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>16 Audio from Interplay to MC

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If I have a clip with > 16 channels of Audio in Interplay (Interplay V3.5) I get an error message when I drag to the Bin in Media Composer 8.5.2 The error is:

Source:[NAME]

Track:A17

 

ERROR [00;00;00;00] ***Error = 'Exception = CM_LABLE_NOT_UNIQUE, tt:2 lnum:1' 

 

Anyone else seen this or know whether it has been fixed?


Can't send 1080p project to sorenson or make ref file

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Hi friends.

I have loaded footage from an osmo camera which I shot in 1080p 59.994fps.

When I try and export the project to sorenson, it tells me this feature is currently not supported for larger than HD media.

Any suggestions?  I am on shut-down until I get this figured out.  I tried the brosoft tutorial with no results btw.

How to transfer media (a little more complicated than this...)

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I'll try and make this simple.

I have 2 identical projects on 2 seperate drives.

Drive A has 100% of the media. Drive B only has 50% of the media.

For example, in my sequence on Drive A, everything is online, but on Drive B, that same sequence has about 50% of the clips offline.

How can I copy only the media from Drive A that is missing in the sequence in Drive B?

Any ideas?

 

Geoff

Waveform Cache slow saves and Project quit - Unity Project

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So I'm back on a Unity for my current project, therefore we've had to go back to OS X Lion 10.7.5 because of fibre manager, however we are able to run MC 7.0.5 which I'm quite happy about.

But, every now and again, not every time but sometimes when :

1. Switch back to MC from another application
2. Close a bin
3. Close the project

We get a 5 minute beachball.  It always comes back and during that time it is writing to the waveform cache folder in the shared Unity project for that machine name's settings.  One of the cache files slowly gets updated, if you take a sample of Avid Media Composer in Activity Monitor it suggests that it is waiting for a process to finish "WaveformCacheRep::CancelPendingWaveformCacheRequests()" and there is a thread that is very very busy writing to some files.

So I've tried:

1. Clearing the waveform cache folder
2. Clearing the AMA Management folder
3. Starting new user settings
4. Starting a new project and loading the bins from the old one.

All of this seems to solve it for a while then as soon as somebody important enters the room it starts to spin.  I could force quit and restart but sometimes this leads to a similar wait when the project starts.

I am looking at the console commands for the wavform cache all beginning with wf something, particularly these:

wfCacheSizeMB  -- Sets the Waveform Cache Maximum Size in MB
wfTglPersistence -- Enabled/disables reading/writing waveform cache while loading/saving projects

I'm sure these are for debugging and I'm not supposed to mess with these, (they may or may not be associated with the new waveform engine anyway), but I wonder if increasing the cache size or disabling it in some way might help us.

So did anybody have a similar issues they remember from older OSX and Unity shared projects? Any work arounds welcome.

Ralph

Transitioning from Mac to Windows 10

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I have an Educational license (currently installed and running on a MAC), and I would like to know the following:

1.  As I recall, I am allowed to install my educational copy of MC/license on any computer, but am required to deactivate it on the existing computer and then activate it on the new computer to use it elsewhere.   Have I got that right?

2. I have used this procedure on another Mac but will it or should it work on a Windows computer?  What about the system ID?  It will be different on a different computer, won't it?

I don't expect this to be an ongoing issue, but I would think that many Educators face  this issue, wherein at their place of work they have one type of OS and at home they have another.

Or do I have to get another MC license?

 

ECHEC de la désactivation : Response is out of order with previous responses

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Hi,

This morning I started MC and he asked me to activate it on (?). Because it is already activated.

I have a problem: I can not desactivate MC from Application Manager. Whenever MC responds:
"ECHEC de la désactivation : Response is out of order with previous responses"

And i can't start it.

MC expire 06/10/2016 (06 october 2016)


Someone can help me ?
thank you in advance

Information from Application Manager :

System Information
Computer: W8P1
Pro Windows 10 (6.2)

Media Composer
License Status: Enabled
License type: Permanent
Expiration: N.A.

Symphony (Optional)
License Status: Enabled
License type: Permanent
Expiration: N.A.

TMPGenc Mastering 5 and authoring 5 issue

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I have both Authoring and mastering 5 which had been working fine(windows 7 pro 64 bit) until I upgraded my computer to windows 10, now when I open both programs, they dont go pass "launching application", so I can't open any of the programs. I know it's not MC related but may be someone may have experience the same issue and resolution, any help would be appreciated

iLok blocking MC

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My authorized installation of MC (using 6.5) is crashing upon launch and giving an error message relating to getting authorization to run from an iLok key. The key is installed to run sample libraries for my DAW (I don't recollect that this key had anything to do with MC). Sure enough, the iLok manager shows that MC is installed with a "0" under authorized licenses. I believe this error came about when I last week trouble-shot some the installation of new sample libraries for the DAW which required resetting some of the iLok registration links. MC has coexistied with the iLok and previous libraries just fine for several years. Any suggestions to resolve the current issue? 

MC 8.4 on Win7 - exception invalid vector subscript

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Hi,

I have two computers rigged with Kona Hardware (3G and LHi) and when trying to open sequences from a 1080p23,976 EditShare project, I get this "Exception: std::exception, what:invalid vector <T> subscript" message with the result of sequence not playing back. Same computer with 29,97 projects seem to work fine.

Tryed to copy the sequences into a new project: same error message.

Also, just as a test, I switched the project format to UHD 23.976P and the sequence playback without error messages.

Strangest thing about this is that we worked with those sequences on those computers no longer than this morning.

A little google research pointed me the same error message on ProTools back in 2007... no clue on how to use that info.

EDIT :

The error message is showing upon any user profile, so not user-profile related i guess...

Choppy 4K playback MC 8.5.3

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I am working in a UHD project, I have imported quick time movies with DNxHR 4:4:4 ... this is an online edit computer.  Playback in timeline is stuttering and choppy at random times.  There are NO blue, red or yellow lines on the timeline, nothing to indicate slow hard drives (I get over 1000MB/s on my fast RAID 5, and yes NO drive indexing on the RAID) and surely my system could not be wanting, I have dual 10 core zeons and 128GB RAM.  With all this speed under the hood, stuttery playback is definitely not expected.  Wondering if anyone out there can share any insight.  Specifically, if there are no red or yellow lines in my timeline, then why is the playback sub-par?

timewarp effect does not apply

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when I go to apply the timewarp effect to the clip, I get this message that says effect does not apply. its wierd because every other effect works. I would also like to know what the T in the grey box means. 

 

 

media cache setting for quadro k5200

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anyone using the same card? now i set the media cache to 4g. the card has 8g vram. 

composite modes

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i think it's about time that avid supports composite modes to blend footage into one another. just like any other video tool ;)

cheers!

>16 Audio from Interplay to MC

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If I have a clip with > 16 channels of Audio in Interplay (Interplay V3.5) I get an error message when I drag from the Interplay Window to the Bin in Media Composer 8.5.2 or 8.5.3 The error is:

Source:[NAME]

Track:A17

 

ERROR [00;00;00;00] ***Error = 'Exception = CM_LABLE_NOT_UNIQUE, tt:2 lnum:1' 

 

Anyone else seen this or know whether it has been fixed?

Local mxf/1 folders on shared storage?, Weird

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I've come by a weird problem with our AVID Mediacomposer systems connected to Dynamic Drive Pool shared storage. The DDP emulates the AVID FS filestructure to "trick" avid mediacomposer into thinking it's an Unity or ISIS drive.

This has worked flawlessly until somewhere around november 2015. I've discovered that somtimes ( at random?) mediacomposer adds mxf/1 folders into the shared mediadrives instead of mxf/edit.1 folders that we are used to in our Avid Unity and DDP shared environment?

As a result sometimes Avid Mediacomposer crashes if it encounters a mxf/1 folder which is in use on another system (ofcourse because their using the same database....)

We have this issue on 2 different setups and locations using latest DDP drivers and firmware and Avid Mediacomposer 8.5.3 ( but the problem seems to be older)

Has anyone using shared storage come across this at a time?


Hein Mastenbroek
The Editor Videofacilities
The NEtherlands


MC Crashes ALWAYS on MCState Initialization -- Help

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Hello everyone,

I've just driven from Los Angeles to Savanna, Georgia to start a 6 week job. I've brought my Mac Pro (early 2009) with me. It was working perfectly when I left Los Angeles on Saturday morning. Now, of course, when I try to launch Media Composer I get a crash when MCState is initializing.

I've unistalled 8.5 and reinstalled. Same issue.

I've uninstalled and then installed and earlier version. Same issue.

I'm now downloading 7.x in the hopes that  will help.

I usually run a client monitor thru a BM card. I'm currently trying to run without a client monitor now. I thought that might be the problem, so I uninstalled the BM Desktop Video Driver. Still the same problem.

I checked that my audio is set to go out the Line Out port from the back of the Mac. 

I've repaired permissions, and rebuilt the directory. I'm honestly just about at wit's end here, as I have producers and director's over my shoulder wondering why their star editor from Los Angeles can't get  his machine working.

Thoughts?

Chris Conlee

AMPI SESSION CONNECT OUTPUT ERROR

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Error pops-up when laying footage from a sequence loaded in source monitor to a new sequence: 

This is basically the same error as the one in this thread, but on the Mac side:

http://community.avid.com/forums/t/138008.aspx

 

Tried thrashing databases, new project, new user. Steps solve nothing.

Avid version 8.5.3

Macpro 5,1 2x2.66GHz 6-core, 38GB RAM MAC OSX El Capitan 10.11.3 with Nitris DX

Same problem on another same specced computer but with an AJA Io Express.

The same bug happened on 8.5.0 but it manifested itself as a Mainthread error and crashed Avid.

 

 

 

Importing DJI (OSMO) footage in AVID MC

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I have loaded footage from my DJI Osmo, as well as some drone footage from a DJI camera.  I try to use different import resolutions, including DNxHD 145.  Every option I use looks extremely washed out, also lots of stair-casing and artifacting on the lines.  There must be a step I am missing, because it can't be that footage from one of the most popular camera companies can look this bad.  Maybe I need a codec?

I shoot in 1080 60p

Any help would be great.

Let's Make the Next MediaMover or MDV

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Hello Everyone,

I think native, flexible media managementis lacking in Avid. "Have you tried Media Tool?", you might ask. Here's my problem with Media Tool - it's not easy to use. For example:

1. An Assistant Editor finishes logging, then wants to transfer the project to an Editor. He'll bundle up the assets in one folder, grab the Avid project folder, and send them over to the Editor. Might be over the network (peer-to-peer) or through sneaker net.

2. An Editor finishes his project, and wants to do a backup. Same as before - he'll bundle up the assets, grab the Avid project, and store them on backup drives.

3. We produce events that require last-minute changes. Plus, there's on-location editing that requires gathering assets from multiple users. So bundling all the assets you need before traveling is critical. Hotel networks aren't built for large file transfers.

For years, the alternatives were MediaMover and MDV. MediaMover can do all the above, but MDV is the best I've ever used. It's simple, easy, and fast.

Here's the problem with MDV. (Problems, really.)

1. It's Windows only. There are ways of making it work in OS X, but you hate them all. How do I know? Because it keeps coming up.
2. It has limitations in Wine - neither bin sifting nor folder scanning works.
3. It's abandoned.

So what would it take to create a native OS X media management tool?

First, we need to know what we're working with, the data. Are there available file specs on:

1. Media Stream Managers (MSM's)
2. Projects
3. Bins
4. Metadata layout on individual MXF's

Is it just a matter of asking someone from Avid HQ? Do you know anybody?

It's clear we need something. But everyone's busy, you know... editing. Plus you're thinking, "What can I do? I'm not a programmer!" Well, I'm an anomaly. I do what you do, but I also have some development/IT chops. They just need some refreshing. And this project would be worth refreshing them.

So what do you think? Is it worth making the next MDV? Are there any others like me who would be interested in contributing? Do you have any contacts that could help point me in a direction?

Thanks!

Sorenson Squeeze 11 - creating mxf files

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Sorenson Squeeze 11 has the capability of creating a directory with files that can be directly dragged into the 

E:\Avid MediaFiles\MXF\1 folder, this means that you can prepare files for import outside of MC - cool - right ?

Well almost. The problem is that sometimes it doesn't work, when you try to play a clip that was imported this way you get an error "PMM_INSUFFICIENT_MEDIA() Player Version of frame duration is longer than actual [7464] (7464)

When I examine the media files and clip in the media tool I see that the clip duration is one frame larger than the media duration - so I can understand the error.

The big problem is that when I approached Sorenson, they said that my version of MC is old (true) and they don't support it. I gave them access to the files and asked them to try it on whatever version of Avid they test on - but for some reason, they ignore my request and give me a link to Avid support.

So now I'd like your help

Can someone please spend a couple of minutes doing this in the V8 and tell me if they have the same problem ?

1) Copy the files from the link below into an empty folder e.g. \Avid MediaFiles\MXF\9999   (203MB)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iuvotpf0cv9c2bo/AACSWhYwxHTQf9NaNI9xdySCa?dl=0   

2) Open Avid, and then open Tool/Media tool select the drive where you put the mxf files and "current project"

3) In mediatool you will see 4 files that start with 201604041. Double click the clip file 20160404141024_DNxHD_185 and see if it will playback or if you get an error PMM_INSUFFICIENT_MEDIA....

4) Another thing you can check is to see if the values of the "Duration" column. In my case the 3 media clips have a  duration of 9:03, and the clip has a duration of 9:04 (one frame off)

5) Delete the files you added in \Avid MediaFiles\MXF\9999

6) just in case - If you have any problem with Avid after this then you should delete the msmFMID.pmr and msmMMOB.mdb in all the MXF directories and restart Avid

7) tell us what happens  

Many Thanks

Yonatan

 

 

 

 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iuvotpf0cv9c2bo/AACSWhYwxHTQf9NaNI9xdySCa?dl=0

 

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