Hi, starting a new thread for transparency and clarity. I've been dutifly and systematically troubleshooting Media Composer releases in conjuction with Mac silicon and it continues to baffle me with its instabliity. The software is borderline useless. I currently have Ventura 13.5 running on a M2 Max Mac Studio with 96 GB of RAM. I did a complete

Mac Studio, running Ventura 13.5, downgrading to Media Composer 2021.12.9, upgrading to Blackmagic Desktop Video 12.5 seems very, very stable. Been running it a few weeks and it seems anecdotally very solid. I'm really hesitant to go back to ANY later Media Composer release at this point.

Thanks, Marianna. I've tried 2023.3.1 and 2022.12.4, same issues on both. I'm currently trying 2021.12.9. Databases have been rebuilt (a few times, actually). No Blackmagic, no I/O at all, software only. Sounds like my support case is a dead end, as the M2 Mac Studio isn't technically supported yet. Which I understand, but this mirrors the

So, I posted about a month ago regarding my struggles getting Media Composer up and running on a new Mac Studio Max M1 with a Blackmagic UltraStudio 4K Mini. I never got things working properly, but Apple released the M2 Mac Studio and I was able to return the M1 and get an M2. I've now had the M2 for a few days and I cannot, for the life of me

For more context... I just completely removed the Blackmagic drivers and sofware and pulled the plug on the unit. Media Composer seems happy again. My monitoring workaround is converting the HDMI output of the Mac Studio to SDI and using full-screen playback. Not ideal, but workable. The takeaway being that BMD's current drivers are still nerfing

Yes, 2022.12.4. I downloaded it this morning (I'm in LA). And Ventura 13.4.

Unfortunately, the extensive stability issues between Media Composer, Blackmagic devices, and M1 macs seem to persist with the release of 2022.12.4. I did a completely fresh, ground-up install of Ventura 13.4 on a Mac Studio M1 Max on a freshly erased drive, installed Media Composer 2022.12.4, and edited with it this morning with no issues for a few

That didn't work. I reinstalled Avid Link 21.6.1, followed all the steps. I am up and running in Trial Mode, after deleting all the cache files like a pirate instead of a professional.

The "overhauled" license management system is killing me. I'm right now trying to get my perpetual license from one machine to another and am trapped in endlessly looping 101 errors. No support agents are availalbe. I've done all the steps correctly. I need help. Please.

I would just like to take a second to point out that Kevin Klimek's answer listed above... a: fixed the exact same issue that I encountered, and, b: is something that I had no idea I could do, and is a real time-saver for creating bespoke settings for all the different systems I end up working on. So, well done and thank you.