This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] MC 7 issues

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] MC 7 issues

I had almost the exact same hardware config that you do. My issues with MC7 (and I guess maybe RAM -- who knows?) forced me to abandon my computer and rent a MacPro with 6.5.3. I'm on deadline with a movie and a TV series and I could no longer afford to d--k around trying to find out why MC7 would not play nice with my hardware and throw up continuous "Hardware underrun" crashes. Actually, it was like slogging through molasses on your way to a Hardware underrun crash. No fun.

David

On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Rich Ford <rrfedit@gmail.com> wrote:

I have been using MC 7 for awhile now, and wanted to find out if others have come across the issues noted below.

I have what I assume is fairly common set up: 2011 MBP, 8 gigs of RAM, OSX 10.8.4, MC 7.0.2, Matrox MXO2 mini for monitoring. I used MC 7.0.0 until recently. The issues exist in both releases.

1) Whenever I launch MC, the first time I either export or import I get a spinning beach ball for anywhere from 2 - 4 minutes, then it proceeds to execute the import or export. Every import or export after that acts normally, until I close out of MC. Then next time I launch MC, same thing.

The first few times I thought MC was hung (and the force quit dialog box showed it as "not responding") so I force quit. But then I tried some (uncharacteristic) patience, and found that if I waited it out it would get around to the export or import.

2) When I do a normal quit from MC 7, it takes up to a minute before the app is fully gone.

Are these RAM issues? I didn't have either of them running MC 6 on the same rig.

I have also noticed some not quite snappy operation at the finder level that started when I did the upgrade to ML from Lion.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

- Rich

Rich Ford
Hot Sprocket Films