Last night I installed Media composer, ran it, everything was perfect.
Ran it a few times and everything was great.
Of course when I get on the plan, the activation window came up.
You guys need deactivate all like Adobe creative cloud (I subscribe to this as well as avid) and iTunes.
Licencing issued on weekends can kill someone's
Marquee will not load and must be forced quit with some of our MC8.7 PC's. So far I have seen it on some of our older systems-
Z800, FX4800, BMD Studio/ Nitris (Symphony)
Z400 FX3800, BMD Studio
with 8.6 there were no issues
with newer machines (Z440, K2200, BMD Studio) it works.
Hi - my support plan renewal is due again. In that last couple of years I have, out of fear, renewed it, but this time im seriously wondering about not.
My question is this.
If I dont renew, and then have some issue with my Avid in the future, will Avid refuse to help me at all as I dont have an up to date support contract. So in a nutshell is the whole thing based around making me afraid enough to make me fork out again and again.
Or would avid talk to me about a version that was released whilst I did have a plan in place, but not offer any further updates.
I think that for large businessed whose trade revolvs around avid MC its a no brainer, but for people like me who arent in the pro game its a cost that really im struggling to justify?
Any thoughts
Peter
hi
im trying to find the best workflow for offline-online editing
i have avid media composer 8.4.3 installed
i want to create an 25fps sequence using 50fps clips so that i can use slowmotion
im using files from 3 diffrent cameras
here are photos of the 3 diffrenet mediainfo's (i took one file of each camera so that you can see)
thanks!!!
My 10 year old twins are very interested in making videos. They've been doing some shooting and I've edited a few for them on my Avid. But thier videos take a back seat to the work do for my clients so they want to start editing themselves. I've just upgraded and am giving them my old HP z400. Is there a lite version of Avid for beginners or a program like imovie for the PC that won't break the bank??
NewBlue FX Titler Pro 5 hides other NewBlue FX products (e.g. Essentials, Color Fixer Pro....) you may have from Media Composer. If you have applied any effects from these add-ons, they the clips to which they have been applied will appear black for display and playback.
Recovery is not straightforward. You have to not only do a Windows based uninstall of ALL NewBlue FX products, but also ALL files / folders created by NewBlue FX installs in Program Files\ and AppData\ subdirectories. Further you will have to comb through the registry and remove all NewBlue FX references manually before you can reinstall NewBlue FX produts ONLY UP TO TITLER PRO 4 in order to recovery your effected clips.
NewBlue FX has been made aware of the problem but is unwilling to do the debug on it, effectively leaving it to me to figure out. However, they have not supplied source code, object listings, debugger capable compilers, design documentation or technical data on exactly how these products interfaced with Media Composer, and what changed in that interface for Titler Pro 5. As a result, I have not been able to make any more progress that the above "brute force" recovery up to Titler Pro 4. Sorry...
Anyone using the HP Z240 Workstation? Im looking at purchasing it so I can run Media Composer. I will be editing 1080P video.
Hello,
I am using Media Composer 6.5 XXX in a Windows 7 machine
For the first time since using Avid.... have been using it since last Century!, I have used the AMA option.
This is what I did:
In my D drive opened a folder with the name "Xmas 2016."
To it I copied my video camera files (Canon Vixia G30)
Copied several .jpg files from still cameras.
Copied 2 video files from an Apple telephone
Everything was edited with no problem.
I rendered In/Out.
Tried to export to a QuickTime Movie.... the reason is that one copy of that QTM will be copied to a folder for future mixing with other sequences and creating a long DVD.
The other copy of the QTM will be used to burn a DVD right now.
There is no way I can Export.
Got the following messages:
Avid Media Composer: Exception: std: exception, What: [CQTExport Working ThreadBody] Threads: SevdThreadMessage: Thread message queue full Main Thred. Deferred Display Wait.
When I clik on the OK button, that window disappears and there is no QTM to be found in the Desktop.
Tried again, deselecting the Avid Codecs option. A different message appeared:
Exception: AMEDeferredTaskExecutor: ThreadBody - Uncaught Exception.
Tried to export as a QuickTime reference and was told that with AMA, that can not be made.
Tried to export an .AVI file. Got this very strange message: Maximum Size of AVI file has vbeen reached. Output might not be completed. There was an icon on my desktop. Clicked on it and the total length of the clip was 2 minutes. In reality, the whole sequence is 28 minutes long.
I have not changed, added or done anything different to my computer, so I will have to assume that the AMA way of doing things might be missing something, although everything displays OK on the Timeline and can be edited like any other sequence.
Is there a trick to export a QTM with the way I worked this sequence, and still be able to used the QTM as indicated above?
Thanks for the info and help.
Bert
Hi,
I have one Z800 work station out of our suites running MC 5 with a Nitris DX. We often get reports from the editors that when they start the workstation and run Media Composer that at the Initializing hardware part of the Splash screen they receive an error "A required hardware download was not performed".
This is usually resolved by powering down the workstation and bringing it back up again (a cold boot). Just rebooting windows isn't enough. Naturally, the DX is left in standby and is NOT touched, it's bought to life by the PC starting up.
In the past, before I inherited these suites, the DX has been exchanged by Avid and we've received a new one. We have recently upgraded the Z800 from v4 to V5 and still get the problem. We have also started using Interplay after being stand-alone previously.
All that I can put it down to now is that it must be the HIB card or PCI-E Cable (although I've been told that the card has been replaced too in the past). The Z800 has recently been re-imaged with a clean Windows 7 install and a fresh version of Media composer installed. We still get the problem.
This problem doesn’t happen in the other suites...
Any ideas?
Thanks, Mark.
I think I have been using Avid for close to 20 years, starting with DV Xpress. I’ve had some problems with the interface but usually I have been able to work those problems out with the help of this forum, lately I’ve been very happy with Avid mostly editing 4K projects and color correcting with Resolve with very little difficulty dealing with the program.
The one thing that hasn’t been working well is my license renew and application manager, since the change over to application manager from dongle key it has been a series of problems with Avid actually at one time Avid giving my System ID # to another customer. That took many calls and a photo of my dongle key with license number visible to straighten out the problem.
I decided to do the upgrade today to 8.7, the application manager was not syncing again and I had to shut it down in task manager, delete the correct Avid files in the program data folder and restart the computer to get it working again.
Then I found out that my auto renew had not happened again, which is due in October.
My yearly renew is suppose to be automatic, they have my Amex number listed in my account yet once again I find myself calling customer support to find out why I haven’t been renewed yet. I’m now waiting for a call back to see where I have to go from here. The last time this happened Avid customer support never called back!
In the project window's Format tab, there is a drop-down menu showing a list of different color space options for the project. I am currently working in UHD and want to use Log-recording for the creation of HDR content.
Where can I find a description in the Avid documentation about the color space settings and its functions related to the display and the video material?
Joachim
OK - could just be user error here but I don't think so. Working in a 1080P 23.976 project and I mixdown from a 23.976 timeline to DNxHD 115 - done it lots of times before. Duration is showing up for the resulting clips calculated at 29.97 not 23.976 - What? That's roughly a 20% error in duration.
You can see from the image the correct duration reported in the sequence above the audio and video mixdown clips. That is a sequence made up of only the two clips below it...
Also the sequence window is natively throwing up timecode at 29.97 so I have to force it to 24 (23.976) to read frames correctly but at least it is not reporting an incorrect duration. You can also see the clips are transcoded at the correct framerate and all the oriignal source material is at 23.976...
Could be something to do with the fact that these sequences originated life as audio only but they were recorded in a 23.976 project... who knows...
It has no effect except for reporting the incorrect duration and confusing me.
Greetings,
Is anyone successfully using 8.4.1 on an ultrawide monitor, such as the Dell Ultrasharp U3415W, at 3440 x 1440 res? Wondering if it is an alternative to a two monitor setup.
Regards
After "click download to get dongle updater file" I get "There has been an error. We are working quickly to fix it... try again later" etc. Meanwhile no Avid. No worky. Sucks. Marianna?
Yikes. Just saw this in the 8.0 Read Me:
Both PhraseFind and ScriptSync are dependent on underlying technology from a partner company that provides phonetic indexing and searching. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer these options for sale. If you own ScriptSync and/or PhraseFind, your license will continue to work with your current version of Media Composer (v5.5 - 7.0.x). Upgrading to Media Composer | Software v8 will cause ScriptSync and PhraseFind to no longer function.
This is seriously a deal breaker. Both of these tools are invaluable to my editing. Can someone please confirm that a solution to get these working in v8.x is forthcoming? I simply cannot upgrade without them.
Happy New Year!
Suddenly, after launching Avid Media Composer 6.5, a message appears that the video card's driver is wrong. It indicates which driver should be installed.
I managed to download the specified driver (NVIDIA Quadro K 4000 version 331.65) and after installed, the message continues to appear.
Is driver suppossed to be moved to some specific directory where Avid would be able to "see" it?
Thanks for the help.
Bert
Is there an automatic watched bin/folder? I need a bin which I AMA link to a folder and when ever I add a new clip to this folder, the new clip shopuld automatically be added to my bin.
Hi I have a folder containing a whole mountain of mxf files from an old project that i need to access to select a shot from.
What is the porcedure to drag / import them into my current project?
Any help woul dbe much appreciated.
Peter
posted a while back on this issue that i had with my new HP zbook 4k dreamcolour display laptop. was horrified to learn that there isnt a fix as of yet.
Any News AVID????
WE really need a scalable version of Avid for 4k screens and above ASAP! PLEASE!!!!