Media Composer 2022.4 – Released Today

Good news!!! Avid is pleased to announce the release of Media Composer 2022.4 today Thursday, April 21^st, 2022 at noon. macOS 10.14.6 Mojave is not supported with Media Composer 2022.4 and later releases.

Location at Launch: The Media Composer 2022.4 (Mac and PC) will be available in the customer's MyAvid Master Accounts, through the Avid Link application itself, and from the Download Center. 

Status of Support Plan: The ability to launch this Media Composer 2022.4 software is dependent on the status of a customer’s Upgrade and Support Plan on the date this software version is released. Media Composer 2022.4 will be release on Thursday April 21^st, 2022 at noon ET.

Media Composer v2022.4 What's New
Media Composer v2022.4 ReadMe

What’s New in Media Composer 2022.4:  

The following are new for Media Composer v2022.4:

■ NewTek NDI Audio Reference Level 

■ Interlaced Format Support for NDI

■ Reverse Match Frame Available from a Context Menu

■ Open IO Support for SRT

■ Avid Titler+ Update:

Improved Titler+ Dashboard with Dedicated Font, Transformation, and Style Sections | Improved Alignment Tools to Easily Position and Align Titles and Shapes | Reorganized Effect Editor to Reflect the Changes in the Titler+ Dashboard.

■ Command Palette Quick Find

■ Update to Media Composer | Enterprise Admin Tool

For details on the complete details on the What’s New in MC 2022.4, see the attached document

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What’s Fixed in 2022.4: The following has been fixed.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4465. In some cases Media Composer options would not be seen in

➤ Media Composer when Media Composer used Cloud Licensing.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4242. When working with some AudioSuite plug-ins, rendering stereo audio was slow in a Production Management/Avid NEXIS environment.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4378. (NDI) In some instances, the Media Composer monitor was either behind or ahead of the NDI stream.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4442. JKL playback did not work properly when switching workspaces with Calculator tool open.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4265. A sequence containing grouped XDCAM 50 clips with FrameFlex did not retain FrameFlex after performing a mixdown.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4527. Exporting BXF files caused a crash.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4562. In some instances, LTC signals did not parse correctly in Read Audio Timecode.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4402. With Gang enabled, selecting all Timeline Clip Notes resulted in a hang.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4596. When in Bin Frame View, moving clips by lassoing them did not work properly.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4485. Insert Export was not working properly.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4489. Using keyboard shortcuts to move clips up and down did not activate video tracks.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4513. (Production Management) In some instances, you might have experienced a significant slowdown when performing an Edit While Capture.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4436. If Dynamic Relink was enabled, an imported audio file might have appeared offline.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4481. (Production Management) Clips with the Restrictions did not appear with the red triangle in the Media Composer bin.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4479. When moving bins in a project, it can take too long for the bin torespond and in some instances the beachball appears when moving the bin.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4395. (ScriptSync) If you added color to a range of script indicators, when you closed and then reopened the script, the indicators were filled even if they were not previously filled.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4347. You might have received an Assertion failed error when exporting AAF on a macOS Big Sur system.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4367. Audio levels were inconsistent after performing a render and opening and closing a Bin.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4364. A single asset in a bin could not be renamed after pressing the main Enter key.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4267. Wrong media was displayed if you disabled tracks, performed a render and then enabled tracks.

➤ Bug Number: . MCCET-4497 (macOS) Performing a Select Media Relatives on a sequence crashed the application.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4335. You could not link P2 folders related to Prunus AAF in Media Composer v2020.12 and later.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4399. If you performed an Export as Graphic and NDI was active, you might have received an “AMEResourceManager ReconfigHW_LegendBoB_Capture” error.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3854. During export some AAF Sound settings did not save.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4360. In some instances, exporting to a P2 device resulted in pixelated and inverted images.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-4204. You could not configure FastServe/AirSpeed Studio with the Media Composer | Enterprise Admin Tool.

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Limitations: The following are known limitations.

• Photoshop PSD files are not supported for AMA linking if QuickTime is not installed

• Some fonts, by their design, are available only in Bold. On the macOS system it can happen
  that selecting a font does not produce any visual changes. Try selecting “Bold.”

• If you launch a project and receive an “Enable 3rd Party Emulation” warning, even if you
  select Enable in the warning dialog, you should also perform the following: Select File >
  Settings and click the Project tab. Click General Settings and select “Enable Bin Sharing on
  3rd party storage emulating Avid NEXIS/ISIS.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-16409. When broadcasting SRT, audio scrubbing is disabled.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-16119. (Avid Artist DNxIQ) When trying to capture audio, you might receive an “Audio/video is unexpectedly no longer coming into the system” exception error. Note that this only happens the first time, subsequent audio captures are successful. Workaround: Perform a capture with video first and then turn video off for the subsequent captures.

➤Bug Number: MCDEV-15829. If you perform a clean install of Windows 11, Media Composer does not see the RED plug-in. This does not occur if you perform an upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11.

➤Bug Number: MCDEV-15674. You might not be able to successfully link XAVC-S volumes using the Nablet plug-in. Workaround: Instead of linking to a volume, link to clips using the UME plug-in.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-15843. (Windows 11) In some instances, you cannot drag and drop from the Finder to a bin. Workaround: Use the Media Composer Source Browser to import or link your media.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-15491. Right clicking on an empty cell in the Tool Palette results in a crash.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-14845. Media Composer | Enterprise Admin tool does not restrict NDI when Media Composer is in software only mode.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3702. Image Quality when adding UHD progressive clips to an HD interlace sequence: The process Media Composer uses to mix and match video formats in a sequence is to transform the source clip's frame rate and frame layout to meet the project specifications; the motion adapters are added first, then spatial adapters are applied in order to provide expected playback dimensions. For example, if you have a UHD 50p clip that you want to add to a 1080i Timeline, the UHD clip first gets split into 2 separate fields (UHD format), then each field gets independently resized to 1920x540 in HD. The export process puts those resized fields back together into a progressive HD frame but does not maintain the clarity of the original progressive frame. Workaround: If you first transcode the UHD progressive clip to HD progressive and then add the HD clip to the interlace sequence, it forces the resize operation from UHD to HD to be done before the split gets into interlace mode.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3788. You might receive a “clip name is a clip in a multi-essence file that cannot be exported using the specified Embedded in AAF setting” when exporting embedded AAFs with OP1a audio clips. Workaround: Consolidate the OP1a clips to Avid OP-Atom prior to performing the export.

➤ Bug Number: APPSVCS-723. The Collab App in MediaCentral CloudUX window does not currently work with Media Composer.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-13604. You might have issues playing clips containing Media Composer effects in the Baselight User Interface if the Fast Image Access option is enabled in the Baselight plug-in

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12926. (macOS) If you have upgraded to macOS 10.15.4, there is a known issue with local attached RAID storage. The system will hang when running Media Composer or copying large files. This does not happen with earlier versions of the OS. You can read details about this issue in this blog. This limitation no longer exists with macOS 10.15.5.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12988. (macOS) The AMA Drastic plug-in is not supported with Media Composer v2020.4

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12964. For a faster performance of export audio/video sequences to .mov in 2020.4, please render the sequence prior to export, or disable the GPU fx (in the Render Settings - Current menu)

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12735. Maestro graphics do not appear correctly in the Timeline if your system uses the Radeon video card.

➤ Bug Number: DEFI-1808. (Media Composer | Distributed Processing) Two clips or sequences will always be created when performing a consolidate or transcode with Media Composer | Distributed Processing.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11481. Promoting a title from the Title Tool application to Avid Titler+ cannot be performed if it includes a motion adapter.

➤ Bug Number: MCCET-11796. Larger than 10 bit DPX files might fail to link correctly. Workaround: Go to File > Settings and click the User tab. In the Link Settings, click the Link Options tab and make sure Alpha Channel is set to Ignore.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11430. Media Tool ignores the “Current project” filtering option and lists media files that are not associated with the current project.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11197. In some instances, the Interleave option might not appear in the Export As dialog box. If you are performing an Export using the Avid Media Processor, the Interleave option should appear when you choose Stereo, 5:1, or 7.1 Audio. Workaround: If it does not appear, briefly toggle back to the Mono setting, then toggle to Stereo Mix once again. Doing so should reveal the Interleave option.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-8641. (AMD Graphics). Systems with AMD graphics cards might display tearing when performing Full Screen playback.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-9269. (Media Composer | Cloud) After performing a remote download operation on a sequence containing AVC-I 100 remote media, the downloaded media appears as XAVC-I 100. Workaround: Download the entire master clips.

➤ Bug Number: (macOS). You may occasionally see the menu bar flash followed by a brief beach ball. To fix this, deactivate “Displays have separate spaces” under System Preferences> Mission Control settings.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-9011. Intermittently, when working with the XDCAM Nablet Plug-in, you might see “Failed to get the sample position from the AMA Plug-in” errors if you have waveforms enabled in the Timeline.

➤ Bug Number: COGS-2560. While working in the Script Window, text operations (cut/copy/paste/delete/editing) can only be done in edit mode. See “Editing a Script” in the Help.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-5650. When working with Panasonic LongG media, you might receive an “SFPlayConsumer Timeout” error if audio waveforms are enabled. Workaround: Turn off audio waveforms.

➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-5385. MultiCam editing with Panasonic LongG media is not supported with this release

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Before Installing the Editing Application

(Windows) Overwriting During the Install Process. If you are upgrading from version 2020.12.x or later, you can choose to perform an overwrite during the install process. For versions prior to that, you must perform a manual uninstall first

Changed in Media Composer v2022.4: The following are new for Media Composer v2022.4: 

With the latest macOS installer, the Avid Media Composer application icon is no longer automatically added to the dock. Refer to your macOS documentation for instructions on adding an application icon to the dock.

The udate lead to errors, cannot open Avid.

KIM SOMA:

The udate lead to errors, cannot open Avid.

Hi, what sort of errors are you facing? Does the splash screen freeze? At what point? 

Hi Filip,

Workspaces in 2022.4 works better.

Zb.

I get an "EssentialResourceNotAvailableError" when opening this version after installing with the default settings on both Mac(Catalina - latest version) and Win10 21H2.  If i uninstall, then reinstall but uncheck the option for installing NDI, MC opens and operates fine

Hi there - like new installtions and deleting the real time support tool, everything works fine now. Thank you for asking. My stats are actually pretty good on this machine.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti,
Adapter-RAM    (1.048.576) Bytes
Systemtyp    x64-basierter PC
System-SKU    ASUS_MB_KBLX
Prozessor        Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900X CPU @ 3.70GHz, 3696 MHz, 10 Kern                          (e), 20 logische(r) Prozessor(en)

ZFigas:

Hi Filip,

Workspaces in 2022.4 works better.

Zb.

I'm happy to hear!

_ts_:

I get an "EssentialResourceNotAvailableError" when opening this version after installing with the default settings on both Mac(Catalina - latest version) and Win10 21H2.  If i uninstall, then reinstall but uncheck the option for installing NDI, MC opens and operates fine

Hi, These might help:

ERROR - Essential Resource Not Available? - Avid Community

EssentialResourceNotAvailableError - Avid Community

Same here, uncheck NDI worked for me.

Same on Win11, uncheck NDI worked.

Hello, can anybody confirm if the Mac Studio is officially supported in MC 2022.4?

I checked the Avid Media Composer Documentation and Version Matrix and I see that Avid added support for M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max, but no mention of M1 Ultra yet.

I also checked the Avid Qualified Systems and IO hardware for Media Composer and the Mac CPU Specifications attachment is still on version 2021.12 and hasn't been updated since December 2021. So the Mac Studio is not listed as a supported system, only MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, iMac and Mac Pro.

I guess it's just a matter of waiting until the Mac Qualified Systems documentation is updated to the latest version, but if someone from Avid could give us official confirmation on this forum sooner, that would be very helpful.

Thanks!

Jesús

JesusPM:

Hello, can anybody confirm if the Mac Studio is officially supported in MC 2022.4?

I checked the Avid Media Composer Documentation and Version Matrix and I see that Avid added support for M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max, but no mention of M1 Ultra yet.

I also checked the Avid Qualified Systems and IO hardware for Media Composer and the Mac CPU Specifications attachment is still on version 2021.12 and hasn't been updated since December 2021. So the Mac Studio is not listed as a supported system, only MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, iMac and Mac Pro.

I guess it's just a matter of waiting until the Mac Qualified Systems documentation is updated to the latest version, but if someone from Avid could give us official confirmation on this forum sooner, that would be very helpful.

Thanks!

Jesús

Hey, 

I think it's unlikely that the mac studio would be officially qualified just yet.

Yep. Me too on Windows 10. Unchecking NDI fixed it.

Have installed a trial version of this release on M1 Silicon to see how it performs. But on startup I get the following error message "Essential Services Unavailable Error" and have to quit.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

Mart157:

Have installed a trial version of this release on M1 Silicon to see how it performs. But on startup I get the following error message "Essential Services Unavailable Error" and have to quit.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hey,

There appears to be a bug at the moment - when installing, make sure you UNCHECK the NDI option.

Re-install Media Composer and in the installer setup uncheck NDI