Hi, I'm Leo, I have been away from MC for a number of years- but I'm back! I am running version 2004.10.0 on a Mac and someone asked me to look at a very old MC project born fron AvidDV 3.1 Can an old AvidDV (pc) be opened in Media Composer Mac? I get the message: Melville2.avp is an unknown... (read more)

Hi. I work at a University and we are about to kit out a new Avid Media Composer suite. I am struggling to find the information I need regarding compatible graphics cards. The PCs we are hoping to purchase are HP EliteOne 870 G9 27 AiO BU -Non- Touch QHD RCTO with the following specifications: Windows... (read more)

Avid Media Composer doesn't respond when opening project. Specs: DESKTOP, Windows 10 Professional, Versie 2009, Type systeem PC, RAM-GEHEUGEN 64 GB, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor 3.40 GHz, 64-bits besturingssysteem x64-processor Avid Media Composer worked just fine the days before, the only... (read more)

I read somewhere that the 2019 Windows version of Avid comes with ProRes codecs already installed. Is that true of the 2018 version too? If not, is it possible to get ProRes codecs installed for the 2018 version? My clients require ProRes codecs, and I'd prefer not going to the 2019 version as I... (read more)

I know the keyboard shortcut for "move focus to next window" is built into all Mac applications and not Media Composer specifically, but it's use is so readily used in Avid work on Mac that it's not seamless to work between a Mac and a PC without it. It would be wonderful if Avid could... (read more)

Should be I bought the software and it should work 101 Too much of a regular occurence having licensing issuesd. I need to work across multiple machines and activate/deactivate has not been solid, it's 2020! I have a support case open and they reset the seat count, I deleted some files, used old... (read more)

So we've just had to move a bunch of our edit suites from Mac to PC due to the unavailablity of a new Mac Pro. We've spec'd up machines (Dell) as to Avid's recommendations and were hoping for a speed boost from our 2013 Mac Pros. However since day one of booting up and installing (only... (read more)

We're a PC faciilty, but I'm thinking about adding a few Macs to give editors a choice. Can someone recommend how much RAM, what kind of video card, and processing power I'll need. I would like something that can handle the heavy lifting of editing 4K (read more)

Hi! I‘ve been on Mac for 8 years now, but I’m thinking of switching back to windows due to the new announcements / Prices and lack of announcements reg. Mac Pro. My PC build would only be running AVID Media Composer (with focus on creative editing, editing with DnxHD proxies, barely any exports... (read more)

hello I have a 2tb glyph hardrive that has only ever been used on a Mac and contains several avid media projects. I am looking at purchasing a pc and I am wondering if I will be able to use my hardrive and continue working on avid media projects (that I began on Mac) Thanks for the help. (read more)