I recently updated to Avid DS 11 and discovered when trying to reinstall Keylight that it is no longer compatible. I wrote to the Foundry support team and was told - "Unfortunately there are no plans at present to develop a native DS version of Keylight for DS 11. Our Plug-ins team have looked into... (read more)

Hola a todos, llevo 11 años trabajando con Avid, pero ahora (en apenas un mes) debo enfrentarme a un trabajo con Avid DS. Trabajo en TVE en el departamento de edición y postproducción, pero allí no tenemos ningún Avid DS. Me he descargado la versión de prueba... (read more)

Hello All, we upgraded a DS system to version 11 and we ran into a problem with XDCAM media (SD and HD). The DS is not able to playaback such media and show any frame from all clips in format XDCAM SD or HD. Composer window is black and any error message is not displayed, but only audio is played. We... (read more)

[quote user="dfessak"]lets say you map the keyboard to your usual settings[/quote] Hi dfessak, DS has an "MC Shortcuts" template built in, which can be selected from a dropdown in File-->Command Mapping. If you're going to be driving DS for only a short while, and simply want... (read more)

Has anyone used the VST version of the Nugen VisLM-H Loudness Meter on a DS ? Can you use it on a "master bus" to measure the actual audio out of the DS or can you measure only individual tracks ? (read more)

Bonjour Désolé, mon anglais est trop mauvais, alors si quelqu'un peut traduire pour la communauté, ce serait cool. Je suis seulement monteur, et mon service technique vient de mettre a jour le DS en 10.5.2, sur Z800, kona3G... et Xstore 5Te. Je ne vois pas ce stockage dans la... (read more)

The newly released DS v11 shares off-the-shelf AJA driver with Media Composer 6 or any other third party application that can utilize video and audio I/O capabilities of Kona cards. Avid recommends users to stop the AJA service to ensure proper video playback and capture. In this tutorial from Igor Ridanovic... (read more)

Hello, I'm a DS 10.1 user on a HP XW8400 with a local storage Avid VideoRaid RTR320X and a UL4D. One of my HHD , a WD2500SB Caviar RE raid edition, is crashed . Unfortunately I am no longer under maintenance and these discs are obviously very rare . This disc is still under warranty . Western Digital... (read more)

Here is an exciting new tutorial on removing shaky camera moves from handheld shots. http://community.avid.com/forums/p/108889/631041.aspx#631041 (read more)

Igor Ridanovic explains the manual method of removing unwanted camera jitter from handheld shots in this Avid DS tutorial. (read more)