Would love to be able to have that. I'm hoping that multicore machines will allow more of this type of functionality. I've mentioned background saving before.

I second this feature request, it would be extremely useful, though I'd add the request that it be a user-selected option with a clearly defined on/off setting.

I can't recall exactly which version of Premiere Pro it was (I suspect it was actually 2.0) but it did background rendering using the GPU and that's some years ago, funny that we're only now getting MC 3.0 with GPU-assisted processing. .

I'd add the request that it be a user-selected option with a clearly defined on/off setting.

Absolutely agreed.

This would be great. I also want to be able to multi-task within Avid. e.g. while capturing or rendering, please allow typing/editing clip text in bins to keep productive.

Background rendering is a must. I have this in Liquid and it's so useful.

What would be ideal is some kind of window or tool within the software where you can queue up your renders, imports and exports and start, pause and cancel them individually.

I'm a huge fan of Avid, though I think they are really starting to get behind. MC 3.0 has only a couple of weak new features and some old one's are broken! (segment drags sync locks)

I fear they may be miffed about selling more for less in light of the competition, but where gradually leaking out piddly upgrades may temporarily improve their bottom line, they lag farther behind and infuriate their loyal customers. We know these things are achievable, though maybe they're not willing to bite the bullet and perform a complete software re-write so that these kinds of functions that editors crave so much are realised?

I thought Avid was supposed to be the pioneer of digital video editing. Now instead of surging forward, they seem like they're grudgingly and barely keeping up!

What would be ideal is some kind of window or tool within the software where you can queue up your renders, imports and exports and start, pause and cancel them individually.

I'm a huge fan of Avid, though I think they are really starting to get behind. MC 3.0 has only a couple of weak new features and some old one's are broken! (segment drags sync locks)

I fear they may be miffed about selling more for less in light of the competition, but where gradually leaking out piddly upgrades may temporarily improve their bottom line, they lag farther behind and infuriate their loyal customers. We know these things are achievable, though maybe they're not willing to bite the bullet and perform a complete software re-write so that these kinds of functions that editors crave so much are realised?

I thought Avid was supposed to be the pioneer of digital video editing. Now instead of surging forward, they seem like they're grudgingly and barely keeping up!

Hi,

I'd like background rendering, too.

The Ruthless Suppression:

MC 3.0 has only a couple of weak new features and some old one's are broken! (segment drags sync locks)

Segment drag sync locks is fixed in 3.0.5.

good luck,
Carl

Another vote for background rendering, and background export too.  Let the extra cores handle the render and export while I keep working on another piece.

Michael

Don't forget imports, too!

Agree - background rendering and exporting.

 By now, we really should already have render farms that we can "send render to", continue to work, and get an alert when the render is complete.

Avid DS has Remote Processors. maybe this tech will be brought to composer soon?

A lot of post facilities use Xpress Pro on Unity as render farms.  the editor finishes a sequence, (or a portion of it) puts it in a render bin and has an intern load it and render in-out.  then he cuts it back into his master sequence.  cludgy i know... but it's something!

Another vote for background rendering here

oh and secondary colour correction in MC while we're at it...

Add one more vote to the list for background rendering.  And for the ability to have a render farm.