Ultimate vs. Perpetual licenses
Hi I received a mail from Avid recommending I switch from a perpetual license (dongle) to an Ultimate subscription. The price appears to be substantially cheaper with more features offered in the...
View ArticleMedia Composer 2021.12.4 available now - Aug 25, 2022
1. Media Composer 2021.12.4 - Launched TodayGreat News!!! Avid is pleased to announce the release of Media Composer 2021.12.4 today, August 25, 2022, at noon ET. This is a long term maintenance...
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Timeline Setting display "Show Effect Contents"
Jumped a few versions recently. Currently on 2021.9I'm missing the Timeline Display option "Show Effect Contents" Is it a bug that it's not there or has it been removed permanently? Seems to still be...
View Articleimf creation
Been making imfs through Resolve for a couple years now for a Canadian broadcaster. They are asking for 2997 df imfs... no problem in Resolve. I decided to try the new Avid IMF tool, rebuilt in...
View ArticleSD DV media misinterpreted
Problem on both platforms. Link here to mac forum:https://community.avid.com/forums/t/207430.aspx
View ArticleAudio dissolve Keyframes, why????
Hi,I am cutting on MC Enterpeise 2020.12.6Like a good lad I rebuilt my user settings from the ground up, as I hadn't used this particular version before.One question... When applying a dissolve on...
View ArticlePrinting a Frame - Formatting Options
Hi,For the workflow I'm doing I'm having to print out all C&P shots to put together storyboards. Does Avid have any way of customising what you include in a printout of a frame from the Source...
View ArticleDouble clicking on the timeline selects the track in MC8.3 (Can it be disabled?)
HiSo I've been working on MC8.3 and I kept noticing that adittional tracks kept being selected without me remembering having ever selected them. VERY ANNOYING. Eventually I realized that double...
View ArticleReplacing one AMA file with another (higher quality) - Avid 2019.11
Hi all,Seems like such a simple thing to want to do, but NOTHING is working. File in the cut is an H264, replacement is a DNxHD.Most annoyingly, "Relink to file(s)" is absolutely resolutely greyed out,...
View ArticleNothing is displayed on my two monitors - MP 2022.7
Hello guys I'm starting with Media Composer and I installed the trial version to test this software. But I don't understand, even when I import my clips and want to look on my source monitors, nothing...
View ArticleHow to Resize an AniMatte shot without Resizing Layer Below...
I always forget how to do this and I always know there's a way because I've done it before. Then every time it takes me hours to search for the answer to this... So I'm going to just put it right here...
View ArticleMC Find Tool - Issues - Sound Design
Good evening,I need to use the Avid Find Tool to search through our internal sound library to do temp sound design. The sound library is a fairly huge collection of bins which get copied from Avid...
View ArticleRender multiple sequences / entire bin
I know this has been asked before, several years ago... hoping maybe it has been addressed by now. I have a bin with over 100 sequences - commercial spots. I'd like to render them all, without going...
View ArticleAvid Media Composer doesn't respond when opening project
Avid Media Composer doesn't respond when opening project.Specs: DESKTOP, Windows 10 Professional, Versie 2009, Type systeem PC, RAM-GEHEUGEN 64 GB, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor 3.40 GHz, 64-bits...
View ArticleAvid Control - How to group audio tracks
In Avid Control Android app linked to Media Composer 2022.7 is there a way to group audio tracks by 4 into 4 to limit number of faders on screen?Let me explain: one fader can control audio tracks 1 to...
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Multicam Editing on different video tracks
Hello everyone! I'd like to ask about multicam editing. On default I have one video track with lot of segments from different cameras. It's not easy to grade one video track with different cameras in...
View ArticleSapphire Drop Shadow on AE Graphics
Hi allThere was a time if you had a graphic from AE with an alpha channel you could drop the Sapphire Drop Shadow effect on it, click the apply to title and you get a nice soft drop shadow on your...
View ArticleSMPTE bars and tone leaders - Templates
Hi all, Might anyone have/know of a library of universal SMPTE leader templates in 23.98fps, 25fps, 29fps drop-frame, and 30fps with bars and tone that they're willing to share? Thanks in advance :)
View ArticleSize of waveforms (increasing and decreasing)
Hello There was a thread where this was mentioned a short while back but it was quite a debate I think it ended with Thomas showing a picture of the sea (waves) in the source monitor - and I dont want...
View Article.avb ID structure
Can anyone share the way .avb ID is structured? I have isolated the byte sequence in .avb files that make Avid bins unique. I can create new bins with unique IDs outside of Media Composer by writing...
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