[Avid-L2] MC 5.0.3 release notes

 

Avid® Media Composer v5.0.3 ReadMe
Revision History
Date Revised Changes Made
October 15, 2010 Updated "Shared Storage Support" on page 31 to include a footnote
about Mac Pro systems and v10.6.4 Mac OS.
Updated "Documentation Changes" on page 89 to include the 64-bit OS
limitation when using Red Rocket card.
Updated "Feature Performance" on page 38 to add support of the HP
z400, 6-core system to the XDCAM HD50 Capture feature.
September 28, 2010 Updated "Supported PC Notebooks for Avid Media Composer" on
page 16 to add notes about DNxHD capture, 10-bit playback, and
capture of 10-bit video.
Updated "Supported Macintosh Notebooks for Media Composer" on
page 19 to add notes about DNxHD capture, 10-bit playback, and
capture of 10-bit video.
Updated "Supported Macintosh Workstations for Avid Media
Composer" on page 18 to include the new "Westmere" Mac Pro system.
And removed typo that listed Mojo (analog) as supported on the
"Nahelem" system.
Updated "Supported PC Workstations with Avid Media Composer" on
page 13 to add the new HP z400.
Updated "Shared Storage Support" on page 31 to update supported
versions and include limited support for Mac OS v10.6.4.
Updated "Feature Performance" on page 38 to include updated qualified
systems.
2
IMPORTANT: Avid periodically makes software updates available for download on
Avid.com at the following location:www.avid.com/us/support/downloads. Please
check the above site regularly for information on available downloads for your
product.
Important Information
Avid® recommends that you read all the information in this ReadMe file thoroughly before
installing or using any new software release.
September 8, 2010 Updated "Documentation Changes" on page 89 to include an updated
description of Reverse Animation.
Updated "Installing the Software" on page 9 to reference the Digi
Drivers as Avid Audio Drivers.
Updated the Media Composer, NewsCutter and Symphony "Supported
Hardware and Operating Systems" on page 12 to include the new z800
Dual 6 Core, 2.66 GHz workstation.
Updated the Limitations for "Ancillary Data" on page 47 to include the
limitation that you should disable Edit While Capture if working with
sequences with a D-track in an Interplay environment.
August 18, 2010 Updated "Feature Performance" on page 38 to add information on
AVCI-Intra performance.
Removed the reference to Matrox Mini support for the i7 MacBook Pro
systems and added info about the i5 MacBook Pro in "Supported
Macintosh Notebooks for Media Composer" on page 19.
August 4, 2010 Updated "Supported Macintosh Notebooks for Media Composer" on
page 19 to include new Macintosh supported systems.
Updated "Fixed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.3" on page 34.
Added procedure for "Deactivating the Software" on page 9 before you
upgrade to a new version.
July 29, 2010 Added "Changed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.3" on page 32.
Added "Fixed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.3" on page 34.
Updated "Shared Storage Support" on page 31 to remove listed support
for Mac OS v10.6.4. Shared storage has qualified v10.6.3 for their
storage clients, but not v10.6.4.
Date Revised Changes Made
3
Important: Search the Avid Knowledge Base for the most up-to-date ReadMe file, which
contains the latest information that might have become available after the documentation
was published.
This document describes compatibility issues with previous releases, software installation
instructions, hardware and software requirements, and summary information on system and
memory requirements. This document also lists hardware and software limitations.
Contents
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Before You Install the Editing Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installing the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Firmware Update Note. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Notes on Software Licensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Supported Hardware and Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Required Hotfix Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Compatibility Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Audio Device Compatibility with Avid Editing Applications and Pro Tools (Co-install) . . . . . . . . . . 24
Co-Install Supported Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Audio Device Supported Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using External Fader Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Setting up the NVIDIA Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Disabling the NVIDIA Driver Helper Service (Windows XP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Shared Storage Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Fixed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4
Fixed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Fixed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
What's New in Avid Media Composer v5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Limitations and Known Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Extending Your Usable Address Space and Adding RAM for Improved Performance (Windows) . . 88
Documentation Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Symbols and Conventions
Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:
Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action
n A note provides important related information, reminders,
recommendations, and strong suggestions.
c A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to
your computer or cause you to lose data.
w A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm.
Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when
handling electrical equipment.
> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the
order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the
File menu and then select the Import command.
This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list
indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.
(Windows), (Windows
only), (Macintosh), or
(Macintosh only)
This text indicates that the information applies only to the specified
operating system, either Windows or Macintosh OS X.
Bold font Bold font is primarily used in task instructions to identify user interface
items and keyboard sequences.
Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.
Courier Bold font Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.
Ctrl+key or mouse action Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the
mouse action. For example, Command+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.
If You Need Help
5
If You Need Help
If you are having trouble using your Avid product:
1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It
is especially important to check each step of your workflow.
2. Check this ReadMe file for the latest information that might have become available after
the documentation was published. Also check online for the most up-to-date ReadMe
because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To
view the online ReadMe, select ReadMe from the Help menu, or visit the Knowledge
Base at http://www.avid.com/readme.
3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for
maintenance or hardware-related issues. In addition to the printed documentation
supplied with your editing application, the documentation is supplied in PDF format
when you install the application. Topics that you print from the Help have limited page
layout and formatting features. If you want to print a higher quality version of Help
information, Avid recommends that you print all or part of the PDF version of the
appropriate Avid manual included in the Online Library for your editing application. To
access the Online Library, select Help > Online Library from within your Avid editing
application.
4. Visit Avid Online Support at www.avid.com/onlineSupport/. Online support is available
24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search the Knowledge Base to find answers, to view
error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates, and to read or join
online message-board discussions.
Before You Install the Editing Application
Read through the following procedures prior to installing the editing application.
Existing Editor Upgrades
Use the following information to determine which editing applications can be installed on
your system. The following existing editing applications can be upgraded to the following
listed versions:
• Media Composer versions v2.7.x and higher can upgrade to Media Composer v3.x and
higher (on Windows® XP OS).
• Symphony™ Nitris® versions v1.7.x and higher can upgrade to Symphony Nitris v3.x
and higher (on WinXP OS). If you are an Avid DS Nitris and Avid Symphony Nitris
Dual Boot customer, you cannot upgrade to Symphony v3.0 and higher.
6
• NewsCutter XP and NewsCutter Adrenaline versions v6.7.x and higher can upgrade to
NewsCutter v7.x and higher (on Windows XP OS).
If you are a new customer (never installed an Avid editor on your system) you can install the
following on an approved WinXP system or an approved Windows® Vista system or an
approved Windows 7 system:
• Media Composer v5.0 and higher
• Symphony Nitris v5.0 and higher
• NewsCutter v9.0 and higher
The following upgrade process to the Windows Vista version or Windows 7 version of the
editing application is not supported:
For example, if a Media Composer v2.7.x customer uninstalled the editing application,
upgraded the OS from WinXP to Windows Vista, and then tried to install Media Composer
3.x or higher, the installation would fail. The only allowable Windows editing application
installation is on a clean Windows Vista or clean Windows 7 system.
The Macintosh® version of the Media Composer v3.x and higher release can only be
installed on a clean Macintosh with Mac OS® X Snow Leopard.
Notes on Windows Vista and Windows 7 OS
Note the following topics if you are running the editing application on the Windows Vista or
Windows 7 OS.
Disabling Desktop Compositing
When the Avid editor is launched you might see a dialog box asking you to disable desktop
compositing. You can disable it without adversely affecting the Avid editing application.
You can choose to disable it and continue with your editing session. The dialog will appear
once you relaunch the application unless you disable the option.
To disable the desktop compositing:
1. Access the Control Panel.
2. Double-click System.
3. Click Change Settings.
4. Click the Advanced tab.
5. Under the Performance area, click Settings.
6. Uncheck "Enable desktop composition."
Before You Install the Editing Application
7
The dialog box requesting you to disable desktop compositing does not appear the next
time you launch the editing application.
User Access Control Setting
Windows Vista and Windows 7 include User Access Control (UAC), which makes you
aware of changes that will be made to your computer letting you decide to allow the changes
or not. Avid recommends that you leave UAC ON. This feature is turned on by default.
Standard User
You need to first install the editing application as an Administrator. If you are in a Shared
Storage environment, mount your workspaces as an Administrator. You may then log off and
log back in as a Standard user, if necessary.
Windows Sidebar
If the Windows Sidebar is enabled, you might see flickering on the Timeline monitor when
you stop playback. You should disable Windows Sidebar:
To disable the Windows Sidebar:
1. Right-click the Sidebar or Sidebar icon, and select Properties.
2. Deselect "Start Sidebar when Windows starts."
3. Right-click the icon, and select Exit to close the sidebar.
New Folder Structure
Some editing application folders have moved to a new location that is now shared and
visible to the user on installation. These folders are created at installation time and are given
special permissions to work for all users.
The following folders are created on your Windows XP system in the following location:
C:/Documents and Settings/AllUsers/Shared Documents/<AvidProductName>
• Avid Attic
• Avid Users
• Avid Media_Files
• Avid Templates
• Settings
• Avid FatalErrorReports
8
• sharedjvm/server/apps/MediaIndexer/stat/log
• MarqueeTitles
• AVX Plug-Ins Data
The following folders are created on your Windows Vista/Windows 7 system in the
following location:
C:/Users/Public/Public Documents/<AvidProductName>
• Avid Attic
• Avid Users
• Avid Media_Files
• Avid Templates
• Settings
• Avid FatalErrorReports
• sharedjvm/server/apps/MediaIndexer/stat/log
• MarqueeTitles
• AVX Plug-Ins Data
Cleaning up Old Folders Before Installation
Do the following to clean up old folders before you install the new ones if you are
performing an upgrade from a version prior to Media Composer 3.0.
To clean up folders:
1. Before installing Media Composer 5.0.x, you need to uninstall your old version and any
version of FilmScribe, EDL Manager, MediaLog, and Avid Log Exchange.
2. Remove the following Registry keys on your system if they still exist after the
uninstallation process.
HKLM/Software/Avid Technology/<productname>
HKLM/Software/Avid Technology/AVX Plug-ins
3. From the following folders, remove any folders that do not have custom data in them
that you want to keep. If you do have custom data, copy the data to the new locations
after step 4.
C:/Documents and Settings/AllUsers/ApplicationData/Avid/<productname>
C:/Program Files/Avid/<ProductName>
(Windows Vista) C:/ProgramData/Avid/<Productname>
Installing the Software
9
4. Install the new Avid editing application.
Deactivating the Software
If you are updating from a previous version of the software that was activated by software
activation, Avid recommends that you deactivate your software license before you install an
updated version. Deactivation occurs while the application is running, but the deactivation
process automatically saves all open bins and the current project. You must be connected to
the internet to deactivate your software.
To deactivate your Avid editing application:
1. Start your Avid editing application, and then open a project.
2. Select Special > Deactivate.
The Deactivate dialog box opens.
3. Do one of the following:
t If you plan to use your Avid editing application on this system at a later time,
deselect the option to clear the system ID and serial number information (the option
is deselected by default). This preserves the local license information so you can
easily reactivate your license.
t If you do not plan to use your system again— for example, if you plan to retire the
computer — select the option to delete the system ID and serial number
information. This removes the local license information from your system and
prevents other users from activating your license.
4. Click Deactivate.
When the deactivation is complete, a message informs you that your software license
has been successfully deactivated.
5. Click OK.
The application saves all open bins and the current project, and then quits.
Installing the Software
If you have Avid Audio Drivers installed on your system, you should uninstall them. Earlier
versions of the software referred to the drivers as Digi Drivers. Current software refers to the
drivers as Avid Audio drivers. If you do not remove the audio drivers, the AudioSuite
plug-ins do not load and you might receive either the error message "This software requires
installation of device driver TPkd and a reboot before running" or a "DAE Interface NOT
Available" error message. If you see these errors on a clean installation on a brand new
system, install Hot fix KB926255 from Windows Update to fix the problem.
10
(Macintosh Only) If you are upgrading from a previous version of the Macintosh editing
application, remove the Stereo Mixer.dpm and Surround Mixer.dpm plug-ins from the
following location: Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Digidesign/Plug-Ins. If you
do not remove these files, you might experience problems with the AudioSuite Tool.
For all Avid editing applications, you must first log in as the Administrator (not just a user
with administrator privileges), install the application, and initially launch the application as
the Administrator. If you are working in a shared storage environment, mount your
workspaces. You may then subsequently run the Avid editing application as a regular User.
If you are updating from a previous release, you should first uninstall the existing editing
application.
n Installing the editing application software might take some time. For the individual editing
application, it might take 5 to 15 minutes to install. Installing the entire editing application
suite might take up to 35 minutes to install.
(Windows) To uninstall the Avid editing application software do one of the following:
t Using the Add/Remove program, remove the editing application.
t During the installation process, when prompted, choose to uninstall the editing
application.
(Windows) To install the Avid editing application software:
1. Quit all active applications.
2. Insert the editing application DVD.
3. Click to Install the Avid Editor Suite or Individual Product and follow the on screen
instructions.
n If the FilesInUse dialog box appears, you can safely select Ignore and continue.
n If you receive user access warnings during the installation, select Continue Anyway to
continue your installation.
4. When prompted, select "Yes, restart my computer."
(Macintosh) To uninstall the Avid Editing application software:
1. Quit all applications.
2. Go to Applications/Avid_Uninstaller/AvidEditingApplication
3. Double-click the AvidEditingApplication uninstaller.
4. Follow the on-screen prompts.
5. Repeat for uninstalling AvidCoreRuntime, AvidDIORuntime and AvidCodecs PE.
Firmware Update Note
11
(Macintosh) To install the Avid Editing application software:
1. Quit all applications.
2. Insert the editing application DVD.
3. Click to Install the Avid Editor Suite or Individual Product and follow the on screen
instructions.
4. When prompted, select "Yes, restart my computer."
Firmware Update Note
When you first start your editing application after installing, you might receive a dialog box
requiring you to update the Avid hardware firmware. Choose to Update. During the update
process, do not access any other applications or move any of the active windows. Accessing
another application might result in the update completion dialog box being hidden. If this
happens, you will see the update progress stay at 100% but have no option to proceed. The
hidden window which states the update is complete and prompts you to shutdown, cannot be
brought to the foreground. Shutdown the system. Do not just Restart. You must choose to
fully Shutdown and then power up your system again.
Notes on Software Licensing
Activating Your Avid Editing Application
You activate your software using the Avid Activation tool, which opens when you first
launch your editing application. For more information on activating your software, see the
Installation Guide for Avid Editing Applications.
n You cannot activate your software using the Avid License Service. This feature will be
supported in a future release.
If You Upgrade Your Operating System
If you need to upgrade your operating system after you install your Avid editing application,
first deactivate your software. After you upgrade your operating system and, if required,
reinstall your application, you can reactivate your software. For information on activating
and deactivating your software license, see the Installation Guide for Avid Editing
Applications.
12
Laptop Network Settings
Your software license uses information from your system's network configuration. Some
laptops disable the Network Interface Card (NIC) when connecting to the Internet through a
wireless network connection. If you run your Avid editing application on a laptop, be sure
that your NIC and wireless configuration is always the same as when you originally
activated your software. See the user assistance for your computer for information on
changing network settings.
Using the GetLicenseInfo Utility
Avid provides a utility program — GetLicenseInfo.exe — that retrieves information specific
to your license. This is useful if you no longer have the original license information or if you
need to provide this information to Avid Customer Support. The license information
retrieved by the utility depends on your system, but it can include the following:
• Avid editing product name
• License type
• Status
• System ID
• Serial number (for security reasons, only part of the serial number is displayed)
• Avid machine ID
To retrieve license information:
1. Navigate to one of the following locations:
t (Windows) Program Files\Avid\Utilities\GetLicenseInfo
t (Macintosh) Applications/Utilities/Avid Utilities/GetLicenseInfo
2. Double-click GetLicenseInfo.exe
A terminal window opens and displays your license information.
3. Copy the appropriate license information, and then close the terminal window.
Supported Hardware and Operating Systems
The following tables provide the information on supported Windows and Macintosh
hardware. The following tables also list the supported Operating Systems. Depending upon
your hardware the supported Operating Systems are:
• Windows XP 32 (SP3)
• Windows Vista 64 (SP2) (Business and Ultimate)
Supported Hardware and Operating Systems
13
• Windows 7 64-bit (Professional)
• Macintosh Snow Leopard v10.6.3 and v10.6.4
Some features are processor-intensive and require specific hardware. See "Feature
Performance" on page 38 for more info.
Supported PC Workstations with Avid Media Composer
The following PC Workstations are supported with Avid Media Composer v5.x.
Supported PC
Hardware Graphics Card Supported OS Supported with
HP z800 Dual 6 Core,
2.66 GHz
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 3800
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64
Software Only
Adrenaline (See "Required
Hotfix Info" on page 21)
Nitris DX
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI (See "Required
Hotfix Info" on page 21)
Matrox MX02 Mini
HP z800 Dual Quad
Core, 2.93 GHz
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 4800
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64
Software Only
Adrenaline (See "Required
Hotfix Info" on page 21)
Nitris DX
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI (See "Required
Hotfix Info" on page 21)
Matrox MX02 Mini
HP z400 Single 6 core
3.33 GHz
"NVIDIA Quadro
FX3800 1GB
GPU
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64
Software Only
Nitris DX
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI (See "Required
Hotfix Info" on page 21)
Matrox MX02 Mini
HP z400 3.06 GHz NVIDIA Quadro
FX 3800
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64
Software Only
Nitris DX
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI (See "Required
Hotfix Info" on page 21)
Matrox MX02 Mini
14
HP z400 Single Quad
Core, 2.93 GHz
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 3800
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64
Software Only
Adrenaline (See "Required
Hotfix Info" on page 21))
Nitris DX
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI (See "Required
Hotfix Info" on page 21)
Matrox MX02 Mini
Dell™ T5500 Dual,
2.93GHz Quad Core
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 4800
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64
Software Only
Nitris DX
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI (requires additional
1394b card - StarTech
PEX1394B3)
Matrox MX02 Mini
Dell T3500 Single
Quad Core, 2.93GHz
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 3800
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64
Software Only
Nitris DX
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI (requires additional
1394b card - StarTech
PEX1394B3)
Matrox MX02 Mini
Dell T5400 Dual Quad
Core, 2.50 to 3.16 GHz
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 3700
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64
Software Only
Adrenaline
Nitris DX
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI
Matrox MX02 Mini
Dell T3400 Core 2 Duo,
2.33 or 2.66GHz
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 3700 or
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 570
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64
Software Only
Adrenaline
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI
Mojo
Matrox MX02 Mini
Supported PC
Hardware Graphics Card Supported OS Supported with
Supported Hardware and Operating Systems
15
n Avid does not recommend that you connect the Matrox MX02 Mini device and an Avid
supported hardware device (for example, a Nitris DX, Mojo DX, Adrenaline) to the CPU at
the same time. If you do connect them at the same time, only the Avid hardware will be
recognized. The Matrox MX02 will only be recognized when the Avid hardware is
disconnected or turned off.
HP xw8600 NVIDIA Quadro
FX 3700
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64
Windows 7 64
Software Only
Nitris DX
Mojo DX
Adrenaline
Mojo SDI
Mojo
Matrox MX02 Mini
HP xw8400 Dual Quad
Core, 2.33, 2.66, or
3.0MHz
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 1500 or
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 3500 or
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 3700
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64
Software Only
Nitris DX
Mojo DX
Adrenaline
Mojo SDI
Mojo
Matrox MX02 Mini
HP xw8400 Dual Dual
Core, 2.66 3.0MHz
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 1500 and
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 3500 and
Quadro FX 3700
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64
Software Only
Nitris DX
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Adrenaline
Mojo SDI
Mojo
Matrox MX02 Mini
HP xw4600 Core 2 Duo
3.0 GHz
NVIDIA Quadro
FX570
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64
Software Only
Adrenaline
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI
Mojo
Matrox MX02 Mini
Supported PC
Hardware Graphics Card Supported OS Supported with
16
Supported PC Notebooks for Avid Media Composer
The following PC Notebooks are supported with Avid Media Composer v5.x. The following
applies to the editing system when running on a laptop:
• DNxHD capture is only supported on Mojo DX on a Quad core system with
hyperthreading enabled. Nitris DX is not supported on laptops
• Capture of 10 bit video for example, DNxHD 185x, is not supported
• Playback in full quality 10 bit mode is not supported
Supported PC
Notebooks Graphics Cards Supported OS Supported With
HP 8740w X820, X920
Quad i7 (1.73, 2.0 Ghz)
17" 1920x1200
NVIDIA FX
2800M
NVIDIA FX
3800M
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64
Software Only
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI (requires PCI Express
FW800 add in card) and (Only
supported with Win 7 64 OS)
Matrox MX02 Mini
HP 8540w X720, X820
Quad i7 (1.6, 1.73 Ghz)
15" 1920x1080
NVIDIA FX
1800M
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64
Software Only
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI (requires PCI Express
FW800 add in card) and (Only
supported with Win 7 64 OS)
Matrox MX02 Mini
Dell M6500 X820, X920
quad i7 (1.73, 2.0 Ghz)
17" 1920x1200
NVIDIA FX
2800M
NVIDIA FX
3800M
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64
Software Only
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI (requires PCI Express
FW800 add in card) and (Only
supported with Win 7 64 OS)
Matrox MX02 Mini
HP 8730w Core 2 Duo
2.53, 3.06 GHz
NVIDIA FX
2700m and
NVIDIA FX
3700m
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64-bit
Software Only
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI (requires PCI Express
FW800 add in card) and (Only
supported with Vista 64 OS)
Matrox MX02 Mini
HP 8530w Core 2 Duo
2.53, 3.06 GHz
NVIDIA FX 770m Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64-bit
Software Only
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI (requires PCI Express
FW800 add in card) and (Only
supported with Vista 64 OS)
Matrox MX02 Mini
Supported Hardware and Operating Systems
17
n Avid does not recommend that you connect the Matrox MX02 Mini device and an Avid
supported hardware device (for example, a Nitris DX, Mojo DX, Adrenaline) to the CPU at
the same time. If you do connect them at the same time, only the Avid hardware will be
recognized. The Matrox MX02 will only be recognized when the Avid hardware is
disconnected or turned off.
Dell M6400 Core 2 Duo
2.53, 3.06 GHz
NVIDIA FX
2700m and
NVIDIA FX
3700m
Windows XP 32
Windows Vista 64-bit
Software Only
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI (requires PCI Express
FW800 add in card) and (Only
supported with Vista 64 OS)
Matrox MX02 Mini
HP 8510
Core 2 Duo
2.2GHz
(docking station required if
using with Mojo DX or
Matrox Mini)
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 570M
Windows XP 32 Software Only
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI
Matrox MX02 Mini
HP 8710W Intel® Core™ 2
Duo processor T7700 2.40
GHz
(docking station required if
using with Mojo DX or
Matrox Mini)
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 1600m
Windows XP 32 Software Only
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI
Mojo
Matrox MX02 Mini
Dell 6300 Intel Core 2 Duo
processor T7700 2.4 GHz
NVIDIA Quadro
FX 1600m
Windows XP 32 Software Only
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI
Mojo
Matrox MX02 Mini
Supported PC
Notebooks Graphics Cards Supported OS Supported With
18
Supported Macintosh Workstations for Avid Media Composer
The following Macintosh Workstations are supported with the Avid Media Composer v5.x.
Supported
Macintosh
Hardware Graphics Cards Supported OS Supported With
Mac Pro "Westmere"
Two 2.66GHz 6-Core
Intel Xeon (12 cores)a
ATI Radeon HD 5770
1GB
Snow Leopard
v10.6.4
Software Only
Nitris DX
Adrenaline
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI
Matrox MX02 Mini
Mac Pro "Nehalem"
Dual 2.66 GH Quad
Core Intel Xeon or Dual
2.93 GHz Quad Core
Intel Xeon
NVIDIA GeForce GT
120
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Nitris DX
Adrenaline
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI
Matrox MX02 Mini
iMac 27" Display
2.8 GHz 4 GB
1066MHz
ATI Radeon HD 4850
Graphics Processor
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software only
Mac Pro "Nehalem"
Dual 2.26 GHz Quad
Core Intel
NVIDIA GeForce GT
120
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Mac Pro "Harpertown"
Dual Quad Core 3.0 or
3.2 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce
8800GT
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Nitris DX
Adrenaline
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI
Mojo
Matrox MX02 Mini
Mac Pro Dual
Quad-Core 3GHz or
higher Intel processor
NVIDIA GeForce
7300 GT
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Nitris DX
Adrenaline
Mojo DX
Mojo SDI
Mojo
Matrox MX02 Mini
Supported Hardware and Operating Systems
19
n Avid does not recommend that you connect the Matrox MX02 Mini device and an Avid
supported hardware device (for example, a Nitris DX, Mojo DX, Adrenaline) to the CPU at
the same time. If you do connect them at the same time, only the Avid hardware will be
recognized. The Matrox MX02 will only be recognized when the Avid hardware is
disconnected or turned off.
Supported Macintosh Notebooks for Media Composer
The following Macintosh notebooks are supported with the current editing applications. The
following applies to the editing system when running on a laptop.
• DNxHD capture is only supported on Mojo DX on a Quad core system with
hyperthreading enabled. Nitris DX is not supported on laptops
• Capture of 10 bit video for example, DNxHD 185x, is not supported
• Playback in full quality 10 bit mode is not supported
Mac Pro Dual
Dual-Core 2.66 GHz or
higher Intel processor
NVIDIA GeForce
7300 GT
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Nitris DX
Adrenaline
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI
Mojo
iMac 20" Display
2.66 GHz 4 GB RAM
GeForce 9400 Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
a. All new Mac Pro systems ship with a 64-bit kernel enabled by default. Customers must toggle to the 32-bit
kernel before running Media Composer or Symphony. Detailed instructions for toggling the Mac OS kernel to
32-bit can be found here:http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=375771
Supported
Macintosh
Hardware Graphics Cards Supported OS Supported With
Supported Macintosh
Notebook Graphics Cards Supported OS Supported With
17" 2.66GHz Intel Core i7
4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
500GB Serial ATA Drive @7200
RPM
NVidia GeForce GT
330M Graphics
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI
Matrox MX02 Mini
20
n Avid does not recommend that you connect the Matrox MX02 Mini device and an Avid
supported hardware device (for example, a Nitris DX, Mojo DX, Adrenaline) to the CPU at
the same time. If you do connect them at the same time, only the Avid hardware will be
recognized. The Matrox MX02 will only be recognized when the Avid hardware is
disconnected or turned off.
15" 2.66GHz Intel Core i7
4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
500GB Serial ATA Drive @7200
RPM
NVidia GeForce GT
330M Graphics
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Mojo SDI
15" 2.53GHz Intel Core i7
4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
500GB Serial ATA Drive @7200
RPM
NVidia GeForce GT
330M Graphics
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Mojo SDI
MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel
Core 2 Duo processor, 17"
display, 4GB 1066MHz DDR3,
250GB ATA 7200 rpm drive
NVIDIA GeForce
9400M and 9600M
GT
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI
Matrox MX02 Mini
MacBook Pro 2.53 GHz Intel
Core 2 Duo processor, 15"
display, 4GB 1066MHz DDR3,
250GB ATA 7200 rpm drive
NVIDIA GeForce
9400M and 9600M
GT
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI
Matrox MX02 Mini
MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Intel Core
2 Duo processor, 15" & 17"
Display
NVIDIA GeForce FX
8600m GT graphics
with 256MB SDRAM
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI
Matrox MX02 Mini
MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core
2 Duo processor, 15" & 17"
Display
NVIDIA GeForce FX
8600m GT graphics
with 256MB SDRAM
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Mojo DX (no DNxHD capture)
Mojo SDI
Matrox MX02 Mini
MacBook Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core
i5 15" display 4GB 1066MHz
DDR3 SDRAM 500GB Serial
ATA Drive @7200 RPM
NVidia GeForce
330M GT graphics
Snow Leopard
v10.6.3, v10.6.4
Software Only
Mojo SDI
Supported Macintosh
Notebook Graphics Cards Supported OS Supported With
Required Hotfix Info
21
Required Hotfix Info
If you have an HP z800 or HP z400 system and are running Windows XP 32 OS, you must
install a Microsoft WinXP32 SP3 hotfix in order for the supported OHCI card to function
properly with Avid DNA hardware. Download the Hotfix from the following location.
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=955408&kbln=en-us
The hotfix page indicates that this fix is for SP4. The fix is actually for SP3. It is safe to take
this fix for SP3.
Restart your system after running the hotfix.
Compatibility Chart
The following table lists the operating system, NVIDIA® driver, QuickTime®, Windows
Media™, Avid Interplay®, shared storage, Sony® XDCAM™, Panasonic® P2, and Pro Tools
LE® versions that were qualified with the Avid editing applications. Also listed are the
third-party applications such as Boris Continuum Complete, Avid DVD by Sonic™,
Sorenson Squeeze®, and SmartSound® that ship with the editing applications.
Item Versions Comments
QuickTime Support v7.6.6 (Windows and Leopard)
v10 X (Snow Leopard)
Note: QuickTime v10X does not include
QuickTime Pro options.
Windows Media
Version Support
Windows Media Player 12 (for
Windows 7)
Windows Media Player 11 (for
Windows Vista or Windows XP)
If you do not have Windows Media
Player 12, access the download at
www.microsoft.com.
Windows Media export compatibility is
subject to Microsoft Windows Media
updates.
22
Avid Interplay
Support
See the Avid Interplay ReadMe
for supported versions.
IMPORTANT: The Avid Interplay
components that get installed on the
editing application must be updated to
the Avid Interplay version that is released
with the editing application. These
include the Media Indexer, Interplay
Access, Interplay Framework, Interplay
Transfer Client and ProEncode Client.
The Avid Interplay Server components
can remain on the previous releases listed
as supported. For details, see the "Avid
Editing Application Compatibility with
Interplay Releases" topic in the Avid
Interplay ReadMe.
NVIDIA Driver
Support
v190.38
(This is the version of driver
tested with our editing
applications. DO NOT upgrade to
any other version.)
See "Setting up the NVIDIA Card" on
page 29.
Shared Storage
Support
Avid Unity™ MediaNetwork and
Avid Unity ISIS®.
See "Shared Storage Support" on
page 31.
Pro Tools • For information on supported
versions of Pro Tools in an Interplay
environment, see the Avid Interplay
ReadMe or
http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfs
ervice/search.jsp?DocId=353977&Hi
lite=Pro+Tools+Interplay
• For Co-install information, see
"Audio Device Compatibility with
Avid Editing Applications and
Pro Tools (Co-install)" on page 24.
• For Video Satellite information, see
the Video Satellite Guide or
http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfs
ervice/search.jsp?DocId=354337&Hi
lite=video+satellite
Item Versions Comments
Compatibility Chart
23
Sony XDCAM
driver
WinXP 32 – FAM 2.1, PDZ 2.50
Vista 64 – FAM 2.2, PDZ 2.50
v2.9.0 (XDCAM Transfer for
Macintosh)
Win 7-64 FAM and VFAM 2.3
Avid recommends you install the Pro
Disc 2.04 driver on the Windows XP
system running SP3 when using the
following Sony PDW devices:
PDW 1500, PDW HD1500, PDW 700,
PDW 350, PDW F75, PDW F70, PDW
D1. The driver can be downloaded from
Sony's website http://esupport.sony.com/.
Avid recommends you install the VFAM
driver v2.2 (WinXP 32) or the VFAM 2.1
(Macintosh OS) when using the PDWU1
device. The firmware version is 2.42. The
driver can be downloaded from Sony's
website http://esupport.sony.com/.
Panasonic P2 driver (Windows XP and Vista) Driver
version for P2 devices: v2.09
(Macintosh) Driver version for P2
devices: v1.33
There is currently no P2 writeback
support for Macintosh clients.
Boris Continuum
Complete
v6.0.7 Ships with:
Avid Media Composer
Avid NewsCutter®
Avid Symphony™ Nitris®
Avid Symphony Nitris DX
Avid DVD by Sonic v6.1.1 Ships with:
Avid Media Composer
Avid NewsCutter
Avid Symphony Nitris
Avid Symphony Nitris DX
Sorenson Squeeze v6 Ships with:
Avid Media Composer
Avid NewsCutter
Avid Symphony Nitris
Avid Symphony Nitris DX
SmartSound
Sonicfire® Pro
v5.5.2 Ships with:
Avid Media Composer
Avid NewsCutter
Avid Symphony Nitris
Avid Symphony Nitris DX
Item Versions Comments
24
Audio Device Compatibility with Avid Editing
Applications and Pro Tools (Co-install)
When you install Avid Media Composer and Pro Tools on the same system, note the
following:
• If you install both an Media Composer and Pro Tools on the same system, the co-install
does not support both applications launched simultaneously.
• Co-install of Pro Tools LE with Mbox 2 Pro is not supported with Mojo, Mojo SDI, or
Adrenaline due to IEEE 1394 (FireWire) conflicts.
• Co-install is not qualified with Windows Vista 64.
• To install Pro Tools and Media Composer on the same system, install Pro Tools first and
then the editing application.
• When you uninstall Pro Tools, choose to uninstall just the application and not the audio
drivers. On a Macintosh Pro Tools system, this is named the "Safe Uninstall." On a
Windows Pro Tools system, you must select the first uninstall option — "Pro Tools LE
Only" — which is not selected by default.
• If you run into any issues, uninstall both applications and reinstall Pro Tools first, then
Media Composer.
Avid FX v5.8
v5.8.1(SnowLeopard)
Ships with:
Avid Media Composer
Avid NewsCutter
Avid Symphony Nitris
Avid Symphony Nitris DX
Matrox Drivers The drivers supplied in the
Utilities folder were certified with
the Avid editing application at the
time of the initial release.
Please visit the Matrox web site
for the latest Avid certified
drivers.
www.matrox.com
Matrox Drivers are shipped with the
editing application in the following
location:
• (XP) C:\Program Files\Avid\Utilities.
• (Win 7/Vista) C:\Program Files
(x86)\Avid\Utilities.
• (Macintosh)
Applications/Utilities/Avid Utilities
Item Versions Comments
Co-Install Supported Configurations
25
• Pro Tools v8.0.3 and later and Media Composer v5.0 and later do not include support
for the original Mbox. If you want to use the original Mbox, you should use Pro Tools
v8.0.1 and Media Composer v4.x instead.
• Media Composer v5.0 is supported for co-install with Pro Tools v8.0.4 only.
n Co-install: Some editing features, such as HD RGB capture, require systems with
hyperthreading turned on. However, Pro Tools sessions containing large numbers of RTAS
plug-ins may perform better with hyperthreading disabled. For users who work with large
numbers of RTAS plug-ins in Pro Tools, Avid recommends using separate systems for your
Avid editing application and for Pro Tools.
Co-Install Supported Configurations
The following table provides a list of supported Avid Media Composer v3.5.9 and later
products with the Pro Tools peripherals.
• Co-install— Indicates that you can install the device on the same system as you install
your Avid editing application. For a list of devices supported for audio input/output
operations with your Avid editing application, see "Audio Device Supported
Configurations" on page 26.
• Not supported— Indicates that you cannot install the audio device on a supported Avid
editing system.
• Not Tested — Indicates that Avid has not tested the device with a supported Avid
editing system configuration.
Pro Tools
(Interface)
MC Software
Only
MC with
Mojo
MC with
Mojo SDI
MC with
Adrenaline
MC with
Mojo DX
MC with
Nitris DX
Mbox
(USB 1.1)
Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported
Mbox 2
(USB)
Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install
Mbox 2 Pro
(1394)
Co-install Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Co-install Co-install
Mbox 2 Mini
(USB)
Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install
Mbox 2
Micro (USB)
Co-install Co-install Co-install Not Tested Co-install Not tested
26
Audio Device Supported Configurations
The following table provides the list of supported Pro Tools audio devices that you can use
for input/output operations with Avid Media Composer v3.5.9 and later (MC) and Avid
NewsCutter v7.5.9 and later (NC). It also lists devices used as control surfaces.
• Supported — Indicates that you can use the audio device for input and output operations
with your Avid editing application. Some audio devices might not support all
input/output functionality.
• Supported (1394 only) — Indicates that you can use the audio device for input and
output operations only when you select 1394 in your Avid editing application. For
information on using the DNA/1394 button, see "Selecting a DV Device" in the Help.
• Not supported— Indicates that you cannot use the audio device for input/output
operations with the Avid editing system.
Digi 002
(1394)a
Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install
Digi 003
(1394)a
Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install
Eleven Rack
(USB)
Not Tested Not Tested Not Tested Not Tested Not Tested Not Tested
Pro Tools
HD, in CPU
Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install Co-install
Pro Tools
HD, with
chassis
Not Tested Not Tested Not Tested Not Tested Not Tested Not Tested
Fast Track
Pro (USB)
Co-install Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported
a. Applies to 002 and 003 Rack and Console units, and 003 Rack +. When used with Mojo, Mojo SDI, or Adrenaline,
connect the 002 or 003 to an approved 1394 HBA card.
Pro Tools
(Interface)
MC Software
Only
MC with
Mojo
MC with
Mojo SDI
MC with
Adrenaline
MC with
Mojo DX
MC with
Nitris DX
Audio Device Supported Configurations
27
• If you install Avid editing hardware on your system — Mojo, Mojo SDI, Adrenaline,
Mojo DX, or Nitris DX — the editing application does not recognize any connected
Mbox 2 as audio devices.
• Media Composer and Avid NewsCutter were tested with the Mbox 2, and Mbox 2 Mini
as valid I/O peripherals. If you uninstall the audio drivers for these devices, the editing
application no longer sees the devices.
n The Command|8 is also supported as a control surface for Avid Symphony.
Pro Tools
(Interface)
MC/NC
Software Only
MC/NC with
Mojo
MC/NC with
Mojo SDI
MC/NC with
Adrenaline
MC/NC with
Mojo DX
MC/NC with
Nitris DX
Audio Devices:
Mbox
(USB 1.1)
Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported
Mbox 2
(USB)
Supported Supported
(1394 only)
Supported
(1394 only)
Supported
(1394 only)
Not Supported Not Supported
Mbox 2
Mini (USB)
Supported Supported
(1394 only)
Supported
(1394 only)
Supported
(1394 only)
Not Supported Not Supported
Mbox 2
Micro
(USB)a
Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported
Digi 002
(1394)
Supported
(Windows)
Supported
(Windows)
Supported
(Windows)
Supported
(Windows)
Not Supported Not Supported
Fast Track
Pro (USB)
Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported
Digi 003
(1394)
Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported
Eleven Rack
(USB)
Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported
Control Surfaces:
Command|8
(USB)
Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Digi 002
(1394)
Supported
(Windows)
Supported
(Windows)
Supported
(Windows)
Supported
(Windows)
Supported
(Windows)
Supported
(Windows)
28
Using External Fader Controllers
Your Avid editing application supports the following external fader controllers or mixers for
automation gain and pan recording or as control surfaces. Only the Digi 002 (on Windows
systems) and the Command|8 can function as control surfaces.
n External fader controllers or mixers are optional. They are not required for you to perform
automation gain or pan recording on an Avid editing system.
• Digi 002 (Windows only) and Command|8
• JL Cooper MCS-3000X MIDI automation controller
• JL Cooper FaderMaster Pro MIDI automation controller
• Yamaha® 01V/96 and Yamaha 01V digital mixing console
n The JL Cooper controllers and Yamaha mixing consoles do not support automation pan
recording.
Windows systems with Avid Adrenaline, Avid Mojo, and Avid Mojo SDI input/output
hardware can use the Digi 002 as an external audio device. This means you can use the
Digi 002 to play, record, and output audio. This option is not available for systems with Avid
Nitris DX and Avid Mojo DX hardware.
The following table compares the external fader controllers and mixers.
a. You can only monitor audio with the Mbox 2 Micro.
Feature
Digi 002
(Windows
only) Command|8
FaderMaster
Pro MCS-3000X
Yamaha 01V/96 and
Yamaha 01V
Control surface for
transport controls and
other functions
Yes Yes No No No
Provides audio play,
input, and output
Yes No No No No
Record automation gain Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Record automation pan Yes Yes No No No
Flying faders Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Touch-sensitive faders Yes Yes No Yes No
Setting up the NVIDIA Card
29
For more information on using these external fader controllers or mixers, see "Recording
Automation Gain or Automation Pan Information" in the Help.
Setting up the NVIDIA Card
To set up the NVIDIA card, you must make sure you have the correct display driver version,
install the display driver if necessary, and set the correct display settings. This version of the
editing application requires the following:
Prior to setting up the NVIDIA card, check to make sure you have the correct display driver
version. If you do not have the correct NVIDIA driver, you can install it from the Utilities
folder that installs with your Avid application: Version 190.38 Which driver is required
depends on the version of the NVIDIA card and the type of operating system. Installation
files for these drivers are installed in the folder Program Files\Avid\Utilities\nVidia.
(UDevC00142296, UDevC00132529) This release supports the 190.38 driver. Also included
in the Utilities folder is the 182.65 driver. The 182.65 driver is provided specifically if the
customer experiences an NVIDIA driver crash followed by C++ errors in the Avid
application after manipulating effects in the record monitor. NVIDIA driver crash errors
appear in the Windows Event Viewer logs. This applies to systems that have the FX 4800
graphics card on a Windows Vista or Windows 7 system.
Solo/mute Yes Yes Yes Yes Yesa
Supports audio mixing Nob No No No Yes
Latch mode (also
known as Snap mode)
Yes Yes No Yes No
Number of steps of
fader accuracy
1024 1024 128 1024 256
a. For Yamaha fader/controllers, solo works only if you do not use the unit for audio mixing at the same time.
b. The Digi 002 can be used as a standalone audio mixer but not at the same time as it is being used as an automation gain
or automation pan controller or control surface.
Feature
Digi 002
(Windows
only) Command|8
FaderMaster
Pro MCS-3000X
Yamaha 01V/96 and
Yamaha 01V
30
To check the NVIDIA display driver version:
1. Right-click the Desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel. You can also open the
Windows Control Panel and double-click the NVIDIA Control Panel icon.
2. Click System Information at the bottom left corner of the NVIDIA Control Panel.
The version number is listed in the Graphics card information section on the ForceWare
version line.
To install the NVIDIA display driver (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7):
1. Navigate to Program Files\Avid \ Utilities \nVidia and double-click the folder that
corresponds to your operating system.
2. Double-click the file for the applicable driver.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions, and then restart your system.
To setup multiple displays (Windows XP):
1. Right-click the Desktop, and select Nvidia Control Panel.
2. In the settings window in the left of the window, click Set up multiple displays.
3. In the "Choose View display mode to use" area, select "Configure independently from
each other (Dualview).
4. Click Apply, and then click OK.
To setup multiple displays (Windows Vista, Windows 7):
1. Right-click the Desktop, and select Nvidia Control Panel.
2. In the settings window in the left of the window, click Set up multiple displays.
3. Select or deselect the desired monitors listed.
Setting the Hardware Acceleration to Multi-display compatibility mode (Windows
Vista, Windows 7):
1. Right-click the Desktop, and select Nvidia Control Panel.
2. Click Manage 3D Settings.
3. In the Global Presets, select Base Profile.
4. Scroll to Multi-display/Mixed GPU acceleration and on the right pulldown to
Compatibility performance mode.
Disabling the NVIDIA Driver Helper Service (Windows XP)
31
Disabling the NVIDIA Driver Helper Service
(Windows XP)
The NVIDIA driver Helper Service is a background program that runs with the NVIDIA
Driver installed. This service informs you when an update to the NVIDIA Driver is
available. There have been instances where this service causes slow restarts and shutdown
with the Avid DNA hardware attached. The service also can prevent the Adobe®
Photoshop® Gamma loader from operating, which causes color correction settings not to
work properly. If this occurs, you should disable the NVIDIA Driver Helper Service.
To disable the NVIDIA Driver Helper Service:
1. Right-click My Computer.
2. Click Manage.
3. Double-click Services and Applications.
4. Double-click Services.
5. Right-click NVIDIA Display Driver or NVIDIA Driver Helper Service.
6. Click Properties.
7. Select Startup Type > Disable.
8. Click OK.
Every time you update or reload the driver, this service is enabled again.
Shared Storage Support
The editing application has been tested in a shared storage environment with the following.
Note that ISIS 7000 was previously referred to as Avid Unity ISIS.
Editing
Application
Operating
System
ISIS
5000
Client
ISIS
5000
Server
ISIS 7000
Client
ISIS 7000
Server
Media-
Network
Client
Media-
Network
Server
Windows XP
32-bit
and
Windows Vista
Business 64-bit
v3.0 v3.0 v1.6, v1.7, v1.8,
v1.9, v1.10,
v2.0.4, v2.0.5,
v2.0.6, v2.1.1a,
v2.2b, v2.2.1,
v2.2.2
v1.6, v1.7, v1.8,
v1.9, v1.10,
v2.0.4, v2.0.5,
v2.0.6, v2.1.1,
v2.2, v2.2.2
v5.1.3 v4.2.4,
v5.1.3
32
Changed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.3
The following have been updated with this editor release.
Support for ISIS 5000 Shared Storage
This release has been qualified with the ISIS 5000. See "Shared Storage Support" on
page 31.
Effects Supporting 16-bit Processing
The following effects support 16-bit processing:
• Image\Blur Effect
• Image\Mosaic Effect
• Image\Paint Effect
• Image\Scratch Removal Effect
• Image\Spot Color Effect
• Key\Animatte
Windows 7 64-bit v3.0 v3.0 v2.2b, v2.2.1,
v2.2.2
v2.0.4, v2.0.5,
v2.0.6, v2.1.1,
v2.2, v2.2.2
v5.3 v5.1.3
Macintosh Snow
Leopard v10.6.3
Macintosh Snow
Leopard v10.6.4c
v3.0 v3.0 v2.1.1a, v2.2b
v2.2.2
v1.7, v1.8, v1.9,
2.0.4, v2.0.5,
v2.0.6, v2.1.1,
v2.2, v2.2.2
v5.2,
v5.3.1
v4.2.4,
v5.1.3
a. The earliest version of ISIS server supported with an ISIS v2.1.1 client is ISIS server v1.7.
b. The earliest version of ISIS server supported with an ISIS v2.2 client is ISIS server v2.0.4.
c. Due to an issue introduced in the ethernet driver for Mac Pros ( released early 2009 or before) in Mac OS X
v10.6.4, ISIS 5000 and ISIS 7000 customers should not apply the 10.6.4 software update to these models at
this time.
The newer Avid qualified 12 Core Mac Pro (released mid 2010) models ship with a later version of Mac OS
X v10.6.4 and include a later version of the Mac Pro ethernet driver, so Mac Pro (mid 2010) units are not
impacted by this issue and can be used with ISIS 5000 and ISIS 7000 system without issue.
Editing
Application
Operating
System
ISIS
5000
Client
ISIS
5000
Server
ISIS 7000
Client
ISIS 7000
Server
Media-
Network
Client
Media-
Network
Server
Changed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.3
33
Simplified Editor Installer (Macintosh)
The Installer for the Macintosh version of the editing application has been simplified for
installing and uninstalling the application.
During uninstall, if you want to continue using the helper applications, such as FilmScribe,
EDL, MediaLog, etc. DO NOT uninstall AvidCoreRuntime or AvidDIORuntime. During
uninstall, if you work in a Pro Tools coinstall environment, DO NOT uninstall
AvidDIORuntime.
Perform the following to uninstall and install the Macintosh version of the editing
application.
To uninstall the Editing application:
1. Quit all applications.
2. Go to Applications/Avid_Uninstaller/AvidEditingApplication.
3. Double-click the AvidEditingApplication uninstaller.
4. Follow the on-screen prompts.
If you are uninstalling a version prior to v5.0.3, repeat for uninstalling
AvidCoreRuntime, AvidDIORuntime and AvidCodecs PE. Once you are finished
uninstalling, delete the following folders that reside in the Avid_Uninstallers folder:
AvidEditingApplicationName, AvidCodecsPE, AvidCoreRuntime, AvidDIORuntime.
If you work in a Pro Tools coinstall environment, DO NOT delete the AvidDIORuntime
folder.
If you are uninstalling v5.0.3 or higher, when you perform step 3 above, you can choose
to uninstall the editing application, AvidCoreRuntime, AvidDIORuntime and
AvidCodecs PE all at once.
With v5.0.3 or higher, you can also choose to uninstall the editing application Helper
applications, for example, FilmScribe, EDL, MediaLog.
To install the Editing application:
1. Quit all applications.
2. Insert the editing application DVD.
3. Double click on Installer and follow the on screen instructions.
t To install just the editing application, click Standard Install.
t To install the Helper applications (for example, EDL Manager, FilmScribe, etc.)
click the Customize button and choose the applications to install.
4. When prompted, select "Yes, restart my computer."
34
Fixed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.3
The following have been fixed:
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144831. The editing application now limits the number of media
files that can reside in a folder. Once it reaches 5000 files, a new folder is created.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143816. When layering keyable effects in the Timeline, some of
the graphics did not key through. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00111185. When you selected an Interplay Folder, the textbox did
not always allow you to see the full path of the folder. This has been fixed. Now the dialog
will expand as needed and will show multiple lines if needed to show any legal path. If a
path is too long, you will receive an error message indicating the path is too long and you
should choose another folder.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00136351. (Windows) When dragging a plugin control on the RTAS
version of the EQ III plugin, the plugin UI would not update until you released the mouse
button.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143239. (Windows). When playing an audio loop, play would stop
at the end of the loop section if the mouse button was being held down on an RTAS plugin
control.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143163. A multicam sequence consisting of group clips with
timewarp effects may have displayed incorrect frames and/or timecode when that sequence
was changed using Commit Multicam Edits. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143683. (XDCAM) Importing files from the Sony PDW-HD1500
(with film option) might have failed. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144431. Audio would occasionally disappear from monitor
channel during Audio Punch-in. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143808. The audio would mute when recording Auto Gain with
Command|8 and moving gain all the way to the top. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144377. (Windows) When adding a TimeCode Burn-In Effect, you
might have received a "NO SUCH TRACK" error, even when a track existed. This has been
fixed.
Fixed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.3
35
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144176. Audio and video might have been out of sync when
performing a Digital Cut to a Firewire deck. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144863. You might have received "AMPI subsystem" errors when
performing fast editing in the Timeline. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144784. When playing footage at 2x normal speed (pressing the L
key) the video and audio did not play correctly. This occurred when connected to Adrenaline
or Mojo hardware. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144805. The Aux TC column displayed an incorrect timecode for
subclips for non-film projects. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142739. Switching color space from YUV to RGB caused the
HDMI output to be green. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00137135. Long GOP clips that were originally "Captured in
Progress" had refresh problems. You had to resize the screen or scrub the existing media to
continue playing the clip. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00135254. When capturing from a Sony SRW 5500 deck, Rewind
and Eject were not working properly. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143830. Relinked RED AMA clips that were previously
transcoded display incorrect video information when you "Get Info" on the clip. This has
been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143828. Relinked RED AMA clips appear to lose their clip name
when loaded into the Source monitor. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142032. If you applied new settings in the RED Source Settings
window to a source clip and then created a subclip, the new settings did not apply to the
subclip. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00139512. (Japanese OS) Timeline operation would appear sluggish.
The limit for Undo was 100. Now with the Japanese OS, the Undo limit is set to 32.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00141019. If you added an Audio Suite Plug-in to an audio segment
in the Timeline, rendered it and then performed some Add Edits, checked the sequence into
Interplay and then checked it out on another system, some of the segments from the Add
Edits would be unrendered. This has been fixed.
36
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00129000. When exporting or consolidating OMF 2 audio sequences,
some of the media would appear offline. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144500, UDevC00144663. Making a subclip occasionally
removed the locators from the master clip when the master clip was checked into Interplay.
This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144234. The Force Unique Clip name option (found in the Capture
Settings: General Tab) was not functioning properly when capturing to an Interplay folder.
This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144124. After launching the application, playing back sequences
might have resulted in stuttering. The output on the client monitor showed a split image.
This occurred on Mojo DX and Nitris DX systems. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143345. (Interplay) When running the editing application in
Disconnected Mode, you could not delete from a bin. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142052. (Macintosh) Even when sufficient space existed, you
might have received an "Insufficient Space" error when trying to perform an import. This
has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00134951. You might receive an error when exporting audio only
sequences to OMF2. This occurred after upgrading from a v3.x or 7.x editing application.
This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00121798. Selecting Ctrl+Z (Undo) or Undo from the Edit menu was
not always available. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142999. If you consolidate an AMA "most compressed" clip to
"highest quality" (or highest quality to most compressed) now restores the original AMA
clips back to their original quality setting.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143878 (Macintosh only, Japanese OS). The problem with linking
QuickTime AMA media files in the Japanese OS has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144548, UDevC00143711, UDevC00144543. Problems with
using the RED AMA debayer settings have been fixed. These include, transcoding RED
AMA media clips with full debayer settings and rendering using the RED Rocket card.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144485. Avid now correctly supports RGB and Lift:Gamma:Gain
adjustments made in REDCINE-X.
Fixed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.2
37
Fixed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.2
The following has been fixed:
&#10148; For those who experienced issues with the 30-day trial version of the Avid editing
application expiring early, you should no longer receive an error when you attempt to access
a project or bin the second time.
Fixed in Avid Media Composer v5.0.1
The following have been fixed:
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00140689. When you enable the Bypass button in the RTAS tool, the
track inserts on the Timeline did not indicate a bypass. This has been fixed so that the insert
button highlights when you click the Bypass button for that insert in the RTAS tool.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00140688. The Bypass button in the RTAS tool now displays the
same color as the Bypass buttons in other audio tools when activated.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144174. When you attempted an audio Match Frame on a group
clip, you might have received an error message, "Out of subclip boundaries, which clip do
you want to load? subclip or master clip?" If you chose "master clip," you might have
crashed. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144057. You can now link Canon XF 720p23.976 media through
AMA from your local drive.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143823. Playback errors should not occur when playing back an
AMA MXF clip. This was improved with AMA handling of CBR MXF files.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143248. The Solo and Mute buttons in the Timeline did not update
when they were enabled or disabled from the Audio Mixer. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00140321. Selecting the Solo or Mute buttons on Command|8 did not
update the Solo or Mute buttons on the Timeline. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144192. Transcoding sequences that contained stereo clips with
Pan/Vol Effects across frame rates, might have resulted in large gaps of filler in the
sequence. This has been fixed.
38
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143590. Deleting tracks in the Timeline by pressing the keyboard
Delete key multiple times in a row might have resulted in a fatal error. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00141919. In source/record or trim mode, after deleting a clip in the
Timeline, the next clip in the sequence was automatically selected. This has been fixed. No
clip is automatically selected after a delete operation when in these modes.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00137752. Previously, selecting the Dyn3 EQ effect on multichannel
clips resulted in an error. Now unsupported multi-channel effects are not selectable.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00144432. Performing an Add Edit in audio that had pan or clip gain
resulted in a RED match-cut that you could not select and delete. This has been fixed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00132950. (Macintosh) Performing a File Import might have resulted
in a system crash. This has been fixed.
What's New in Avid Media Composer v5.0
This release includes a number of new features. Some of these features require specific
hardware in order to get the best performance. For a list of features requiring specific
hardware, see "Feature Performance" on page 38. For a list of the new features, see
"Features List" on page 42.
Feature Performance
A number of features included with this editing application release are processor-intensive.
As a result, you might experience problems if you are working on an older system. The
following chart shows the hardware that Avid has successfully qualified when using these
features.
What's New in Avid Media Composer v5.0
39
Feature Description Recommended System
AVCI-Intra AVC-Intra(AVC-I) is a high
quality, low bit-rate HD codec and
is very CPU intensive.
Multicam playback performance
with AVC-I is not supported at
this time. Users will likely see
dropped frames when using
MultiCam functionality and
AVC-I.
Dual Stream Playback:
• HP z800 Dual Quad Core, or
Dual 6 Core, with
Hyperthreading On - 64-bit OS
• Mac Pro Dual Quad Core
"Nahalem"
or Dual 6 Core "Westmere"
Single Stream Playback:
• Systems listed above under Dual
Stream Playback
• HP z400, single 4-core or 6-core
with Hyperthreading On
• HP 8600, dual 4-core without
Hyperthreading On
• HP 8740w laptop, i7 (1.73GHz)
4-core with Hyperthreading On
• HP 8540w laptop, i7 (1.73GHz)
4-core with Hyperthreading On
• Dell Precision M6500 laptop, i7
(2.00 GHz) 4-core with
Hyperthreading On
• The MacBook Pro 17" laptop, i7
(2.66 GHz) 2-core with
Hyperthreading On
• iMac 27", i7 (2.8GHz) 4-core
with Hyperthreading On
40
HD RGB HD RGB capture requires a high
end workstation with Nitris DX
and fast storage. (The HP z800
and the Dell T5500 have been
qualified to successfully play
back 2 streams with PIP and
Color Correction effects. The Mac
Pro Dual Quad Core "Nahalem"
successfully plays back 2 streams
with PIP.)
• HP z800 Dual Quad Core, or
Dual 6 Core, with
Hyperthreading On - 64-bit OS
• Dell T5500 Dual, 2.93GHz Quad
Core with Hyperthreading On
64-bit OS
• Mac Pro Dual Quad Core
"Nahalem" or Dual 6 Core
"Westmere"
• Storage: 10Gb Ethernet ISIS,
VideoRaid II SR or two
VideoRaid II ST striped together.
XDCAM HD50 Capture Baseband capture through Nitris
DX or Mojo DX. (only ones that
have successfully worked with)
• HP z800 Dual Quad Core, or
Dual 6 Core, with
Hyperthreading On - 64-bit OS
• HP z400, 6-core with
Hyperthreading On
• Dell T5500 Dual, 2.93GHz Quad
Core with Hyperthreading On
64-bit OS
• Mac Pro Dual Quad Core
"Nahalem" or Dual 6 Core
"Westmere"
AMA (RED) AMA is a processor intensive
operation. Older platforms may
not offer optimum performance.
• HP z800 Dual Quad Core, or
Dual 6 Core, with
Hyperthreading On - 64-bit OS
• HP z400, single 4-core or 6-core
with Hyperthreading On
• Dell T5500 Dual, 2.93GHz Quad
Core with Hyperthreading On
64-bit OS
• Mac Pro Dual Quad Core
"Nahalem" or Dual 6 Core
"Westmere"
Feature Description Recommended System
What's New in Avid Media Composer v5.0
41
AMA (QuickTime) AMA is a processor intensive
operation. Lower end platforms
may not offer optimum
performance. Highly compressed
codecs such as H.264 will exhibit
minimal real-time performance.
Recommendation of qualified
systems depends on your planned
use of this feature. Heavy usage of
highly compressed codecs requires
the high end systems.
Ancillary Data Ancillary Data and Nitris DX:
Due to software DNxHD codec
performance requirements, you
must have a dual quad core
system in order to capture
DNxHD 220 or 220x with
ancillary data on the Nitris DX
platform. If your system does not
meet the system requirements, the
only way to capture DNxHD 220
or 220x is to make sure that
ancillary data is not enabled.
Dual Quad Core or dual 6-core
Systems
DVCPro HD capture You will get better performance
with a dual quad core or dual
6-core system.
Dual Quad Core or dual 6-core
Systems
Feature Description Recommended System
42
Features List
The following features have been added to this release of the editing application.
• Mixing Frame Sizes and Aspect Ratios
• Transcoding Mixed Rate Material
• Working with RGB Color Space
• Timeline Direct Manipulation
• Film Based Metadata enhancements
• Alternate Source Capture
• Selecting Items in a Bin
• Promoting Effects
• Displaying Clip Information
• AVCHD™ Import
• Baseband Capture of XDCAM HD
• Audio Mixdown Changes
• Video Satellite Support (Symphony)
• Ancillary Data Track
• Render email notification
• AMA Plug-ins update
• Multichannel Audio
• SubCap Effect updates
• Reverse Match Frame change
• Support for Matrox® MX02™ Mini
• User Interface update
• Audio changes
• RGB Dual Link Support
• Quick Transition dialog enhancements
• Timeline Settings changes
• Enhanced Effects
• Effects Automatically Promoted to Advanced Key Frame Editor
• Stabilizing an Image
• Windows 7 qualification
What's New in Avid Media Composer v5.0
43
For details on new features for the Avid editing products, see the What's New for Avid Media
Composer v5.0. The What's New is provided in PDF form on the Avid Knowledge Base.
The What's New is also provided in the online Help.
Ensuring the Quality Level of Precomputed Clips
Additional information has been added to the editing application help to provide details on
ensuring the quality level of precomputed clips. Before you export or output your sequence,
you must ensure that all your precomputed clips have been rendered using the desired
quality settings. Your Avid editing application cannot always recognize that it needs to
re-render effects when you change a quality setting. For more information, search for
"Ensuring the Quality Level of Precomputed Clips" in the Help.
ScriptSync
The ScriptSync feature requires activation. If you are an upgrade customer, you are entitled
to a free serial number to activate the feature. If you are a new customer, you must purchase
a serial number. A ScriptSync Activation dialog will open the first time you try to access the
ScriptSync feature. Follow the directions on the activation dialog box. See
www.avid.com/scriptsync for more information.
Finding AMA Information
Avid supplies information about Avid Media Access (AMA) in different forms, they
include: Avid Editing Guide, Avid Editing Help, Avid Editing ReadMe, individual PDF files
about each plug-in located on www.avid.com/ama.
The following table describes where you can find specific information about the AMA
plug-ins.
AMA Questions Description Where to Find It
What is AMA? About AMA and the steps to perform how to
link to AMA clips.
See "The Avid Media Access
(AMA) Workflow" topic in the
File Based Media - AMA chapter
of the Avid Editing Guide or in
the Avid Editing Help.
How will AMA media
affect my system
performance?
Some AMA media is a processor intensive
operation. Older platforms may not offer
optimum performance. See the list of
qualified systems.
See "Feature Performance" on
page 38 in the Avid Editing
ReadMe.
Are there any plug-in
limitations?
A list of "gotcha's" or things you need to
know about each individual plug-in.
See the individual plug-in pdf file
on www.avid.com/ama.
44
Changes in Packaging
You will notice changes to the packaging used in this editing application product release. As
part of our ongoing effort to become more environmentally friendly, we are significantly
reducing the amount of printed documentation we provide with our packaged products. With
this release, along with the application DVDs, you will receive the Installation Guide for
Avid Editing Applications in printed form. All other guides exist in PDF format and can be
accessed by clicking the Help menu within the editing application and selecting
Documentation (PDF). A DOCS folder opens where you can access the What's New, Editing
Guide, Effects and Color Correction Guide, Avid Marquee Title Tool User's Guide and
Supporting Applications Guide. The Supporting Applications Guide includes information on
the helper applications such as MediaLog, FilmScribe, EDL Manager, MetaSync, and
MetaFuze.
n Previously we had produced a Basics and Advanced Guide. We have now combined the
information into an Editing Guide.
Limitations and Known Issues
AMA (Avid Media Access)
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00140279 (Macintosh only). If you link to a QuickTime AMA clip
on the root (Macintosh HD) drive, the system displays Media Offline.
What are the AMA or
plug-in specific bugs
associated with this
release?
Issues or limitations that we have come
across while testing each plug-in.
See the "AMA (Avid Media
Access)" on page 44 section in the
Avid Editing ReadMe. In addition,
some third-party manufacturers
supply their own Release Notes,
see www.avid.com/ama.
Do you have any AMA
workflows?
Generic 1-page workflows for each AMA
plug-in have been created, and an AMA
workflow guide (created by a consultant)
have been created for some of the plug-ins.
See the "Workflows for Editing
with AMA" topic of the File
Based Media - AMA chapter in
the Avid Editing Guide or Avid
Editing Help. Also, see the
individual plug-in pdf file on
www.avid.com/ama. Consultant
created workflow guides are also
at www.avid.com/ama.
AMA Questions Description Where to Find It
Limitations and Known Issues
45
Workaround: Move the QuickTime file one level below the Macintosh HD. Create a folder
on the Macintosh HD drive and place the QuickTime file in the folder.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00131509. QuickTime AMA media fails to link when you move bins
back and forth from a Macintosh system to a Windows system or from a Windows system to
a Macintosh.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142585. If you cancel an XDCAM consolidate or transcode
operation and receive an exception error, save your work and restart the Avid editing
application.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00135303. The timecodes do not match between an XDCAM proxy
clip and an HD MXF clip shot in Picture Cache mode due to extra frames in the long GOP
material.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00131647. Mixing down a sequence that contains clips with too
much metadata, might cause an error.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00134558. Windows UNC (Universal Naming Convention) paths are
not supported with AMA media. To link AMA media, map it to the drive.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00136288. Linking clips from a large virtual volume might not link
all the clips.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00140133. With the latest VFAM Sony Drivers 2.30, if you link
XDCAM AMA clips using the Sony PDW-U1 device, the clips display offline in the bin if
you eject the disk and then reinsert the same disk.
Workaround: Quit the application and relaunch it again to relink the clips.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00141966. You cannot link to 720p/59.94 media if you choose Most
Compressed in the AMA Resolution Quality dialog box when you attempt to Modify an
AMA Resolution.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00141150. XDCAM clips that have a precharge offset will link with
the precharge timecode. The timecode will not be correct.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143001. (QuickTime AMA) Working with clips using compressed
codecs such as H.264 might not playback effects in real time.
Workaround: Render the effects.
46
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00138429. If you uninstall an AMA plug-in and attempt to play a
linked clip that you linked when the AMA plug-in was installed, the clip will not play and
you will receive the error message: "Cannot access the AMA media stream plugin to play
this clip."
Workaround: Reinstall the plug-in, or go to www.avid.com/ama to download the latest AMA
plug-ins.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00135324. AMA GFCAM plug-ins do not support drop-frame
timecode at this time. This will be fixed in a future release.
&#10148; AMA and XDCAM Optical Disks: When accessing media through Avid Media Access
(AMA), system response time can be affected due to the high latency of the XDCAM optical
disk. This can affect media access response time while linking, playing back, and scrubbing.
When you create sequences with multiple effects or layered tracks, Avid suggests that you
consolidate the media to a local drive instead of working directly from the optical disk to
avoid dropped frames and to avoid slow response time.
&#10148; AMA and JVC: JVC SDHC volumes are not automatically detected and mounted by AMA.
Sony's AMA XDCAM-EX plug-in currently detects Sony's SxS folder structure, but does
not yet detect the JVC SDHC folder structure. A workaround is to use the "File > Link to
AMA Volume(s)" menu option and then navigate to the /PRIVATE/JVC/BPAV folder on the
SDHC card.
Avid is working with Sony to allow for the AMA XDCAM EX plug-in to automatically
detect this folder structure.
&#10148; At this time, the Dynamic Relink option is not available with AMA clips.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00119182. When you use the AMA method, additional metadata
column headings disappear when you use custom bin views. There are different scenarios
when this issue might occur.
They include: When you use the AMA method to link to media and then switch back to an
already existing custom bin view created before using the AMA feature, the additional
metadata columns disappear. We've also seen a similar situation if you create a P2 bin and
link with AMA. Create a customize bin view. All default columns and additional metadata
columns display. If you then create an XDCAM bin and link with AMA, and then create
another customized bin view. All default columns and additional metadata columns display
as well. When you switch back to the first P2 customized bin view, the additional metadata
columns disappear.
Workaround: When using AMA, Avid recommends that you do not create custom bin
views. Use the default preset bin views.
Limitations and Known Issues
47
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00120470, UDevC00134917. When linking clips through AMA, the
metadata information might be missing when you switch from Brief view to Text view in a
new bin.
Workaround: Link the clips through AMA when the bin is in Text, Script, or Frame view.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00120055. The Avid editing system might be slow to respond while
mounting multiple workspaces, while in the application, in AMA (Avid Media Access).
Workaround: Mount the multiple workspaces prior to opening the Avid editing
application, and then work in AMA.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00119615. (Macintosh only) Offline clips appear selected
(highlighted yellow) even after you eject a write-protected XDCAM EX (SxS) card.
Workaround: Do not write-protect the card and do not eject the card while the application
is running.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00115894. Playing back XDCAM DV 25 media from a disc might
drop or skip audio frames, this could be due to the disc needing time to spin back up.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00116263. The following folder names: "OMFI MediaFiles," "Avid
MediaFiles," "Contents," "Clip," and "BPAV" are application or camera generated file
names which contain data appropriate media files. To avoid assertion failure errors when
mounting volumes, do not create additional folders with these file names on your system.
Ancillary Data
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00141601, UDevC00140008. In order to capture the D-track in an
Interplay environment, you must turn off the "During capture, clip is updated in Interplay"
option in the Capture Settings: MXF Media Files tab. Note: It is not necessary to disable this
option when performing an edit while capture from an ingest server such as AirSpeed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00141572. The Avid editing system might be slower when you
switch from play to capture with a D-track enabled.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00141474. When you perform capture-on-the-fly with a D-track
enabled, the Avid editing system might be slow when you initiate the capture.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142494. The D-Track monitor button in the Timeline's Track
Selector panel does not automatically turn on and off depending on the editing mode you are
in. For example, if you switch to Legacy mode in the Media Creation Capture tab, you need
to manually click the D-track Record button to turn it off for playback.
48
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142728. Transferring a clip with ancillary data (data track) from an
Airspeed Multi Stream system to ISIS might cause an assertion error. This does not affect
the playback of the clip in the Avid editing application.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00141912. Moving sequences with an ancillary data track to an older
version of the Avid editing application and then back is not recommended.
The D-track is removed when you move a sequence with a data track from an earlier version
of the Avid editing application to this version (v5.0/v9.0).
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00132039. (Nitris DX and Mojo DX) You cannot output HD
ancillary data if down convert is enabled.
Audio
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143160. In a 1080p 23.976 project, the Record monitor might
display frames slightly earlier than the client monitor when playing media with audio at
faster than 3x speed. When you stop playback, the Record monitor jumps to the frame
displayed in the client monitor.
Workaround: You can either disable audio tracks before playing your media or play media
back at 3x speed or slower.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142918. You cannot convert a sequence that contains multichannel
audio tracks to another format. For example, if you have a 1080i/59.94 sequence with
multichannel audio, you cannot convert it to a 720p/29.97 format even though the new
format has the same frame rate.
Workaround: You can split all multichannel audio tracks to mono and then convert the
format of the sequence. Note that splitting tracks to mono modifies some audio properties —
for example, it removes stereo track effects. For more information, see "Splitting Stereo
Tracks to Mono Tracks" in the Help.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00138422. Some unsupported audio plug-ins might appear available
on the RTAS menu. If you select one of these plugins from the RTAS menu, it might result in
a crash. To eliminate this possible condition, please remove the following from:
(XP): Program Files\<Common Files>\Digidesign\DAE\Plug-Ins folder: 1-Band EQ II
(mono), 4-Band EQ II (mono), Compressor (mono), DeEsser (mono), Expander-Gate
(mono), Gate (mono), Limiter (mono).
(Windows 7/Vista): Program Files(x86)\<Common Files>\Digidesign\DAE\Plug-Ins
folder: 1-Band EQ II (mono), 4-Band EQ II (mono), Compressor (mono), DeEsser (mono),
Expander-Gate (mono), Gate (mono), Limiter (mono).
Limitations and Known Issues
49
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00220668. If your system is an HP xw8400, you must customize the
sound configuration in order for the editing application to correctly control the levels of the
microphone or other connected audio device:
Workaround: To customize the sound card configuration:
1. In the Project window, click the Settings tab.
2. Double-click Sound Card Configuration.
3. Ensure that the Record/Input descriptions match the Playback/Output settings. For
example, if you have a microphone plugged into the rear pink connector, then the
Playback/Output option should be set to Rear Pink In. If you have a Line input audio
device connected to the front black connector, the Playback/Output option should be set
to Front Black In.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00143962. Clip Pan: When you add an audio dissolve between two
clips with Clip Pan onto a single audio track, the audio dissolve uses the Clip Pan setting on
the outgoing source for the duration of the dissolve.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00118578. Occasionally, you might receive a "ReadStreamAsyn"
error when performing a Digital Audio Scrub. If you continue scrubbing, the audio will
come back.
&#10148; Bug Number: . Pan Automation (overrides Clip Pan when applied): When you add an audio
dissolve between two clips with Automation Pan onto a single audio track, the audio
dissolve interpolates the pan values between the pan keyframe value at the beginning of the
dissolve and the pan keyframe value at the end of the dissolve. Any pan keyframe that exists
in the middle of the dissolve is ignored.
Workaround: Place the two clips on separate tracks using Clip Pan, fade one to silence,
and fade the other up from silence.
&#10148; Bug Number: . The following procedure causes a failure in the audio output: Open a
720p50 HD project, open the Capture tool and select HD-SDI video and Audio input.
Capture an HD Clip from Satellite source using HD-SDI Embedded feature and save it to a
Bin. Create an HD sequence using the above saved HD clip. Configure the Panasonic HD
150, and set the deck to accept HD-SDI audio Embedded. Open the Video output dialog.
Turn on HD-SDI Audio Embedded. Attempting to output an HD sequence (Preview) to an
HD deck using HD-SDI audio Embedded feature completely fails. There is no audio output
signal seen on Deck.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00207753. The Panasonic HD150 deck will not decode the HD
embedded audio stream from Adrenaline or Avid Nitris.
50
Workaround: Connect AES audio from the Avid DNA hardware to the deck and disable
the embedded audio.
Audio Punch-In Tool
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00086862. You could monitor input during preroll in previous
versions. If you have a software-only system, you can still monitor input during preroll. If
you have an Avid Mojo, input monitoring begins at the IN point, not during preroll.
Avid Unity
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00132807. Macintosh Snow Leopard clients display a
"END_MEDIA_EDITS_Video FAILED" error when exporting QuickTime movies to
workspaces when the workspace name is longer than nine characters.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevCC00080420. Avid Unity MediaNetwork and Power User login: If you
log into your Windows system as a Power User and use the same login in the Connection
Manager to log onto Avid Unity MediaNetwork, you cannot play media.
Workaround: In order to use an Avid editing application in Interplay you must log in as a
Power User. However, do not use the same login when you use the Connection Manager to
log onto Avid Unity MediaNetwork. Use a different login for the Connection Manager. This
problem does not exist on Avid Unity ISIS.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00089671. Workspace names in Asian characters might appear
truncated at the end in any drive-selection list.
Workaround: Use no more than 5 characters for workspace names.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEVC00089275. Changing Users on MediaNetwork Fibre attached
clients: When you change users on a fibre attached client, do not use the Switch User
function in the Windows Log Off dialog box. When you log back in as the original user you
may get the following errors when you play media: "Exception: FILE_OTHER, filename…
Exception: SYS_ERROR, status:1317, msg:The specified user does not exist."
Workaround: To fix the problem once it occurs, reboot the system. To avoid the problem,
before you switch users, log off completely and reboot the system.
Limitations and Known Issues
51
Capture
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00135244. The Sony HDW-D1800 and HDW-D2000 decks use the
same device ID. If you autoconfigure the deck, it might not choose the correct deck. If you
encounter a problem autoconfiguring one of these decks, delete the machine template for the
deck you do not use.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142671. (Macintosh only) At this time, we do not support the
Addenda RS-USB/4 (USB to RS422) serial adapter.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00126440. A/V passthrough sync is not guaranteed while capturing
HDV material through FireWire devices. The captured media is in sync.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00117699. When performing captures over FireWire with the
SonyZ7U or Canon XH-G1 camera, you might receive "Lack of progress" errors.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00094480. If you have problems with batch capture accuracy for
footage captured over 1394 due to undetected small timecode breaks, select the "Enable
detection of small timecode break" option located in the Capture Settings DV& HDV tab.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00116442. A 1:1 10-bit capture might fail with
DIG_VDM_OVERRUN or video overrun errors. This might not occur if storage
performance is optimized.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00080115. (Macintosh) You might receive a "Mac Error - 37" error
when accessing a target drive or workspace with 28 or more characters.
Workaround: Make sure the target drive or workspace names have fewer than 28
characters.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00025851, UdevC00049993. If you capture clips with an Avid editing
system on two or more days and use the same project and the same tape name (for example,
if you capture on two separate days from a cable feed named "Live"), relinking the clips
might cause the old clips to relink to the new clips. Because the clips in this instance are
captured on different days but use the same 24-hour timecode and have the same tape name,
the Avid system treats the captured material as coming from the same source. When you
relink the clips, they relink incorrectly.
Workaround: Avid recommends that you avoid using generic or nondescriptive tape names
— for example, do not use the tape name "Live" for a live feed. Instead, use distinctive tape
names for each capture. Also, you can use separate projects when capturing with your
editing system. When you change projects, even if you use the same tape name for your
captures the Avid system generates new source IDs. This prevents the relink problem.
52
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC26084. If you are working with DV tapes in the Sony HVR-M10U
you might experience "failed to find preroll errors."
Workaround: Change the machine template to the "Generic_DVDevice-NTSC" or
"Generic_DVDevice-PAL" template. This forces the software to use a different method for
cueing to the preroll timecode.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00225379. The editing application does not warn you if you try to
send a Frame Chase editing clip to Media Services Transcode. Do not send ingesting clips to
Media Services Transcode. Wait until the clip is completely ingested.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00086768. You might see the following error message when loading
a clip captured by Frame Chase capture in the editor: "Error encountered during relink
process: New track length does not equal original track length."
Workaround: In the editing application, right-click the clip and sequence and select
Update from Interplay. In Assist, refresh the clip from the Interplay database by selecting the
clip and pressing F5.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00195662. When you are capturing and using the passthrough
monitor, desktop passthrough might cover error messages that are in the same space as the
passthrough monitor, preventing you from being able to read them.
Workaround: Move the affected window or message box away from the Record monitor,
put another application in front of the Avid application, and then go back to Avid to force the
UI to refresh.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00220761. When you capture from an HDV device through 1394 into
an HDV interlaced project, you might see the video break up into squares. The captured
media is intact and complete, however.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00197055. When you capture media that includes invalid frames, you
might see an error message that the capture has been aborted and the invalid frames
discarded and it asks you if you want to keep the clip. This message is incorrect; the invalid
frames have not been discarded.
Workaround: Click No to discard the clip, and then recapture using new marks that
exclude the bad sections on the tape. Do not keep the clip.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00204777. When you deselect Enable Confidence View in the Video
Display Settings dialog box and then open the Capture tool, the Client monitor does not
display passthrough.
Workaround: Do one of the following:
Limitations and Known Issues
53
t Select Enable Confidence View.
t Click the Capture button in the Capture tool.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00184515. In an HDV project, you can only capture audio at the 48k
sample rate. Because the incoming audio is digital over FireWire®, the software is unable to
up-sample 32k and 44.1k audio reliably during capture. If you try to capture audio at another
sample rate, you do not receive the error message warning that the audio on the tape does not
match the setting in the Audio Project Settings dialog. Currently, only the 48k sample rate is
supported in the HDV project format.
&#10148; Bug Number: . If you lose connection to your 1394 port or receive "OHCI Port Busy"
errors, check the FireWire cable length.
&#10148; Bug Number: . When you capture HDV, the system might not find the preroll point if the
Preroll setting is set to 3 or below. The default is set to 6. Do not set this option to 3 or below.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00183907. (HDV) Passthrough does not work if Delay Audio is set to
7 frames or greater. (The Delay Audio option appears in the Capture tool.)
Workaround: Set Delay Audio to 6 or fewer.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00181815. Drop frame/Non-drop frame mismatch errors occurred
often when capturing. A new Deck Preference setting has been added. Access the Deck
Preferences Settings dialog box. A new "When the deck contains no tape Log as" option
appears. Select the timecode format (Drop Frame or Non-drop Frame) for logging clips
when no tape is in the deck. When a tape is in the deck, the system automatically uses the
existing timecode format on the tape.
&#10148; Bug Number: . (HDV) When switching from one project format to another while connected
to an HDV device, you must turn the HDV device off and then turn it back on again.
&#10148; Bug Number: . (Windows) If after initially setting up a DV deck for the first time, or after a
system recovery you cannot see the deck, manually register the DV buffers file by doing the
following:
Workaround:
Perform the following:
1. Go to Program Files\Common Files\Avid.
2. Right click Dvbuffers.ax.
3. Select Open.
4. Choose to select the program from a list and click OK.
54
5. Browse to windows/system32.
6. Select regsvr32.exe.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00145432. The following error message appears if you attempt to
capture DV 25 from a DV 50 source or DV 50 from a DV 25 source: "Exception:
ADM_DIO_ERROR_OCCURRED, DIOerr:Expected DV50 NTSC but received
DV25NTSC."
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00139553. When you batch capture long clips with a lot of metadata,
the following error appears and no media is captured: "Exception:
MXFDomain::SaveMetaDataToFile - Failed to save meta data to file." This does not occur
when you batch capture OMF.
&#10148; Bug Number: . When you capture from a Panasonic AJ-SD93P or Panasonic AJ-SD93E,
note the following: the Panasonic default for DIF SPEED is set to S400. The Adrenaline and
Avid Mojo expect a DIF SPEED of S100. Capture fails, producing scrambled or blocky
images.
Workaround: From the Panasonic DVCPRO deck's menu, set the menu DIF SPEED to
S100.
&#10148; Bug Number: . When you capture DVCPRO HD from a Panasonic HD 1200A deck, keep
the menu DIF SPEED set to S400.
Compatibility
&#10148; Currently, Video Satellite is not supported with the Matrox MX02 Mini.
&#10148; Media Composer v5.0 has not been officially qualified with Avid DS v10.3.x. Full
qualification will be available in a later Avid DS release. If you intend to conform sequences
in Avid DS, please continue to use Media Composer v4.0.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00136737. The Scrub and Pause field options in the Matrox MX02
Settings dialog have no effect on the final image.
&#10148; Bug Number: . (Macintosh Only) If you try to open the Online Library from the Help
menu, the Library page will not open. To access individual PDFs of the User documentation,
go to the following:
Applications > Avid Editing Application> Online Library > DOCS. This does not affect the
editing application Help file. The Help opens successfully.
Limitations and Known Issues
55
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00132057. (Macintosh Snow Leopard v10.6.1) The Avid editing
application might hang if you try to browse using the "Search For" option in the Select Files
window. For example, you might get the beach ball if you right-click a new bin and select
Search For in the Select Files window. The occurrence of this is reduced if you have
installed Snow Leopard v10.6.2. If you still experience intermittent hangs, go to System
Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy and drag your drive(s) to the window. This disables search
on the drives. Avid is tracking this issue.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00129804. The list of available transcode resolutions in the Transfer
Settings list is not accurate. Some of the resolutions listed might be incompatible with the
current project's media resolutions.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00125617. Ancillary Data and Nitris DX: Due to software DNxHD
codec performance requirements, you must have a dual quad core system in order to capture
DNxHD 220 or 220x with ancillary data on the Nitris DX platform. If your system does not
meet the system requirements, the only way to capture DNxHD 220 or 220x is to make sure
that ancillary data is not enabled. (The HP z400 with hyperthreading supports capture of
DNxHD 220 or 22x with ancillary data.)
To switch the ancillary data feature on and off:
1. 1. Select Tools > Console.
2. 2. Type the following command: Embeddnxcc
OR
In the Media Creation Settings Capture tab, deselect Ancillary Data Enabled.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00121033. Playing back EVS media on a Symphony Nitris (classic)
is not supported. Playback is supported for Symphony Nitris DX.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00110632. (Windows) If you are running a Digidesign audio device,
such as the Mbox 2, with the editing application and that device appears to be inactive:
Perform the following:
1. Quit the editing application.
2. Run the Digidesign Audio Drivers Installer Program in the Avid Utilities folder.
3. Reboot the system.
4. If the audio device is still inactive, access C:\Program
Files\Digidesign\Drivers\DigiDriver.exe and select "Install."
For Windows Vista 64, the location is C:\Program
Files(x86)\Digidesign\Drivers\DigiDriver.exe.
56
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00100881. You cannot connect to a Sony e-VTR device when using
e-VTR manager on a Microsoft Windows Vista32 or Windows Vista64 systems. The Sony
e-VTR logging application does not support Vista.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00119004. Previously, the Best Performance Video Quality option
(yellow/yellow) was the only option available when working with HD projects in
MultiCamera Mode. The yellow/green video quality option is now available in MultiCamera
Mode when working with HD projects.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00112765. Currently, it might take longer to load a long-GOP 9-way
or Quad Split source view.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00105849. If you open the AudioSuite tool when unlicensed plug-ins
are installed, the system will lock up.
Workaround: Either remove the demo or unlicensed plug-in from your system, or connect
the iLok dongle that has the valid license key to the system.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00104160, 00024645. If your original project was a 1080i50 or
1080p25 project, when you are working in a 25i PAL project, the bin headings for MPEG 30
and MPEG 50 might not be accurate.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00102207. (Macintosh) If you find that your mapped F keys are not
working, go to System Preferences > Mouse and Keyboard > Keyboard tab and make sure
"Use F1-F12 keys to control software features" is checked.
&#10148; Bug Number: 99387. Currently, if you are exporting a QuickTime movie and select the
Custom option, you might receive an Access Violation and a Structured Exception loop
dialog. You must force quit the application or select Abort on the Structured Exception
dialog box. In QuickTime player, go to Edit > Preferences > QuickTime Preferences, then
select the Advanced tab and select "Safe mode (GDI only)" under video.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00098170,UDevC00098065. If you are working on a
standard-definition (SD) project with an Avid Nitris DX or Avid Mojo DX attached to your
system, you cannot use the Best Performance mode for video playback. If you open an SD
project created on a system with an Avid Adrenaline attached and utilize Best Performance
mode, the Avid Nitris DX system promotes the video quality to Draft Quality. Either click
the Video Quality button and select Draft Quality or Full Quality, or change the project type
to the appropriate high-definition format.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00101326. Currently, if you export a QuickTime movie and convert
the sample rate on export, it might result in bad audio.
Limitations and Known Issues
57
&#10148; Bug Number: Udevc00101033. (Adrenaline, Windows Vista) If you are running your
editing application on the xw8400 or xw8600 computer you must have the HP 1394a
FireWire card (Avid PN 7030-20154-01; HP PN PA997A) or the Sonnet Technologies™
Allegro™ FW400 1394a FireWire card installed. You may experience "Huffman Decode"
errors during batch capture or capture on-the-fly if you run with an unapproved Firewire
card.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00097564. Currently, if you are on a Windows Vista 64 editing
application and you try to open a bin that was created on a Windows XP editing application,
you might receive an "Unable to open file" message. The issue is that when you move a file
from the desktop to the project folder, it loses access rights. Access the file as an
administrator and add Authenticate Users with Full Control.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00093513. (Macintosh) The editing application might not launch if
your system volume name contains "/" . Make sure the computer volume name does not
include a "/".
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00090317. A non-Administrator cannot send or receive EDLs. You
must be an administrator to use EDL Manager.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00079997. (FilmScribe) The Tape Name does not appear in a cut list
when you select the TapeID column heading.
Workaround: If you select both the Reel# and TapeID column heading, the Tape Name
appears.
&#10148; Bug Number: . (Macintosh) When you are using the search feature in the Avid editing
application Help, a bug exists if Safari™ is your default browser. You might experience
issues when performing searches. You need to empty the Safari cache in between searches
(Select Safari > Empty Cache.) This search issue does not occur when you use Firefox™ as
your browser.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00007737. If you are using an Mbox 2 and an HP8400 computer, you
should connect the Mbox 2 to a rear USB port. The USB ports on the front of the HP8400
can cause problems with the Digidesign Driver Installer. Once the installation is complete,
you can connect the Mbox 2 to the front or rear USB ports.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00140811, UDEV00140767, UDEV0221008. If you are using the
Safari browser to access the Avid Learning Excellerator™ site (select Help > Learning
Resources, and then click the Avid Learning Excellerator link), you must have Javascript®
and cookies enabled (Safari > Preferences > Security).
58
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00079523. If you are a non-administrator and you want to launch
AudioSuite Plug-Ins, make sure you have an administrator make you a member of the
AvidUsers group which is automatically created during installation.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00219672. You currently cannot select HDV projects in the
MediaLog™ application.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00141328. Sending to Digidesign® Pro Tools: When you export an
OMF 2.0 file that links to MXF media, you should first transcode the MXF Media to OMF
media. If you have a long sequence containing MXF media, you are not prompted prior to
the export process that the export will not be successful. To save time, transcode MXF media
to OMF media prior to exporting as OMF 2.0.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00120475. Editing keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl+X and Ctrl+C do
not work in MetaSync Manager. Use the menu commands.
Digital Cut
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00102676. When performing a digital cut, you will receive the
message "If you have a genlock signal connected to your BOB, please switch it to match the
output rate. Use an appropriate black burst sync source. Then wait for the REF light on the
BOB to turn green and press Continue." If the light turns green, press Continue and the
digital cut will be performed. If not, make sure an appropriate sync source is connected and
wait for the REF light to turn green.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00097111. (Avid Nitris DX/Avid Mojo DX) Currently the blue bar in
the Timeline might not reach the end of the sequence at the end of a digital cut. All frames
are actually cut to tape.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00118267. A "Media Offline in Composition" error might occur
with a Digital Cut even when all media is online. Select Continue to perform the Digital Cut.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00222537. (Macintosh) When performing a 720p/59.94 digital cut,
the first frame of the sequence might be missing.
Workaround: Add half a second of black before the sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00220887. The first 35 frames of a sequence might be missing when
you perform a digital cut after selecting Crash Record and Ignore Time in the Digital Cut
tool.
Workaround: Add filler to the beginning of the sequence.
Limitations and Known Issues
59
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV01845957. When performing an HDV digital cut, the last few seconds
are not cut to tape.
Workaround: Generate a clip of black and add it to the end of the sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00174311. A digital cut of an HD project might drop the last frames
of audio.
Workaround: Add 10 frames of audio to the end of the sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00135921. When you perform a digital cut using the Pioneer®
PRV-LX1 DVD recorder, select Ignore Time in the Digital Cut Tool window.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00136395. A video underrun might occur at the start of a digital cut if
the Digital Cut tool does not have focus when you click the Play Digital cut button. The
Digital Cut tool must be active before you click either the Start or Preview button. If an
underrun occurs at the very start of the digital cut, you should be able to perform the digital
cut without a problem.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00139484. When you perform a digital cut to a Panasonic DVCPRO
HD deck using HD-SDI with 720p/59.94 material, several frames of black might be written
to tape before the start of the outputted sequence. This might result in the end of the
sequence being truncated on tape.
Workaround: Place several seconds of black or color bars at the end of a sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00138162. The Digital Cut tool does not allow certain durations of
black to be added to the tail of a sequence. Certain values (including 20 minutes, 30 minutes,
60 minutes, and so on) reset the clock to zero when applied. If the value you entered resets to
zero when applied, adjust the value upward or downward until a satisfactory length is
determined (at which point the clock does not reset itself and the desired duration is
correctly applied).
Dynamic Relink
&#10148; Bug Number: 103557. Any MPEG2 352_30I MXF media created with an x.8.1 or x.8.3
editing application will not relink in Exact match in versions x.8.4 of the editing applications
or the Media Composer 3.0 or Symphony 3.0 or NewsCutter 7.0 versions of the editing
application. The MPEG2 352_30I MXF media created with an x.8.1 or x.8.3 was
compressed at 15MB instead of 2MB and therefore will not relink in Exact match.
Workaround: Change the Dynamic Relink settings to use the "Most compressed" option
or change the "If no match is found" option to "Relink to Closest."
60
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00225796. When working with HDV projects, HDV resolutions are
not available for Dynamic Relink.
Workaround: Choose "Use Closest Media" instead of "Relink to Offline" when in HDV
projects and "Specific Resolution" is selected as the Relink Method. If you do not choose
"Use Closest Media," captured clips appear as offline when Dynamic Relink is enabled.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00221144. If you want to re-create title media at a target format other
than the working format, you must change the project format to that designated for the
target. Otherwise only the working format resolutions are available.
Effects
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00141398. If you have a created a sequence with the current editing
application containing AVX2 effects and you then open that sequence on an editing
application prior to Media Composer v5.0, NewsCutter v9.0 or Symphony v5.0, the effects
will not be recognized.
Workaround: Render the effects prior to opening the sequence in the earlier version
editing application.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00133970. (Macintosh) (Boris Continuum Complete) When
switching from 8bit to 10bit display mode, you might see a shift in BLK levels.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00136238. Boris Continuum Complete effects always stay at Safe
levels even if you had selected illegal levels.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00134733. Rendering an effect in a software only configurations will
not preserve ancillary data.You must capture, edit and output the HD media with ancillary
data using Avid Nitris DX, Avid Mojo DX, Avid Adrenaline or Avid DNxchange
input/output hardware.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00118276. You might experience dropped frames on the initial
playback of a sequence containing a Pan and Scan effect.
Workaround: Set the Image Interpolation option in the Render Settings to Standard
(Bilinear).
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00112035. You might receive a bus error when exporting a sequence
in a 24p NTSC project that contains a scratch removal effect. Render the sequence first.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00117131. Currently, you cannot preview Multi channel audio clips
with AudioSuite Dynamic 3 plug-in effects. The plug-ins work in the Timeline.
Limitations and Known Issues
61
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00117990. If you try to conform an AFE created from the Avid Media
Composer or Avid Symphony editing application to Avid DS, the Color Correction
animation effects will not conform. The effects will be replaced with a wipe effect. You
should demote the color corrections. Right-click the sequence that contains the Color
Correction effects and select Demote Effects. This creates a a duplicate sequence that you
can open in Avid DS.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00114633. When you apply a SubCap or TimeCode Burn-In effect to
a clip with the Effect Editor set to Thumbwheels, the first few characters in the text field are
cropped from view. They do appear properly on the image.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00113832. Applying Boris Continuum Complete deinterlace above
other effects might corrupt the image.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00115301. You might receive an "AudioSuite DAE" error when you
render a master clip with a ReelTape AudioSuite Plug-in. The error does not occur if you
render in the Timeline.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00118588. The Tracking window becomes deselected after switching
from a nested effect to the top-most effect. You must close and then reopen the Tracking
window to make it available.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00118505. Currently, a Superimpose or Dissolve effect does not
promote to 3D Warp.
Workaround: First promote to Advanced Keyframe, then to 3D Warp.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00109451. When the Color Correction window is open, Loop Play
will include the sequence, not just the current clip, even if the Effect Editor is open.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00120950. You might experience dropped frames when playing back
an HD sequence containing a Safe Color limiter effect with the "422 Safe" option selected.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00113368. When working in 3D Advanced keyframes, occasionally,
keyframe points might not display in the path.
Workaround: Click the Enlarge or Reduce button located below the Effect Preview
Monitor.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00106944. In a 1080i59 project, effects that invert or resize the image
might appear field-reversed during play in an SD timeline.
Workaround: Transcode the media to SD.
62
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00097157. A clip with an unrendered TimeWarp effect might not
import to Pro Tools. Render the effect before exporting.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00090708. When you try to run AudioSuite you might receive the
following message, "Your computer is missing a Windows XP update required by ProTools.
Please install all available critical updates before installing Pro Tools." If you do, you must
perform a Windows Update, Custom Install to ensure the correct .dll is installed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00003573. While in Effect mode, you might not be able to scrub
through blue dot effects and have the monitor update. Move the Effect Editor so that it
overlaps some part of the Composer monitor. The monitor should now update correctly
when you scrub through blue dot effects.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00225614. Safe Color limits might be exceeded in SD downconverted
output from an HD project. In an HD project, if you use the Safe Color Limiter effect to
ensure safe colors in a sequence and then output that sequence using SD downconvert, some
transient pixel values might exceed your safe color ranges. This is a consequence of the
resizing process performed in the Avid Nitris or Adrenaline hardware during an SD
downconvert.
Workaround: Change the project type to an SD type before you output or render the
sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00219374. In 30i or 1080i60 projects, Timewarp effects that use the
Film With 2:3 Pulldown Input format might not render correctly. Some frames might remain
unrendered or it might not be possible to complete the render. This problem is known to
occur in the specific circumstances described below, but might also occur in other
circumstances.
Partial Render. The problem might occur if you perform a partial render of a Timewarp
effect using the Film With 2:3 Pulldown Input format, then render the remaining part of the
segment. Some frames might remain unrendered or the second part of the segment might not
render.
Division of rendered segment. The problem might occur if you render an entire Timewarp
effect using the Film With 2:3 Pulldown Input format, and then divide the segment (for
example, by performing an overwrite edit of new material into the middle of the segment).
Some frames in the second part of the divided segment might become unrendered.
Trimming head frame of rendered segment. The problem might occur if you render an entire
Timewarp effect using the Film With 2:3 Pulldown Input format, and then trim the head
frame of the segment. Some frames in the segment might become unrendered.
Limitations and Known Issues
63
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00207851, UDevC00141497. You might not be able to render a
FluidBlur, FluidColorMap, or FluidMorph effect in an HD project on a 32 bit OS system if
there is not enough memory available.
Workaround: Try one of the following:
t In the Bins tab of the Project window, click the Clear button, and render the Fluid effect
(see "Managing Bins and Memory" in the Help).
t Close all unused bins, relaunch, and render the Fluid effect.
t In the Format tab of the Project window, switch the project format to an SD format,
render the Fluid effect, then switch back to HD.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00221706. Very high speed Motion Effects with rates greater than
500% no longer play in real time; they now appear in the Timeline as a blue dot effect, and
must be rendered. Since any motion effect with a rate greater than 100% plays back
inefficiently, and the higher the rate the less efficiently it plays back, real time playback
efficiency will improve by rendering such motion effects.
&#10148; Bug Number: . (HDV) If a clip contains Timewarp effects, you should render the effects.
&#10148; Bug Number: . You might experience effects render issues with stacked effects.
Workaround: Render each individual track starting with the bottom track.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00197962 . When you are working with AVX effects, performing an
Expert Render or a Render IN to OUT on a sequence that contains multiple third-party AVX
effects might lead to excessive memory consumption that could cause the application to
hang or to display errors.
Workaround: Render the effects in smaller groups.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00214545. AVX 1.0 effects might have invalid color levels.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00194693. You might see problems with superblacks in 16-bit mode.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00189486. Performing an Add Edit on a promoted Advanced
Keyframe Picture-in-Picture effect might cause a "DataPointOneError."
Workaround: Instead of first promoting to 3D, then Advanced Keyframe, promote in the
reverse order.
64
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00132940 . You might see a "FluidMotion Vector Edit Requires Full
Resolution" error if you work in FluidMotion™ Vector Edit mode in anything other than full
resolution (green mode in the Timeline). Render FluidMotion effects before you combine
them with any other effects, especially any other time-based effects.
&#10148; Bug Number: . (Progressive projects only) If a clip contains any of the following effects,
you must render the effects before you apply Scratch Removal:
• Timewarp effects
• Any effect that has been promoted to the Advanced Keyframe model
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00134286. Removing or undoing some timewarp effects might cause
audio and video to lose sync.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00161774. In the Transition Corner Display mode, two of the six
frames display incorrect frames during trim operations initiated from the Timeline.
Workaround: Trim using the Trim buttons.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00144549. The Fluid film 2:3 timewarp effect might render
incorrectly when you are rendering fluid motion type. The effect might flash a crop of left
and right edges.
Workaround: Set the left and right mask in the FluidMotion Editor to zero.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00164929. (HD only) Any animated alpha matte over 35 seconds long
might fail.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00163592. When an Avid effect is applied in an SD 24p progressive
project, it can create unwanted aliasing on the resulting clip.
Effects (Pan & Zoom)
You might encounter the following limitations when you use the Pan & Zoom effect:
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00119611. If you run out of memory when using Pan & Zoom, resize
the images to a lower resolution using an application such as Adobe Photoshop software.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00088408. (Macintosh) After the link to a Pan & Zoom effect is
broken and you want to reestablish it, the application doesn't prompt you for the source
image name in the Open dialog box.
Limitations and Known Issues
65
Workaround: Import still images into a bin and use them in the edit. With the imported
image in the Timeline, apply the Pan & Zoom effect and load the respective file from the
Open dialog box. This way you can use "Clip Text" and confirm that the correct images are
being loaded.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00088408. (Macintosh) After the link to a Pan & Zoom effect is
broken and you want to reestablish it, the application doesn't prompt you for the source
image name in the Open dialog box.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00081281 . Pan & Zoom keyframe settings can revert to defaults if
you select all keyframes when you link to a new picture.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00025291. When you zoom in with Hi Qual and Ultra Qual filtering,
you might experience a system error (Windows) or see green lines when you preview
(Macintosh).
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00090139. To improve memory issues, the options in the Pan &
Zoom Cache Fast menu are ignored and Video Resolution is used, although when you render
the effect, the highest-quality resolution is always used. After you partially render a Pan &
Zoom effect, however, you might see a slight pixel shift when you move between the
rendered and unrendered portions.
Export
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00141636. When you Export as AVI a sequence containing filler at
the end of the video track, you might receive an exception. Remove the filler at the end of
the sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142161. Performing an AVI Export using the Cinepak codec might
result in poor image quality. Using the Microsoft Video 1 codec does not result in poor
image quality.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142950 (Windows 7). An AAF export fails to create the file when
you export to an ISIS workspace.
Workaround: Save the file to a local driver first, then perform the export.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00112498. QuickTime Movie export fails when using the Qualcomm
PureVoice audio compressor.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00127761. An error occurs when you attempt to import an AAF clip
with audio pan from an Avid editing system to ProTools.
66
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142475. If a sequence fails to import into EDL Manager from the
editing application using Get Sequence, use File > Open in EDL Manager instead to import
the sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00117134. (Mac Intel) You might have received "image buffer"
errors when exporting to DNxHD in Adobe After Effects® 7. This error does not occur with
After Effects CS3 or CS4.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00106032. (Macintosh) Exporting HDV files to the desktop results in
a 0 k file on the desktop. The file will actually appear in your Macintosh User folder. If you
export to a folder, note that the file will actually be created one folder level above.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00090871. (Macintosh) When sending a QuickTime Reference to
Sorenson Squeeze, Auto Load and Reveal Files do not work. Squeeze will launch, but the
sequence does not load nor are the files revealed in the Finder window.
Workaround: Manually import the files into Sorensen Squeeze.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00098849, 103011. (Macintosh) If you try to export to a read only
drive you may get an exception. Ensure you are exporting to a writable drive.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00102078, 101999. Export to HDV Device will fail on a Windows
system if your sequence contains native HDV media (HDV media captured from tape). This
does not apply to Macintosh systems.
Workaround: Transcode to another resolution before performing the export.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00081152. An error might occur when you export to HDV when the
first frame of the sequence is a video mixdown clip.
Workaround: Place filler or a frame of non-video mixdown media at the head of the
sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00049124. Currently, export settings allow a 720x486 size when you
export Avid DV, which creates a field alignment issue. Make sure that you set the export
settings correctly for 720 x 480 for DV exports. Currently, QuickTime must do a resize from
486 lines down to 480 and you receive an odd interpolation. (Even if you specify 720x486,
the Quicktime file displays 720x480.)
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00054456. In NTSC, QuickTime Same as Source and QuickTime
Reference clips containing DV material can sometimes show visual distortions when burned
to DVD from Avid DVD. This is because the DV portions are resized from the DV raster
size 720x480 up to the standard NTSC raster size 720x486.
Limitations and Known Issues
67
Workaround: When exporting the QuickTime Same as Source or Quicktime Reference
clips, choose "Use Avid DV."
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00007778, UDevC00025957. (Macintosh) The editing application
might crash after exporting to an Avid Unity ISIS Read-only workspace. Make sure you
export to a Read/Write workspace. You can determine whether a workspace is Read/Write
through the Client Manager application. Navigate to the Workspaces tab in Client Manager.
The Read/Write workspaces are listed with an R/W under the name of the workspace.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00078454, UDevC00081066. If you have a mixed-resolution DV 25
sequence and try to export it as QuickTime for DVD using the Apple DV Codec, the .mov
might contain artifacts.
Workaround: You must use the Avid DV Codec for this kind of sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00180852. You might receive exception errors when exporting HDV
1080i/59.94 or 1080i 50 as Windows Media.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00181835. When exporting to an HDV device, at least 4 to 5 seconds
of media might be missing from the beginning of the sequence.
Workaround: Add 10 seconds of color bar or black filler at the beginning and at the end of
the sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00140687. When you export a QuickTime Reference movie, do not
mix DV and non-DV media. If you mix DV and non-DV media, the resulting movie might
contain line shifts.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00087119. When you export pan automation on an audio clip as AAF,
it does not translate in Pro Tools. Pro Tools does not accept varying value pan controls
during import.
&#10148; Bug Number: . In the Export Settings dialog box, the default size is not the image size of
the opened project.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00086337. When you play an exported clip in the Windows Media
Player, the sequence stalls in the desktop monitor. The audio plays, the blue bar progresses
in the Timeline, and the video and audio output to the client monitor is OK. If the clip that is
loaded in Windows Media Player is removed, then the Play operation plays properly in both
the desktop and client monitors.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00138232. Exporting Locators exports only a .txt file with frame
count information, not timecode or Feet and Frames. Import also supports only frame count.
68
&#10148; Bug Number: . (Encoding to Windows Media) A "Not enough memory is available to
complete this operation or WM_BeginWriting_FAILED" error results from the application
running out of available memory (RAM) while you perform the encode. Encoding to a
Windows Media Video codec requires a lot of memory. The amount of memory required is
directly related to the number of audio and video profile streams, width, height, bit rate,
number of passes, VBR/CBR, and quality of the encoded video, as well as the resolution of
the source media. If you encode HD media, you might need to reduce the bit rate, turn on
2-pass encoding, turn on VBR, lower the quality, or reduce the frame dimension.
&#10148; Bug Number: . A "WM_FindInputFormat_FAILED" error might appear if the Windows
Media exporter cannot find a suitable input format for a video or audio stream contained in
the current Windows Media Export setting's stream profile. For example, using non-standard
frame dimensions might result in this error. See the Microsoft Windows Media Web site for
more detail.
ICS (International Character Support)
&#10148; Bug Number: UDev00089590. Workspace names that contain non-ASCII characters can
cause poor performance when working in a bin.
Workaround: Use only ASCII characters in workspace names.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00051974. If you capture a clip from a workspace with a French
name through CaptureManager™, in the Avid editing application the bin heading Drive
might be empty where it should list the French name of the workspace.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00051060,UDevC00088815. If you change the font or font size of
your input, and see characters rotated 90 degrees, make sure you select the correct font. Do
not use any font that begins with the "@" symbol.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00052541. Do not create a project using the Euro currency character
(ALT 0128). The project fails to be created and a "Can't Open Project" error message is
displayed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00022395, 22346. Certain Asian characters might not appear in the
correct order in some text boxes in your Avid editing application.
Import
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00049653. Occasionally, if you cancel an import of a clip, you might
receive a "DISK_SHARING_VIOLATION" error.
Limitations and Known Issues
69
&#10148; Sample rate conversion is not performed on import of AVCHD files. AVCHD files will be
imported at their native sample rate, regardless of the "convert sample rate" setting.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00086727. When you import an uncompressed QuickTime file, a
PICT image, or a TIFF image, the first 4 or 5 vertical columns of pixels might truncate when
you display the file in the Source, Record, or client monitors.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00141372. When you batch import a sequence with a graphic
animation that was created in a 30i project and then modified in a 720p project, it might not
import.
Workaround: Import the graphic and manually edit it back into your sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00138270. Avid editing systems cannot import AVI files created on
Avid DS Nitris systems. The import fails with an error message stating that the file format is
not supported for import.
Installation
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00102551. (Macintosh) When launching the editing application, and
the Audio is initializing, "CoreMIDIServer.framwork" might bounce in the dock. It may
remain in the dock until you quit the editing application.
Workaround: Delete DigiDioMidDriver.plugin from the Library/Audio/Drivers folder.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00106344. After installing the editing application on the Windows
Vista OS, when you choose to reboot the system, the shutdown cycle is longer than usual.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00103563. On Windows platforms, occasionally the PACE installers
do not properly update the iLok drivers. PACE iLok drivers are used to copy-protect
Digidesign plug-ins. If this happens, the AudioSuite functionality in Media Composer will
be disabled. To correct the situation the user should uninstall all instances of Interlok Drivers
from the Windows Add Remove Control Panel and re-install the Digidesign Drivers from
the CD or from Avid > Utilities.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00103537. Once you install the editing application, and once the
editing application tries to launch, while it is initializing, you might receive an "Unable to
create index for editor slides" error message.
Workaround: Right click the product.exe and choose "Run as administrator." This causes
the mdb and pmr files to update in the Avid_MediaFiles folder.The executable is located (by
default) in C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Product Name.
70
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00103474. (Windows Vista) When the editing application is launched
and a firmware update is required, you might be prompted to relaunch using "Run As
Administrator". To run as administrator, right-click the product.exe and select Run as
administrator. The executable is located (by default) in C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Product
Name. Run as administrator is not available by right-clicking in the Avid editing application
Shortcut icon.
Interplay Workgroup
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00141396. It might appear as though the Restrictions menu is
missing from the Tools menu in the editing application. The option does not appear until you
perform an Update from Interplay on a sequence or clip that contains a restriction.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142598 . Working with 24p Projects on Avid Interplay: Dynamic
relink is automatically disabled in 24p and 23.976 projects. It is also automatically disabled
for NTSC matchback projects. Therefore any 24p and 23.976 MXF masterclips transcoded
from the RED or QT AMA files cannot currently be used in an Interplay environment.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00140928. Your Avid editing application might hang if you open a
window in another application (for example, an Interplay component such as Interplay
Access, or a web browser) while you are playing an in-progress (Frame Chase) clip. If this
happens and the following error appears, you must relaunch your Avid editing application:
AMEResourceManager::ReconfigVideoHoldFrame()
Error [-16777183] unable to:
SetVideoHoldFrame.
If other errors appear, you might be able to dismiss the message box and continue working.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00131432. If you double-click a Mixed Frame Rate sequence in
Interplay to load it in the monitor, you might receive the following message. "Use
modify/set format feature to convert this sequence." You should check out the sequence into
a bin first in order to use the modify/set feature.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00105773. When you create a video or audio mixdown and add a
locator, you might receive an "Exception: CM_NO_TC" error when you try and check the
clip in to Avid Interplay. If you add the locator in Assist, then go back to the editing
application and perform an Update from Interplay on the clip, the clip will check in
successfully.
Limitations and Known Issues
71
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00105408. (Windows Vista) If you have a P2 drive mounted and you
try to open the Interplay Service Configuration tool, you might receive an Exception error.
Clicking through the error message might allow you to open the tool. If you unmount the P2
drive, the tool will open.
&#10148; Bug Number: . When checking out a complex or long sequence from an Avid Interplay
environment the following message might appear: "A request for data from the asset
manager is taking a long time to complete. Would you like to continue waiting for the
operation to complete or would you like to cancel?" If you choose to wait the sequence may
load or you may get this message multiple times until the check out actually occurs.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00091228. Selecting Check In All Open Bins from the Fast menu
(hamburger menu) in the bin might not check in the open bins.
Workaround: To check in all open bins, select Check In All Open Bins from the File
menu.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00090338. After you perform a search for media in the Interplay
Window, you cannot refresh the search results displayed in the Research panel by pressing
F5. If you want to refresh the results, repeat the search.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEVC00052480. Batch Import of files containing Alpha. This problem
occurs if you want to batch import files in SD and HD formats and then use Dynamic Relink
to switch between the different formats. The problem occurs with QuickTime movies,
graphics, and sequences that contain alpha. You can batch import the files and relink to the
different formats, but if you exit and then restart the Avid editing application you can no
longer relink to the HD format. The system displays an "Exception: NO Compressed Data
Format found" error message.
Workaround: You cannot use Dynamic Relink with HD and SD clips that contain alpha.
Import the HD files with alpha as individual clips. When you want to switch to HD format,
edit the HD versions into your sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00227044. If you import a graphic from your local drive into a project
in an Avid editing application, change the original name of the clip to a name of your choice,
and check that clip into a folder in the Interplay Window, the new name does not appear in
the Interplay Window even when you refresh the window. You see only the original name.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00217606. In the Avid editing application, the Record Track monitor
buttons might be deselected if the following happens:
72
1. On system1, create a sequence and check it into a folder in the Interplay Window.
2. On system2, check out the sequence and load it into the Timeline.
3. On system1, edit the sequence and check it into the Interplay folder again.
4. On system2, refresh the Interplay window then check out the same sequence again.
Workaround: Select the Record Track buttons again.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00299154. In an Avid editing application, if you have a sequence that
you have not checked into the Interplay Window and you try to use the Transfer > Send to
Workgroup command, you might experience an error.
Workaround: Check the sequence into the Interplay Window before you attempt to
transfer it.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV213923. In workgroup environments prior to Avid Interplay, you
could automatically consolidate from NewsCutter during Send to DMS. With the Avid
Interplay release, the automated consolidate is not available. Choose to consolidate prior to
sending to DMS.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC0055755. When working with MultiRez, high-quality audio cannot be
distinguished from up-sampled proxy audio created with previous versions of the editor. For
instance, an 8 kHz proxy audio up-sampled to 48 kHz on import in Interplay version 1.0 is
considered as good as a real 48 kHz high quality audio. In that case, if MultiRez is set to use
48 kHz audio, it picks up the most recent of the two files.
Force Disconnect Client Mode in an Interplay Environment
Your system administrator might need to temporarily remove your editing system from
access to the network. This might occur if new software needs to be installed or if
components need to be updated, for example. To force a disconnect, your administrator runs
a script that forces disconnection from the network without physically removing your
system. Your administrator can also reconnect your system at the appropriate time using
another script.
It is possible to import from shared drives and export to them in Forced Disconnected Client
mode. Avid recommends, however, that you do not import from or export to shared drives
when your administrator has force-disconnected your editing system. Avid does not support
any workflow that includes importing from or exporting to shared drives when the system is
in Forced Disconnected Client mode.
Limitations and Known Issues
73
In general, if you are in Forced Disconnected Client mode and if you import or export using
shared drives, after the import or export those drives might appear to be available for other
purposes such as importing, capturing, playing, or deleting media, but they are not available.
Similarly, options for shared storage might appear to be available in various settings dialog
boxes and shared drives and media might appear in various menus, tools, and applications;
Avid does not support use of these settings, drives, or media.
To remove the shared drives from your drive lists, disconnect your network cables as
described in "Voluntarily Disconnecting from the Interplay Environment" in the Help, or
exit your editing application and restart it.
The following limitations describe specific instances of drives and options appearing in
Forced Disconnected Client mode:
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00083319. In the Select Project dialog box, shared workspaces and
projects are available and should not be.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00083320,UDevC00083772. Shared drives and media are available
in the Media tool and in the MetaSync™ application and should not be.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00083321. In the Interplay Server Settings dialog box, you can
change the Interplay server name and you should not be able to.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00083371. In the Capture tool, you can select the Interplay Folders
option as your capture destination and you should not be able to.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00083374. In the MXF Media Files tab of the Capture Settings dialog
box, you can select the "During capture, clip is updated in Interplay" option and you should
not be able to.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00083477. In the Temporary File Directory option of the General
Settings dialog box, you can type the name and location of a shared drive and you should not
be able to.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00083409. Shared drives and media are visible in the Hardware tool
and should not be.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00083740. Shared drives are visible in the Import dialog box and
should not be.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00083826. Options in the Media Services Settings dialog box are
available and should not be.
74
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00083496. Options in the Transfer Settings dialog box are available
and should not be.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00084455, 84773. Selecting LANshare, PortServer settings, or
ProEncode™ appears to be available but should not be. Do not select these options.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00084446. Dynamic Relink can be enabled but that should not have
been allowed. Do not enable it.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00084600, 84844. With several of the options in the File menu, you
are allowed to select a shared workspace as a destination but you should not be able to. Do
not select a shared workspace in this context.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00084610. If you select Automatic Login at Project Selection in the
Interplay User Settings dialog box, enter Disconnected Client mode, exit the mode and the
editing application, reconnect, and then restart the editing application, you need to log into
Interplay again and you shouldn't have to.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00088542. In Forced Disconnect mode, if you make a change to your
User settings, the change might appear for all other users, as well.
JVC
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00142188. Using the JVC BR-HD deck is not currently supported
when working on a Windows 7 system.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00106545. JVC recommends using the BR-HD50 deck to capture
and batch-capture HDV media recorded with JVC cameras.
&#10148; Bug Number: 106030. The JVC GY-HD250U camera might drift out of sync while
shooting in 720p/59.94. To avoid this issue, turn on the camera in 720p 23.976 and then
switch the format to 720p 59.94 causing a soft reboot.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00106380. The Imported M2T files that were captured with a JVC
GY-HD250U camera via the FireStore DR-HD100 will show up in the bin with the wrong
durations. This occurs in 720p 50 and 720p 60 projects.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00106401. Currently, captured or imported M2T files might contain
1/2 frame offset. This occurs in 720p 29 and 720p 25 projects.
Limitations and Known Issues
75
Locators
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00080303. If you add a locator to a shotlist, and then open the
sequence in an editing application, the locator appears, but if you perform a match frame on
the locator, it might not appear in the master clip.
Workaround: In the editing application, check the master clip in question out of Interplay
and then update the bin or the clip. The locator appears.
&#10148; Bug Number: . A new item has been added to the Fast menu in the Locators window.
"Disable Locator Popup" disables the locator pop-up window. It is disabled only for the
work session. When you restart the Avid application, the locator pop-up menu is enabled.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00079172. (Macintosh) When you export locators from the Locator
tool, the file might not be saved with the correct .txt extension and you might not be able to
import it.
Workaround: In the Choose Location for Exported Locators dialog box, add the file name
extension .txt to the end of the file name before you click Save, or add the extension to the
saved file before you import it.
Mixed Frame Rate and Field Motion Types
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00139723. If you perform a transcode across frame rates, the final
frame might appear as an offline slide.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00126375. If you are sending a mixed resolution sequence to
playback, make sure "Same as Source" is unchecked in the Media Creation Settings Render
dialog box. The render format must match the primary playback format.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00129278. When you bring a mixed frame rate sequence into Pro
Tools, make sure the "Ignore rendered audio effects" option in Pro Tools is disabled. If the
option is selected, the audio for any mixed frame rate clips will be missing from the
Timeline.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00129238. Some motion effects on Long GOP media might display
as non-realtime effects where in the past they displayed as real-time. This might occur under
the following conditions.
• The video track of the underlying clip is a spanned clip. For example, a spanned clip is
one where the master clip originated from an XDCAM EX device, or a master clip that
has been modified by dynamic relink after an operation such as partial restore. You can
76
usually tell if a master clip is spanned by loading the master clip into the Source
monitor, switching the Timeline to display the contents in the Source monitor and look
for edits in the video track.
• The portion of the master clip being used by the motion effect crosses a span boundary.
This change also affects the motion adapters used when mixing frame rates and field motion
types. If you have a spanned Long GOP master clip and you load it into the Source monitor
of a project with a different edit rate, the video will not play in real-time in the Source
monitor. If you edit a portion of the clip into a sequence, the resulting clip in the Timeline
might play in real-time if the IN and OUT points do not cross a span boundary; otherwise it
will remain non-realtime and you must render it to play it in real-time.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00129602. Clips with mixed frame rates and field motion types are
treated as Optical effects in FilmScribe. In order to generate a valid FilmScribe list, you
must enable Optical in FilmScribe. Otherwise, the clips containing mixed frame rates and
field motion types will reference an Optical list that does not exist.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00122550. You cannot apply a Timewarp effect on top of a Motion
Adapter effect. If you attempt to do so, an "Effect does not apply" message appears.
However, you can promote a Motion Adapter effect to a Timewarp for full access to all
Timewarp effect parameters. For more information, see "Viewing and Adjusting Motion
Adapter Parameters" in the Help.
Panasonic
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00101216. Reveal File does not function on master clips linked from
P2 cards or virtual volumes.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00098594, UDevC00097992. Panasonic P2 writeback is not
supported on the Macintosh platform.
&#10148; Bug Number: . Export to P2 limitations:
• Use Marks and Use Enabled tracks are ignored on export.
• All Audio must be PCM 16b/48K.
• All audio tracks will be exported, although P2 devices either support 2 or 4 audio tracks.
Therefore sequences should be built for delivery to the specified P2 playback device.
Sequences with 6 audio tracks will have 6 audio tracks and the P2 device will only
playback the first 2 or 4 tracks.
Limitations and Known Issues
77
&#10148; Bug Number: . Importing P2 limitations (Macintosh):
• Importing P2 Clips in a bin is only supported with one P2 Card mounted. With two or
more P2 cards mounted, use the Media Tool, select the P2 Drives, click All Projects and
click OK. All Master Clips from the P2 cards will appear in the Media Tool. Drag them
to a bin.
• When importing from the Panasonic P2 Store device, Media Tool must be used as well
on Macintosh.
&#10148; Bug Number: . SD/HD Mixed sequences are not supported.
&#10148; Bug Number: . 1:1 MXF media cannot be exported in both SD and HD projects. Transcode
1:1 MXF before exporting.
&#10148; Bug Number: . (Macintosh) Hotswapping P2 cards with the editor launched is currently not
supported.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevV00090107. Occasionally the File > Import P2 > Media command
does not consolidate media to the drives.
Workaround: Close and re-open the bin and then execute the command again.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC0056503. When you view a P2 clip that spans across multiple P2
cards in the timeline, you might be surprised as to what you see and don't see due to the
history of mounting P2 cards on your current system and the P2 cards that are currently
mounted. Be aware that even though media is offline, or you are not able to view the P2
media in the Timeline, the media is not lost. The media appears when the card containing it
is mounted.
&#10148; Bug Number: 00080719. If you have P2 clips on a P2 card and you display the clips in the
Media tool, you might be able to delete the audio and video .mxf files from the Media tool.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00058135. If you remove a card from a slot in the P2 reader and do
not put another card in the reader, you must delete the P2 folder before inserting that same
card in another slot.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00058133. A DVD drive cannot be a media drive. If a CONTENTS
folder is located on the root level of the DVD, you might see a "No clips were found"
message when performing an Import P2 Clips to Bin.
Workaround: Create a folder that contains the CONTENTS folder on the DVD. This
instructs the editor to mount a virtual drive.
78
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00051731. When the P2 CONTENTS folder is located at the root
level on a drive where the Avid editing application looks for media files, you might
encounter errors when importing P2 clips. For example, if you are working on a laptop, the
Avid editing application and local storage folders are on the same drive and are usually
located at the root level. If you create virtual P2 volumes on the Desktop, you might
encounter a "No clips were found" message when trying to import the P2 clips and media.
Workaround: If you locate the virtual P2 volume in a different location such as a subfolder
on the Desktop, you should be able use virtual P2 volumes.
&#10148; Bug Number: . If you experience unusually long scan times, check to make sure both the
local time and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) are set correctly on your camera. If the GMT
is not set correctly, you may need updated firmware for your camera.
&#10148; Bug Number: . Play performance for a multi-stream sequence suffers when you directly
access media from the P2 media cards in the AJ-SPX800P camera.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00163029. If you turn off the P2 card reader while a bin accessing P2
media is open, attempting to load any P2 clip results in a DISK_FILE_NOT_FOUND
message in the Source monitor window. The message should read Media Offline.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00163032. Dupe detection is not available for P2 source material.
&#10148; Bug Number: . The following limitations currently apply when working with AVC-Intra
resolutions:
• Playback of AVC-Intra is not supported with xw8400 or xw4600. Newer hardware does
support playback.
• Real-time playback support on Avid Symphony Nitris is not guaranteed.
• Performance is limited when you transcode or mix down a sequence to an AVC-Intra
resolution. These operations can take up to four times real time to complete (up to four
minutes for a one-minute sequence).
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00139239. Performance is limited when you transcode or mix down
a sequence to an AVC-Intra resolution. These operations can take up to four times real time
to complete (up to four minutes for a one-minute sequence).
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00128615. When using AVCIntra media, be aware that this resolution
uses more memory than other formats.
Limitations and Known Issues
79
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00116685. You cannot export a QuickTime movie using the Same as
Source option with AVC-Intra material. ProEncode does not work with AVC-Intra material.
This is related to the QuickTime problem because ProEncode creates a QuickTime
Reference movie as part of its process.
&#10148; Bug Number: . If you encounter unusually long consolidation times when working with the
P2 device, make sure you are using the USB cable supplied by the P2 manufacturer.
Play
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC001137818. AVC-Intra media will not play or will stutter when
playing on systems less capable than an HP xw8600.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143058 (Windows only). Fast Scrubbing 720p59.94 media on
certain systems might be slow.
Workaround: In the Console window, enter "scrublen <frames>" where <frames> is a
number of frames to build. The default is 3600, which is about 2 minutes at 30 fps or 1
minute at 60 fps (for 720p 59.94). If you have a fast system or simple sequences, then
bumping up the scrub length will make scrubbing smoother. If you have a slow system with
complicated sequences, you'll want to leave the setting alone and accept jerky scrub
behavior at times.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00117308. You might experience dropped frames when playing back
XDCAM media with effects. When playing back media, a number of variables affect play
performance such as your CPU power, GPU power, sequence complexity and the raster
settings.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00109242. (MacBook Pro) After an initial launch of the editing
application when attached to a Mojo, you might receive an "Assertion failed" error when
playing back an HD sequence.
Workaround: Switch the project to NTSC or PAL.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00101060. You might experience a slight delay at the start of play
when Output to DV Device is enabled with progressive projects.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00117987. On certain slower machines, when playing in
MultiCamera mode, you might notice one or more cameras or the line-cut stutter a few
seconds into the sequence. This happens most often when displaying the MultiCamera
composite or line-cut to the client monitor on these older, slower systems. To help improve
80
performance, Avid has provided a console command which allows you to pre-render more
frames. This will slow down the start of play, but improve the overall playback
performance.To increase the number of pre-render frames:
Perform the following:
1. Open the Console window by selecting Tools > Console.
2. In the Console command line, type the following command followed by the number of
frames you want to pre-render:
multicampreload 20
3. Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh). The value is saved. You do not need to
reenter the command when you relaunch the editing application. To restore the default
value, enter the command with no value.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC0088738. When you scrub a clip with "Fast Scrub" on, you might
notice that when you stop scrubbing, the video continues to play in the record monitor. This
might be more noticeable in HD projects or when you are working on shared storage. Fast
scrub actually has a number of frames in flight while you drag the blue bar. The in process
frames continue to play once you stop scrubbing.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00103865. (Mojo DX) Currently, if you open a 24p PAL, 25p PAL or
720p 50 project and load a clip into the timeline and then play the clip, you may see frames
drop.
Workaround: Set your project to an HD project type and then back to your 24p or 25p
project. You only have to do this once per session.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00026088. When you play media and then you press stop, the Source
monitor stops, but the external client monitor steps back approximately 2 frames.
&#10148; Bug Number: . (Macintosh) QuickTime reference movies are useful as long as you are
working with Avid media files available on your local system or in an Avid Unity
environment. However, if you expect to move the exported QuickTime file to a system that
doesn't have access to the media, then you should use the standard QuickTime export so the
media files and QuickTime wrapper can be moved as one file.
&#10148; Bug Number: Udev00209633. With Full Screen Playback enabled on a single monitor, the
video might stutter and you might notice tearing toward the top of the image during
playback. Tearing might also appear if you use variable-speed play.
&#10148; Bug Number: . When the Avid editing application stops streaming play, a number of
additional frames are sent to the DNA device in order to keep the client monitor synchronous
with the desktop display. The DNA device must play out that number of frames after the
Limitations and Known Issues
81
desktop has stopped playing. To make sure you view the actual last frame, the application
then snaps the client monitor back to the frame on the desktop. This might be more apparent
when playing HD media.
&#10148; Bug Number: . If you do not see video output to your device, make sure that the appropriate
device is selected in the Special > Device menu. If FireWire is selected in the Device menu,
make sure Output to Device is selected in the Video Display Settings.
&#10148; Bug Number: Udev00141002. If you experience a flashing monitor when attempting to
play using the Japanese version of Windows XP, and your monitor does not appear to be
covered by anything, adjust the state of your Language bar by maximizing and minimizing
it. This restores the ability to play.
&#10148; Bug Number: . (Adrenaline) LTC output is now off by default. To turn it on, open General
Settings and enable "Generate LTC On Playback."
Projects
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00137703. If you create a project at the top level of a workspace, you
might receive a Disk_IO_Timeout error.
Workaround: Selecting a folder on the workspace does not result in an error.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00100476. The following project types do not support XDCAM or
HDV raster types:
• 1080p 23.976
• 1080p 25
The only raster type available for these formats is Standard.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00025426. (Windows Only) Avid Attic folders can only be created by
Administrators. An Administrator has to first launch the application, open a project, close
the project and quit the application. Then when a non-Administrator user uses the
application, their work is saved to the Avid Attic.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00099790. You should note the following when transcoding media. If
you have a project in one format, such as 1080i 50 and you add a supported progressive
format to the clip such as 1080p 25, once you transcode the media, if you try to delete the
clip, the clip contains both progressive and interlaced media. The delete dialog does not
indicate that the clip you are trying to delete contains both progressive and interlaced media.
82
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00025979. For NewsCutter projects, you can only select base
timecode (TC1) display formats in the Tracking Information menu. You can view other
timecode formats in the Timeline window, but tracking information does not display above
the Source/Record monitor except for the base timecode.
Settings
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00989750. If you take your user settings from your Adrenaline, Mojo
or Software Only system forward to a system running with a Nitris DX, Fast scrub will be
disabled. New user settings with a system running with a Nitris DX will have Fast Scrub
enabled by default.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00100486. Currently, when saving toolsets, the bin position is not
saved.
&#10148; Bug Number: . Do not carry User Profiles from a previous version to this version. Create
new user settings. If you do use previous settings, the size of tools and windows might not be
as expected, especially tools and windows that have been updated for this version.
Titles
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00133927. You cannot save a Marquee Title if you are a Standard
User. To workaround this issue:
Perform the following:
1. Log on as Administrator.
2. Navigate to Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/Avid Media Composer/
3. Select MarqueeTitles and select File > Get Info.
4. Select Sharing & Permissions.
5. Click the Padlock icon and enter an administrator password.
6. Click the button with the Gear icon at the bottom of the pane.
7. Choose Apply to enclosed items.
8. Select OK to apply the selected owner, group and permissions to the enclosed items
dialog.
A standard user should now be able to write to the Marquee Titles directory.
&#10148; Bug Number: 0107356. (Macintosh) You might see vertical gray lines when you
horizontally scroll the pages of a crawling title in Title Tool.
Limitations and Known Issues
83
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00107065. (Macintosh) The background image might not display
when editing an existing title from the Timeline.
Workaround: Either promote the title to Marquee, or modify the existing title from the bin.
&#10148; Bug Number: 106910. (Adrenaline) Currently, an image might appear distorted in the Title
Tool if you are in Draft or Best Performance play back mode.
Workaround: View the image in the Title Tool in Full Quality or Full Quality 10-bit mode.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00054752. If you re-create a rolling or crawling title in your
sequence, the Scroll Position parameter values for the first and last keyframes are not
preserved. They are set to the default values (start and end).
Workaround: Promote the title to advanced keyframe model before you re-create.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00047857. (Macintosh only) If you select the classic Title tool
eyedropper and then quit the Avid application, the application hangs.
Workaround: Deselect the Title tool eyedropper before you exit the Avid application.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00080610. Avid suggests that you do not attempt to edit the nested
tracks of a re-created rolling or crawling title. If you attempt to select or edit one of these
types of nested tracks, an error occurs. This is also the case with a re-created static title on its
alpha channel subtrack.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00080134. A sys_error occurs when you modify a title to an available
drive with Render settings that are set to an unavailable drive (a drive that you do not have
write access to). A .bak file of the title also appears in the bin.
Workaround: Close the Title tool and change the Render settings to a drive that you do
have write access to.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00218429. Character spacing might be inaccurate in Title Tool titles
using large font sizes. Some character pairs might appear too close together, or overlapping.
In HD projects, the problem is only visible in the rendered title clip in the bin. In SD
projects, the problem is visible immediately in the Title Tool. Also, once the problem has
occurred in text using a large font size, it might persist when you create other text objects in
the title at any font size.
84
Workaround: The best general workaround is to promote the title to Marquee®. Text in
Marquee titles does not have the same problem at large font sizes. Also, if you do not need
your final text to use a large font size, avoid converting it to a large font size at any point in
your workflow, or retype it as a new text object at a smaller size if increasing the font size
causes the problem.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00218032. Marquee title format does not need to change in normal
workflows. In most normal workflows, the title format in Marquee automatically matches
the project format in your Avid editing application and you do not need to change it. If you
change the title format in Marquee so that it does not match the project format in your
editing application, you might see artifacts around the edges of some title objects. One
situation in which you might need to change the Marquee title format occurs when you are
creating a title by opening an existing .mqp file. If the .mqp file's format does not match the
project format in your Avid editing application, you should change the title's format to
match the project format in your editing application. For more information on changing the
title format, see "Changing Title Formats" in the Marquee Help.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00221549. When you render a rolling or crawling NTSC SD title with
Same as Source selected in the Media Creation dialog box in an HD project, you might see
problems with the title.
Workaround: For highest quality titles, re-create your title media in the format of the
project in which you are working; in this case, re-create your SD title media in an HD
format.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00189160. Unrendered back-to-back titles in a 1080i HDV sequence
might not play in real time. The second title does not display.
Workaround: Render the titles.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00162337. Rolling and crawling titles in 24p and 25p projects might
display a "Layout Mismatch" error when in Full Quality mode.
Workaround: Select another quality mode. The error also goes away if you toggle to the
HD project equivalent and load the title.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00163549. When you re-edit a Marquee title in the Timeline, you
might see artifacts in the video background. This is cosmetic only and does not appear in the
resulting title.
Workaround: If you reedit the title in the bin rather than the Timeline, the artifacts do not
appear.
Limitations and Known Issues
85
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00163010. For projects whose formats are changed to HD, if there are
Marquee crawls in sequences, these need to be modified to keep them as Avid DSK titles.
Reedit these titles by using the effect editor to bring up Marquee. If when saving to a bin in
Marquee you receive a message that the title is animated or that it cannot be saved directly to
the Timeline, then perform the following workaround.
Workaround: Select the Crawl text box. Press the "C" toolbar button within Marquee to
cause the crawling text box to extend for the new larger width of the title. Now you should
be able to save to the bin or the Timeline as before and the title will not be animated.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00161170. Page breaks appear on rolling and crawling titles when an
HD title is over SD media, or an SD title is over HD media.
Workaround: Recreate the title at the same resolution as the underlying video.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00136646/UDEV00136165. HD titles appear aliased when you are
not in Effect mode. Some titles you create in HD projects might look aliased (blocky) when
you view them at Full Quality in Source/Record mode. To improve the visible quality, render
the title or view it in Effect mode.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00134561. The application might appear frozen after you edit a
Marquee title in the Timeline. If you edit a Marquee title that is already part of a sequence in
the Timeline and then exit Marquee, you might not be able to perform any other operations.
Workaround: Press the Escape key. Use a different user setting to avoid the problem.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00138188. Rolling titles created in SD and rendered in HD display 1
line at the top of the matte when they are rendered.
Workaround: Recreate the title and matte before you render.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00135729. If you change the size of text, it might yield different
kerning results. If you highlight text and change the text properties, the kerning result might
be different than if you had changed the text properties in the Parent text box. For consistent
results, change the text properties in the Parent text box.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00140546, and UDEV00140564. When you edit large or unrendered
SD crawling or rolling titles in an HD project, switch to SD, promote the title to Marquee,
save the title in SD, then open the title in HD.
This workaround is not possible for a 720p project, but you can open the 720p bin in a 30i
project and modify the title there, as long as there is an SD version of the sequence.
86
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00139482. Titles created in 4x3 SD and then re-created in 16x9 (SD
or HD) appear to shift to the left. You must manually re-edit the title in 16x9 for correct
positioning.
Workaround: In 16x9 mode, load the original 4x3 title in the Title tool. Click the Selection
tool, select Edit > Select All, and then click Object-Group. Click Alignment > Center in
Frame Horiz. Save the title to the bin.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDEV00141084. You might receive an "Out of Range" error when you try
to modify and then re-create rolling and crawling titles in the timeline in a 720p project.
Workaround: Manually re-edit the titles into the sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00121500. Images imported to Marquee might look blurry and
stretched in the Timeline when compared to images imported into a bin.
Trim
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143161. When you enable trim editing by pressing Ctrl+Trim
Mode button (Windows and Macintosh) or Ctrl+U (Macintosh), only the transition nearest
the position indicator is selected, instead of transitions on all enabled tracks nearest the
position indicator. Also, enabling trim editing with this keyboard shortcut disables all tracks
except for the ones with trim sides selected.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00143159. If you perform an overwrite trim using one of the
TrimLeft/Right [frames] buttons and moving in a direction opposite from the selected trim
handle, the trim ripples segments in your sequence instead of overwriting them. For
example, if you make a trim selection on the A-side (outgoing) segment, and then use the
Trim Right 10 Frames button, the trim adds frames to the outgoing segment but does not
remove frames from the incoming segment as it moves the transition. Instead, it ripples the
segments to the right of the selected transition. This might cause a sync break in your
sequence. This also occurs when you use the keyboard shortcuts for these buttons:
Trim Left/Right [frames] button Shortcut
Trim Left 10 Frames Press the M key.
Trim Left 1 Frame Press the comma (,) key.
Trim Right 1 Frame Press the period (.) key.
Trim Right 10 Frames Press the forward slash (/) key.
Limitations and Known Issues
87
Workaround: To perform an overwrite trim without rippling the segments on the other side of the
transition, select the Overwrite trim tool in the Timeline palette and then click and drag in the direction
you want to trim, or use the numeric keyboard to enter the number of frames you want to trim.
XDCAM
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00120079. If you are working with the PDW U1 device and you
have "Automatically Import Proxies when disk is inserted" selected in the XDCAM Import
Settings window, you will not receive the automatic prompt to import the proxy clips when
the disk is inserted. For this device, you must manually import the proxy clips. The high
resolution batch import process has not changed.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00121377. (XDCAM writeback) If you export a 720p50 or 720p59
sequence with an odd number of frames, you will receive a message indicating the sequence
needs an even number of frames to export successfully. Add or subtract a frame and perform
the export again.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00117308. You might experience dropped frames when playing back
XDCAM media with effects. When playing back media, a number of variables affect play
performance; such as your CPU power, GPU power, sequence complexity and the raster
settings. Depending on the complexity of your sequence, you might need to render some
effects if you want to preview them in real time and at full quality, or before you can output
a finished sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: UDevC00116558. When you batch import XDCAM clips from a virtual
volume, the system re-imports the proxy media into your bin. If you batch import XDCAM
clips directly from the XDCAM disk, this works as intended. If you do not have access to the
XDCAM disk, Avid recommends that you import the hi-res XDCAM media when you
import from a virtual volume and then edit your sequence.
&#10148; Bug Number: . When you import XDCAM files, be aware that Avid does not support the
batch import workflow when you are working in the following Sony XDCAM camera
modes: Picture Cache Record Mode, Interval Record Mode, or VFR (Variable Frame Rate)
Mode (UCC/OCC - Undercrank/Overcrank). An error message appears which informs you
that the video is not supported. However, the High-Rez versions of these clips can be
imported. Their timecode values, however, will be inaccurate. The Avid editor appends its
own generic timecode to clips recorded in any of the previously mentioned modes.
&#10148; Bug Number: UdevC00164589. XDCAM proxy media will not export to a QuickTime
reference movie.
88
If you export as a regular QuickTime movie, MPEG 4, or as Windows Media 9, the export is
successful. Or, you can transcode the proxy sequence to DV 25 or MPEG-IMX and then
export as QuickTime reference.
Workaround: Import the whole XDCAM HD clip and then transcode it.
Extending Your Usable Address Space and Adding
RAM for Improved Performance (Windows)
The Microsoft Windows XP operating system limits every program to 2 gigabytes (GB) of
address space. It reserves the remaining 2 gigabytes of address space for its own use. The
operating system includes a boot-time mechanism that allows applications access to a larger
virtual address space than was previously available. Avid provides a utility for setting the
boot-time mechanism to extend the process address space.
For Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows 7 64-bit operating systems, applications are allocated
an address space well beyond the 2-gigabyte limit allocated by the 32-bit operating systems.
No utility is needed to tell the 64-bit operating systems to allocate additional memory for the
applications.
Setting your Avid editing system to access a larger virtual address space might improve
working with HD projects without running out of memory. Even though you might gain
more memory space, this can be quickly consumed with bins and complex HD effects. For
best performance, if you choose to extend your address space beyond 2 gigabytes, you
should install an additional 1 or 2 GB of RAM.
Using Install3GB.exe to Extend Your Usable Address Space
It is not necessary to run this executable on Windows Vista 64-bit systems or Windows 7
64-bit systems. Perform this procedure on Windows XP systems.
To extend the application address space:
1. Double click the Install3GB.exe file in the Utilities\3G folder where the Avid
application is installed.
A window opens. You must have administrative privileges to run this utility.
n The hardware and software configuration you are running, for example, Nitris DX, Nitris,
Mojo, Mojo DX, or Adrenaline, determines the amount of memory you should allocate for
the application address space.
2. Type the amount of memory you want to allocate for the application space at the
prompt. The recommended settings are:
Documentation Changes
89
- 2700 for Mojo and Adrenaline
- 2700 for Mojo DX and Nitris DX
- 2500 for Symphony Nitris Classic
- 2700 for Software Only systems
Install3GB updates the current configuration you are running. It does not create another
one.
After pressing any key the window closes and you will need to reboot the computer.
Restoring the Original Configuration
You can restore the system to the original configuration.
To restore the configuration:
1. Run the Install3GB.exe as described in "Using Install3GB.exe to Extend Your Usable
Address Space" on page 88.
2. Type 0 (zero) for the memory setting.
This removes the "userva" setting in the boot configuration.
3. Reboot the system.
Documentation Changes
The following changes have occurred since the documentation was completed.
Reverse Animation Description
The following description of Reverse Animation has been updated for clarification.
Reverse Animation reverses the entire effect, including the direction of movement as well as
the incoming and outgoing sources.This maintains the shot continuity while reversing the
movement. This option effectively creates a mirror image of the sequence of keyframes for
the effect as they appear in the Effect Preview monitor's position bar.
The Reverse Animation parameter is only available for certain effects that do not use
advanced keyframes. To reverse an effect that uses advanced keyframes, for example an
edge wipe, use the Reverse Keyframes shortcut menu command in the Effect Editor. For
more information, see "Reversing Advanced Keyframes" in the Help.
90
Modifier Key Changes
The current release of Avid Media Composer and Avid Symphony includes changes made in
the modifier keys used in many editing functions on systems using the Macintosh operation
system. These changes standardize modifier key actions with common Mac OS X modifier
key usage.
In a few instances, the documentation does not reflect these changes. The following table
summarizes the new modifier keys used for keyboard shortcuts on Macintosh systems:
For example: To select multiple items in a list box such as a bin, Ctrl+click (Windows) or
Command+click (Macintosh) additional items you want to select.
n When the Avid editing application uses a modifier key shortcut that differs from the standard
Mac OS X usage, the documentation includes the correct modifier keys in the appropriate
procedure.
In addition, the following keyboard shortcuts have changed:
Working with Color Spaces in HD Projects
Working with Color Spaces in HD Projects should have been listed as a new topic in the
What's New table in the Help. Access the information by searching for "Working with Color
Spaces in HD Projects" in the Help.
Windows Modifier Key Macintosh Modifier Key
Control (Ctrl) Command (Cmd)
Alt Option
Windows Shortcut Macintosh Shortcut Result
Ctrl + Shift + drag segment in
Timeline
Control + drag segment in
Timeline
Restricts motion to vertical
Alt + or Option + or Edits to position indicator on record
side, ignoring IN and OUT points
In the Effect Editor for the
Paint effect, select Reshape,
and then:
Alt + click control point of join
In the Effect Editor for the
Paint effect, select Reshape,
and then:
Option + click control point
of join
Changes straight-edge join to
smooth join, or smooth join to
straight-edge join
Documentation Changes
91
Exporting Media to XDCAM Devices
In the Avid Editing Help topic "Exporting Media to XDCAM Devices," the topic points you
off to a table that lists supported XCDAM and XDCAM EX Formats and Resolutions. This
table is not accurate for XDCAM writeback.
The XDCAM formats that are not supported for XDCAM writeback include: 720p/59.94
(17.5, 25 and 35Mbits) and all XDCAM EX formats.
Sequence Report Dialog Box
You can now use the Apply Changes button in the Sequence Report dialog box to change the
sequence name and timecode without generating a report. For more information, see
"Changing the Name and Timecode for a Sequence" in the Help.
Audio Track Monitor Button
You can apply Track Control Panel button states to all audio tracks in the Timeline by
Alt+clicking (Windows) or Option+clicking (Macintosh) the button. This applies to the
Waveform, Clip Pan/Gain, Solo, and Mute buttons. However, this does not apply to the
Audio Track Monitor button. If you want to monitor all audio tracks, you must select the
Audio Track Monitor button separately for each track. The Audio Track Monitor button is
active by default.
Using the Master Volume Button
The Master Volume button adjusts your speaker or headphone volume. Muting audio with
the Master Volume button does not change the state of the Mute button on individual audio
tracks in the Timeline.
If your software-only Avid editing application runs on either Microsoft Windows Vista and
Windows 7, you cannot access the Windows Mixer directly from the application. For these
configurations, the Master Volume button in the Timeline does not directly modify volume
and you cannot use the Master Volume to mute audio. Instead, click and hold the Master
Volume button to start the Windows Mixer to adjust volume.
Red Rocket Card Support
The Red Rocket card reference in the PDF documentation should have stated that this card
has been qualified for transcode only when used with a Media Composer software only
system running with a 64-bit OS with local storage. The minimum drivers currently
supported are Red Rocket driver v1.3.2.0 and Red Rocket firmware v1.1.8.6.
In the HPz800, the Red Rocket card can be installed in slot 4 and the local storage controller
(if required) can be installed in slot 3.
92
In the HPz400, the Red Rocket card can be installed in slot 4 and the local storage controller
(if required) can be installed in slot 5.
In the Mac Pro (Nehalem), the Red Rocket card can be installed in slot 2 and the local
storage controller (if required) can be installed in slot 3.
Canon XF
The editing application references support for the Canon XF cameras and Canon XF plugin.
The Canon XF camera and Canon XF plugin might not be available as soon as this editing
application is released. The editing application will support the camera and plugin when
they are available.
Legal Notices
93
Legal Notices
Product specifications are subject to change without notice and do not represent a commitment on the part of Avid Technology,
Inc.
This product is subject to the terms and conditions of a software license agreement provided with the software. The product
may only be used in accordance with the license agreement.
Avid products or portions thereof are protected by one or more of the following United States Patents: 5,077,604; 5,267,351;
5,309,528; 5,355,450; 5,396,594; 5,440,348; 5,467,288; 5,513,375; 5,528,310; 5,557,423; 5,568,275; 5,577,190; 5,584,006;
5,634,020; 5,640,601; 5,644,364; 5,654,737; 5,715,018; 5,719,570; 5,724,605; 5,726,717; 5,729,673; 5,745,637; 5,752,029;
5,754,180; 5,754,851; 5,799,150; 5,812,216; 5,828,678; 5,842,014; 5,852,435; 5,905,841; 5,929,836; 5,930,445; 5,946,445;
5,986,584; 5,987,501; 6,016,152; 6,018,337; 6,023,531; 6,058,236; 6,061,758; 6,091,778; 6,105,083; 6,118,444; 6,130,676;
6,134,607; 6,141,691; 6,198,477; 6,201,531; 6,223,211; 6,249,280; 6,269,195; 6,330,369; 6,351,557; 6,353,862; 6,357,047;
6,392,710; 6,404,435; 6,407,775; 6,417,891; 6,426,778; 6,477,271; 6,489,969; 6,512,522; 6,532,043; 6,546,190; 6,552,731;
6,553,142; 6,570,624; 6,571,255; 6,583,824; 6,618,547; 6,636,869; 6,665,450; 6,678,461; 6,687,407; 6,704,445; 6,747,705;
6,763,134; 6,766,063; 6,791,556; 6,810,157; 6,813,622; 6,847,373; 6,871,003; 6,871,161; 6,901,211; 6,907,191; 6,928,187;
7,043,058; 7,081,900; 7,103,231; 7,266,241; 7,280,117; RE40,107; 7,403,561; 7,433,519; 7,512,885; 7,545,957; D352,278;
D392,267; D392,268; D392,269; D395,291; D396,853; D398,912. Other patents are pending.
Avid products or portions thereof are protected by one or more of the following European Patents: 0506870; 0515031;
0635188; 0674414; 0694243; 0705517; 0752174; 0857293; 0976108; 0988756; 1068723; 1068734; 1111910; 1173850;
1629675. Other patents are pending.
Avid products or portions thereof are protected by one or more of the following United States Patents: 5,077,604; 5,267,351;
5,309,528; 5,355,450; 5,396,594; 5,440,348; 5,467,288; 5,513,375; 5,528,310; 5,557,423; 5,568,275; 5,577,190; 5,584,006;
5,634,020; 5,640,601; 5,644,364; 5,654,737; 5,715,018; 5,719,570; 5,724,605; 5,726,717; 5,729,673; 5,745,637; 5,752,029;
5,754,180; 5,754,851; 5,799,150; 5,812,216; 5,828,678; 5,842,014; 5,852,435; 5,905,841; 5,929,836; 5,930,445; 5,946,445;
5,986,584; 5,987,501; 5,999,406; 6,016,152; 6,018,337; 6,023,531; 6,038,573; 6,058,236; 6,061,758; 6,069,668; 6,091,778;
6,105,083; 6,118,444; 6,130,676; 6,134,607; 6,141,007; 6,141,691; 6,198,477; 6,201,531; 6,211,869; 6,223,211; 6,249,280;
6,269,195; 6,330,369; 6,351,557; 6,353,862; 6,357,047; 6,392,710; 6,404,435; 6,407,775; 6,417,891; 6,426,778; 6,477,271;
6,489,969; 6,512,522; 6,532,043; 6,546,190; 6,552,731; 6,553,142; 6,570,624; 6,571,255; 6,583,824; 6,596,031; 6,618,547;
6,636,869; 6,665,450; 6,678,461; 6,687,407; 6,704,445; 6,747,705; 6,763,134; 6,763,523; 6,766,063; 6,766,357; 6,791,556;
6,810,157; 6,813,622; 6,847,373; 6,871,003; 6,871,161; 6,901,211; 6,907,191; 6,928,187; 7,043,058; 7,081,900; 7,103,231;
7,266,241; 7,280,117; RE40,107; 7,403,561; 7,433,519; 7,512,885; 7,545,957; D352,278; D372,478; D373,778; D392,267;
D392,268; D392,269; D395,291; D396,853; D398,912. Other patents are pending.
Avid products or portions thereof are protected by one or more of the following European Patents: 0506870; 0515031;
0635188; 0674414; 0694243; 0705517; 0752174; 0857293; 0895623; 0976108; 0988756; 1068617; 1068723; 1068734;
1111910; 1173850; 1629675. Other patents are pending.
No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including
photocopying and recording, for any purpose without the express written permission of Avid Technology, Inc.
Copyright © 2010 Avid Technology, Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved.
Attn. Government User(s). Restricted Rights Legend
U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS. This Software and its documentation are "commercial computer software" or
"commercial computer software documentation." In the event that such Software or documentation is acquired by or on behalf
of a unit or agency of the U.S. Government, all rights with respect to this Software and documentation are subject to the terms
of the License Agreement, pursuant to FAR §12.212(a) and/or DFARS §227.7202-1(a), as applicable.
Trademarks
003, 192 Digital I/O, 192XD I/O, 888 I/O, AirPlay, AirSPACE, AirSPACE HD, AirSpeed, ALEX, Alienbrain, AniMatte,
AudioMarket, AudioPages, AudioSuite, AudioVision, AutoSync, Avid, Avid Advanced Response, Avid DNA, Avid DNxcel,
Avid DNxHD, AVIDdrive, Avid DS Assist Station, Avid EditStar, Avid Learning Excellerator, Avid Liquid,
Avid Liquid Chrome Xe, Avid MEDIArray, Avid Mojo, AvidNet, AvidNetwork, Avid NewStar, Avid Remote Response,
AVIDstripe, Avid Unity, Avid Unity ISIS, Avid VideoRAID, Avid Xpress, AVoption, AVX, Beauty Without The Bandwidth, Boom,
C|24, CaptureManager, ChromaCurve, ChromaWheel, Command|24, Conectiv, CountDown, DAE, Dazzle,
Dazzle Digital Video Creator, Deko, DekoCast, D-Fi, D-fx, DigiDelivery, Digidesign, Digidesign Audio Engine,
Digidesign Intelligent Noise Reduction, DigiDrive, DigiLink, DigiMeter, DigiSerial, DigiStudio, DigiStudio Control,
Digital Nonlinear Accelerator, DigiTranslator, DINR, DNxchange, do more, DVD Complete, D-Verb, Eleven, Equinox,
EveryPhase, ExpertRender, Fastbreak, Fast Track, FieldPak, Film Composer, FilmScribe, Flexevent, FluidMotion, FXDeko,
G7, G-Rack, HD Core, HD Process, HDPack, HYBRID, HyperControl, HyperSPACE, HyperSPACE HDCAM, IllusionFX,
Image Independence, iNEWS, iNEWS Assign, iNEWS ControlAir, Instantwrite, Instinct,
Intelli-sat Broadcasting Recording Manager, Intelli-Sat, InterFX, Interplay, inTONE, Intraframe, iS9, iS18, iS23, iS36, ISIS,
IsoSync, KeyRig, KeyStudio, LaunchPad, LeaderPlus, Lightning, ListSync, Lo-Fi, Magic Mask, Make Anything Hollywood,
94
make manage move | media, Marquee, M-Audio, M-Audio Micro, Maxim, Mbox, MCXpress, Media Browse, Media Composer,
MediaDock, MediaDock Shuttle, Media Fusion, Media Illusion, MediaLog, Media Reader, Media Recorder, MEDIArray,
MediaShare, MediaStream, Media Suite, Meridien, MetaFuze, MetaSync, MicroTrack, Midiman, MissionControl, Mix Rack,
MixLab, Moviebox, Moviestar, NaturalMatch, Nearchive, NetReview, NewsCutter, Nitris, NRV-10 interFX, Octane, OMF,
OMF Interchange, OMM, OnDVD, Open Media Framework, Open Media Management, Palladium, Pinnacle,
Pinnacle DistanTV, Pinnacle Geniebox, Pinnacle HomeMusic, Pinnacle MediaSuite, Pinnacle Mobile Media, Pinnacle Studio,
Pinnacle Studio MovieBoard, Pinnacle Systems, ProEncode, ProServices, ProSessions, Pro Tools, QuietDrive, Recti-Fi,
Reel Tape Delay, Reel Tape Flanger, Reel Tape Saturation, RetroLoop, rS9, rS18, Salesview, Sci-Fi, Scorch, Scorefitter,
ScriptSync, SecureProductionEnvironment, Session, Show Center, Sibelius, SIDON, Soft SampleCell, Soft-Clip Limiter,
Sound Designer II, SPACE, SPACEShift, SpectraGraph, SpectraMatte, Sputnik, Starplay, SteadyGlide, Streamfactory,
Streamgenie, StreamRAID, Strike, Structure, Studiophile, SubCap, Sundance Digital, Sundance, Symphony, SYNC HD,
SynchroScience, SynchroScope, Syntax, TDM FlexCable, Thunder, Titan, Titansync, TL Aggro, TL AutoPan, TL Drum Rehab,
TL Everyphase, TL Fauxlder, TL In Tune, TL MasterMeter, TL Metro, TL Space, TL Utilities, Torq, Torq Xponent, Transfuser,
Trigger Finger, Trillium Lane Labs, TruTouch, UnityRAID, Vari-Fi, Velvet, Venom, VideoRAID, Video Slave Driver, VideoSPACE,
VideoSpin, Vortx, Xdeck, X-Form, Xmon, Xponent, and X-Session are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Avid
Technology, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.
Adobe and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States
and/or other countries. Apple and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other
countries. Windows is either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
Avid Media Composer ReadMe • Part Number 0130-30387-01A • 10/

__._,_.___

Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic

Messages in this topic (1)

Recent Activity:

• New Members 1

Visit Your Group

Search the offical complete Avid-L archives at:   http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/

Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

.

__,_._,___