I finally installed the correct version of Avid onto my laptop, only to encounter more issues.

I'm trying to import files from my harddrive onto the version of Avid I have. Whenever I do anything, this message appears:

"File couldn't be loaded into source monitor."

The files I have should be compatible with the version of Avid I downloaded. What issue is Avid encountering that it can't let me open my files? Is there any way I can fix this?

So we've been working on a project recently for which we have a lot of footage in the XAVC Intra codec 3840x2160 in a quicktime wrapper (.mov) Our workflow usually involves AMA'ing footage into MC and transcoding to dnx36 for offline edit. For finish we re-link to AMA original clips and transcode to 1920X1080 ProRes422HQ. For some reason with these XAVC clips, I can't transcode to any 10 bit codecs within Media Composer (DNX 175x, ProRes422HQ, etc). It will allow me to transcode to DNX175 or any flavor of DNX below. I've also found that when I toggle the video quality menu on the AMA'd clips I can view them in yellow / green and green, but when I toggle to green 10bit the image becomes a distorted green and pink mess. This is also what clips look like when I try to transcode to 10 bit. I initially thought that I simply had outdated ama plugins installed. I unistalled legacy sony plugins and installed all the most current nablet plugins. This had no effect. I later discovered that in the source browser it's actually the quicktime ama plugin that is being used, not the nablet and I confirmed that I have, AFAIK, the current quicktime AMA plugin that installed w/ media composer as well as the Apple ProVideo Formats. I've seen other threads on this topic, but none that seems to answer my particular question. I've worked around this limitation by sending an AAF of the linked ama clips out to resolve and transcoding this way, but it's quite the PITA. Does anyone have any ideas on this? 

Hi,

Trying to place a motion effect onto a clip that is AMA linked to an AVCHD .mts file, but getting "effect does not apply" or something like that. Why can't I use a motion effect on one of my clips?

Hi anyone, I need help please!

I've been using Media Composer First for about 6 months and it's been going fine. However recently I tried to publish a video to my computer, but whenever I click on any of the publish options I get these two error messages.

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It is so frustrating because I have tried other projects and none of them will let me publish either. I don't even get to the publishing settings screen.

I have tried uninstalling all avid and media composer applications and deleting the associated files multiple times, but nothing has worked.

I am using Media Composer First verision 8.9.3 on a MacBook Air

Please does anyone know what I should do? The program is pretty much useless if I can't export anything.

Hi guys! 

I'm finishing up a project and I have a deadline of tomorrow morning, so any help would be much appreciated. I have been using Marquee this whole time, but now when I go to title tool it tells me to get new blue titler. I have no idea how to do that, and I prefer Marquee. So i guess my questions are: how do I get marquee back or if I cant how do I get New blue titler? 

Thanks! 

Lyndsay 

Dear Avid, After over a year trying to get you to fix a number of bugs in Interplay, and now Mediacentral, Capture I'm ready to throw the towel in the ring. Multiple cases further, bugs being logged, fixes being released that do not fix the problems, new features only being half ready in some beta stage. The new version numbering just being ignored. Anyway...

I have recently setup 6 Glookast servers with Capture 2017.2.4 and the system is basically unusable. Since the introduction of the new API device service that replaces the framework device service Interplay/Mediacentral Capture has lost the ability of correctly determining the status of airspeed and glookast servers. If, for example, a Glookast channel looses a valid SDI signal the system goes into a warning state it never comes out of when signal returns and that channel can't be used to record anymore. You restart the API device service and it all off a sudden become aware it can. If you dare to restart the API device service while some channels are recording you have lost those until you stop all recordings and restart all services again.

L2 support has been providing the help they could but the problem is 100% a development issue. My question is simple Avid: Are you going to put the development resources in to make Capture a product that can actually be used in a broadcast environment again or should we just buy Glookast, MOG or Telestream ingest servers and schedulers and not bother anymore?

A single channel failing requiring an API service restart, which requires you to stop all recordings on all channels is simply not viable. 

Hi all,

Spent a day gradually upgrading from 7.0.4 and hit a wall at 8.4.0 (8.3.1 works fine). Get the above error on start MC, have tried permissions repair and restart, ilok extension manager is the latest version.

I'm on a Macbook Pro late 2013, OS 10.10.5.

Any suggestions, as ever, welcome.

Nick

I really need an opinion on the folowing topic.

What is the difference between previewing through an AJA io 4k or Blackmagic ultrastudio and preview directly through my minidisplay or HDMI?

Is it the color space, the definition the motion? 

I'm using a macbook pro connected to an apple display and a LG ultrawide monitor.

I'll appreciate your thoughts

So far I don't have any dropouts since I'm using DNxHD no greater than 115

I get this error 

you do not have a media composer first entitlement plase register my.avid.com/mcfirst for a free media composer first entitlement

I've done all the operations, but when I open the application I get such an error

I've used a simple Logitech M100 mouse for years but since moving to AMC version 2018.4 this week, I've noticed a lag in dragging and dropping clips from bin to bin or bin to source monitor.  In AMC 6.5 and below, I could click on a clip and drag it to another bin or to the source monitor without issue.  Now with AMC 2018.4, if I do the same drag and drop action, nothing happens: the clip does not move from bin 1 to bin 2, despite my click and drag and release action that has worked thousands of times prior to this week.  The workaround for me in v2018.4 is to click, wait until I see the ghost icon image of the clip, then commence dragging.  Then it works.   But why?   In Finder, moving files with the similar drag and drop method does not require a wait for ghost icon image before dragging -- I can just click and drag.   This wait for a ghost/outline clip icon to appear before dragging goes against decades of hand/eye/muscle memory Avid usage.   I'm very comfortable with the Logitech M100, but I'm very uncomfortable with how it works in v2018.4.

Hi, I have the deveper copy of protools 12 (PT_12p4p0x56_3), but it doesn't let be run in a debugger (Windows)

Why is that and how do I get around it please?

Thanks

Dave.

https://www.sorensonmedia.com/squeeze/

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. 

Gotta say, at $20 a month, matching premiere pro....I find the AVID editing interface easier to use, more intuitive and certainly more conducive to long term editing. 

It just works after a while.  Once its tweaked with the keyboard, etc....it really becomes second nature easily.

So...Titler Pro and Sorenason are gone at $20 a month, leaving only the regular exports and Marquee....

Have you looked at Marquee lately?...3D extruded text with any font...lights, animation...very nice indeed with only the limitation is, it can't go above HD!

Oh sure, Boris and Titler Pro allow video on the faces of fonts, etc...that's another level...but, at $20 a month and add the Media Composer First product out there to become familiar with trimming, slide and slide, alpha files, etc. at no cost at all...very nice and should be easy to get adopted at schools.

In all, I think AVID has a very nice, mature video editor, that has improved, and is impressive.

Thank you.

just curious 

can anybody tell me the real genious behind the fact that you have to recreate the title media, when getting a sequense from let's say your assistant, who's working on another computer. Same project, same version AVID, same everything, just different computer.

I know when creating a title media you create an MFX on yor local HD that the other guy doesn have on his, but why doesn't AVID not just create those MFX on its own, when you load the timeline and make the already created title medias online?

over time you're getting this stack or recretaed title medias. So tedious to have to clean those up.

Or am I missing some workflow...??          

Best Ulrich 

Hello,

Trying to export a long sequence trying different things and now I'm getting above message.  I also have an icon in a clip that looks like a  lock.  Have no idea how it got there.

Thanks for the help in advance.

A couple inconsisntancies when using the Live Timeline and KB shortcuts. 

Mainly, you can click on track patch buttons on the interface and the live timeline wont stop playing. BUT, if you hit a KB shortcut for a track patch (like "7" for V1) and the timeline will stop. Seems to me if it works when you press the UI, but not with the KB shortcut thats a bug? 

Also happens with markers. 

Hi guys just wanting to fix this, I import images into the Bin and they are displayed correctly there but when I look at them in either source monitor or in sequence the colours are kind of inverted like the hue or something. I checked other projects and they seem to run well with no inversion, and I also uploaded the same file into two different projects and on an earlier project the file is fine but on my new project, the colour is inverted. In the project where the colour is inverted I exported the file and when I play it back on VLC or any other playbacks the colour is back to normal. It is an odd one and I can not seem to find a fix for this anywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have attached a screengrab of the problem. 

Hi,

If I have an external hard drive on my computer (call it J) and I transcode material onto it, then later I purchase another external hard drive (call it M) and I transfer the recent transcoding on J over to it, does MC instantly detect the changes with all references in my timeline bins changed, now pointing to the new destination in M?  Do I need to consider anything else?

Thank you,

DC

But it gets more perplexing.

If I want to sort that order I have to close the project entirely and reopen it.

Not the bin. The whole project.

And it gets better.

It still sorts it in the order it was entered but now in reverse.

It gets even better.

If I want to sort that menu alphabetically I have to sort the column (command-E) and close the project and re-open.

But…now they are sorted in reverse-alphabetical (!).

So…

to sort it alphabetically I have to reverse sort the column, close the project and re-open. Voila!

Completely nuts.

I would expect there should be

A) a simple way to refresh the registry.

B) a simple way to sort the registry

C) a simple way to modify the registry

D) a default of alphabetical sorting

None of this involving closing and opening the bin or the project.

When I tried looking this up on Google I got dozens of examples on how to do this in Excel..

So my thinking is, if you can do it in a basic spreadsheet…

Or maybe there is a way to do it!

Maybe it’s just eluded me all these years.

Is there?