A little problem somehow turned into a long story. Yesterday I decided to upgrade one of our older systems (HP xw8400 Workstation Intel Xeon Quad Core 5150 @2.66GHz, 3GB Ram, running 32-bit Windows XP SP3, with NVIDIA QuadroFX3500) from MC5 to the latest version of MC5.5 in an effort to fix a problem... (read more)

pmr file contains and invalid entry and is corrupt . delete the corrupt file and relaunch. Not sure which file is corrupt. I dont want to delete all my files. what can i do. never had this happen before. Please help. thanks (read more)

Hey folks, As someone coming from Premiere to Avid, I'm used to being able to easily use Adobe After Effects via Adobe's Dynamic link. My edit workflow is to create a rough sequence, then a final, and after that, individually edit clips from that sequence in Premiere in AE. With Avid, I've... (read more)

my HD crashed and was sent to firm for recovery, files were restored but not fully. I can play them in VLC player, and have tried numerous ways to convert them to be able to play them in Avid media composer since avid refuses to play them. i used a canon c300 1080i 50mbit/s PAL -marco. (read more)

Hi, I'm a recent graduate of a film production BA(hons) course in the UK. I spealized in Editing and have a decent knowledge of Avid and the workflow however i would not call myself an expert yet. Now that i've finished I want to find work and was hoping for any tips or advice on how to go about... (read more)

hi friends, I have planned to buy a new system with spec Intel I7 with supported Mother board, corsair 8GB RAM and 1TB HDD. But im confused with graphics card. I got an idea to buy Quadro 600, but my friends said its not that much worth. so friends please suggest me any good graphics card and guide me... (read more)

I'm using a MacPro and have Avid 5.5.3. I have the maximum amount of RAM installed, which I thought would take care of the following problem but has not: When I play tracks on the timeline, if I have gaps in audio, I don't hear the first few frames of the sound (and if it's a short effect... (read more)

Hello, I loaded in a custom setting for an editor that I'm assisting and for some reason I can't get the composer source/record window to show up. Not sure if there's a setting that's not agreeing with the monitor in this bay, but all the other user settings work fine. I've checked... (read more)