It would be cool if the per clip gain slider that is accessible from the front of every clip, sort of "floats" along with the level of zoom you have applied to the timeline. Basically so you can permanently see that slider and don't have to zoom back out of a clip to see the front of it. That way when you're in close doing keyframes for example, you could more quickly adjust the overall level of the clip.
Andi
Hi all-
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but is it still the case that the 'Avid MediaFiles' folder MUST be on the root of a drive in order to be recognized by Media Composer? Have there been any changes recently that allow the user to specify an alternate location?
We're trying to keep media files separated by project in order to make things easier to clean up as jobs wrap. So far, we've had editors 'hide' their media for dormant projects by renaming the folders or burying them in subfolders, but this is cumbersome and really easy to screw up.
I'd like to avoid using separate drives per project, and I'd rather not get into partitioning drives or using disk images to work around this.
Thanks!
-Ryan
1) when using the Audio Mixer hamburger menu command "Adjust Levels" I used to be able to simply hit "Enter" on my (Mac) keyboard to hit the "OK" button... that seems to be gone and now i have to move the cursor to the diaolg box and click "OK" with my mouse... I make a lot of audio adjustments and this slows me way down, and adds more unneccesary mousing to my day
2) Speaking of the Mixer tool, I'd love to able to set those hamburger menu commands to keyboard shortcuts... those too add a lot of (eventually painful) mousing to my average day.
running MC 2020 12.2 on a 2020 27" iMac Mojave
Is there a way to refresh the content of the Source Browser ?
I have a fodler with new files coming in and I don't see them. I don't recall having this issue with other version prior to 2018.1.2. I've tried creating/deleting folder from Avid, or switching back and forth between other folders without success. I don't see a "refresh" button. Everytime time I need to link to a new files, I must restart Avid...
I don't want a dynamic media folder, simply to be able to link to new archival material coming in before transcoding.
Hi there,
Just wondering anyone can help me with this;
I installed Media Composer 21.6.0.55401 on my MacBook Pro yesterday, running Big Sur 11.4.
Everything works fine but I can no longer access files on my desktp in other programmes. Has anyone else had similar issues?
Cheers,
I used this feature extensively in Version 6 and it was tremendous, it worked seamlessly without issue, but in Version 2021 I have constant crashes.
Is anybody else using the feature successfully?
To clarify, I'm referring to the following function.
User Settings > Workspaces > double click a Workspace and select Link to Named Settings > type in the name of appropriate Timeline and/or Keyboard settings, (assuming additional settings have been created), then type in the name of an associatted Bin Layout, (assuming additional Bin Layouts have been created). Confirm and got to next Workspace and repeat.
Had a problem with 2020.6 where I got Exception: SYS_ERROR on Avid start up. Uninstalled and clean installed 2020.12 and I still get the same thing.
I have a class tomorrow and I can'tteach if I can't get Avid up and running. I can open up an existing project by clicking on the .avp.
Anyone have any ideas about how to get round this?
Cheers
Hi everyone,
this seems a very stupid question, but I still dont know how to do it, because I have been switching from Resolve and Premiere to avid....
I am always editing with the keyboard only where its possible. So just using ins and outs and then X C V for editing out or splicing in...
Now I want to make a short music collage (not synced, just random video clips over a music bed) and therefore I add music first and then edit the video accordingly.
But how can I edit all tracks EXEPT the music track? If I push X, all tracks are edited out and if I lock the music track, it doesnt allow me to edit, because one track is locked..
Any Ideas? 
I purchased a crossgrade to subscription from PT 10 through the Avid Website and it's not showing up under my products. The site provides a workaround for this that requires a System ID. The problem is, there is no System ID (for any of my products, include PT 10). When I look at any of the articles or videos on this problem, long story short, none of it is relevant to my situation. For example, it says that in the final steps of purchasing the crossgrade, you're supposed to surrender your perpetual license, but I was never given that option. And so I'm stuck in an infinte loop of troubleshooting, and I can't even get support on the issue because getting support requires a system ID. But I need support in order to find out my system ID. Can anyone help me with this? Feels like I'm in the twilight zone, and all I want to do is get the thing that I bought.
Hi all,
So I've been having a tough time getting my Media Composer subscription to work properly on my computer (PC). At first, I could not get MC to activate through Avid Link. It would give me the option to, but nothing would happen. It would only repeat the process in an endless loop. So then, I chose the option to run MC | First. At the very least, that would open. However, now that I want to try to open up the full software again, I cannot get Avid Link to recognize that I don't want to run MC|F. I click the 'Open' button on MC but it launches MC|F without any input from me. I cannot launch the trial version of MC through MC|F either. I'm at a loss! I have a valid subscription, but I'm stuck with the demo. I also cannot deactivate my license.
The Avid 2021.6 titler has become unusable.
Roll cannot be edited. Static subtitles expands the text area automatically, it cannot be properly justified.
Having downloaded 2021.6, I find that I have an issue with my two screen PC set up. (project and bins in the left hand monitor, composer and timeline in the right hand monitor)
When playing, trimming or any function in the right hand monitor, without warning the left hand monitor/screen automatically becomes activated and any keyboard or screen functions in the right hand monitor/screen become inoperable. Only by clicking within the right hand monitor/screen will the left hand screen be deactivated and the function become operable. For instance. when playing and adding a keyboard 'in' point. This does not always work if the lft hand screen has aactivated. Or, having added an 'in' point via the keyboard before the left hand screen has automatically activated itself, but trying to enter an 'out' point on the keyboard or screen, this does not work if the left hand monitor/screen for some reason has automatically activated. Trimming becomes frustrating having to constantly deacctivate the left hand monitor by clicking in the right hand screen.
I have rebuilt all my settings, changed my tracker ball to a mouse, tried a USA keyboard rather than my UK keyboard but the fault sttill exists. I have not tried editing in just one monitor as this is not my way of working.
I use Windows 10 as my computer platform which, I believe, has the latest update.
I have been editing on Media Composer since 1992 so I am well versed with bugs and problems, but I have not met this problem before
I'm working on a large project shot on DSLRs in which timecode is recorded on the 5d's audio track... after avid reads the audio timecode it places it on the auxiliary timecode track for each clip...
I'm a big fan of autosequence (where avid automatically arranges each clip on a timeline to match the timecode of each clip)... but as far as I can tell, autosequence only works off the main time code of each clip...I was wondering if there was anyway to create an autosequence based on aux TC? If not, avid, could you please add this option to future versions?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Josh
Hi !
I'm using Accusonus ERA 5.3 Bundle with Media Composer 2021.6 on macOS 11.4 (iMac 27" 2019 - i9 3,6GHz / 64Go Ram / Radeon Pro Vega 48)
When using Audio Clean-up Assistant, it makes too often Media Composer get in "Not Responding" state.
Then, after forcing to quit, even if I restart the full system, Media Composer enters in "Not responding" state as soon as I open the project in which I applied Audio clean-up Assistant.
Would there be an incompatibility I missed ? Or maybe some install procedure I didn't do well ?
When I rename the bin in the Finder (app closed) for it not to re-open when I launch MC again, there's no problem... until I reload the sequence in the timeline.
If I delete the sequence and recreate one, there's no problem until I apply the ERA plugin :-/
All products are legal licensed, no "weird" programs on my setup. No other plugins installed
[EDIT]
Accusonus answered my ticket and explains that Audio Clean-up Assistant is incompatible with Media Composer.
The solution is to use each module separately, which is less comfortable, but working well.
[/EDIT]
Hi there,
This may be a complicated question (or hopefully not) but we've been racking our brains to figure out the best way to go about this - any guidance would be greatly appreciated!
I work for a documentary production company and we have recently set up an large archive raid with all the media that has ever been shot for our various docs (+- 12 films). So basically the raid is full of mxf's (transcodes) that belong to the different films. We have gotten to the stage where all the media is online and ready to go. However, we obviously don't want to be using the media that has already been used in the past edits, "the ins." The idea is that we will be able to use the unused footage to help build other docs in the future. Obviously the easiest thing to do would just be to remove the used mxf's entirely so that no editor has access to them - the tricky part is that we would like to still have access to those used clips as that is often where the action is happening. So in essence we are wanting to remove or affect only the part of that mxf that has been used, the in and out point, not the clip as a whole. We've been wondering if there's any straight forward workflow to achieve this?
We have all the original edits for all the docs, which is how we are determining what the ins of the clips are. In an ideal world it would be great if we could take the completed edits and tell media composer to colour/grade/filter or watermark only the part of the mxf's that has been used in the edit. That way an editor working with this footage in the future could see that, yes a part of this clip is available to use, however the part that is watermarked or graded completely blue (for example) has already been used in an edit and is not available. I say affect the mxf because the "grade or watermark" needs to be baked in so that no editor can just undo it and decide to use it any way, which will obviously create bigger problems down the line.
I would definitely assume this is something others have had to deal with in the past? We've been coming up with a few ways to do this, it's just a question of which method is the most efficient when working with such a mass of media.
Sorry for the long post, again any help would be great!
Brad
Just deactivated my licence on one machine. I can't seem to reactivate it on another via Avid Link.
It says that it's Actived on the new machine but keeps asking to Activate with Avid Link.
Am I missing something?
Cheers
Hello everyone,
As per title. On the doc https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/macOS-Big-Sur-Support there's no mention to the new MC version, so does anyone know if this version works on M1 machines or it open through Rosetta?
I am running ProTools 10.3.10 with Windows 7 and ever since I had to do a new Windows Install, I don't seem to have enough system resourses to run all my plugins with ProTools. This was not a problem prior to the new install. Help! I am constantly having to reboot. I think the previous version I had was 10.3.8 - Do you think something like that might be causing the problem. Should I go back to 10.3.8? Help!
Every now and then (and likely after a Windows update), my Avid refuses to start, claiming that "trial period" is not available, even though I have the Perpetual License of Avid MC 8.6.0 . Clicking on "Electronic Activation" (Option 1) on that screen pulls up Avid Application Manager which shows an already activated license (as it should). Closing the application manager brings me back to Avid where the activation screen stubbornly lingers, if I close that screen too, Avid quits, leaving me without an editing application.
In the past, even my attempts to deactivate and re-activate Avid have failed to solve this situation. The only thing that's worked in the past is walking away from Avid for some time and coming back after a few days to see it "miraculously" revived (perhaps another Windows Update?) But this is obviously unsustainable and very frustrating when I am under a time squeeze, as I was today and was forced to use another editing application to get the job done quickly.
Any thoughts/advice would be much appreciated.
Swati
I have tried everything to get First working. No help here at all. The main issue is that the blue scroll line in the timeline is not working. It jumps either to the beginning or end of the time line, and I cannot drag and scroll. I can drag and scroll in the monitor windows, in which case the scroll line in the time line will follow, but as soon as I click into the timeline, the scroll line snaps to either the beginning or end of the timeline, depending on where I click in the timeline and refuses to budge.
2021.3 was working fine; this happened when I upgraded to 2021.5. Receiving no help here, I completely uninstalled (including registry entries and folders) and reinstalled 2021.6. No change in the behavior. It is impossible to use the program in this state.
What are my next troubleshooting steps? Someone suggested creating a new user profile, but I cannot find how to do that in First. Is there a way to create a second user profile, and if so how?
Failing that, is there a way to log out and create a new account in Avid Link so that I can at least see if user settings are the problem? I have always used Enterprise systems or dongles before, and First is a new world.
I am running Win 64 Pro on a Dell Precision Mobile 5300, with a Quadro P2000 card and i9-8950HK CPU, 32 GB ram. My hardware should not be any problem.
Any and all suggestions HIGHLY appreciated.
Toby