Select cips in a sequence without selecting BLACK or BLANK spaces in a sequence... I am trying to apply the same effect on 30 clips in a sequence and when I lasso them I get the blank or black as well. Which is annoying, because MC 5 also adds the effect to the blank or black as well. Anyone know how...

Hi I am not able to firewire my mini dv deck into my avid & digitize succesfully, I can do it on the same computer in final cut. I am on a mac pro OSX 10.6.7 & the media composer 5.5.1. Do I need a mojo or does anyone know how I can get this to work? Thanks Vic

I have 3 elements, photo, background,and a frame made in titles, collapsed into a sub master. I now need to move that submaster video around the screen. If I add an effect, it moves the sub master, v2, and the image in the track below, v1. To avoid this, I opened up the submaster and effected each element...

I'm using Avid Media Composer 5.5 on a Mac, and have just finished editing a short film. I'm ready to export it, and get it to a DVD, and up until now I was pretty sure that I was going to render out an .mov file from Avid using the Send to QT Movie codec, and then put the .mov file through my...

I am working on a project from a different editor off of a drive I received today. A handful of my master clips have not re-linked to the MXF files that are on the drive. The only difference I see between these clips and the ones that do re-link is the source DRIVE from the clip info. All of the clips...

Hi there. We've been having a fair bit of trouble trying to install Avid Media Composer 5 onto a new iMac OSX 10.7.3. It was previously liscenced to a older Windows laptop, we deauthorized it then put the disc in the iMac. Unfortunately every time on boot up two boxes come up and MC5 doesn't...

In addition to everything said by the previous and thorough posters, I'd like to add that you have two ways to make file-based media usable in Media Composer: 1) Importing. That's been covered enough, I think. 2) AMA Linking. When you choose File > Link to AMA File (or Link to AMA Volume,...

I have a 21.5" iMac, intel Core i3, 3.06GHz, 4Gb memory, relatively new. I bought it in Jan of '11, so it's a little over a year old. It has a ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics card. I've attached a picture, so you can get a better idea of what I'm working with. I have MC 5 software only...

hi friends, I have planned to buy a new system with spec Intel I7 with supported Mother board, corsair 8GB RAM and 1TB HDD. But im confused with graphics card. I got an idea to buy Quadro 600, but my friends said its not that much worth. so friends please suggest me any good graphics card and guide me...

Hi, I'm working for clients who normally deal with FCP editors and they want an H.264 version of a file. i'm fairly new to the real freelance world where you are an everyman, and I don't know the Avid equivalent to an H.264 file. They want to upload the final vid to Youtube. Thanks for any...