UI bug discovered with Image effects in MC 8.5 and 8.6
There is a UI bug in Media Composer 8.5 and 8.6. It was reported to me by my users and I've done extensive testing to confirm the details with a clean build and new user and project settings.If you...
View ArticlePoly handles in Paint Tool
What's up with the handles in the Paint Tool? They vanish when you need them? I was reading that this happens when the color picker tool is open but that color picker opens by default? This seems to...
View ArticleApplication 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 ArticleVolume not mounting
Hello,I'm having an issue and i'm wondering if anyone might have some assistance to offer. I have an iMac late 2013 with 10.11.6. I recently upgraded to MC 8.6.3. I also updated the Sony XDCAM AMA...
View ArticleHow do I get rid of unwanted audio tracks at source?
I often use EXcam footage where I only need the channel 1 and 2 audio. However, whenever I add a new clip to the timeline, Avid seems to want to automatically add all eight channels to the...
View Articleunable to relink ama clip to selected file
sez it all huh. Symph 6.0.4 on Imac lion...all works great. Open a huge project with all ama linked media....working on it for months and today it goes thru some relinking as it opens....then errors...
View ArticleMacros
One example: I have a bunch of segments to slate, I'd like to create a macro that goes 20 seconds back from the beginning of a segment, mark in, go +9:29, mark out, record, go forward to next edit....
View ArticleMPEG2 codec in AMT (XDCAM HD 1080 50i)
HelloThe Mpeg2 codec in AMT assumes some defaults that are wrong.Using the source XML shipped with AMT toolkit (v....
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Trouble Consolidating Clips from AMA (or whatever) in 8.6.1
I'm starting up a new project that will end up having lots of media, shooting with C300 mk2, format 2k 4:4:4 mxf. AMA or Link or whatever it's called now seems to work fine, but consolidating the clips...
View ArticleAvid Scanning and indexing constantly on Background Transcode
Hi, I am trying to background transcode hundreds of sound files. For whatever reason, Avid has decided that it now has to scan and index after ever single file is added to the bg.1 folder. This...
View ArticleConsolidate & the option 'Delete only media created with the selected clip or...
Hi, Is there a documented help for this option? edit: Found it.
View ArticleI find a Cheat code To crash in 8.5! LIOVL
Working on Media Comp 8.5.3On Imac (5k/i7/4GHz) El Capitan (10.11.6) Hello, just for sharing experience...When I simply edit from a source to timeline, in-out-splicein-play,If you do too quickly the...
View Article8.6.3 SubCap useless
Helloin 8.6.3 (OSX 10.9.5) I am not able to open the "Export Caption Data"-Dialog and the "Edit Master Caption List"-Dialog. A friend was able to cofirm this on his machine.Doyle
View ArticleMultichannel Audio/Link Settings bug, 8.6?
Seeing this in 8.6.1 and 8.6.3: Open Link settings and change A1 and A2 in Link Options>Multichannel Audio to stereo. When clips are linked they come in as dual mono. Checked on a three systems....
View ArticleAMPI SESSION CONNECT OUTPUT ERROR
We've recently updated to MC 8.5. Things have been much smoother in this version, such as trimming (much less sticky now). However, I been getting a re-occuring message when laying footage from a...
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 Articleis it possible to transform audio track effects into clip effects?
Hi folks,I guess it's not, can't find anything in the user manual. But I created different scenes and put some audio track effects on them. Now that I want to put them together I realize it would be...
View ArticleUNC drive mapping
Hi all,This is a question instead of a problem. Is there a point to using letterless UNC drive mapping in the client manager if MC can't use the path to mount the drive? In other words, is there any...
View ArticleNo HDMI display with UltraStudio Pro
Just bought a BlackMagic UltraStudio Pro mainly for grading with DaVinci Resolve. But according to the documentation the BOB should also work with MC 8.Now the problem is that the UltraStudio Pro works...
View ArticleAvid Fx not available in Effects Palette
I have used Avid Fx quite a number of times. When I opened Media Composer today (on a Windows 7 Pro computer) the Avid Fx option was not there.Need help to make it appear again.Thanks,Bert
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