Avid Media Composer - PC

Re: No Audio Playback in Media Composer

jwrl — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:44:38 GMT

Try the following. Open Avid and launch a project (any project). Launch the audio tool and try and output tone. If this works, try playing a clip or sequence. You should have audio working for the rest of your session.

(I know this sounds like black magic, but I stumbled across this "fix" when I was trying to sort out issues with a Realtek chipset. I have no idea why internally generated tone should fix a sound output problem. It may work for you too.)

Re: No Audio Playback in Media Composer

Editarian — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:21:22 GMT

In HARDWARE in my Audio Project, its says

CARD - "DirectSound Audio & 1394 Audio"

PERIPHERAL - Avid OHCI

SYNC MODE - Internal

I'm not sure how to test my PCI Soundblaster card.

Re: No Audio Playback in Media Composer

general_failure — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:04:44 GMT

Hmmm, does MC recognize your soundcard in the "Audio Project" settings?

Do you have the chance to test with a PCI Sounblaster card.

g_f

Re: No Audio Playback in Media Composer

Editarian — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:28:04 GMT

oh yeah yeah...all that I've checked.

Re: No Audio Playback in Media Composer

general_failure — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:15:51 GMT

Afraid I am repeating myself: did you check that MC didn't mute the windows audio mixer (the monitor icon next to the clock)?

g_f

Re: No Audio Playback in Media Composer

Editarian — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:56:34 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

I'm using the onboard soundchip which came with the Gigabyte Motherboard. And I'm not using any mixers or audio monitors...just plain speakers or headphones.

I usually have "Convert Sample Rate" to NEVER as well. Its just that I'm tring different things.

Re: No Audio Playback in Media Composer

general_failure — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:58:01 GMT

Check if MC muted your windows audio mixer.

Could you please explain in detail how your system is set up? What I want to know is: are you using any external sound device or a PCI soundcard or an onboard soundchip? What kind of monitors are you using (audio monitors, not your screen :)? Any kind of mixer attached? Simply: your whole audio "chain".

Complete system specs added to your profile could help, also.

Editarian:
I already have "Convert Sample Rate while Playing" to ALWAYS.

From my experiences I set it to "Never" because I want to know if there are mismatched samplerates in my project and would correct it immediately. Setting it to "Always" might work while editing but can lead to unpleasent results, in the end.

Regards, g_f

No Audio Playback in Media Composer

Editarian — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:30:41 GMT

Now I've checked my sound card...and outside of Avid, my audio works fine...but in my Avid Project, I cannot hear anything during playback. I can see the sample rate on the clip and I can monitor the audio on the Audio tool, but I cannot hear a thing.

Any suggestions? Its an Avid Media Compose 3.0 and I'm running it on a Vista 64bit, all the digitized footage is in PCM (MXF) format.

Also, in my audio project settings, I already have "Convert Sample Rate while Playing" to ALWAYS.

Any suggestions?