Clip info (suggestion)
On a busy timeline with many tracks and with several effects applied and waveforms displayed on the audio clips, it is difficult to read the clip info displayed on the clip on the timeline. Of course...
View ArticleEUCON woes (Artist panels)
For the first few years with my Avid system, I could hardly get the Artist transport, color and mix panels to work - the documentation was(is) lousy, many features are either undocumented or simply do...
View ArticleMarquee title tool - output preview whilst composing?
Is there anyone else who uses the Avid Marquee title tool who can answer this...My memory might be failing me, but I am sure that the last time I used Marquee, the text would be overlayed on the...
View ArticleHeader picons on timeline clips
I have never understood the logic of they way MC displays clip picon image on the clips on the timeline.It's OK with straight cuts, but if I make a dissolve (starting at cut) the picon on the incoming...
View ArticleImportant! "Fast-Editing" shortcuts ... I still miss...
To mark the desired tracks in the timeline, some keys should be programable to select (or deselect) certain tracks in a row.For example: You press Z on your keyboard and V1 and A1 will be selected, the...
View ArticleWorkspaces in v2021.12
Hi alldoes anyone know why my workspaces randomly reset themselves? Sometimes it's after one day, sometimes a week? My edit workspace resets to a massive source record and timeline window and all my...
View ArticleDX output options
I have a couple of gripes about the video output option settings in MC - they may have been cured in upgrades since 8.5.3 - but here goes -Every time I start MC I have to manually set the HDMI output...
View ArticleBlackmagic DeckLink Mini Monitor 4K
Does the Blackmagic DeckLink Mini Monitor 4K work with Media Composer 8.4?
View ArticlePlayback monitor black unless playing or rendered
This just started happening today. If I'm parked over any clip that has an effect on it, the screen displays black. Once I hit play all is good. Now if I render that clip, it displays just fine....
View ArticleLights in 3D WARP effect
There are lighting effects done in 3D Warp on the borders. It is set up to seem as if the lighting is coming from the upper left...what if you want something else like upper right for example? Is...
View ArticleMC 2022.12 crashes when audio mixer is touched during playback
I'm having this issue where MC crashes when I try to change the levels on audio track 1+2 (ganged), this happens only when I touch the levels during playback. When I drag the levels it becomes...
View ArticleUpdate from dongle based MC 7.3
I've been happy to kep editing with my old software for the last 10 years or so since I last upgraded. My workflow is really straight forward. I shoot in 4K 100Mbs 30P, then transcode to 1080P.But on...
View ArticleMedia Composer SearchData location
https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/Location-SearchData-folder?retURL=%2Fpkb%2Farticles%2Fuser_guide%2FPro-Tools-Documentation&popup=true In a shared storage...
View ArticleScriptsync adding take numbers to group clips ?
Hi AllLong time Avid user trying to use scriptsync for the first time. Have my take numbers (in "take Column in Bin) which will not carry onto grouped clips and thus to scriptsync when placed in script...
View ArticleTime code track issue
My broadcast company just upgraded to Avid 2021. I've been editing on Avid since 1992 and know what I'm doing. I've always used clicking on the timecode track to get out of trim mode, effects mode, and...
View ArticleMC 2018.12.15 Background transcode service not starting (once again).
HI All.Recently updated multiple edit suites from 2018.12.11, .12 and .14 to 2018.12.15 on multiple sites (and a few to 2021.2) While in general things work fine today a known problem reappeared. One...
View ArticleMultiple Crashes
We have several users complaining of Blue Screens whilst editing.Looking at the event logs I have stumbled across multiple entires for the following:I am not a user of Avid but generally support most...
View ArticleMedia Composer 2022.12.4 released - 6.1.2023
Media Composer 2022.12.4 has launched as of today @ 12:00 noon ET | June 1, 2023.Location at Launch: The Media Composer 2022.12.4 release (Mac and PC) is available on the Download Center only.Support...
View ArticleMC stuttering on Acer Predator X34 monitor (G-sync) and RTX 3080
I tried to search for similar problem, but haven't found anyone experiencing/reporting... I use MC on verious systems, both "qualified" workstations, laptops and custom PCs. On one particular PC I am...
View Articleblurry titels - equivalent for "HDTitleFilter" in 2021.2 ?
Hi there,we just upgraded to MC2021.2.Now we notice that all the new created titles (or even re-created) or imported clips with alphainformations looks blurry again.In prior versions of MediaComposer...
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