Install v7 and upgrade dongle nightmare!
HiI renewed our Avid Expert Plus Edu contracts this June. After several months of waiting the latest flex versioner finally worked and so I upgraded one of our edu dongles.I then wiped and did a fresh...
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having an issue with timeline display in newly updated MC7.... unlike in mc 6.5, when i drag my mouse past the right side limit of the timeline's top position bar the video tracks slowly roll into...
View ArticleBlackmagic intensity shuttle usb3 & Mac Pro
Hi everybody,I use to work on avid media composer with a Mac Pro and I should be interested to work with a Blackmagic intensity shuttle USB3 on it. I know it's possible to add a usb3 card in my Mac Pro...
View ArticleMC7: How to prevent "Avid Editor Services" from running at OS startup?
I have installed MC7 and noticed the new "feature" that launches every time I restart my computer. It's the little applet running in the menu bar. It say it's "Avid Editor Services" and there's the...
View Articletrouble dissolving between two clips
My first clip is a title and the second is the intro shot to the video. It will not let me fade before the cut from the title into the first shot. Any idea why? Just starting to getting back into Avid...
View ArticleSymphony spend between 5 - 10 minutos to save a bin
Hello. I have 45 licenses of symphony 6.5.3 with interplay, but I have a lot of problems because all editors spend a lot of time for saving or opening bins, sometimes, when I will close the proyect,...
View ArticleConverting media with MPEG Streamclip
Hi folks, i'm starting to use AVID MC 6.5 (MAC), first i want to convert my H.264 (5D MK II) footage to DNxHD 175 to edit. When i i convert my media, looks very washed with a huge difference of...
View ArticleMC7 very, very, very, very, very slowwwww
Is there a way to downgrade back to v6.5? Running MC7 on my MacPro (2x2.4GHz, 8Gb RAM) has become like wading through treacle. I have never in my life encountered such poor performance.Maybe it is...
View ArticleSplitting an M2T File
Kumusta! (Hello)This is a very useful and free solution if you want to import just a portion of a long HDV clip (m2t file). I saw this from an old post in DVinfo.com1. Get MPEG StreamClip (free!) --...
View ArticleWorkspaces not saving! Driving me insane!
This has been an issue ever since I upgraded to MC 6. I'm currently running 6.5.2 and it still bugs me. Pun intended. Avid will not save my workspaces. When i rearrange the tools for say...
View ArticleOS Error on Avid startup- new MC7 system
I've got an annoying little bug on a brand new system. System specs are: Lenovo D30 Thinkstation dual processor 32GB ram, Nvidia Quadro 4000, Win 8 Pro, MC 7, Nitris DX and Proavio EB800MS 16TB Raid5...
View ArticleHelp! Batch removing the first 5 seconds of every clip and replace with new clip
Hello, I have around 320 clips that all have the same video segement at the beginning that lasts about 5 seconds. I want to remove it from each clip and replace it by a new clip. The length of each...
View ArticleMC 6.5.2 - No media can be written to drives on Synology DS1512+
I have MC 6.5.2 and a Synology DS1512. Every time I start up MC I get the error "No media can be written to any available drive. Check permissions." I have drives mounted in the finder through SMB....
View ArticleIs it still possible to download Media Composer 6?
I have Media Composer 5.5 on my PC. Had upgraded to 6.something, but system crashed and had to reinstall at some point and went back to 5.5.Can't upgrade to 7 without massive updates. So for now I'd...
View ArticleBuiding a DIY system - Hopefully these are original questions! (re: scalability)
Hello--I'm kind of new around here—I've been reading the forums for awhile but I haven't made many posts. I am preparing to have a workstation built to run Avid MC. I'm planning to use the template of...
View Articlecurves (color correction)
Whenever I add points to a curve for color correction the curve is slightly adjusted. It'd be nice if you could hold down command, option, alt, etc and be able to add a point without it adjusting the...
View Article"Alt modifier" doesn't work as it should since at least v4
Maybe this post should be in bug report, I don't know... According to the Editing Guid : "After you modify a key with a modifier key button, you can use the default function of the key if you press...
View Articlecapturing archive with 32khz audio on MC7
Hi allis there a way to capture from a deck with 32khz audio on MC7? Can't seem to find that option any more ThanksJM
View Articlenvidia driver 320.78 fails
Recently I received a message from nvidia about new Quadro drivers 320.78. I downloaded and installed the 64-bit version to Windows 7. When I launched MC, the first observation was, that the various...
View ArticleChanging Font On Clip Label
Hello! Really quick, how do you change the font on the timeline clips? (attached image)ok, gOT IT! Set Font menu.
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