This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Bad To Worse

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Bad To Worse

I did create a new user, but I didn't delete the actual Settings folder or the old project settings. As you know, even after an uninstall, some stuff is left there. Is it recommended to even ditch all that -- that is to say, every last visible vestige of Avid that stays in the Applications folder and Avid Media Composer folders in the User folder?

David

On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:01 PM, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@gmail.com> wrote:

Did you delete every trace of MC before you installed another version (Settings folder, create new user, delete project settings)?

Dom Q. Silverio

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:00 PM, David Dodson <davidadodson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Because pain likes to make copies of itself... my "Legend Audio Communications error, Hardware Underrun" crisis has metastasized into full-on FUBAR. I went out and doubled the RAM in my 17" McBook Pro (2.3 Ghz, i7) to 16 GB RAM. When I got home and ran MC 6.5.3 everything seemed much nicer. I was actually able to play long sequences and not induce the Underrun error.

So I got greedy. I uninstalled 6.5.3 and installed MC7. Thinking I might now be in the pink, I was immediately brought back down to earth by performance which felt as though I was slogging through mud. The mouse could barely move through the program. Clicking on a menu took five or six seconds before the window came up. Hitting play made all the timeline details such as waveforms and keyframes vanish for three of four seconds, then come back, then play. And this is with NOTHING else open on the computer. Even WiFi was turned off.

And then there was the Underrun crash. And it gets worse.

I uninstalled MC7 and back-rev'd to 6.5.3. But when opening the program, it crashes with a whole new error that includes Main Thread bus whatever whatevers. Like really bad. And so it never completes the open. So I uninstalled 6.5.3 and went back to MC7 but it is, for all intents and purposes unusable. You hit play, the playhead skitters across the timeline for a few seconds and then BANG! Hardware Underrrun.

I've done every diagnostic test known to man. I've tried isolating components, drives, cables. I've run software only. I've reinstalled my OS. I've run DiskWarrior. I've rebuilt the media databases. I'VE DONE EVERYTHING. But it seems like my computer is now out of the Avid business. I have no idea why and neither does anyone else.

I tell this tale for no particular reason except that it should be known that sometimes things just go bad. I guess that's just what it is.

David

David Dodson
davidadodson@sbcglobal.net