I think the new UI (or better MC 202x as a whole) can and will eventually evolve into a functionally usable product for the large majority given enough time. But the questions I have are: - Is 2-3 years an acceptable duration? Which bug fixes/improvements should have never been needed in the first place as they shouldn't have passed quality control

[quote user="Pat Horridge"]Subscription software benefits the supplier in that it ensures a steady income stream reguardless of product developments. How that licensing is implemented impacts the ease and simplicity for the user but its very hard to beat the simplicity of a plug in dongle.[/quote] Exactly! I value my dongle. I will never crossgrade

[quote user="TMVC"]We've been using Avid for about 25 years in TV and it remains our choice for an editing tool based on its stability and no-nonsense approach.... we may have to jump ship - not because we want to, but because after all the tweaks under the hood, it won't matter to the new users in today's editing world. Not sure

[quote user="Dawn2"]I've been told by Avid that there were bug fixes with regard to re-linking media and thus I might want to upgrade my Avid MC 2018.5 to 2019.12.[/quote] I wonder who at Avid would make that suggestion. I can't think of a reason to do so. Anyway... If your license allows it I would update to 2018.12.15 at the earliest

[quote user="Navi060"]I got this message "In order to continue, you must connect to the internet to maintain your license"[/quote] Hi Navi060, From your post I can't determine if you logged into your master acount in Avid Link. I recently saw this message on a system with the latest version of Avid Link 24/7 connected to internet

[quote user="Job ter Burg"]That is exactly what I was trying to infer. [/quote] Got it.

Dear Avid, Making a mistake not checking NOMI weight this morning while adding a media indexer to a NOMI I caused a deletion of all existing storage locations. This was relatively quickly fixed by re-importing a backup of the locations and a rescan. However would it be possible to include a message when adding a node with a higher weight to a NOMI saying

[quote user="Job ter Burg"]AND you don't need Shared Bins/Projects,[/quote] Hi Job, A small correction. Perpetual licenses, and therefor dongles, always support shared Avid storage. Only the standard subscription doesn't.

If I were you I would keep my dongle and existing MC version and buy a new subscription. It is of course nice to keep the dongle up to date as well but more expensive as you already saw. The benefit of a crossgrade of your dongle compared to just buying a new subscription license is low in my opinion. Moving the license, deactivating - activating, between

Really hoping these: Bug Number: MCCET-4449. When working with MultiCamera sequences, Media Composer performance slowed down and eventually did not respond. Bug Number: MCCET-4478. Avid NEXIS users experienced significant performance issues when bin indexing and noticed bandwidth irregularities in the Avid NEXIS Management Console. In combination with