Well, I guess what I'm asking is if I go through and upgrade tomorrow, wll I miss any important bug fixes, etc. Snow Leopard in and of itself isn't that important to me. But systems that are functioning as best as they possible can are. I have Four Media Composers, one Symphony, and a Unity to be upgraded. He's going to upgrade and perform

[quote user="BLKDOG"]We should have the version of MC for SL out by the time your new system arrives. (shhhhhh[/quote] Hey Blkdog, I have a tech coming in tomorrow to do multiple system upgrades. Should I tell him to hold off? Thanks

I would just like to point out that I took an Avid online survey a few days ago, and I was astonished when I received a phone message from a real person telling me how helpful my survey reply was, addressing some of the concerns i expressed on the survey, and leaving a name and number to call him back if I wanted to talk about my survey response or

Did you try downconverting the HD to either centercut or letterbox SD in the video output tool? Then you can simply do a digital cut straight to BetaSP. Good Luck,

[quote user="JTalosi"]Running a Media Composer v2.8 and Mojo SDI on a Mac Pro Quad Core Intel, OS 10.5.8[/quote] Is 2.8 supported on Leopard? According to the version matrix I downloaded last night, it is not. Thanks!

Two questions: 1) Is Media Composer 2.8 qualified to run on 10.5.8? 2) Not in front of an Avid, but in my Symphony DX you can output a downconverted HD sequence in center cut or letterboxed SD. Is this possible in 2.8? Number 2 isn't perfect, but it can at least provide output to a monitor if it works with 2.8 and a Mojo SDI. Thanks!

In the effects pallette, click on "Avid FX" and you get a series of choices - one of which is "transitions" drag the icon onto your timeline, and activate the effects editor. On the upper left of the editor window you'll see a square that says "Avid FX" click it and it will open the inteface. On the menu bar click windows

You'll have to go into Avid FX and once you're in that interface, in the library browser window, look through the DVE transitions. It's in there, not in the effects pallette. Good Luck.

[quote user="Kenton.VanNatten"] $2500 is not "insane".[/quote] It's "insanely" low for what you get IMO. In fact, if it wasn't so low, there probably wouldn't be any threads like this one.

Try double clicking the PIP clip while in segment mode, and apply the cc effect to the fill layer. Good Luck!