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

Steve,

Just turn AMA off under the AMA settings. After restart it won't be on anymore until you re-enable it and restart.

--- 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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