[Jonathan Abrams]

I do not have a QT folder in /Library/Application Support/Avid. An OSX restore will help if Avid is relying on something that Apple should have installed. An uninstall and reinstall of Avid will help if Avid cannot find a file that it should have installed. An Avid reinstall is simpler than an OSX restore.

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Jonathan S. Abrams, CEA, CEV, CBNT
Apple Certified – Technical Coordinator (v10.5) Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.10)
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[Jonathan Abrams]

Is the drive the first device in the Thunderbolt chain? Is the drive the only Thunderbolt device connected to the computer?

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Apple Certified – Technical Coordinator (v10.5) Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.10)
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[Jonathan Abrams]

Do you have QuickTime v7.6.6 installed? This is a separate install with OS X Lion v10.7 and later.

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Apple Certified – Technical Coordinator (v10.5) Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.10)
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[Jonathan Abrams]

In the Installer application, press Command+L (show log), then press Command+3 (show all entries). If you can reply here with the relevant lines from the log, or a link to the .txt file that you can save, someone can take a look at it and maybe figure out what is causing this issue.

Alternatively, if there is a custom install option, and you do not need the background transcoder functionality, deselect it from the install options and see if that will let you install MC.

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Jonathan S. Abrams, CEA, CEV, CBNT
Apple Certified – Technical Coordinator (v10.5) Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.10)
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[Jonathan Abrams]

Indeed! More information is coming in the first week of December.

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Jonathan S. Abrams, CEA, CEV, CBNT
Apple Certified – Technical Coordinator (v10.5) Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.10)
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[Jonathan Abrams]

[Louis Waters] “When i add the timecod”

What happens when you add the timecode? What is your end goal?

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[Jonathan Abrams]

Hello,

The facility I work at sends Media Composer projects to Pro Tools every day. We create an AAF of the sequence and a video mixdown (same as source) of the edit, then give those two files (AAF and MOV) to the Pro Tools user.

The Pro Tools user then uses the Import Session Data command to import the AAF, followed by the Import Video command to load the video mixdown (MOV). The one key bit of information that needs to be conveyed is where to spot the FFOP in the video mixdown. If the video mixdown has a two-pop flash frame, its really obvious. If not, that information needs to be conveyed some other way.

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Jonathan S. Abrams, CEA, CEV, CBNT
Apple Certified – Technical Coordinator (v10.5) Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.9)
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[Jonathan Abrams]

[Adam Leonard] “So I’m using Avid Media Composer 6.0 for local TV commercials and I’m finally sitting down and learning about waveforms and vector scopes.

One of the first things I noticed is that the manual says that NTSC uses IRE and PAL uses mV, yet when I have Avid in my usual project settings (1080i/59.94), it puts the YC Waveform in mV on the left side and percentages on the right.

This is normal and expected behavior.

[Adam Leonard] If I pop it down to 1080p/29.97, I get an IRE scale.

That is surprising. I would consider that a bug. Anything using an HD frame size (720p, 1080i, 1080p) should have its video measured in mV. Are you using the last rev of v6.0.x.y?

[Adam Leonard] As far as I know, there’s no way to switch the left side to IRE without leaving the 59.94 setting. Why is it doing this? Is there a way to change this?”

It’s doing this because HD frame sizes (720p, 1080i, 1080p) have their video measured in mV, not IRE.

[Adam Leonard] “And, to the best of my knowledge, NTSC is pretty much the irrelevant SD standard and ATSC is the new standard. That said, someone here is telling me that the difference in color-safe standards between the two is pretty much negligible

Oh really? Has that person looked at the CIE diagram for ITU-R Rec.601 (NTSC, aka SD color space) and compared it to ITU-R Rec.709 (ATSC 1.0, aka HD color space)?

[Adam Leonard] “and that I just need to worry about keeping the waveform below the top line and above the bottom, no matter what scale it’s using. Out of curiosity, does ATSC also use IRE?”

Legal HD video signals are not supposed to exceed 700mV (peak) or drop below 0mV (black). Scopes usually range from -20mV to 730mV. Will an occasional excursion above or below get you rejected? That depends on how tight the QC is where you are delivering.

ATSC 1.0, aka HDTV, uses mV, not IRE.

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Jonathan S. Abrams, CEA, CEV, CBNT
Apple Certified – Technical Coordinator (v10.5) Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.9)
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[Jonathan Abrams]

The 2009 Mac Pro uses triple-channel memory. This means that even though you have a total of eight RAM slots, the computer operates at maximum efficiency when you populate six RAM slots.

As for whether or not you need more memory, that depends on whether or not you don’t have enough RAM. I realize this sounds like a “Which came first?” question. How do you determine whether or not you do not have enough RAM? Launch Activity Monitor (/Applications/Utilities). On Mac OS X v10.6.0 (Snow Leopard) through Mac OS X v10.8.5 (Mountain Lion), click the System Memory tab and look at the value for Page outs. If this is anything other than zero, then you do not have enough RAM for what you are doing. On Mac OS X v10.9.0 (Mavericks) and later, click the Memory tab and look at the Memory Pressure graph. If you see any red in this graph, then you do not have enough RAM for what you are doing.

Another upgrade option is to replace the CPUs with those that were used in the MacPro5,1. I have no experience doing this. I only know that other people have done it with success.

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Jonathan S. Abrams, CEA, CEV, CBNT
Apple Certified – Technical Coordinator (v10.5) Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.8)
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[Jonathan Abrams]

The word at NAB was that this I/O would not have universal mastering. This is because universal mastering is not part of Open IO.

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Jonathan S. Abrams, CEA, CEV, CBNT
Apple Certified – Technical Coordinator (v10.5) Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.8)
Chairman, NY section, AES