This is a general question about preferences and when to decide to upgarde. MC 5.5 is on my desktop and I didn't upgrade to 6.0 because I was working on a long term project and didn't want to disturb anything. I also have MC 8.0 (8.5) on my laptop used it a few times for class or personal projects... (read more)

Hi dear MC users. I'm just starting to learn AVID MC and I need help. if it's not hard for you, advise me which option is better for editing in Avid MC in 4k: macbook pro with 16Gb Ram and 6-core 2,2 GHz i7 or iMac Quad-Core i7 3,6 GHz with 16Gb Ram ? (read more)

Hello, There is maybe already an answer to this somewhere but I haven't found it and would really appreciate some feedback. I need to get a new imac (not the expensive pro model, but a modest little imac). This one is on sale, but is not listed as an Avid supported model. Could anybody tell me if... (read more)

I upgraded from MC 5.5 to 8 in Dec 2016. I had no problems with my occasional use last year, but now it crashes when I launch it. At first it stopped with "Initiating MCState" at the bottom of the window. After following some of the tips in this community, such as deleting the MCState, settings... (read more)

I'm a lecturer at a film trade school, and reasently it has apared a reacuring (7 sepearate instanses) problem when relinking offline files. I did some diging into some of the projects and traced the problem to Avid reading the start timecodes of each clip as 00:00:00:00 and not the original "time... (read more)

Hi I need to purchase 4 more iMacs for additional edit suites asap. We currently use 21" iMac 14,3s [3.1Ghz i7] with a Dell 1080p bin monitor and BM mini- monitor connected to a Toshiba client monitor. We use ISIS 5500 and most work is HD or 2K ProRes or Proxy resolution, currently running MC8.6... (read more)

needing to update a couple sytems that have fallen out of date in every way imaginable. originally planning to just "fix" the Mac Pros with a new clean install and new parts but this latest 27" iMac release has me thinkng differently. realize it's only been like 10 days but wondering... (read more)

https://www.apple.com/uk/imac-pro/?&muid=00f44cf2-3661-4f21-8645-bff61aa914e3&mtid=20925wi539930&aosid=p238&cid=wwa-uk-kwgo-mac-slid-&mnid=smUBGZBD5-dc_mtid_20925wi539930_pcrid_198758187023_ Time to move from a trash can? (read more)

Hi everybody, does anybody work with a Artist DNxIO connected to an 27" Imac via thunderbolt? Up to now i am monitoring HD with an Blackmagic UltraStudio express. But i am thinking about upgrading with a DNxIO or a BM Ultrastudio 4k for 4K monitoring. On the Imacs second thunderbolt there is a Promise... (read more)

Hi, First the good news, my new iMac has a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.3 GHz, it has 16GB of memory, has 1TB Fusion Drive storage and an Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 GPU. And it has MacOS Sierra. And it's a late 2015 iMac. Now the bad news. My iMac does not have a Retina... (read more)