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Media Composer 8.3 Utility Applications
After installing Avid Media Composer 8.3, I noticed there are two utilities that launch when I boot my Mac Pro – one is a “background” application (for transcoding?) and the other is a utility that manages and downloads updates from Avid (not unlike Adobe’s Application Manager.)
Do they both need to launch every time I boot up? Or can I configure these apps to only run when I launch Media Composer?
I’d prefer that these applications not run all the time and tie up my system’s RAM – even with 10Gb of RAM. 🙂
Thanks!
Thomas Hanser
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I shut those down when I reboot. The Application Manager does eat up memory and pings the server a lot. I quit that out of the Activity monitor as there is the app, and an app helper you need to shut down. I don’t believe there is a setting to not have it launch when rebooting.
Background and DNF transcoding can be shut down by right clicking the icon in the menu bar.
Michael
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Thanks, Michael.
I can right-click both of these apps in the Mac OSX top toolbar, but I’m tired of doing it.
Thomas Hanser
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You and me both. 🙂
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Edit the plist for App manager. It is set to run at start up as TRUE. Change it to FALSE and it won’t run at start up or reboot.
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Great to know, thanks! Would be nice to have that as a setting in the app itself.
Michael
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Yes, good to know. And thanks for that suggestion.
I can edit a plist but I wish it were simpler than this.
Thomas Hanser
Seattle, WA
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