Can anyone please help me out with my question: is Media Composer v2018.7.1 comparable with Mac OS high Sierra 10.13.06?

thanks,

Sonia

Hi

From Marianna.

Hey everyone.... The new 2018 Macbook Pro's are out with 10.13.6 and will not work with Media Composer 2018.7.1. Usually the user will get the following error " 'Exception: std::exception, what: Failed to change priority"
We are aware and hardware engineering is testing these machine's and once completed, they will be added to the qualified list. Until that time, everyone be advised that we don’t support these machines yet.

cj

Various errors having upgraded from 2018.4 to 2818.7.1 on macOS 10.13.6. Hoping not to have to roll back the OS, presumably there will be a compatible version shortly?

Thanks Marianna, Do you know approx. when the new update will be ready to download.

cheers,

Sonia

Sonia

Shoud be soon.... they have the fix and are doing testing to not only releae the fix but also qualify the new computers with it.

Marianna

looking forward to it, thanks

 

Any new on the update?

Hello

 

Can someone clarify this. We have issues with 2018.8 on 2013 MacPros running 10.13.6. I had some idea of downgrading to MC8.10 or earlier 2018. But when I deployed these machines 8.10 crashed a lot and support said that only 2018.8 was supported on this os version.

 

Now I found thix though, no mention of .6 but it says that 8.9.3 and up is ok on 10.13:

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/macOS-10-13-High-Sierra?retURL=%2Fpkb%2Farticles%2Fen_US%2FCompatibility%2FmacOS-10-13-High-Sierra&popup=true

 

If anything else than 2018.8 is supported, what do people find to be the most stable version? Our issue is random beachballs without error message. We have to force quit to get out of it. 

NEO_AMiGA:

Now I found thix though, no mention of .6 but it says that 8.9.3 and up is ok on 10.13:

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/macOS-10-13-High-Sierra?retURL=%2Fpkb%2Farticles%2Fen_US%2FCompatibility%2FmacOS-10-13-High-Sierra&popup=true

Hi Henrik, according to the ReadMe document, Media Composer 8.9.3 only supports macOS High Sierra 10.13 with supplemental update (released in October 5, 2017).

NEO_AMiGA:

Our issue is random beachballs without error message. We have to force quit to get out of it. 

I'm also experiencing similar issues on High Sierra 10.13.6 with MC 2018.8 and 2018.9. Have you found a stable macOS and Avid MC combo? I'm struggling to find the right combination myself and was considering to roll back to El Capitan 10.11.6 and give the following versions a try:

MC 8.9.3
MC 8.9.4
MC 8.10.0 

If you have any suggestions of advice, that would be much appreciated. Thanks,

Jesús 

Jesus

10.13.6 seems to be the best version of the High Sierra OS.  10.13.3 and 10.13.4 has some issues and MC was somwhat sluggish in performance.   

I use 10.13.6 on my iMac with 2018.10 and 10.14.2 and 2018.12.1 on my Mac book.   The imac is the most stable...

Marianna

Thanks for your reply, Marianna.

 

Yes, we are currently running High Sierra 10.13.6. We will give MC 2018.10 a try to see if that solves our performance issues. If not, I'm afraid we are going to have to downgrade to El Capitan 10.11.6, which is compatible with a wider range of Avid versions, from MC 8.6.2 up to MC 2018.11.

 

Jesús

JesusPM:

we are currently running High Sierra 10.13.6. We will give MC 2018.10 a try to see if that solves our performance issues. If not, I'm afraid we are going to have to downgrade to El Capitan 10.11.6, which is compatible with a wider range of Avid versions, from MC 8.6.2 up to MC 2018.11.

I downloaded the latest greatest version a couple of days ago (2018.12.1) and have been running it on OSX 10.13.6 without too many issues (one spinning beach ball I had to force quit from). I've been AMA linking to clips and creating groups and editing them (all of which is probably not supported) and running the groups nested as PIPs - all working fine. Did a bunch of exports too. 

I did have to get my license reset to get activated, which took a few hours, so beware that if you are on a deadline.

Thanks for your input, Trevor.

 

We are editing a big feature film project with regular DNxHD36 MXF Avid Media Files, no AMA and not a multicam or heavy FX project.

 

But we do have lots of media and thousands of bins, so what we are looking for is stability in project like this within a shared environment