Installing Avid Media Composer

[Michael Phillips]

That audio message can also mean an issue with the graphics card. Make sure it is a supported card and load the drivers from the Avid utilities folder.

Michael

Michael Phillips

[Bob Zelin]

you have not stated exactly what hardware you are running with your AVID. I have seen an AVID Adrenaline show this exact error (failed to initialize audio) because of an incorrect/incompatible Quicktime version on the PC.

Right now, go to AVID/Utilites as Michael suggested, and run the NVidia installer (not the native NVidia driver on your computer – the one in the AVID Utilities folder). When you reboot, if you have the same error, uninstall your Quicktime. You need this for MC, but after you launch MC, and get the error message that Quicktime is not installed, keep going, and your program should launch.

Without exact details on your OS, you AVID hardware, and your version of Media Composer, I can’t give you more details.

Bob Zelin

[Praveen Antony]

Thank you for your response, I am using windows XP service pack 2 and I am not using any hardware for AVID and I am using MC 3.0.

[Michael Hancock]

Do you have an audio card? If you’re using onboard audio and it’s Realtek, that could be the problem. It was a big problem for a long time with Avid systems. If you can find a Soundblaster Audigy 2 card put it in there, go into Bios and disable your onboard audio, than try again.

Also, your graphics card isn’t approved, so like MichaelP said that could be the problem. Did you uninstall the current graphics drivers and install the drivers Bob was talking about? Avid is very, very specific about what drivers to run.

Michael

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[Ryan Mcafee]

Ok I just went through this problem. After much trial and error I found out of all things Microsoft Internet Explorer was causing the problems. I downloaded an update to explorer the day before and the next day when I went to edit the Initialize audio froze up. What I did was remove Internet Explorer 8 and when I did it, explorer reverted back to Explorer 7 but I use Mozilla now anyway.

The drivers to sound cards were not the issue.

I edit on MC 2.8.1 and on XP.

My boss ran into the same problem but he did a system restore before the explorer update and it fixed the problem.

Hope that makes sense.
Ryan

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