Hello,

I downloaded the Avid Media Comoper 30 Day free Trial and when I unzipped the folder and pressed Install Media Composer on my laptop it would not work. Could someone please help me with this? thank you.

Media Composer 2018.7 does not work with Decklink Ultrastudio Mini Monitor.  Downloaded the latest drivers and reinstalled them.

Our final delivery is in 4K flat. Unfortunately we have mixed cameras and sizes. Some true 4K while most is UHD. When I frame flex the linked UHD footage and compare it to the down converted clip in the timeline the AMA looks stretched. Has anyone else had this issue? could it be in the way that we set up the original frame flex?

I would like to try out the Media Composer First version 2018.09, so I installed it on my windows 10, 64 bit PC.

However when I launch it (after signing on via Application Manager) I get:

"Unable to retrieve entitlement data".

I have a bunch of titles in a bin created in AVC-Intra 100 (1080p) and I would prefer if they were created in DNxHD 36 (1080p) to match my footage so that same as source export goes more smoothly.  What should I do?

Im not too sure what is actually happening. All my clips now have a negative or reversed colour effect.

I'm not too sure where to start looking and what setting is affecting the colour.

The thumbnail files imported into the Bin look fine. But putting them into the timeline or source monitor are not the proper encoded colour.

Any ideas would be great thank you.

Rob

I just upgraded my OS to High Sierra 10.13.6, and all of a suddent the Avid Application Manager (AAM) keeps showing up on startup along with a huge blank window. 

I didn't have to hide the window every time on my previous OS version, but now I do every time I start up the Mac. How can I simply have the AAM window HIDE/Not show up on startup? I can't seem to find and setting for this.

Thanks! 

hi i downloaded pro tools online and pay the subscription. i downloaded the program on a comp that was outdated and it wouldnt install. now i have a new comp and it wont let me download saying its an illegal search . what do i do to fix this issue. plzzzzz help

Can´t start to work today, because although I have an annual subscription, Media Composer can´t be activated: 200 Can not link this device... Hell. What to do. Send my client home?

Thanks for help.

Hello to the forum :)

I`m looking for a fast way to move serval clips in my timeline in front of another clip.

What is the fastes way do this operation? Using the clipboard-monitor and copy paste the sections?

Or is there another way?

Thank You!

Hello again,

Ive another issue moving a group of clips around to a different section of the timeline.Maybe you got a fast and esay soultion for me?As you can see here I selected those clips with "shift" (they got interview original sound, which as to me be audio-track 1)

When I move them to the beging of my timeline, the following thing happens:

The atmo-audio on track A3 stays there and doesnt move with the other clips... synch-locks are turned on, the audio is part of the video-file. Does the extract/splice tool only work on the video/audio tracks selected? 

Are there other ways to do this action, to move this group of clips in front of the other one? Thank you!

Just completed a presentation where I needed to do some cleanup and make the presentation succinct had about 70 fluid morph effects on the video portion, which was keyed.  I had several attempts using render-all, which crashed Avid every time.  I went into settings/render and disabled GPU Effects and all is fine now.  I think this has been a problem for some time but just wondering will we at some point be able to use the GPU to render effects in Avid?  The video cards are getting better and cheaper; I use my 1080 FTW in Resolve which has more than doubled my render times.

Thanks

Went to update my Win10 PC to the new v2018.9 from 2018.5. I saw it also needed a App Manager Update. So I did that. Also restarted. I see that now MC is under Plug-In's moved from Apps but now it says that no MC update available. Any thoughts?

I'm going to download MC and do it that way but thought I would post this.

Its hard to say just how helpful increasing my video cache in media composer is (I have 128gb and set to 96gb)

What If we could also cache to NVME drives?  The performance is insane on these things.

1tb is $300...

Avid for God sake isn't embarrassing to have a applications manager in witch never worked right from day one?

what is good to have a non functional garbage sitting in ourr system and chewing system resources?

Come on AVID I can't even see my account status and support expiration date, If I have to go to webste to see status and download updates, then, why to I have to have appication manager? This non working application manager has been pain in the neck from day one especially during support renewal.

This is the second attempt after two weeks with same results Wheel is spinning showing getting subscription data for the past 6 hours,

Avid where are you trying to get the data from? I'm sitting here in Los Angeles with 100 plus degree temperature not in the middle of war zone of Iraq or Syria. What should I do?

When I first tried to open the trail version of Avid Media Composer, I got a message about the Energy Saver (can't remember exactly what it was). I tried playing with that and it didn't work. Now I just keep getting this message:

"Exception: std::exception, what::Failed to change priority"

The message about the Energy Saver doesn't pop up anymore.

What should I do?

Hello.  I enjoyed editing with Avid Xpress Pro/Studio. Now I've subscribed to the Media Composer 8.4 program and anxious to do my first edits.  I heard all about AMAs to link your files to M.C. but could not find the AMAs that would work with the Canon xa10 HD camcorder, a wonderfully compact unit loaded with features and lots of internal storage (was recently told by a Canon technician that the later versions like Canon xa20 up to Canon 400, etc.  have no internal storage, must use the cards).  Same tech informed me that my camcorder is the only Canon unit that is not supported by AMA therefore you have to first convert the files to media that Media Composer will understand and link  your footage that way.  After an exhaustive search I settled on Movavi video converter and should start trying it out by tomorrow. Used Brorsoft years ago but can't find them anymore.  If an editor has linked avchd footage from the canon xa10 to Media Composer software, please let me know how you did it.  I'm sure many users have the same problem and would benefit from this post. Remember, other Canon camcorders don't have that problem, their files will link with AMA.  Only the xa10 has the problem.  Very frustrating not being able to find that AMA link for my camcorder.  Thanks in advance.

Robert King | rjk productions | paris272@yahoo.com | tel. 908-361-7773 | New Jersey, USA

Media Composer 2018.8 released 8/13/18

Avid is pleased to announce the release of Media Composer 2018.8.   

Location: This release is available from Avid Master Accounts, Application Manager, and the Avid Download Center (login and password required).  Note:  The Download Center goes live at 12:00 pm ET and the remaining components will follow shortly after.

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).

• Macintosh  10.11.6, 10.12.6, 10.13.6 (new Mac OS version approved) 

New MacBooks and iMac’s: The new 2018 Mac’s do NOT currently work with MC 2018.7.  Engineering has already made a fix to address this problem in Media Composer 2018.8 and with this version, you can now launch Media Composer on the new  2018 Mac’s.   However, this is a “use at own risk” scenario as Avid has just received our 2018 Mac’s and have started qualification testing but not finished yet.  Once they have been qualified, you will be notified.

Manual approval of loading Kernel Extensions (KEXTs): With the release of Mac OS v10.13.x (High Sierra), Apple requires manual approval of loading Kernel Extensions (KEXTs). (For example Avid Nitris DX, BlackMagic, and AJA IO devices install Kernel Extensions.) At installation time, you should get a dialog saying that the KEXT was not loaded. You must go the “Security & Privacy” system preference and manually approve the KEXT. Keep the Security & Privacy pane open after you install the I/O device drivers so that you will see the notice that the driver has been blocked and press the “allow” button within 30 minutes of installing or the driver will be permanently blocked.

Avid DX Driver Separate Installer:  The Avid DX Driver is not automatically installed when you install the editing application. If you need to install the Avid DX Driver to work with your Avid IO device, you can install it separately.  The installer is located:

• (Mac) /Applications/Utilities/Avid Utilities

• (Windows) Program Files\Avid\Utilities\DXDrivers

Note:  For Windows systems, there is a Win7 driver and a Win10 driver in the Utilities folder. The Win7 driver works for both Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems.

Installers:   Previously, a separate installer was required for Media Composer | First. With this release, you have a single installer for Media Composer and Media Composer | First. Note: The option to run as Media Composer | First is now include in the Avid Media Composer Activation window.

AppMan 2018.8:  There is a new AppMan 2018.8.  This version supports a single installer for Media Composer and Media Composer | First. and resolves the following:

- Bug Number: AMPT-7739. Activating a Sibelius license deactivated the Media Composer dongle.

What’s New:  The following are new features in 2018.8

- Avid Generic Plug-In:  Avid continues working to remove dependencies on QuickTime libraries.
- Launching Media Composer | First:  There is a single installer for Media Composer and Media Composer | First
- Enhanced Correlation Tracker: You can select additional export options from Export to File.
- Exporting to XDCAM Change:  When exporting XDCAM OP1a, you select XDCAM through the Avid Media Processor.
- Exporting AVC-I OP1a: This release expands our support for exporting AVCI-OP1a.
- Avid Artist DNxIP Device: This release supports the Avid Artist | DNxIP device.
- Setting Automatic HDR Conversions for SDR Media:  The editing application allows you to map the white point of SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) media for REC2020 (HLG) and REC2020 (PQ) projects.
- 3D LUTS for HDR to 709 Conversions: We have added 3 LUTs that allows you to preserve high luminance values when converting to Rec.709.

What’s Fixed: The following have been fixed:

- Bug Number: MCCET-2582. You might have received an “Avid editor stopped working” error when performing a send to playback with XDCAM media to Airspeed.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2324. In some instances, the results of Color Correction Auto Contrast on some low contrast clips was not accurate.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2563. Capturing AVC LongG media using the Capture tool created DNxHD 145 media.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2578. You might have received a “Exception: BeginWriting failed” error when exporting as Windows Media.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2565. You might have received an “Assertion failed” error when trying to link or import WAV files.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2572. You might have received a CORE_SEGMENT_NOT_FOUND error when enabling (video) Dupe Detection with “Show Effect Contents” enabled in the Timeline settings.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2561. When performing a File > Open Bin on a read only workspace, the bin did not display with a RED locked icon.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2513. (Mac) You might have received an “Exception: std::exception” error when transcoding spanned AVCHD clips.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2566. In some instances, you could not import .m2t (HDV) files.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2112. You might have received an “Assertion failed” error when linking to AVC Long GOP with the Avid Generic Plug-in.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2567. When in Segment mode, dragging clips in the Timeline might not redraw properly if the Audio Mixer tool was open.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2034. Linking to Panasonic GH5 media using the Avid Generic plug-in might have displayed incorrect duration and timecode.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2441. In some instances, the editing application would show 100% CPU usage and would lock or hang when linking to specific MP4 files.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2544. Markers did not always transfer between two systems when the same Script was opened on both systems.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2543. The image might have appeared flipped when you relinked to an exported Tiff file.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2507. You might have received an incorrect Disk full error message when transcoding multiple spanned AVCHD clips.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2551. (Audio Mixer) In some instances, while stopping play to add volume effect to a clip, the fader slider would jump back. This did not happen if you were in Narrow Mixer mode.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2276. The editing application was slow to respond when changing audio mixer levels.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2500. Markers added in the Timeline did not always appear in the Marker Window.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2494. In some instances, the editing application might have crashed to a BreakPad window if you played back using the spacebar after adding markers from the keyboard.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2532. In some instances, performing a Find did not find all clips and sequences, in all bins in the project.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2489. 1080 50p (50 timebase) media in a 50i project was shifted by one frame.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2028. In some instances, linked XAVC S media using the Avid Generic Plugin did not display Timecode in the Start column.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2341. The List Tool change log was not correct. Comparing the same sequence with itself showed changes.
- Bug Number: MCCET-2524. In some instances, the position indicator (blue bar) was not in sync with sound and picture when using 3rd party I/O devices.

“What’s New” Guide and “ReadMe” Documentation:  As is normal practice, these documents have been uploaded to the Knowledge Base.  For the list of limitations, please refer to these documents.

How customers will obtain the August Media Composer 2018.8 Update:  The latest update to Media Composer and Media Composer | First will be made available on Monday, August 13, 2018 @ 12:00 noon ET.

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 MyAvid 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 Crossgrade or a new Perpetual license to receive this update. 

Reminder: This release of Media Composer requires an active Upgrade plan. Please remind customers of this before suggesting they install this update. 

ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys, I recently posted to a forum and they told me I should request this feature to you guys.

In final cut, the timecode display in the sequence timeline as well as the source and record monitors is copy and paste-able. so you can click in it to paste in a timecode value from a text document if someone made timecode notes. I know it's possible to manually type in timecode to jump to a certain spot in the timeline or a clip, but it doesn't allow you to paste a value into it, as far as I can tell.

My post is at the very bottom of the last page of this thread. I've found a workaround for now, but having this feature would certainly help:

http://community.avid.com/forums/p/108845/671375.aspx#671375

(this is what i wrote in the post)

Hey guys, this thread has been extremely helpful, particularly the detailed step by step for how to initiate entering time code values on a laptop.

My specific question is if it's possible to copy and paste timecode, in order to jump to specific spots in the timeline or in a clip.

I'm a new MC user -- for a project I have a long list of markers with annotations and corresponding timecodes for where the markers are located in the timeline. The document is a separate text document (I 'exported' the markers in the timeline into a text document). I simply want to be able to copy the timecode for a certain marker (such as: 01:09:20:07) from the text document into MC so the playhead will jump to that point.

Because of this thread, I now know how to manually type in values to jump the playhead to a certain timecode, but when I try to Paste a timecode value in from my text document it simply Pastes a CLIP into the timeline (or whatever happens to be on MC's clipboard), rather than pasting in the text into the timecode box.

The closest I've gotten is going into the Bin where my Sequence is, putting it in text view and going to the column 'mark IN', and pasting the timecode value in there. It marks an IN point at the correct location in the sequence, then I can bring the playhead to it manually.

I'm similarly curious of how to COPY timecode from wherever the playhead is in the timeline, either to put into a text doc or paste to jump to the same point in a different sequence. I could mark an IN point and copy the in point value from the column view in the bin, just curious if there's a way to copy the value of where the Playhead is -- the same value displayed in the Record monitor (Mas TC1). If I could just copy and paste directly into the Record monitor readout that would solve it! But I'm committed to MC now so curious to hear your thoughts

For now I'm making due with whenever I want to copy a timecode from the timeline or a clip, setting an IN point, and copying the value from the Mark IN column of my bin. Then to paste, pasting the value into the Mark IN column of the clip/sequence i want to paste into, then hitting the shortcuts 'go to inpoint,' then 'clear in out.' Not bad, but skipping these steps woudl be helpful, so I'll give them a shout about it

Eric George, running MC 6.5 on a Macbook Pro Retina

Hi all,

Avid keeps crashing mentioning:

Mac2QTAssert

m_d>filterInstalled

Mac2QTEventWaiter

and giving me the following message in the event viewer:

Faulting application name: AvidMediaComposer.exe, version: 8.8.5.46340, time stamp: 0x5952c5cd
Faulting module name: Qt5WebEngineCore.dll, version: 5.7.0.0, time stamp: 0x590ce1c7
Exception code: 0x80000003
Fault offset: 0x0000000000d6e8e4
Faulting process id: 0x2c9c

It happens mostly during trimming.

If anybody could point me towards a solution I'd be very grateful, thanks.

System Specs:

8.8.5

Z440

Nvidia Quadro K620

FocusRite 2i2