This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] MC on Catalina?

Friday, May 1, 2020

Re: [Avid-L2] MC on Catalina?

There are caveats:

Compatibility when running macOS Catalina

No support for DMF (Dynamic Media Folders)
No support for Nitris DX and Mojo DX.
No support for the Avid Title Tool Application or Marquee.
If you have a Media Composer client that needs to connect to Production Management, you cannot upgrade the macOS on your Media Composer system to Catalina.
The Media Composer |Enterprise Admin tool is not supported on Catalina in this release. The Media Composer |Enterprise client will run on Catalina.
Avid NEXIS version 19.12.x is the earliest supported version to be supported with Catalina - with the following caveat:

- Thunderbolt 3 Ethernet adapters will not work with Avid NEXIS 19.12.x on Catalina. Thunderbolt 2 is fine. If you have a client system that uses Thunderbolt 3 and you need to connect to Nexis on Catalina, you will need a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter, and then attach your Thunderbolt 2 Ethernet adapter to that.

QuickTime functionality when running on a macOS Catalina system

Note the following regarding QuickTime on a macOS system:

What you cannot do:

MP4 export
Link to MOV or MP4 files using the following codecs: DNxHD with Alpha, Meridien, MPEG 50, DV, MPEG 4 (H.263), Apple None, Apple Intermediate, DVCPro, PNG*, or other formats that require a QuickTime Codec
Link to 3GP, 3G2, AU, AVI*, BMP*, DV, GIF, M4V, MID, MP2, MP3, MPE
WAV and AIFF import/export containing uncompressed PCM audio at 8 and 32-bit
Link, import or export QuickTime Reference, Same as Source
Link, import or export Variable Frame Rate (VFR) H.264 in MOV, MP4

* Note this is just PNG in a MOV container; PNG image files will still be supported * AVI Import is still supported on Windows systems without QuickTime installed

* Linking for BMP is not supported without QuickTime, however Import of BMP is supported without QuickTime