Hi, I'm new to Avid Media Composer First, but not to editing (I have decent experince with Premiere Pro). I'm stuck on how to get the waveforms to show on the timeline. I followed the instructions in this tutorial, but nothing happend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5VsEhhfK8 Any suggestions... (read more)

Hi For a couple of weeks I have experiencedthe playhead sticking after i have left MC open and idle for a period. only thing seams to work is a complete reboot of my mac pro. I did the latest update but has not solved the issue. Wold appriciate any suggestions. (read more)

I am also experiencing the ghosting described by others. The image above shows the timeline after I have dragged and dropped the clip to the left in an empty space on the timeline. The blue is where the clip was, but this should disappear once I've dropped it. The only way to make it go away is by... (read more)

Several projects which had no issues in the previous version I was working on, now have playback errors. The main issue I have is that I get a pop up error and then my timeline goes invisable. There's probably a corrupt or unrecognised effect / mediafile in there somewhere, but I can no longer bring... (read more)

Hello, An editor I work with likes the tracks to be renamed per the mics (i.e. mix, boom, iso Lisa, iso Brad). The only way I know of doing this is to rename each track individually per clip. It's very cumbersome. I can see the metadata in the bin where the tracks are labeled but in the timeline... (read more)

Folks: I apologize but I am RE=posting this because I got absolutely NO replies after a month (usually you folks chiome in within an hour, so I wondered if it wasn't up for somereason). Anyway... As always, thanks for the support. I have been experiencing an odd issue with Media Composer 8.5 running... (read more)

Folks: As always, thanks for the support. I have been experiencing an odd issue with Media Composer 8.5 running on Windows 7 Pro. I have a mess of Timelines that are all very similar (they are for movie review clips – all start with a different theater screen where the movie trailer appears and... (read more)

I have two clips with audio, it happens that I have to cut video part of the first clip by using in / out points. I would like to move the same distance of In and Out over the audio of second clip to select the same portion of segment. I s it possible to move in and out together? thank you (read more)

I have a timeline of subclips from a single interview an editor made and I have a transcript of that timeline in Avid. I also have the transcript of the orignal interview. How do I get ScriptSync to sync the selects script to the selects timeline in a way that is useful for reference? (read more)

my link selection toggle button seems to be stuck in the 'on' position. when i try and click it off, i get a message that this button cannot be changed. it stays like this in the source and also in the sequence window. but if it stays on, then editing is impossible. i'm pulling my hair out... (read more)