David Budnetz
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AMD CPUs are qualified by Avid on lenovo and Boxx workstations, there should be no architectural issues at play here.
when you say removing the audio helps the issue, are you disabling tracks or removing them from sequences?
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media composer 7 is ancient. If you want to upgrade to a recent version of macos, you are technically hosed.
Please refer to the media composer version matrix for further details:
https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/en267087 -
You can’t have two different hardware IO devices attached and active in composer, but you can use multiple outputs from the same hardwareIO device, including hardware down/crossconvert where applicable.
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this isn’t a supported workflow for media composer. Network shares can be used for source media and linked media, but not native media…officially.
There is a console command “alldrives” that will enable the usage of some unsupported storage types for native media. open the console with CMD+6, enter “alldrives” without the quotes, and hit enter. You may need to restart composer. Give it a shot and see what happens. Note that the alldrives command may not be persistant with a user profile change in avid or a reboot of your computer.
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yes, it is possible to export a Linked sequence directly. The error you are seeing is related to the audio contents of your sequence, or perhaps to the destination audio format you have chosen in export settings. Can you share a screenshot of the export settings you are using?
you might also try to export to MXF op1a and use a third party app to make your MP4 or MOV. Shutter encoder, ffmpeg, adobe media encoder, etc.
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Trevor, is there a reason you don’t want to upgrade? mostly just curious.
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QT ref and QT Same-As-Source are not available in MacOS 10.15 with media composer. You can install the legacy quicktime components for some Quicktime functions. Recomended workflow is to kick out a DNX OP1a MXF file and encode externally for H.264 or other highly compressed formats.
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[Craig Wolf] “3. Diversify. Purchase two inexpensive servers from Dell, HP, etc. Purchase and load StorNEXT on them. Purchase strage arrays (probably iSCSI) and run new CAT6 lines to each edit station, and use 10GB HBAs. Purchase new 10GB switch for iSCSI network.”
regarding using CAT6 for 10GbE, you will only be able to achieve limited distance (the spec calls for 55m in a pristine environment, 37m in a hostile environment)without extreme packet loss. STP/FTP CAT6 cable is still vulnerable to physical compression or electrical interference in a cable tray or plenum environment.
If you have existing Multi-Mode fiber, you can easily employ it for 10Gb Optical ethernet. From wikipedia: “OM3 cable can carry 10GbE 300 metres using low cost 10GBASE-SR optics (OM4 can manage 400 metres.)” Both intel and small tree have optical 10GbE PCIe NICs, and all major switch vendors sell 10GbE switches with optical SFPs.
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[Ian Campbell] “I wonder if there is a preferences file that holds the settings for drives that could be written on boot by a script? Maybe a third party app out there that will keep things straight?
“You could also create a dummy “Avid MediaFiles” folder by naming a blank document “Avid MediaFiles”, then deleting the extension. I have done this before with fairly positive results. I suppose you could also write a script to delete the mediafiles folder/dummy on shutdown, and writes a new dummy on login.
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What model AJA interfaces are you using? You may not need to use an external device at all. In many cases, people are moving to using small audio patchbays or hard-wiring your inputs in conjuction with an audio monitoring controller such as a presonus central station+, or a mackie big knob.
The artist series controllers are very useful if you do a lot of audio automation or you are looking to get away from manual audio keyframing. Keep in mind that they do not actually pass audio, and cannot be used for I/O.