[Avid-L2] Re: Legacy Media Composer hangs on Initialize AVX 2 after Sierra OS Upda

 

Robert F. had the right suggestion.  It turned out the magic bullet Looks plug in was hanging the Avid 8.5.3 launch.  At least when I removed it from the AVX 2 plugins folder Avid 8.5.3 launches.

As far as uninstalling and reinstalling I think given 8.5.3 is not supported in 10.12.X OS the installer might not want to run.  It use to be the Avid installers would warn you of an unsupported OS but still let you install.  Lately, at least up to 8.5.3, I've experienced the opposite and Avid won't install unless the OS is supported.  So I think in this case I would not have been able to reinstall after upgrading the OS.  I don't know this for sure but given recent past experience having to upgrade to 10.9.5 to install 8.4.X or 8.5.X, can't remember which exactly, I would thing the installers still behave with requiring a supported OS.

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Hi John,

Congrats on the success with the card!

When you say that you updated the OS, did you uninstall Avid and reinstalled it afterwards?

I found out that OS updates break Avid, but if you uninstall (before or right after the update) and reinstall, it works and  I've managed to run MC with version mismatch. Even better is to manually remove the Avid files/folders ignored by the uninstaller - Library/Applications Support is a good place. 

8.5.3 is the last version that feels thoroughly made - and it's happy on 10.11.6, don't know about 10.12.x

Been running 8.9 on 10.12.6 and it seems fine. But it doesn't feel like a totally finished product with lots of small bugs and glitches. 

And as mentioned before: plugins could be the cause of the app hanging on launch. 

Pierre

I have noticed that for a while now Avid is back to requiring an approved OS for the Avid installer to run.  I remember a time when Avid would warn that the OS wasn't supported but still allow you to install a version.  

Now that I upgraded my OS from 10.10.5 to Sierra 10.12 Media Composer 8.5.3 hangs at initializing AVX 2.  I see in the version matrix that this version is not supported for Sierra so I'm assuming that's the issue and I'm downloading the latest MC 8.8.x version to hopefully fix this.  I assume that the Avid installer for 8.5.3 probably wouldn't have even run on the Sierra updated startup drive but given it was already installed it is still installed.
I'm curious what others have found along the way with recent OS updates and Avid legacy versions.  I'm not advocating ignoring system requirements but a lot of the time not supported didn't mean it wouldn't work.  With all the plugins I've amassed over the years a clean install is a dirty word and viewed as a last resort.
Hopefully loading MC 8.8.x latest version which works with 10.12.5 will solve the problem.  First I have to find the 10.10.5 OS update as the app store only shows me 10.12.6 which I assume is the current latest version of the 10.12.X OS.
I feel like Ferris Beuler, "OS's move pretty fast..."
 John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@...

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