I've been saving some money for a while, to buy a new Apple mac machine with Apple Silicon on it. Currently I edit on a customized late-2013 iMac 27", I can't update the OS on it, but that's fine for me. I use AVID Media Composer for video editing and delivering. Initially I was expecting... (read more)

I've seen this pop up in other places around the forums, but it always seems related to 5500 graphics cards, and we have Radeon Pro Vegas in our systems. Across our systems, editors will be playing back a sequence and then the computer just cuts out with the black screen of death. The weird thing... (read more)

Hello! New to posting here but banging my head against the wall: On booting up Media Composer, Avid completely locks the whole machine up. The launch window goes away after plugins are loaded and "Initializing" comes up, and I'm left with the gray UI as if Avid is going to boot, but then... (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)

I'm trying to open my project and now it crashes every time I try to open it, wasn't having this issue yesterday. This is for a feature film and I have big deadlines this week. MC opens fine if I'm not opening the project (I have no other projects to open, this is the only one as I usually... (read more)

On 2021.6, the 5.1 Panner Knob for CENTER does not work. You can change the knob from 100% to another value, but it does not commit when either closing the panner pannel, switching to another track within the pannel, or playing your timeline. I've opened a ticket, tested with multiple users, systems... (read more)

Hi all, is anyone else experiencing importing issues on mp3 music tracks on media composer 2021.3? I'm batch importing them stereo in a 25fps project with a gain of -15. It'll import about 3 and then have trouble importing the remaining 50. Gets hung up at the "abort continue" dialog... (read more)

So I'm working on a feature project with a lot of archival and found footage from many different sources. Project is in 24fps but we have footage in all kinds of framerates, from 16fps to 29,97fps. My issue is this : when editing in AMC footage with different framerates seem to be interpreted with... (read more)

Client has a closed network with ISIS and several CPU's running MC, Adobe package, DaVinci Resolve etc. Most CPU's are qualified [older] Mac Pro's running Mojave 10.14.6 [clean install jan 2020) and MC 2018-12-10. One new Mac Pro running Catalina 10.15.4 and MC 2020.5. Evry time after a CPU... (read more)

Hello, I have a project that I am going back to after updating to mojave 10.14.6 from high sierra and from Media composer 2018 to Media composer 2020.4.0. Normally, I would never do this in the middle of a project because of these types of problems but.... The project is 4K and I am getting this error... (read more)