When is media composer 6 available

Sporting a fair number of improvements and innovations, this latest version promises to pick up more than a few converts from the editing masses. Updating the look and feel of any graphical user interface GUI can be a touchy proposition filled with potential pitfalls. The folks at Avid seem to have done a fine job in this regard. For instance, the interface brightness and color can now be adjusted from a very light gray to very dark, almost black, which some find to be much easier on the eyes after many hours of staring at the computer monitor.

Multiple bins can be opened at any given time and may now be tabbed together. A great space saver, simply grab any bin by its tab and drop it onto another bin window. It instantly appears as a tab in the new window. All your bins are now in one location and easily navigated by clicking the appropriate tab.

Want to rearrange your tabs? Just drag them to where you want them and release. While the new interface may provide some familiar creature comforts to users of other editing programs, it is still an Avid software — and to help make that transition, Avid provides some very helpful instructional videos on their website to help even the most staunch Premiere or Final Cut Pro practitioner get up to speed in no time.

Media Composer 6 features a new bit architecture resulting in much improved performance. Working with large bins full of HD footage, effects layering, render times and playback are now crisp and responsive in comparison to the previous bit version. Media Composer 6 can now be incorporated into your entire workflow — using your hardware.

Working with 3D footage in Media Composer 6 is a joy. Setting up and formatting a 3D project was quite easy with the assistance of the aforementioned instructional videos. From beginning to end, Avid has developed and incorporated a well thought out stereoscopic workflow. Easy to import, easy to work with — even 2D and 3D footage together — and the use of a full editing toolset and effects made short work of our test edits.

Another very innovative time saver integrated into Media Composer 6 is the marketplace. How many times have you needed a particular piece of stock footage and spent loads of time tracking it down, checking — and double-checking — the licensing and finally making the purchase?

The marketplace turns all that drudgery into a simple, pain-free task by giving you direct access to audio and video plug-ins, media libraries, training and more. Through a partnership with Thought Equity Motion, the marketplace portal lets you quickly sort through lots of stock media. You can view and organize clips online before downloading them. Drop them onto your timeline and edit as you would your usual assets.

When the edit is complete, the software can generate a stock footage report. This report details which footage, and how much of each, was used.

This report is then used in the final purchase of the high-resolution versions. You can set the Timeline Movement During Play button to the following: Page - moves the position indicator during play until it reaches the end of the visible Timeline. Workspaces Load Last State To create a more natural flow across workspaces, Media Composer now loads the last state of a workspace rather than the last saved workspace.

Update to Media Composer Distributed Processing Media Composer Distributed Processing allows Media Composer users to offload foreground tasks such as rendering, consolidating, or transcoding to one or more service workstations on the network. Update to Media Composer Enterprise Two additional functions have been added to Media Composer Enterprise that allow the administrator to enable or disable user functionality. Production Management Checking out a sequence that contained a clip that was referenced in many sequences might have been slow.

Production Management After performing an initial checkout of some clips, some audio was offline. Right-clicking on the Name column to sort alphabetically did not work on the first sort.

You had to right-click twice. Double-clicking the Take did not load a subclip into the Source Monitor from the slate. Media Composer crashed when playing a corrupted file from FastServe Ingest. Edit While Capture An in-progress clip may not have shown the same frame at the same timecode after the clip was closed. The Paint effect window did not display properly. Timeline Frame View did not show the correct frame with stacked clips. The audio and video for some MP4 media was not in sync.

The application would crash to a Breakpad window when trying to import a PSD file. The small space at the left of the bin where you could right-click to select bin options was missing. When switching between a macOS and Windows system, you might have seen font and formatting issues when opening scripts. You could not lasso multiple bins in a project. Saving the e-mail password setting did not save properly. In some instances, nothing happened when you clicked on a workspace button.

You could not always rename a bin in the Bin Container Sidebar. Imported markers did not display accents correctly if the text was from a 3rd party application. Media Composer Cloud Remote You could not use the computer when downloading media.

Windows Double clicking a bin file. The user listed in the Interplay Transfer Status was the user entered in Media Composer settings, instead of the user logged in to perform the transfer.

Some fonts, by their design, are available only in Bold. On the Mac system it can happen that selecting a font does not produce any visual changes. Image Quality when adding UHD progressive clips to an HD interlace sequence: The process Media Composer uses to mix and match video formats in a sequence is to transform the source clip's frame rate and frame layout to meet the project specifications; the motion adapters are added first, then spatial adapters are applied in order to provide expected playback dimensions.

The export process puts those resized fields back together into a progressive HD frame but does not maintain the clarity of the original progressive frame. The system will hang when running Media Composer or copying large files.

This does not happen with earlier versions of the OS. You can read details about this issue in this blog. This limitation no longer exists with macOS Maestro graphics do not appear correctly in the Timeline if your system uses the Radeon video card. Media Composer Distributed Processing Two clips or sequences will always be created when performing a consolidate or transcode with Media Composer Distributed Processing. Larger than 10 bit DPX files might fail to link correctly.

In some instances, the Interleave option might not appear in the Export As dialog box. If you are performing an Export using the Avid Media Processor, the Interleave option should appear when you choose Stereo, , or 7. Workaround: If it does not appear, briefly toggle back to the Mono setting, then toggle to Stereo Mix once again. Doing so should reveal the Interleave option. AMD Graphics. Workaround: Download the entire master clips.

Bug Number: macOS. You may occasionally see the menu bar flash followed by a brief beach ball. Workaround: Turn off audio waveforms.