Question about making rest api calls to MediaCentral

July 23, 2018, 1:08 pm

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Hi,

I have connections to MediaCentral through port 8080 and 443. How can I make a quick call to it for test purpose? Maybe get system information back with the call?

I have tried with:

http://server_ip:8080/apis/avid.mam.assets.access;version=0;realm=BEEF/

and got:

{
    "code": "avid.upstream/UNAUTHENTICATED",
    "params": {},
    "message": "No access token provided",
    "incident": "4de172f2-8ea5-11e8-9066-0060dd4478054532",
    "exchange": "4de172f1-8ea5-11e8-9066-0060dd4478054532",
    "status": 401
}

Thanks,

Don

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Media Composer 2018.7 NOW AVAILABLE - 12 July 2018

July 12, 2018, 12:24 pm

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Good news! Media Composer 2018.7 has been released today!

Operating System Updates: The following lists the qualified Operating Systems. Depending upon your hardware the qualified Operating Systems are:

• Windows v7 64-bit SP1(Professional) and Windows v8.1 (Professional and Enterprise), Windows v10 64-bit (Professional, Creators, and Enterprise).

What’s New:

Export to File Options - You can select additional export options from Export to File.
16K Project Presets - The editing application includes 16K project presets.
Activating AC3 Separately - You no longer need to activate AC3 separately.
Support for Full Frame Stereoscopic with Avid Artist DNxIQ - Full frame stereoscopic is supported with the Avid Artist DNxIQ.
Thin Raster Support with Open I/O Hardware - You can open a thin raster project with an Open I/O device attached.
Resizable Composer window - You can freely resize the Composer Monitor.
Working with BXF Files - You can edit a BXF sequence, then export it with related essence files.
Preview Growing Sequences and Clips while Exporting to DNxHR or DNxHD - You can link to and preview a file that is still being exported (on another system).
Exporting XDCAM OP1a Media - XDCAM MXF OP1a export is available in any project type that supports XDCAM.
Performing an Insert Edit to an Exported Sequence - The editing application allows you to perform a file-based insert edit to an already exported DNxHD sequence in a 1080i/59.94 project.
Support for NewTek® NDI Video over IP - Avid Media Composer now includes support for transmitting NDI streams directly from the application.
Live Timeline - You can perform a number of tasks while a sequence plays in the Timeline.
Correlation Tracker - An additional correlation tracker for tracking motion in an image has been included with this release.
Support for High Frame Rate Projects (100, 119.88, 120) - The editing application supports 100, 119.88, and 120 frame rate projects.

What’s Fixed: The following have been fixed:

Bug Number: MCCET-2137. In some instances, the timecode of the LTC output was shifted by 1-2 frames when playing the Timeline.
Bug Number: MCCET-2358. You might have received a “SFPlayconsumer Execute Timeout” error when advancing through an Edit While Capture clip.
Bug Number: MCCET-2383. (Mac) In some instances, when opening a bin, a Breakpad window would open and after choosing an option, the editing application would crash.
Bug Number: MCCET-2516. Linking to a Vantage captured clip resulted in an error.
Bug Number: MCCET-2521. You could not successfully apply a Trim to Fill Timewarp effect on clips that had a spatial adapter (Frameflex).
Bug Number: MCCET-2484. If the Frame Column was selected in the Marker Window, choosing to Print all Markers would not print all markers.
Bug Number: MCCET-2411. The bin position moved after closing and then reopening the bin.
Bug Number: MCCET-2207. The editing application would not save Dynamic Relink settings if the target resolution was set to AVC Long GOP.
Bug Number: MCCET-2357. (Mac) Not all bins were indexed when you performed a search in the Find window.
Bug Number: MCCET-2463. (Mac) Duplicate AMALogger files might have appeared in a User folder.
Bug Number: MCCET-2502. A green status was incorrectly displayed after a failed login to MediaCentral.
Bug Number: MCCET-2432. When working with the SpectraMatte effect, the fixed Aspect check box did not function for the Scaling parameter.
Bug Number: MCCET-2483. You could not choose the “Optimize EDL” option if your sequence had four or more audio tracks.
Bug Number: MCCET-2487. Display Handles were not saved in the List tool.
Bug Number: MCCET-2453. You might have received an “Exception WM_SetinputProps_FAILED” error when exporting to Windows Media 5.1.
Bug Number: MCCET-2479. The Audio Punch-In Tool was not responding to keyboard input.
Bug Number: MCCET-2460. Dupe Detection was not visible in the Timeline when you toggled to the Source Monitor.
Bug Number: MCCET-2381. When using a Nitris DX, if you set 3.1 and 4.0 output settings in the Audio Project Settings, the settings changed back to stereo once you opened and closed the project.

Limitations:

Bug Number: MCDEV-9460. Windows 7 systems with Nvidia Maxwell or Nvidia Pascal cards might experience playback issues that could result in “Play Consumer timeout” errors.
Workaround: Select “Disable GPU Effects” in the Render Settings dialog box.
Bug Number: MCDEV-9142. You might experience hangs or crashes when performing a video mixdown with a 16K project on systems with less than 64GB RAM.
Bug Number: MCDEV-9329. (Avid Artist DNxIV and DNxIQ) When playing back immediately captured media, the video might freeze after approximately one second but the audio continues. You might need to restart the editing application.
Bug Number: MCDEV-9269. (Media Composer | Cloud) After performing a remote download operation on a sequence containing AVC-I 100 remote media, the downloaded media appears as
XAVC-I 100. Workaround: Download the entire master clips.
Bug Number: (Mac). You may occasionally see the menu bar flash followed by a brief beach ball. To fix this, deactivate “Displays have separate spaces” under System Preferences > Mission
Control settings.
Bug Number: MCDEV-9011. Intermittently, when working with the XDCAM Nablet Plug-in, you might see “Failed to get the sample position from the AMA Plug-in” errors if you have waveforms enabled in the Timeline.
Bug Number: COGS-2560. While working in the Script Window, text operations (cut/copy/paste/delete/editing) can only be done in edit mode. See “Editing a Script” in the Help. Before Installing the Editing Application
Bug Number: MCDEV-5650. When working with Panasonic LongG media, you might receive an “SFPlayConsumer Timeout” error if audio waveforms are enabled. Workaround:Turn off audio waveforms.
Bug Number: MCDEV-5385. Multicam editing with Panasonic LongG media is not supported with this release.
Bug Number: MCDEV-5384. Currently, when working with LongG media, you might see dropped frames when editing 4 streams. This might occur when playing from a single stream to multiple streams (and from multiple streams back to a single stream). The dropped frames usually display around the edit point (transition to a different stream).

How customers will obtain the July Media Composer 2018.7 Update:

1. Customers who have already installed the latest version of Media Composer will be notified of the availability of the upgrade via the Application Manager. The Apps tab also provides a link to download and install the update when desired.

2. New customers who purchase Media Composer will receive the update in their Avid Master Account.

3. Customers on current Update plans can download the Media Composer update either from their Avid Master Account or the Avid Download Center (login and password required.)

4. Customers NOT on a current Upgrade & Support contract must purchase either a new Media Composer Subscription or Perpetual license to receive this update.

Reminder: This release of Media Composer requires an active Upgrade plan.

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Correct raster dimensions & project type

July 26, 2018, 8:23 am

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I am a PC user with avid media 6, I have a various selection of footage that are in different formats. One in 720x540 and another in 1920x1080 both shot at 25fps.

In the format settings I'm not sure what would be the best 'project type' and raster dimension to set my project to.

I'd really appreciate some advice, thanks guys.

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Avid does not work properly after no renewal of support plan

July 26, 2018, 2:16 am

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Good morning. I decided not to renew my support plan which then expired on the 24th of July 2018. I have a valid permanent licence for Avid Media Composer 8.6 (originally a student version bought in 2012, upgraded to 8.6 in early June 2018)

Since the day after my support plan expired Avid has stopped working properly : it crashes every so often. I can't use the full screen video playback. The video playback displays a black image after each cut I make on my edit. Basically it became a nightmare to work and I can't get any support about it... Has anyone else experienced that ?

The timing is trangely disturbing.

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PhraseFind Stops Indexing after just a few clips then says it's done.

March 14, 2017, 5:24 pm

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So I have MC 8.8.0 and just bought the PhraseFind upgrade. I have a large project with 60 hours of interviews. The PhraseFind dot at the bottom of the search window is half green, then in about 30 seconds it turns full green. According to the PhoneticSearch folder it stops after indexing five audio clips (ironically all music files) from the same bin. That bin has a lot more audio files in it, but it doesn't search them.

I've tried closing MC, deleting the PhoneticSearch and starting over, but every time it does the same thing. Then says the indexing is done.

I had a issue like this with the old PhraseFind on MC7, but I assumed it would be fixed in the new version. Could it be something wrong with my project?

Nathan

Update: The few clips it did index were coming from two bins (with a variety of audio clips in them). I pulled both of those bins out of the project and now nothing shows up in the PhoneticSearch folder and yet the dot is full green.

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2018.7 Timeline keeps disappearing

July 17, 2018, 9:06 am

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Several projects which had no issues in the previous version I was working on, now have playback errors.

The main issue I have is that I get a pop up error and then my timeline goes invisable. There's probably a corrupt or unrecognised effect / mediafile in there somewhere, but I can no longer bring my timeline back into vision.

Any ideas?

"Exception: CORE_SEGMENT_NOT_FOUND, className:TLtrak, methodName:DrawSegDupZones"

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Media Composer: Which version works for "me"?

July 13, 2018, 6:38 pm

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Hi everyone. For any of you who haven't seen this yet...

Years ago when I first became a moderator, I created and kept a little "cheat sheet" for myself showing all of the versions of Media Composer, which OS versions they worked with, which versions of QuickTime, and so on. Kind of like Avid's official Version Matrix, but a more cumulative one. Then a few years ago, I turned it into a website so everyone could benefit from it.

I keep updating it with the latest versions of Media Composer. If you need it, here it is:
http://www.alwaysediting.com/avid-mc-versions.html

Within it, here is the page showing all of the recent versions:
http://www.alwaysediting.com/mc-list.html

Hope it helps!

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Cannot add User Settings Tab

July 26, 2018, 9:20 am

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Hello,

I am trying to export a user settings tab by following the documentation here: http://developer.avid.com/mcux_ui_plugin/clux-api/settings/system-settings-api.html#how-to-export-the-user-settings-tab

Here is the config in my index.js file

{
name: 'user-settings-tab-2',
provides: ['user-settings'],
create: () => {
const config = {
config: {
path: [{ index: 100, id: 'group1', displayName: 'Group 1' }],
index: 150,
displayName: 'UserSettings1'
},
factory() {
return new UserSettings();
},
};
return config;
},
},

When I build and load my application I get an error of:

UserSettingsApi.js:57 Reading user settings are failed with error  There is no settings or they are empty

If I do not have the user settings tab config this error goes away.

What can I do to fix this? Am I missing an import somewhere?

Thanks,

Isabela

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2018 MacBooks w/10.13.6 not qualified yet.

July 26, 2018, 1:25 pm

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Hey everyone....

The new 2018 Macbook Pro's are out with 10.13.6 and will NOT work with Media Composer 2018.7.1.

Usually the user will get the following error " 'Exception: std::exception, what: Failed to change priority"

We are aware and hardware engineering is testing these machine's and once completed, they will be added to the qualified list.

Until that time, everyone be advised that we don’t support these machines yet.

Marianna

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Avid editor is not responding message on my Dell Precision 3510

July 26, 2018, 2:42 pm

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Hello,

I keep getting an AVID editor is not responding message on my Dell as the program then freezes. I've done trouble shooting with Dell and they can't find the problem. Anyone using a PC ever have this happen?

Thanks,

John

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Using memory locations in the transport window...

July 24, 2018, 11:34 am

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I'm a big user of loop recording, and memory locations. It seems that it would be a lot easier to set start/end of loops if the transport window allowed you to select memory locations, for example Start = "Verse 1", End = "Chorus 1". I've looked for this feature in other places but haven't found it, so if it's already supported, great!

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Exception: Cannot create the AMA sample mapper to play this clip

July 26, 2018, 6:09 pm

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I cannot play a sequence I made weeks ago. When I finished it, it was fine.

When I put the sequence on the timeline I get "Exception: Cannot create the AMA sample mapper to play this clip" I have tried placing the scrubber on different clips but it wont play any part of the sequence.

The same thing happened a week ago to the longest scene in my film. I don’t want to have to re-edit either of these scenes from the start.

I suspect there is a corrupt clip or two in the sequence. But how to resolve this?

My Computer specs are HP Z420 Intel (R) Xeon(R) CPU ES-1650 @ 3.2 Ghz, 3.2 Ghz

16 GB RAM 64 bit Op system.

Latest Avid Media Composer with Symphony Option

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copy and paste color corrections

July 25, 2018, 11:31 am

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Hello,

I've forgotten the steps (or maybe they changed with the latest version of MC) for copying CC from one clip to another. Can someone enlighten me?

Thanks in advance,

John

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Best codecs for You Tube

July 26, 2018, 6:51 pm

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Hello,

I'm trying to export a video to be put on You Tube but my codecs are making everything look thinner and grainy. I've tried H.264 and MPEG4. Are there any others I should trying?

Thanks in advance,

John

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2018.7 creating hidden out point

July 27, 2018, 3:57 am

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Most probably user error, so could someone point out or confirm similar bug.

Drop a clip in source record monitor, mark an in point only. (for testing, easiest at the start)
Move the play cursor (blue line) in source window to wherever, but not the end.
Place clip on timeline using splice/overwrite.
In previous versions this would put that entire clip on the timeline as the in point was at the start and there was no out point set, whereas 2018.7 is creating a hidden out point based on where that blue line cursor was left.
So in my instance, instead of an 4 min clip going on the timeline, a 34sec clip has.
Deleted the usual mcstate, site settings, new user etc makes no difference.
Its not doing in it 2018.4 which we've put back on our edit 1

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Re-Link AMA clips

July 27, 2018, 6:35 am

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Hi all...I think I screwed up here; I put a small project on a newly available SSD drive which was big enough for this video. It lives in a hard drive dock connected via USB 3.0 to computer. It didn't work out well, drive held everything back, so I copied the folders with all the Avid MediaFiles, etc. to a new internal hard drive. I went into the avid folder, deleted the .mob file and re-booted. No soap, all clips offline.

So, how do I re-link these AMA linked clips to the new hard drive? Thanks in advance.

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Unable to Download Media Composer First on Mac

July 27, 2018, 6:02 am

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Hi all,

Was trying to download Media Composer First today and had two Mac download options:

A blue button named: Mac 131.47 MB

And a link beside it called + NewBlueFX Prime (Mac) 131.47 MB

However, when selecting the blue button, NewBlueFX is downloaded instead of Media Composer. The file size of 131 MB is suspiciously low for MC in the first place!

Can the Avid team confirm if the link is connecting to the wrong download? The Windows links seem to be working fine.

Thanks,

Craig

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Trial version is not working

July 27, 2018, 2:48 am

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2 hours ago I downloaded the trail version of Avid Media Composer on my mac. I installed everything a now when I open the program it says the trial perdiod is ended. I can only use is with a license code of dongel. Can somebody help me with this problem?

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