Have recently been setting up several MC 7.0.2 systems and next to the AMA performance issues also see very strange issues when AMA relinking and "classic" relinking. Also frameflex has UI issues.... Needless to say that MC 7.0.2 is soon going to be rolled back to 6.5.4...

While we see multiple problems there is one that really got our eyes rolling. When relinking MC will relink AMA files in bins to consolidated media in a classic media drive, a matter of priority and settings. But when it relinks, inside the bin, it indicates with the AMAlinked icon that it is AMA linked to the file in the media files folder?????? Putting that media in a time line shows the video being from the consolidated file in the media files folder, the left audio is AMA linked to the original file and the right channel is again from the consolidated file.

Huh...WTF???

Hi there,

This is my first post and I need help!

I have MC 7.0.2 on a MAC Pro 3.1 with the Matrox MXO Mini and I can't manage to get the video output out of Avid. The Martox option simply does not show up in the Special > Device list, I only have the IEEE 1394 in the list. But the button above the timeline appeared, showing two wheels.

I have upgraded the OSX to 10.8.5 as the Matrox Matrox_MAX_Utilities_version_4.0 requires and still I had no succes with it. First I installed Avid on 10.8.4 then I installed and uninstalled the Matrox drivers, then I upgraded the system and reinstalled the drivers. No succes!

I am wondering if I have to reinstall Avid after I installed the matrox drivers, but that is a little crazy.

What do you think is that I am doing wrong?

Thank you,

Alexandru

Hi!

I've seen multiple topics on this, just no answers.

I've been cutting on 5.5 for a long time now, by the time 6 came out, I installed the trial, but it appeared just simply dragging through a timeline and using the trim tool went very sluggish. I thought there was just some stuff needed to work out, so I went back cutting on 5.5, like a hot knife through butter!

So Media Composer 7 was released earlier this year, and some awesome improvements which I would like to use, so again I installed the trial, and again this weird sluggishness. So back to 5.5 again..

What has been changed between versions 5 and 6, it's mind-boggling. I just want my hot knife through butter cutting from 5.5 in 7. Keep using 5.5 wasn't much of an issue when 6 came out, but I would really like to upgrade now, just with the same basic performance of the 99% of what I'm doing in the application.

Cutting in 5.5 is really fantastic, for me it's still the perfect version of media composer, just the rediculous speed you have going through timeline and using the trimtool. I would love to have that back!

I moved my MXF files manually over to a new drive, but even if I delete the database files, Avid isn't recreating them so they link to the project. In the bin the "Media Offline"-files are pointing to the old drive and in the MXF structure there's only a msmFMID.pmr file created, no "creating" folder or others.

Need urgent help on how to get the project to link to the files on the new drive.

Ladies and gents, our company has decided to switch to the Adobe CC universe. Our first system has arrived.

I first showed up here in 2004, when we started using MC Adrenaline 1.1.  So many of you, including Larry Rubin, were a huge help getting us up to speed more quickly in the Avid universe.

I wanted to take a moment to say thank you, and not simply disappear from the forum.

We've missed all the recent goodies (our last upgrade was 2.8.3. I'm not kidding). So my participation here fell away more and more over time. But I have always visited and read. There's just so much good stuff here.

That's because there's so many good people here. If any of you work in both the Avid and Adobe universes, perhaps I'll "see" you over on the Cow.

It's been a pleasure, and thank you Avid, for helping put food on the table for many years!

I deleted a download folder that apparently had a file that the application needs to start. What do I need to do now to get the app;ication to start again? It looks like the application is intact on the boot drive. The deleted folder was on another drive which is why I believed it safe to delete.

My hard drive recently failed on my MacBook and I unfortunately had to install a new one, therefore I lost all of my information and data on my computer. Earlier this month, I purchased a student copy of Avid Media Composer and I was able to successfully download both MC and the associated programs with no problems. I used my email to create an account and registered the codes to. Though, when attempting to access this account yesterday in order to re-download my programs, I was unable to log into my account, I tried every password I could think of.

 After that, I went to the 'forgot password' page in an attempt to get it sent to my email. After doing so, I kept getting the message that basically stated that the email wasn't linked to an avid account. I am positive that it is the right email address as I have multiple emails from avid after activating my codes on it. I then tried to see if when I enter my email in while attempting to create a new account to see if it was being used by an account already, as it should be. Though, it let me through and now I have another brand new account with the same email address that does not have any of my codes and also does not allow me to input the download code that I was shipped (it says it was already used) .
I would appreciate guidance on how I can get the downloads and codes either shifted onto my account, or if I can have help figuring out why my other account seemed to have disappeared. I have all the codes and emails that I have received previously if that is needed to prove that I did, indeed, purchase my software and I am just looking for a way to get it back on my new repaired computer.

I was able to download the trial version of Avid on this 'new account' onto my computer in order to get the program on my system and I was able to input the codes successfully to unlock the full program. Though, now the problem is that I don't have the ways to download the other software that I was given when I installed Avid the first time (Such as Squeeze). I still have all of the codes, but I don't have a way of having them linked to my account (as they still should be) and therefore I can't get the program to input the codes for them.
I am extremly frusterated that I don't have these codes still on my account, and while I'd be fine to have ways of getting the programs and manually imputting codes, I do not want to have to do that kind of work around if my hard drive were to fail again. Therefore, I want to have my purchaced copy (that includes Media Composer and the associated bundled software) attached to my account as it should have been in the first place.
I have been unable to contact Avid suppourt via phone and I was unable to find an email adress that deals with these sorts of problems. I'm not sure if I contacted the correct place for this type of issue though.

I would greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer.
Thank you!

Hello all,

I'm having a strange dilemma that I haven't quite seen addressed in the forums yet. I'm trying to autosync some clips but everytime the subclip is created it gives me the Exception: PMM Insufficient Data message when I try to play it in the source monitor. However, the clip plays fine in the timeline after I drag it there but I still can't get it to play in the source. I can even audio scrub it in the source as well but it just won't play for some reason. Please help! Thank you.

I'm trying to activate Avid MC 6.5 which I had previously installed on another computer. I uninstalled the software from the original computer and installed it on my new computer, now that I'm trying to activate this upgrade it's not letting me. I went back to try to deactivate my license off my old comuter but it errors, it says that because I uninstalled the software there's nothing to deactivate- if that's the case then why isn't it letting me activate 6.5 on my new computer? Any suggestions? Any help would be great! 

Molly 

We're sending all out crews that shoot stereoscopic footage out with cameras that record onto Nano Flash drives. The Nano's record onto CF cards at 100, 140, 180, 220, or 280 Mbps and can record MXF files or MOV files. We have the crews record MXF files to significantly reduce import time. For example a full card, about 80 minutes of footage, recorded at 100Mbps will come into the Avid in about 35 minutes if recorded MXF but will take about 11 hours if recorded MOV. The MXF files can't just be dragged into the MXF folder on Unity and have the Avid recognize the file natively, it has to be through the import dialog.

We're bringing the footage in on v3.13 MC's, a 4.0.5 Symphony and a 5.? MC using import. We can't use AMA since most of our offline systems are v2.5.

What I'm wondering about is what resolution the Avid is really bringing the media in at. In all our systems when we set the Video Resolution to either DNxHD 220X MXF or 1:1 10b MXF and them import the footage, when we look at the video heading it says XDCAM HD 50Mbits(1080p/29.97). I then ran a test and set the Nano's to record at 180 Mbps and at 280 Mbps and then imported that footage. Again the Avid says it's video is the XDCAM HD 55.

If we import the MOV files they come in at 220X just like we asked the Avid to do

So, is the Avid truly bringing in the media at a 55Mbts rate or is that just the header that the file is wrapped in and it's really 220X? I haven't had a chance to shoot 2 identical shots to look at a quality difference between MXF and MOV since the camera is out in the field.

One of the hardest things about coming to avid from any other edit system is the fact that I can't map my keyboard the way I actually want to map it. 

Thanks so much,

Jake B

I have a question regarding sample rate.  If I have a session at 96 hrtz 24 bits.  Is it okay when recording into my interface with tube compressor having a 40 hrtz output? My tracks been messed up before but I believe it was the issue with sample rate.  Another isssue with editing is.  When setting up grid.  Must everything strum of the chord always fall on a grid line in play back mode?  In my last session I made everything so it would fall on a quarter note but the rest of the chord strums would fall on a 32nd note before the next chord  starts at bar 2.  When editing guitar parts I realized being over perfect in the 1/8 down to the 32 notes can ruin or make the song.  I'll be thankful for any answers.

Thankyou

Joe

Hello again,

I am having a significant issue with a custom export.

The finished cut will export fine SAS, however the file is too large to be uploaded to Vimeo whoch is what my client wants.

I have the recommended settings for Vimeo and yet the AVID crashes EVERY time I try and export when not SAS and i've used a number of different formats.

I had thought maybe there wasn't enough space on the harddrive but the settings are designed to reduce the size of the exported file...I have also done a Video and Audio mixdown and even tried importing into a new project all with the same result...

My workflow was quite straightforward...source footage was from Canon 6d Mk II. I created a 1080p 23.95 fps project and AMA linked the source material and created a rough cut which I transcoded to DNxHD115. When I had my final cut I transcoded again to NDxHD175 and then mixed down..

Am I missing something? This is so frustrating...I need to export the seqeunce as H.264...that's all because Vimeo can't deal with an AVID codec.. I have exported before on other projects using this codec and now it seems theres an issue, I also tried another custom codec and this didn't work either...

I ws supposed to have teh clip uploaded yesterday....Any ideas???

Many thanks

Alex

I had purchased the Avid Media Composer 6 student version in May. I had to sell the computer it was installed on so I uninstalled it. Now, when I try to install it on a different computer with the sytem ID and the activation number, I get a "101 Activation Failed" message. 

Previously I had to verify my identity through a company called identit-e and everything worked fine. I even tryed to re-request an activation ID with them which didn't work. 

I can't afford the phone call/being on hold with Avid so I'm trying this outlet. I would love any advice that someone can give. I'd really like to learn how to use Avid and this is the only thing keeping me from doing it. Thanks!

J.J.

I have a question about workflow using XDCAM 35Mbit material on Windows:

On my mac I am able to work with this codec inside MC, export a quicktime reference, and have Squeeze properly read the resulting file.  On the PCs at work the quicktime reference is not read properly by Squeeze:  all I see is a white screen instead of video.

Further, quicktime for Windows is not able to view the quicktime reference, while quicktime 7 on my mac can.

Before I ask the IT department to start investigating, I'd like to know if this is a known limitation on Windows for any reason? Any help is appreciated.  Thanks!

For some reason my last forum post was never posted, so this my come up under a different name later. I really need this solved, so I can't wait. I appreciate your help in advance and even more after! ;)

I've tried deleting the MSM files, I've tried relinking, linking to AMA, reimporting, changing relink parameters, and still nothing. The file names of the media has not changed, and I can manually find the media myself. When I tried reimporting, the media I imported immediately went offline. I'm very frustrated at this point.

This had spread to other projects before, but now those seem to be working, not this one (the one I desperately need and cannot start over on). When I linked to AMA files, the files would play in Avid, but I don't know how to link these new media files to the clips in the timeline.

I don't know if this has anything to do with anything, but the files, especially the main media, came from After Effects CC, exported as a mov file and imported into Avid. The framerates were different, but I adjusted the Avid project to match. The other media I imported where of a different framerate though, so I don't know if that is messing it up. Everything is offline, though.

Hi,

I am quite new to Avid Media Composer.  I work on a mac.  I have a compostion of three still images made with picture and picture over a black back ground (title tool black back ground).  Until there it's very simple.  But, I would like to ad motion to each of these images.  I have try Avid Pan and Scan but one effect seems to overight the other (PIP) eaven If I use the nest option in the time line.

I have done some research, and I d'ont seem to be able to find how to do both : PIP and a simple push in, on each images.

Can someone would be kind enough to help me out ? 

Many thanks,

Monique

Is it possible to have 27 audio tracks in Avid?

If so, which Avid software has this capability?

If not, what workflow would you suggest to accommodate this number of audio tracks?

Thank you!!

I mainly edit short form things I'm curious how it would be to edit off of an SSD?  Is the NLE more responsive when doing playback, reverseing,  and scrubbing?  thanks

I raced over to report some amazing news which I have yet to see.

I just build a new system for my Composer/Symphony 7.0.2 and I "had" a Quadro 3800 which is always the safe bet in setting up a system.  It's now, what, six years old technology?  Also, once in a blue moon I like to play some games like Call of Duty and I wanted to upgrage my Quadro because the 3800 (like the other models up to that year) do not support Directx 11 - even though the 'driver' software do.  Also, for the new Call of Duty, it absolutely won't even open until you get a card that supports Directx 11.  What to do, right?  As we've all had the debate, when seeing how ridiculously overpriced the Quadros are, basically 4-6x the price of a similarly speced GeForce - makes no sense.  I used to run an older version of Avid (like six years ago?) off of a GeForce but I'd get the various gauntlet of warnings upon start-up that you'd have to click through before starting.  

So... out of curiosity, I chatted with nVidia and told them my situation of what the official Avid cards are vs me wanting to upgrade.  The guy suggested their best card, the nVidia GTX 780 Ti.  I asked, as powerful as it is, would there be any conflicts with Avid.  He laughed, "No.  This is brand new technology that blows away everything else we're made."  I've done the various research, not a peep on any forum about whether or not Avid can run on this so I thought I'd be the first. 

The thing that I noticed was the CUDA technology... which gave me hope.  So, I bit the bullet and "gambled" and bought the "fastest card on the market" (according to various websites and everyone at the store... all the gaming nerds were freaking out when I was walking out with it, haha). 

I'm here to report that - IT WORKS AMAZINGLY!!!!!  It works 100% with Avid, far better than my old Quadro 3800.  4K R3D AMA footage doesn't lag for a second, let alone regular AMA footage or multi-layered effects.  And, best thing yet, NO ERROR MESSAGES UPON START-UP!  I thought for sure when it got to the "Verifying GPU" screen that I'd at least get the usual GeForce message or, c'mong the Driver Mismatch error which I had seeing so I would use the "verified" driver (and I have the more current driver, not the older 310 one that we're supposed to be using).  It blazed through all of that. 

I'm just confirming to everyone that you can get the fastest card on the market (if you play games, you'll be blown away) and it runs your Composer or Symphony perfectly.  For $720ish online vs. a couple thousand dollars...?  Seems like a no brainer to me.

The cheapest "superclocked" version is on Tiger Direct right now (and you get three free games, if you're into that), it goes for $719.  You can get the regular 'non-superclocked' version for $30 less but I just paid the extra.  There are two versions of the card, the Superclocked and the regular.  Also, mine is made by EVGA, not PNY or the various other offshoot brands - not sure if that matters.  So here's my rig;

Lenovo K450/i7 4770/16 GB RAM/nVidia 780 GTX ti/MC Symphony 7.0.2