVID (8.6.3) it normally opens up.PS: also I somehow...
View ArticleCrashed drive file recovery - formats?
I recently had a 2tb drive crash. I was able to recover the data but the recovery process didn't retain any of the drive folder structure. The drive contained video files, most shot in the Sony XDCAM...
View ArticleAMT Deployment
Hello,The AMT documentation says to place the contents of <AMT_SDK>\bin, assuming to where my executable is. But under the bin folder, contains a release folder. Does that mean to copy the...
View ArticleMC 8.4 timeline laggy, slow response time
After I updated to 8.4 the timeline respone is very slow, sometimes it takes 1-2 sec for 1 frame forward, scrubbing is laggy too....absolutely not usable. Downgraded to 8.3 everything seems ok, with...
View ArticlePlayback Issues with MC8 (any version) and EditShare
Hello,Iwork in a big posthouse in Cologne (germany) with more than 40 Editsuits. in Interaction with Editshare, the actual MC 8 Software has playback issues (drop outs etc.), what is not if we use...
View Articlei want to ask a ?
hii have just bought a new laptop hp pavilion intel core i7 /intel(R) HDgraphics 5500NVIDIA Gforce 9408gb rams hardisc 1t not ssdwindows 10but i feal that he is not fast it took me more than 24h to...
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