Re: [Avid-L2] FEATURE REQUEST: ability to kill AMA

No way! I'd rather have key combos during startup. Say press K-I-L-A-M
simultaneously during Startup to not launch AMA. Or maybe just
option-A. But hey, what do I have 10 fingers for?

Christian

2009/10/26, kenton.vannatten <kenton.vannatten@yahoo.com>:
> If we're requesting this Feature as a way to speed up the launch process, it
> might be good to have such a "enable/disable feature checklist" dialog pop
> up immediately at launch, rather than having to wait for the app to launch
> to disable and the re-launch.
>
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
>>
>> OK, so I understand the advantage of AMA. I know it's cool. I know
>> it's awesome. I'm so glad Avid invented it.
>>
>> However, loading AMA on start-up just about doubles the amount of time
>> it takes my Mac Avid to launch.
>>
>> It would be cool if there was a way to NOT launch AMA on start-up
>> unless you thought you were going to need it. I know I'm not going to
>> be using P2 media or XDCam or RED today, so why should AMA launch? It
>> might be too integral to general media management to make it possible
>> to kill it or Avid may be worried that if they make it "killable" then
>> people will forget to turn it on when they need it, but it'd be good
>> for MY workflow at least.
>>
>> Heck, figure out how many things you can kill on start up and offer a
>> setting in the Settings list that says "Items that will NOT be
>> initiated on the next Avid launch." If you want to, anytime you have
>> some of those settings set to kill functions, let the user know in a
>> simple dialog box: "You have disabled some Avid features. For a list
>> of disabled features, see the Disabled Features Setting in the
>> Settings List. OK?"
>>
>> And while we're at it, can we get back the unfortunately worded choice
>> to "Kill all Orphans?" :-)
>>
>
>
>

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