• Avid Media Composer

  MC 6 on Snow Leopard

  Posted by Chip Hess on December 18, 2011 at 9:36 pm

  I recently downloaded the trial. When the program starts, the timeline shows up briefly and then disappears. I am unable to get it to open again. Tried usual remedies repairing permissions, etc.

  Here is the question – is this because I am not running it in Lion?
  That is the OS specified in qualifying systems, yet I know sometimes Avid will operate fine
  under different specs.

  Thoughts?

  Chip Hess replied 14 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
• 5 Replies

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  John Pale

  December 18, 2011 at 11:00 pm

  Happens on Lion too. It gets confused with multiple monitors.

  Select one of the preset workspaces, everything will become visible. MOdify to your needs then save it.
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  Chip Hess

  December 18, 2011 at 11:07 pm

  Bit of a bug, eh?
  I have two monitors.
  Wonder if PC version has same issue.

  Thanks!
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  John Pale

  December 18, 2011 at 11:34 pm

  Yeah. It’s a bit of a shock at first, but easily fixed.

  My initial reaction was that they were trying to one up Apple…FCPX got rid of tracks, Avid got rid of the whole damn timeline. 🙂
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  Oliver Peters

  December 19, 2011 at 6:45 pm

  I run dual monitors and only get it to work when I place the menu bar on the left monitor (Sys Prefs – Displays). Then it works normally. I couldn’t get it to work with the menu on the right, even doing the workspaces thing. I’m on Mac OS 10.7.2 (Lion).

  – Oliver

  Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
  Orlando, FL
  http://www.oliverpeters.com
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  Chip Hess

  December 19, 2011 at 9:43 pm

  I did get it to work properly clicking through a couple of the presets.
  What editor – especially Avid – doesn’t use dual monitors?

  This is a pretty big clunk, Avid.
  Who do you think you are, Apple?

  😉

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