I've never had this issue before and I'm not sure why this is happening. I am assistant editing a thesis film that is stored on a Nexis server. I've linked media to this project before. At first I thought the problem was because the media was stored on the nexis. so I tried just linking it... (read more)

Hey y'all, I am an assistant editor who is new to Media Composer, but experienced in Premiere Pro. I just received an external drive that contains all the footage and audio for a project I am working on. When I open the project, all the media is offline. So far, I have not been able to relink any... (read more)

Hello, I have been asked to help out on a doco that has been evolving over the last 5 years. Over that time it has been migrated accross 3 networks. There is currently an hour long cut that needs to be reshaped and re edited and the majority of this cut is online. 6 weeks of footage, A lot of the footage... (read more)

[quote user="DStone"] OK, I see what you're getting at. You're not generating new stereo clips; you're replacing the dual mono clips with the equivalent stereo clips, and you want top keep the effects etc. of the dual mono clips on the stereo clip. [/quote] Exactly! No more, nor... (read more)

It's true that you do, in fact, get a stereo audio track with everithing included, but it's not editable . You loose the every cut, every effect, every plug-in, volume and pan controls of the original media and pretty much everything you could do with the original 2 mono tracks. On the other... (read more)

I think that the idea is to be able to simply "merge" 2 mono tracks into 1 stereo track, in the timeline, without the need to change multitrack settings and applicable to ay kind of clip, regardless if it is a linked clip, or imported. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, right now, Media Composer... (read more)

Hello, Hoping you guys might be able to have a trigger built into the Background Services to fire off a database rebuild. In our current pipeline, we have fx artists and colorists constantly spitting out Avid friendly files, but then needing to launch Avid and close it again to make the media available... (read more)

Good morning. My previous system had about 15 different partiitions (came over from W7 with 2TB limit) and of course each drive had it's own AVIDMEDIA FILES folder. Some of these folders also had sub-folders 1, 2, 3, eect. (some only have 1). I have done away with the numerous drives and I am consolidating... (read more)

Hello, I have encountered a very frustrating problem. When I try exporting my project which also contains subtitles made with SubCap, the subtitles affect the picture. Every time an individual subtitle is displayed, the whole picture becomes a bit brighter, and when the subtitle dissapears, picture goes... (read more)

Hi All, I am having a bit of trouble with frame flex right now. I am getting 4k footage from my camera guy. I am working in a 1080p project because that is what the final deliverable is. I then ama link the footage into avid MC 8.4 right off of the camera card and I am transcoding the media to DNxHD... (read more)