MC 6.0.1 – any user reports?

[Jacob Lanum]

All the problems ive been having are gone, but its been 1 day. Feels solid so fat

[Richard Sanchez]

I had assertion errors upon boot up, so I rolled back to 6.0

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

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[Shane Ross]

Richard…make sure you remove EVERYTHING when you uninstall the other version. The Avid Uninstaller doesn’t get everything. Did Avid post a list of all the other files to remove? I should dig and look those up.

I found that my UI issues went away. Moving windows, resizing the timeline…not all that great in 6.0. 6.0.1 fixed…well, most of those. Still small issue in resizing timeline. But I know what to do to smack it so I can resize again.

Shane
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[Peter Groom]

Hi
Is the annoying message i get about keyboards when i launch mc6 one of the things thats fixed in 6.0.1

What other issues have people been seeing with 6.0
Peter

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[Richard Sanchez]

I ran the uninstaller. Didn’t delete the remaining files. Are you talking about the files in the applications folder alone, or does that include files in the application support folder in the Library folder?

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

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[Shane Ross]

Here’s what I have:

From a terminal window, you’ll need to do a sudo to remove these: (replace “Symphony” for MediaComposer where appropriate)
sudo pkgutil –forget com.avid.MediaComposerapplications.pkg
sudo pkgutil –forget com.avid.MediaComposerlibrary.pkg
sudo pkgutil –forget com.avid.MediaComposersystem.pkg
sudo pkgutil –forget com.avid.MediaComposeruninstaller.pkg
sudo pkgutil –forget com.avid.avidcodecspe
sudo pkgutil –forget com.avid.avidfilmscribe.pkg
sudo pkgutil –forget com.avid.avidlogexchange.pkg
sudo pkgutil –forget com.avid.edlmanager.pkg
sudo pkgutil –forget com.avid.sharedcomponents.pkg
sudo pkgutil –forget com.paceap.pkg.eden.licensed
sudo pkgutil –forget com.paceap.pkg.InterLokExtensions
sudo pkgutil –forget com.avid.licensecontrol.pkg

Folders/Files to Remove
/Applications/Avid Media Composer (or Avid Symphony)
/Applications/Avid_Uninstallers/Avid Media Composer (or Avid Symphony)
/Applications/Utilities/Avid_Utilities (AGAIN – this will remove Avid License Control)
/Library/CFMSupport/DigiCFMShim
/Library/Applications Support/Avid (this will remove Avid Licensing files)
/Library/Applications Support/Digidesign
/Library/StartupItems/Digi*.*
/System/Extensions/Digi*.kext, Avid*.kext
/Library/StartupItems/Digi*.*

Needing to use the Terminal annoys me. This is why I either reinstall the OS fresh, or clone back from a backup of a fresh install.

Shane
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[Richard Sanchez]

Wow, that is quite a bit. I’ve always ran the uninstaller, is this something new with MC6, or has Avid always left these files behind?

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Shane Ross]

ALWAYS left files behind.

Shane
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[Daniel Frome]

6.01 is still not perfect but it’s in good shape. In short: yes, I believe it is ready to move on from 5.5.3. I believe the German keyboard layout is still a bit problematic. I tried exporting a 7 hour timeline as a stress-test and it crashed. However, 5.5 was not able to do this either.

Over all I think 6.01 is comparable to 5.5.1 or 5.5.2 in terms of its stability/bugs. There’s a few here or there but it’s quite usable. In fact, I’ve already submitted an edit to a network with it, worked just fine.

[Richard Sanchez]

Turns out, it wasn’t a result of files being left behind. I was testing it on a separate partition of my laptop, but both partitions are Lion which denies write privileges to the root level of the drive by default. Avid would give me a drive warning me that that are no drives available with write access, but would proceed to list my projects as normal. When I’d select a project, it give me a Segmentation Fault error. When I mounted a disk image, which allowed Avid place to write files, it started up fine. Granted, this is a strange situation because you wouldn’t normally start it up without a media drive, and in my case I just wanted to check out the interface a bit. Any way, problem solved.

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks