AMA link Audio trouble
While linking to AMA files, the audio is out of sync and it has a staccato sound to it. I'm importing SD footage files from a hard drive to an HD project, not sure if that matters. The file is a...
View ArticleSampling Key Color in Spectramatte
Sampling a key color behaves differently in 8.6 than it did in all previous versions (MC 4 -7) that I've work with. In 8.5, when I try to sample a green screen background, for example, the Key Color...
View ArticleSharing Assets and Archive Objects in .NET
When adding Service References in Visual Studio, you get similar objects and methods for both the Archive.wsdl and the Assets.wsdl (for example, CreateFolders and GetFileDetails - and their associated...
View ArticleSource Browser not releasing PSD files
What I mean is that if I import a PSD file into MC using the source browser - then go and make a change to the PSD file, I can not save that file in Photoshop b/c Photoshop sees it as being used by...
View ArticleWhat do the grey boxes mean on clips in my timeline?
Hey guys,Been trying to research this on my own, but I'm not having any luck. What do the grey boxes mean on certain clips in your timeline. There is a green dot over them, which I know means that the...
View ArticleAvid MC Playback Stutters
Hello-Experiencing playback stutters with transcoded footage, but only with audio. Stutters are irregular, sometimes every few seconds, sometimes a minute or two will pass between them. When the...
View ArticleIs Transcoding a GPU or CPU process?
Trying to figure out which of my workstations should handle that task.
View ArticlePGLUE_IMPOLITE_PORT_NUMBER
Greetings,Does anyone know what this means? Trying to edit a rolling title, and getting this error. Composer monitor turns black and this appears in the lower left corner. Using Symphony Nitris DX V...
View ArticleCan't initiate Source browser
I just went through the prosess of uninstalling 8.6.2 and downloading/installing 8.6.1 through the App Manager after running into all sorts of issues with 8.6.2.Now when I try to open the source...
View ArticleSource browser lockup
This may be a function of using unsupported OS/MC combo but I thought I'd see if anyone else has seen this.Brand new MBP, fully tricked out (2.8GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 1TBSSD) ElCapitan 10.11.6Media Composer...
View ArticleCutting with AMA files on Media Composer
Hello Editors, Thank you for your help.I'm working on a project currently that was set up as linking to AMA files. When editing, the avid slows down when opening bins and closing bins. We are just...
View ArticleOptions for getting Sony X70 footage into MC8.6
I have just been given 1 card of Sony X70 footage and need to get it into a Mac based MC8.6.3. I will try Resolve 12.5 tomorrow but would appreciate any help from someone who is using this camera....
View ArticleDisk seems corrupted - what now?
Hi,In ten years on this forum I've been dreading having to write this post. The disk my project is on seems to have given up the ghost. It was a 4K project with all media edited natively then mixed...
View ArticleMac Book Air and BlackMagic Mini Monitor
I have an old macbook Air 13" 4GB which I'm tryin to use to playback simple sequences for screenings.I am able to run MC 7 on it but I can't get my UltraStudio BlackMagic Mini Monitor (Thunderbol1 1...
View Articlemoving clips with timecode tracks
I like timecode tracks as a visual seperation between audio tracks. But when I'm moving clips in the timeline, I'm having problems to get to the right track. I did a short...
View Articledynamic cast error
I consistently see the following entry in my console report while Avid is runningIt says:ISAVID: dynamic_cast error 1orISAVID:dynamic_cast error 2One of these will appear every couple of minutes.Is...
View ArticleTimeline shift when making an edit
Hi everyone! My editor is having a weird Avid bug. Sometimes when making an edit (lift/extract/ or trim), the whole timeline shifts to the left. It is very disorienting.We are working on MC 7.0.4. Mac...
View Articlehow to clean/clear the metadata cache and ghost project
I have a stranded media file appearing in the Media Tool; there is no longer any corresponding master for it, and it refers to a PNG file; strangely the 'Video' column reports a strange format...
View Articlenon certified budget pc?
Anyone here running Avid smootly on a cheap non certified pc? What model?
View Article"Initializing Media Streams" snag fix
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...
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