NTSC is lower field first. PAL is upper field first Avid Software/hardware starting with Meridien accepts lower field first. ABVB was upper field first hope this helps

What do you see in Disk Management? Do you see the G-raid here? It should be formatted NTSF or at least FAT 32. If you see the raid can you right click and get properties? Can you save a file from your desktop to the raid? You might have to reformat the raid. HTH

An EDL is a paper list of your edits in a sequence. Early on, Media Composer was not considered a "finishing" system, it did not generate playback quality images. An EDL would be generated and then give to a linear editor as a blueprint for them to finish your sequence. EDL manager is installed separately and can run while already working

When you see Blue Lines on your timeline it indicates the drives are not getting up to speed. Yellow lines indicates your CPU and Red lines a speed problem with both the drives and your CPU. A quick test is to display your timeline in draft mode, lower left corner below your tracks click green/yellow. How many tracks of video do you have? If multiple

assuming you are working on a MC mac since this is where the question was posted click your mouse in the record monitor to make the sequence active and go to the file pulldown menu and select "get clip info" you should now see the start timecode of your sequence. Scrub your mouse over the first semi-colon you see and type a colon and hit return

At the desktop level click on the apple menu to about this Mac and then more info. check here for USB devices to verify whether the keyspan is seen. Once seen use deck configuration to assign the port and the deck

and if the problem continues, your next step is to rename your existing Avid MediaFiles folder and create a new Avid MediaFiles folder (the best way to do this is to visit the audio tool in the tools menu and select create tone media and target your F drive) Once created you can now populate at the desktop files from your old Avid MediaFiles folder

When Apple introduced the 9600 series it was a full six slot machine. The next series, G3 followed by the G4 CPUs were 3 slot CPUs only (until the G4 533) and was not capable of handling the printed circuit boardsets internally being developed by Avid. One major problem with the ABVB series was you could capture either Analog or SDI depending on the

Does your mac see the keyspan adaptor? if not suggest visiting Keyspan to download and install the latest version of the Keyspan software.

A mis-directed quote from a decade ago still gets a lot of play, amazing!! Avid never intended to "drop" Mac from its operational lineup but the rumor had it back @ 1998 NAB that Avid was to discontinue writing Media Composer software for the Mac platform so it could concentrate on a Windows based solution. Although Avid and Apple have had