Hi, my previous workstation was recently stolen. I'm going to be building a new editing/compositing PC, and I have a question. I'm going to be using Media Composer with Boris Red and possibly Premiere Pro with After Effects on this machine. My Question: Should I purchase and use two Intel Xeon... (read more)

Our facility runs on an Avid Unity system with Interplay. We are currently running Avid MC 6.0.3. 5 of our edit suites have an HP Z800 Workstation. The specs are: Intel Xeon X5550 2.67GHz Dual Cores 6GB DDR2 RAM 1TB Toshiba HDD (not sure of video card) Win 7 Pro 64-bit I am 1 of 2 Media Managers and... (read more)

Hello everybody, I am trying to find a good workflow to burn a 1080p Blu-Ray. I have Media Composer 7 Interplay Edition Sorenson Squeeze 9 Avid DVD by Sonic 6.1.1 643B12A The working part of my workflow is: Exporting a Quicktime Reference file from Media Composer Creating a "Ready to Author"... (read more)

Hi all! So my journey to be an editor took a boost recently and I'd like to latch onto that by getting to grips as much as possible outside the workplace too, and as such my home computer, which was in dyer need of replacing anyway, needs to be refreshed! I need a capable PC that can run Avid rather... (read more)

Hi Community, this is my first post Our old qualified AVID machine packed it in the other day and rather than shedding out $4000 for a new one I've put together a build. What issues do you think I could hit along the way with this build: Intel i7 3770k 3.5 ghz ASUS P8Z77-V LX2 Motherboard 8 Gig DDR3... (read more)

Can anyone confirm if Avid still offers this upgrade, albeit paid for? I have Xpress Pro HD for PC but have been using FC at home for a few years, while using MC at work. I would like to go back to Avid at home without shelling out for a whole new software package. I know Avid previously offered such... (read more)

I am an AE and find multigrouping goes smoother when I use QK. I previously used it on Mac but my new job is on PC with Avid 6. Does anyone have settings for QK to run multipgrouping on PC? Thanks for your help! (read more)

Hi everyone, i'm new here and new to the new Media Composer software. I own a production house in India and i've found myself in something of a dilemma, so i decided to pose the problem to you guys directly. Our production house deals with a fairly large number of commercials a month and soon... (read more)

I'm planning on configuring and buying a new Windows 7 PC to use with Avid MC 6.5 at home and was looking for some advice on the optimal CPU and GPU. I've read on here that for the CPU it is better to go with higher speed over number of cores. So would I be better off going with an I ntel®... (read more)

I'm importing files to avid (6.0.1). videos were created with sony z7. i start the program, load the project, start importing, and after importing 1 file (which he imports fine) - avid says he can not import those kind of files and aborts all the rest. the 1 it did import appears just fine but i... (read more)