• Avid Media Composer

  Sequence Won’t Play – Missing Meridien I/O Box

  Posted by Elizabeth Czyzewski on July 22, 2010 at 6:12 am

  Hello,

  I inherited an old computer with Avid XPress v5.8. It was used at a post house way back when, and I do not have the Meridien I/O Box it used to work with. Thus, when I open AVID, it warns that some functions will not work since I don’t have the box. One such function is playing the sequence. I can play in the source monitor, but not the sequence. I figure it’s because however the system was initially set up, the Meridien was chosen for sequence playback. I could be way off, but I feel like if I could just change that, all would be fine. I am only using this AVID to practice on, I’m not planning on doing any real work/exporting/ingesting with it, so any sort of workaround will do – it doesn’t need to give me any capability, really, except sequence playback.

  Mac OS X v10.2.8
  640MB Memory
  Processor: 867 MHz Power PC G4

  Thank you!

  Elizabeth Czyzewski replied 15 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Job Ter burg

  July 23, 2010 at 12:35 pm

  I’m surprised it even plays anthing at all without the Meridien hardware boards attached.

  If you want to train, why not download the 30-day free trial version that will run on most any modern computer?
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  Elizabeth Czyzewski

  July 23, 2010 at 4:50 pm

  I’m still running on OS X v 10.4.11 and you need Snow Leopard to run Media Composer 5, which is what AVID currently offers. Unfortunately I can’t find any earlier versions to download a trial of.

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