[quote user="Supermandan1"]This seems a good drive-space management process?[/quote] If drive space is tight, then deleting unused renders is a way you can get some space back, but that's really the only reason I can think of to do it. If drive space is plentiful, I wouldn't worry about unused renders. [quote user="Supermandan1"

[quote user="djhg"]If anyone can offer any thoughts on using a laptop as a main AVID machine, I'd appreciate hearing them.[/quote] I've been running Media Composer on the laptop in my specs below for about a year and a half, and have been totally happy with it. While sitting here surfing the internet it's totally silent, and I

Also try this: https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/Divide-and-Conquer

[quote user="Adrian Redmond"] It appears to be a problem to edit a clip effect to a clip that already has a tga transparency (alpha) layer[/quote] Use my suggestion, but instead of putting the paint effect directly onto the clip, put it on the video layer above the clip.

Another option is the paint effect. Draw a black rectangle covering the entire screen. Then draw a circle on top of the rectangle and set the mode to 'erase'. Feather the edges of the circle.

Hi, [quote user="mwettach"]Should this also work with Sibelius?[/quote] This is the forum for Avid film & video products. For Sibelius you should post here: https://www.sibeliusforum.com/

[quote user="DIESELE"] Cant believe this is STILL inacessible media to Avid - even if it does ideally need transcode for bigger projects etc Sometimes quick access is required for one shot and all the other NLE's seem to manage it? [/quote] h265 support was added in Jan 2021 in v2020.12.

Great! I'm glad it worked!

This is not the forum for Sibelius. The one you posted on already is the correct one. Someone there will help you. https://www.sibeliusforum.com/

Has the problem been happening for a while, or is it new? I ask because Media Composer 2021.9 is only qualified up to MacOS 11.5.x. Perhaps a Mac person will come along and let us know if they're using 11.6.1 without any trouble and we can look at some other possibility.