This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Flakey-ish.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] Flakey-ish.

I'm in the same boat, Greg.

I'm running v8.4.0, El Capitan (10.10.5), 16GB RAM

Yesterday I trashed *all* user settings, and let Avid make the first logged-in (master) user setting. Then I recreated my personal settings entirely from scratch. I still get the following (and others that I can't remember at the moment).

- I'm experiencing random crashes, sometimes while doing nothing at all…. just paused, it gives me the beach ball of death.

- a Filler track (v2) somehow thinking it's muted. It turned gray and I couldn't edit on it (deleting it, and recreating it fixed it).

- Consistently, Trim to Fill, when applied from a bin (a template) does not work; when applying from the Effect Palette it does work (thank goodness).

- Workspaces do not remember layout on a 2 monitor system (17" laptop + 27" Mac Monitor). I have to set-up each morning.

I'm waiting to upgrade to v8.5.1, since I'm seeing a lot of posts on various forums about a variety of different issues.

I know it's not help . . . but at least you know it's not just you ;)

Cheers,

Benjamin

On Mar 22, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Greg Huson Greg@SecretHQ.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I'm having stability issues with 8.5.1 in a few of my Mac installations. Historically, I tend to be out on the 'bleeding edge' with testing, installing competing applications, 3rd party i/o, etc., but for some reason it's growing tiresome in this case.

8.5.1 seems a little more stable than 8.5.

If you are an 8.5.x Mac Pro (tower) user that has a very stable, un-crashy installation(s), I'd love to hear about what graphics cards, drivers, operating system, amount of memory, and i/o devices, etc. you're working with - not to mention the kind of work you do - so I can try some new configurations.

I'm a long-term media composer user and die-hard Avid fan & critic - so this should not be considered Avid-bashing, but, rather, seeking information to help with my particular circumstance.

Discuss!

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