Bushfilm

First and foremost, It’s not a requirement that your media be on seperate drives.  You can put media on either the local/internal or external drive.  There’s not enough info in the above to know if you might be out of disk space or not or if the disk may be fragmented or even if its related to your inability to launch the application.    

But you know that already Bush from being on the Avid for so long.

In my opinion, your laptop isnt strong enough.............   all of the approved laptop for MC | First are i7 models.  MC | First is derived from MC 8.9.1 so the software needs the headroom and requires the same as the older bro MC. 

I am going to check to see if there is anyway to squeeze a tad more out of the Dell you have and the OS but I will need to wait for an answer from the hardware guys and a buch of them ar at IBC.  If you could do me a favor....  send me your post above and my response via email with a gentle ( :)  ) reminder to ping the guys when they are back mid week.

Happy to check...

Marianna

I'm going to stop posting here for a while

Don't do that tis getting too interesting for that ,thanks to the good folk and a lot of effort I have it up and running more or less ... when it works it looks good .. 

MCF is now loaded and running on an Toshiba Satellite I7 ..

Clearly our beautiful laptop is under spec ..

It's  official -  full on Avid Media Composer Specification upgrade required ..

 When it works it looks good .. 

Where to from here that would be the next question ..

Cheers ..

Keith A

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MCF is now loaded and running on an Toshiba Satellite I7 ..

Pardon - not correct  ..

Unpredictable..

Satellite P 70 B

Radion Software Version 17.7.2

Radion Software Edition Crimsin ReLive 

Windows Version Home 64 Bit 

CPU Type Intel i7 4720 HQ

CPU@2160 GBHz 

Where to from here that would be the next question .... 

Sorry folks last post I'm done no regrets regards to eveyone 

i have been on Avid for years but this one is beyond me 

that's for sure ..!! 

With regards on closing ... (Re: can't get into Media Composer | First)

Keith R

Will do, Marianna, and thanks.  If you don't mind, ask them if upgrading the RAM would solve the problem. I can't see how an i5 quad-core processor is too slow to run this. Seems like most people experimenting with some free software might not have the latest and greatest computer so releasing something so sophisticated might not be the way to go. However, having said that, I have noticed my laptop acting a little squirrelly in some other areas, so I am going to upgrade to a 1tb internal hard drive and completely start from scratch with a fresh install of Win 7 Pro. I'll let you know right away if this fixes things. Thanks again, you are super-helpful!

I run First (and even regular MC) on less than an i5 and with less than 8GB. But I have to take care what sort of media I try and playback. I can AMA link to H264 content but playback is almost impossible. I just transcode to Dnx36 or similar and I'm good to go.

Its important that MC First uses the code base of MC regular as its intended as in introduction to MC regular and MC Regular is a sophisticated editing tool and does need suitable hardware. therefore so does MC First.

Pat Horridge:

Its important that MC First uses the code base of MC regular as its intended as in introduction to MC regular and MC Regular is a sophisticated editing tool and does need suitable hardware. therefore so does MC First.

Hello Pat and all

Update  :- Got it to the point where we can produce 1920-1080 Video at 29.97 (default)

Windows  Home  bit

Intel Core i7 4720HQ 2.6GHz Haswell nm

MB Toshiba Portable

Graphics Generic Intel HD 4600

Radion R9 M200x

Storage 931 GB Toshiba

Unfortunately at this point no full on spec machine avail .. (or further trials)

Keith A

Hello everyone, downloaded this application and tried to open it yesterday and today, same situation as the first post.  Anyone have any progress on this or heard from Avid?

My computer specs,

HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook

Intel Core i7 2.0 ghz

8gb Ram

64 bit

Windows 10

Have you tried any (all) of the suggestions contained in this thread. There have been a lot of suggestions here that have worked for different people.

Rinso Video wrote the following post at 09-25-2017 1:49 PM:

Unfortunately at this point no full on spec machine avail .. (or further trials)

Correction  :- Windows Home 64 bit

Radion R9 M200 x

56232 Stream  Processors

1018 MHz Core Clock 8Gb 512 Bit

GDDR 5

PCI Express

This is under spec - what are we going to need spec-wise

Yes, to no avail sadly.  It appears the 9.1 and 9.2 versions did not address this issue either.

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Exception :- Can't create a directory as one of the folders in the path below has insufficient permissions path E: xxxx

In plain english simply means you have removed the external drive from last time ..

Given the program is hung up on this exception how does one re-set the default for one drive only .. 

Fred