I like to mark clips in a sequence of selects so I can quickly see my favourite takes or moments etc. With most rushes now having LUTS applied in the source settings, most of my clips appear with an effect icon denoting a colour effect. If I happen to mark a particular section of a take anywhere in the... (read more)

We are having an issue with several iMacs running Avid MC 8.7.2 Several computers do not display black for an empty part of the timeline in Avid. Many of them do display black (as they are supposed to) but several (about 5) display video distortion lines like old TV green and yellow and pink, or sometimes... (read more)

Please,are there plans to tightly integrate 3rd party R&A services within Avid MC the way Adobe and FCP have done with Wipster io and Frame io ? Or if not does Avid have something similar? I'm a long time user of Avid MC and prefer to stay with it, but it's these little jump aheads the competition... (read more)

I am new to AVID and so this may be a silly question but... I am not able to use any of the icons on the top menu bar of the timeline. Why is this? Could it have something to do with the link selection toggle being activated? If so how does this effect it?..and how do I turn it off? I am confused as... (read more)

Hi, I am new to media composer so I apologize if this is a silly question. I recently downloaded the trial version of media composer 8 onto my mac 10.11.3. I'm trying to add a music audio clip to my timeline. I created a new audio track for this purpose. when I try to either drag and drop from the... (read more)

Yes I was trying to click other modes but in the timeline pallet. What is the command pallet? Is this the same thing? Thank you, for your input . Ok so correct me if I am wrong... it seems that source/record is the default mode. How did I end up in edit mode? What would cause that to change? So if these... (read more)

As a seasoned (read old) editor, I never drag clips from the source monitor or bin to the Timeline but I am am testing 8.6 before a new bunch of fresh-faced students show up at my university in a few weeks. They, of course will drag everything everywhere. Before the new timeline display arrived in 8... (read more)

Hi a small suggestion When your in the sub caps Edit master Captions list you can't play the timeline. That for me it is a problem because you can't hear if the caption that you wrote was good or just to check if it's correct. so my suggestion is to make it possible to play while the sub... (read more)

Hi, I have a playback issue on Media Composer 8.4. When I hit play on the timeline randomly the cursor stops or jump to the beginning of the timeline. I have installed the cuda driver for mac and Quick time Pro7. Everything else seems to work fine. The Video Format in Avid is the same as the reels. I... (read more)

Dear Barry this is really annoying, but it is always happening when the red segment overwrite arrow button in smart tool is activated. I deactivated smart tool (and have the red arrow on my keyboard to activate it manually). So I can see which part is highlighted in timeline. hth julie (read more)