I just upgraded to 8.9.3 and have lost this quick linking and quick time ref export friendly function.  Have 2 projects still using it so its a PITA.  A fresh AMA link to same P2 media doesnt link audio in the timeline (although does do video).

People still use P2 you know!  So when did it get killed?

It seems Media Composer interprets some quicktime footage with qt 2011.07 (qt ) in the header as WRONG FORMAT.

It's funny that Media Composer 8.2.11 considers this to be WRONG FORMAT - but has no problem transcoding the material without any error message at all - so we get hours of useless 'error message' video on the drive.

I had a bunch of files from 2 panasonic cameras shooting in the same format (i'll post details later) - the only difference is in the metadata - files with qt 2011.07 (qt ) in the header transcode to wrong format files, ones with 2014.07(qt) are OK. Both files have perfectly identical metadata and are identical format, framerate, sample rate, raster etc. except for the Codec ID of course.

So 2 questions - why does Media Composer insist on this irrelevant metadata to interpret footage that is by all intent and purposes exactly the same as footage shot with a camera with a later qt stamp - the format is clearly not wrong, but the metadata is - so why not just try and ingest it?

and, before we blame it on the plugin programmers again  - does anyone know if there might be a fix at all?

I may need to use an iPhone App which can record a continuous 4K-sized 24p movie (2.5 hours or more) using HEVC at choice of high bitrates. 

Is it as good quality or better than H264, (which I see uses much more GB/minute)?

Is there ANY way to get HEVC file to LINK on a WIN7 PC using v8.8.4?

If I do a Legacy Import in 4K sized Project, will that work? (I Haven’t tried it yet, because it is very slow on a 15 minute test clip and I can’t tie up my system at the moment).

Thanks! 

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

We have a number of identical machines running AVid and when capturing one of them isnt showing DV 25 411 MXF as an option but the others are

Anyone have any idea why that would be?

Thanks

Win 10 pro fully updated and latest EUControl (3.6.1) installed. 

Some mouse functionality has improved over the last EUControl versions, but unfortunately I now get a lot of random double-clicks when clicking once, and some mouse clicks doesn't seem to register at all. 

Tried other mice, updated/downgraded/reinstalled drivers etc, but the only solution to this double-click problem I've found is to Exit EUControl, and then the mouse behaves normally again. 

Anyone else experiencing this? 

Any recommendations on DVD/Blu-ray burning software? I have an old copy of Avid DVD by sonic but it seems cumbersome and the result isn't that great.  Suggestions please.

Media Composer v8.9.3 is being released today, October 30th, 2017.  

Location at Launch:  Media Composer v8.9.3 will be available from My Avid account, Application Manager, and the Avid Download Center (login and password required), Monday, October 30th, 2017 @12:00 PM EDT.  

Installer:  There is a Media Composer v8.9.3 Mac and v8.9.3 Win Installer. 

What’s New in v8.9.3: The following has been changed in this release.

• Effects Parameters Update - With this release, the following effect parameters have been updated to include a decimal for better precision.
• Move Clips Up and Down in the Timeline - Two new commands allow you to easily move clips up and down the Timeline.
• Color Info Tool Setting - A new setting has been added to the Effect Editor that allows you to disable the Color Info Tool from automatically launching when you access a color picker.
• Dynamic Shuttle - With this release, you can use the Dynamic Play Forward and Dynamic Play Reverse buttons to adjust play speeds at smaller increments than with the usual J and L keys.
• Audio Pitch Correction - This release includes an Audio Pitch Correction option. Go to the Audio Settings in the Project window.
• Color Correction Presets - A number of color correction presets have been added to the effects library.
• Adjusting FrameFlex Parameters - With this release, using the Shift key while adjusting the X, Y, Size, and Z Rotation framing parameters, allows for a more controlled adjustment.
• Tool Palette Update - This release includes changes to accessing the Tool Palette.
• Motion Adapters and Source Settings Support for Matte Key Effects - In previous releases, Motion Adapter effects were not applied to clips with Matte Key effects. With
• this release, Matte Key’s support Motion Adapters. Adapters are applied to both the graphic fill and alpha sub tracks.
• Relinking Across Frame Rates - With this release, you can relink across different frame rates. A new option has been added to the Relink dialog box that allows you to relink to clips across different frame rates

What’s Fixed in v8.9.3:

• Bug Number: MCCET-2091. You might have received an “EXCEPTION: CM_NO_SOURCE” error when adding filler to the start of an audio track containing an Audio
• Track Effect.
• Bug Number: MCCET-2093. (Mac) You could not open a bin by accessing the Finder and double clicking a bin from the Avid Projects folder.
• Bug Number: IPI-1784. The length of spanned P2 clips were different when you checked the clips into Avid Interplay.
• Bug Number: MCCET-1953. You could not always smoothly drag The Tool Palette Fast Menu to open the Tool Palette. There is a new Tool Palette button that properly opens the Tool Palette. See “Tool Palette Update” in the Media Composer v8.9.3 “What’s New”.
• Bug Number: MCCET-1912. You might have experienced a delay when opening the project window if an Avid Nitris DX was connected.
• Bug Number: MCCET-1869. In some instances, while in Script View or Frame View, the thumbnails might not display clearly. This is because the application prioritizes displaying the thumbnails faster rather than having the best resolution for the thumbnails. A new option, “Faster thumbnails” has been added to the Bin menu. For bins with a lot of thumbnails, it is best to leave this option enabled. If you prefer better resolution for the thumbnails displayed in a bin, deselect Faster thumbnails from the Bin menu. This option only applies to the currently selected Bin.
• Bug Number: MCCET-1966. (Avid DNxIO) If the Source/Record monitor was minimized, the client monitor might not have updated properly.
• Bug Number: MCCET-2070. In some instances Media Composer would hang when applying a Timewarp effect.
• Bug Number: MCCET-1735. (Avid Nitris DX) If you had a master clip with a D-track loaded in the Source monitor, and you had a sequence without a D-track, the client monitor would flash black if you switched from the Source monitor to the Record monitor.
• Bug Number: MCCET-2004. The “Allow 16 channel output” setting in the Audio Project Settings was not sticking.
• Bug Number: MCCET-2047. If you copied a 3D Matte key from one clip and applied it to another, the 3D Matte key did not apply properly.
• Bug Number: MCCET-2020. You could not successfully import XDCAM media if “Enable legacy XDCAM import” and “Enable legacy P2 import” were selected in the Link Settings menu.
• Bug Number: EPIC-1856. When your locale was set to German, Spanish, or Italian, a number of Media Composer dialog boxes displayed cut off text. Avid has made improvements when displaying these languages so the text is displayed properly. Also, a number of dialogs now include tool tips in the appropriate language. Avid will continue to make improvements with subsequent releases.

Known Limitations:

• Bug Number: MCDEV-8421. It is not recommended to use Avid Media Composer v8.9.3 with Media Indexer v3.8.1.
• Bug Number: DAMAN-1927. (Mac) In some instances, the Canon AMA plug-in causes the editing application to crash. Remove the plug-in if the system continues to crash.
• Bug Number: MCDEV-8397. In some instances, when loading media into the Source or Record monitors, you might have received an “STD Exception” error.   Workaround: The current workaround for this issue is to disabled the Dual Copy Engine option in the Video Display Settings

Documentation:  The What’s New Guide and ReadMe for Media Composer v8.9.3 will be posted to the Media Composer 8.x Documentation page on the Knowledge Base at launch.

How Customers will obtain the Media Composer v8.9.3:   

1.  Customers who have already installed the latest version of Media Composer will be notified of the availability of the v8.9.3 upgrade via the AppMan. The Apps tab will also provide a link to download and install the update when desired.

2.  New customers who purchase Media Composer on or after October 30th, 2017 will receive this v8.9.3 update in their Avid Master Account.

3.  Customers on current valid Upgrade & Support plans can download the Media Composer v8.9.3 and either update from their Avid Master Account  or the Avid Download Center (login and password required.) after launch.

4.  Customers NOT on a current Upgrade & Support contract that wish to upgrade to Media Composer v8.9.3 must purchase a new Subscription or Perpetual License.  

I'm catching up with the real world and moving from SD to HD (1080) and would like to output to a HD monitor while editing. My old Mojo can't handle this as it's not HD. My graphics card has an HDMI output but this is not for the 'client monitor'. I'm guessing I will need to replace the SD Mojo with an HD capture card (even thogh I don't need to 'capture' anymore as I am now importing from camera cards. Is there an economical solution that anyone knows? Thanks.

Discovery has new specs requiring 16 channels of audio on master files.  I generally Digital Cut via HD-SDI to a Cinedeck virtual deck to create master files - the Cinedeck emulates a Sony SRW-5500 for RS-422 control.   When using Digital Cut tool, selecting the SRW-5500 in deck configuration limits HD-SDI output to 12 channels of audio (even with 16 ch enabled in audio project).  Every other deck option available only allows a max of 12 channels.  Is there a way to create a custom or generic deck that allows me to maintain RS-422 control and output 16 channels of audio via HD-SDI?  

Hi

Can one please suggest a high quality converter that can convert from MTS files created with Panasonic camera AVAHD in  full HD  resolution 50 frames 1080P  what is called PS quality ( UX 180) and some in 1080 I  PH quality to MXF files that would be edited on a 5.5.1 Media composer .

Thank you

Mikel

Hi All

I am facing this problem after installation of Win 7 Pro 64bit.

We are using Media Composer 8.2.12 with 

-Interplay Access 3.1.0

- ASF 1.8.0

-Avid Media Indexer 3.1.0  

-ISIS client 4.7.11

Problem:

* It got stuck in reading user settings. user settings stored locally.

*Without ISIS connectivity media composer is working fine.But when we use it, got stuck

What I did

*I checked • NIC settings, BIOS, graphics drivers and all other software related to media composer for interplay environment are  configured as per AVID standards

Since I upgraded to 8.9.3, when I select File/Output/Export to file...the dialog box that appears covers slightly more than the real estate of my default 1920 x 1200 display (it extends slightly into the second monitor) and is a non-resizable dialog box. It is fully functional but a huge, mostly empty dialog box seems a bit odd.

Installation hiccup ?

Anyone else seeing this ?

A config file or reg key to reset before I attempt to reinstall the whole thing ?

Just installed Phrasefind. Let's say I type in "competition," it does a great job of finding that word in master clips, but it's not so great with multigroups. It will occasionally find the word in the sub-groups but rarely in the multi-groups. 

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix? 

[UPDATE]

I guess i'm just getting the hang of it. It's working, but it's not perfect. Takes some trial and error to find what you are looking for. 

[UPDATE]

OK, this is annoying. I search for "SHANE." (i've tried with different spellings) PF finds every instance of "Shane" in the source audio, but it won't locate those same instances in the multi-groups! So I have to look at the timecode in the production audio, then open up the multi-group and type in the timecode manually. And this is for interviews. This could be a lot more difficult if the multigroups were of scenework and i couldn't identify which multi-groups the audio belonged to. 

doesnt matter which project i am working in 25p / 50i / etc.

the calculator always defaults to 30fps.

is there anyway to set this to project-fps?  or any chance of this getting fixed after soooo many years?

Errors, lacks
- After 1st install I got the iLOK license manger error, just like here:
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/iLOK-license-manger-error-with-Media-Composer

- I then installed the most recent version of the iLok license manger

- Opening a 1-minute-sequence sometimes takes 3" to 5"

- periodic random crashes while rendering a sequence or when trimming or whenever

- 1st: MC starts to get slow. 2nd: little white flash. 3rd: komplete freeze. 4th: after a mouseclick I get a white, transparent overlay on both displays with the following Windows error message:
"Avid Editor is not responding" (problem details at the bottom of this post)

- over all performance is bad

- single frame movements with pressed shift key are sloppy

- PrPro, PS, AE, AI, C4D didn't cause any crashes - so far.
But I didn't do particular testing.

- I encoded a lot with AME with no failures at all.



System

- MC 8.9.3 Symphony Opt, w/ dongle

- Win 7pro 64, fresh install (all essential updates installed via Windows Update)

- BIOS J61 v3.91

- nVidia P2000 (driver, according to Avid's version matrix: R384 U1 (385.08) WHQL /custom installation >clean install)

- Workstation, BIOS and nVidia configured accordingly to Avid's config guideline
"Windows Classic Theme" (which seems to be a thing regarding 3rd party audio plug-ins)
AJA driver v13 installed (but I did most of the tests w/o the io Express attached)


What I tried
- CPU stress test (Intel Extreme Tuining Utility): passed

- RAM: Windows Memory Diagnostics utility: passed

- complete (!) uninstall and re-install of MC + NVIDIA driver


Suspect iLok
- After first installing the mot recent iLok version I then installed the legacay iLok version and the system seemed to be much mor responsive.


TIA and sorry for the longwinding post!

TIA


Description:
  A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:    AppHangB1
  Application Name:    AvidMediaComposer.exe
  Application Version:    8.9.3.47085
  Application Timestamp:    59f000e8
  Hang Signature:    87e3
  Hang Type:    0
  OS Version:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:    1031
  Additional Hang Signature 1:    87e39fd8069b265b4a993a30d0cde3ff
  Additional Hang Signature 2:    590a
  Additional Hang Signature 3:    590a1065bcbde3bf30fbf4fba49719fd
  Additional Hang Signature 4:    87e3
  Additional Hang Signature 5:    87e39fd8069b265b4a993a30d0cde3ff
  Additional Hang Signature 6:    590a
  Additional Hang Signature 7:    590a1065bcbde3bf30fbf4fba49719fd

Hi

I'm having seriously terrifying issues with AMA at the moment.  I've got eight drives plugged into the PC running Avid.  I've AMA'd a sequence (and also done a lot of dropping in eye matching) now I'm trying to consolidate the sequence for the onlline to work from. 

But sometimes it crashes, others it said there is a corrupted file in one of the MediaFiles folders and suggested I deleted the .pmr file, so I did but then when I go back to my sequence half the stuff has come offline!  At other times it seemed like Avid was taking me to wrong moment in a clip when I Match Framed, as if it had got confused about the timecode or the naming. On top of that the original picture lock sequence which was DNX36 has now lost that LINK with the Avid Media, even though it's all there in the folder on the drive.

What do you do when everything gets so haywire like this?  It feels like 8 drives is too many but it's how the production company I'm working for have got the media.

Sorry for rant, any explanation about why stuff keeps going offline when it's still actually there would be helpful.

Jack

Hi,

 Is there a way to make it look like words in a title are being "written"? You know, letter by letter as if I was writing them across a page? I have sapphire effects, if that helps. Thanks!

I understand you want me to update my subscription.  But there is no excuse for this notice showing up dozens of times per day on my screen.  Please, please, you need to fix this behavior.  Unless you're intentionally trying to make people hate Avid Inc. as a company.  Whoever made the decision to make the software behave like this needs to go back and take a Business 101 class.  

Hi guys

I'm trying to create an AVI file with a DIVX or XVID codec. This for a portrait size (1080x1920 resolution) Clear Channel advertising display. The advert is edited, but Avid or Squeeze doesn't have those codecs for export.

Has anyone found an easy way of creating such an AVI file that is not standard landscape?

With many thanks.

Chris