I have an existing license that I have been successfully using for the last few months with no issues. However, upon trying to open up Media Composer this morning, I got this message "In order to continue, you must connect to the internet to maintain your license", despite being connected to... (read more)

Hi everyone! I have an editting room at home, but thinking to have some laptop for short projects while I am traveling. Did someone of you tried to instal Media Composer on the new Macbook Air M1 7GPU 16Gb RAM, SSD 512Gb? Does it work? It would be a perfect choice for me as a back up as I am using laptop... (read more)

Greetings, I am having an issue with Media Composer first keeps crashing at startup and I receive the following message: "Login required for Media Composer First. Please quit and login to Avid Link and relaunch Media Composer First." I tried launching from my Avid Link, to no avail. Any assistance... (read more)

Hi all Avid Media Composer users. I've been using Avid for years and am quite adept on it but I want to brush up on my grading skills as I'm now working as a VFX editor and need to match foregrounds and backgrounds. I managed to find this book online: 'Color Grading with Media Composer and... (read more)

Hi, Could you please allow for ProTools and / or Sibelius integration in Media Composer without requiring 2 computer systems as part of your native M1 software update? Alyssa Ryvers, Music North [soon to be purchasing] Apple M1 Studio Ultra with 20-core CPU, 64-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine | 128GB... (read more)

My old mac got water damage, and I've gotten a new one to replace it. It's running monterey 12.3. I have a part time job editing, and I've primarily used media composer first for it. But for some reason, my new computer wont allow me to download it. After going through the entire download... (read more)

hi, from the beginning, i moved to a new system and used the trail version of mc to check if evrything works fine. today i want to move the license, deactivate MC license and symphony license on the old and activate on the new one. so far so good - everything looks fine. Avid link on the new machine... (read more)

I am a colorblind Media Composer user and it would be great if there were an option to increase the color contrast of marker colors. It is particularly hard for me to differentiate the yellow and green markers and the white and cyan markers. I hope that this option becomes available in the near future... (read more)

Hi, I'm developing an AVX2 plugin and on a specific time I'd like to create a file under the project directory [1] where my effect is currently applied on. In order to do this I need a way to retrieve the current project directory. I know there is a function GetModuleFileName() for dll's... (read more)

Hello, I have a project where somebody started editing in Davinci Resolve. I'm going to finish the project but I'd like to finish it in Media Composer. I'm only wondering how I convert the project (or only timeline) to Avid. Because when I export an AAF, it sees the effects and cuts, but... (read more)