Hi! I have been working in Avid MC 8.9 on a tv-series on a NEXIS server for a while, and suddenly some clips showed up as offline. I read a lot on this forum and others, and the common suggestion was to delete the database-files located in the MXF folders. So I did that, and MC started to recreate the...

I'm a lecturer at a film trade school, and reasently it has apared a reacuring (7 sepearate instanses) problem when relinking offline files. I did some diging into some of the projects and traced the problem to Avid reading the start timecodes of each clip as 00:00:00:00 and not the original "time...

realized i posted this on the wrong forum earlier. re doing it here... I've seen threads on this, but never a clear and consistent answer about how to solve. I'm on High Sierra, trying to install ANY v8.xx of MC (but preferably v8.0.0), and none of them allow me to, saying I cannot install on...

I've seen threads on this, but never a clear and consistent answer about how to solve. I'm on High Sierra, trying to install ANY v8.xx of MC (but preferably v8.0.0), and none of them allow me to, saying I cannot install on my hard drive because I need to install Java 1.6. Well, I DID INSTALL...

Just a quick question: With Media Composer Annual student subscription I can use Squeeze Lite. Installed it from the App Manager. It says Activated... When I start it, I get a dialog that says "This Copy of Squeeze Desktop requires an active Media Composer Subscription. Would you like to activate...

Hi, Thank you for your comment. I did use the B key which is to my understanding the red arrow or overwrite edit but I didn't have the video tracks disabled so this did work. thank you!! I have another question which involves transitions. I am following the editing guide - fading and dipping audio...

Hi, I am new to media composer so I apologize if this is a silly question. I recently downloaded the trial version of media composer 8 onto my mac 10.11.3. I'm trying to add a music audio clip to my timeline. I created a new audio track for this purpose. when I try to either drag and drop from the...

I'm currently working out of a trial version of Avid media composer 8 and it will not link to mxf files. The plugin is supposed to be included into the version of composer. Does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks!

Hello forum, I use Media Composer 8 and looking to export the best quality HD 1080p QT files (usually 1-3 minute videos) but the size always ranges between 250MB and 700MB depending on the codec I use. Is there a setting/codec to get the files to less than 200MB but still with sharp HD quality? Thanks...

Hello Forum, AVID intermediate user who just upgraded from the late Xpress Pro to Media Composer 8. Question regarding import quality. Is there a virtually lossess import setting that will keep the image quality up but the space down. Have tried to look the differences between all the options. DNxHD...