Michael Hancock
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No problem. Glad to help.
Michael.
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Nope. Every Media Composer purchase comes with the same third party programs, but in this case the DVD program is PC only.
https://www.avid.com/products/Media-Composer-Software/specs.asp
Doesn’t even look like it’s made for the Mac.
Maybe try it under Bootcamp?
Michael.
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Get the 200a. Better in low light and a few other improvements over the 200. SD will eventually go away–the sooner you have access to an HD camera and can get familiar with it the better.
Michael
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Try transferring your audio files to an internal drive that isn’t your system drive. If you don’t have an internal drive besides your system drive, transfer your audio to your system drive and try to play it again. If it responds better, the bottle neck is the USB (I’m almost certain it is).
Move to firewire drives, or install a second (or more) internal drive for your media. You really shouldn’t have media on your system drive like I suggested, but it should be okay for a test.
Michae.
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I can’t guarantee this, but I bet MC 3.0 will run on your laptop. It won’t be as fast as the newer approved machines, but I bet it will run.
If it doesn’t, you can just go to the Avid website and download the 2.8 installer and install that. Once you blast your dongle for MC 3.0 it will be backwards compatible, so rolling back to an earlier version of MC won’t be an issue.
Either way, I suggest upgrading to Media Composer as soon as you can. It’s much, much better than Xpress Pro.
Michael.
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I got the same error today, but mine was the result of a corrupt render on a motion effect. I had slowed some footage down and had it dissolving into the next shot, then trimmed the head of the motion effect back a few frames. It gave me the error, so I just clicked OK and rerendered the motion effect. Problem went away.
I’ve had the PMM Insufficient error quite a few times, and it’s almost always caused by a render that went bad because of a trim, or because I nudged it a bit in segment mode and the render went offline.
It could be that you had a bad audio dissolve? Did you have any motion effects in your timeline, or is it straight cuts? I think what you did was the best solution–matchframe, replace media with the original.
Otherwise, I’m not sure what caused your error. Like I said, I’ve only gotten them because of a bad render, and 99% of the time it was a motion effect render.
Michael.
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You can’t. You can export the fill and alpha seperately and combine them in Photoshop or After Effects or another program like that. It’s been a feature request for years. Maybe one day, but until then it’s alpha and fill seperately.
Michael.
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If you’re on 2.8 I’m surprised it’s running at all on Vista. You really need to run XP Pro if you’re running 2.8, or upgrade to 3.0 if you need/want to run Vista. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what’s causing your issue.
Can you get the upgrade to 3.0, or downgrade your OS to XP Pro?
Michael.
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What version of Media Composer? Are these P2 files, or were they imported or captured from tape?
Michael.
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I understand where you’re coming from.
I’m on a PC, so if I want to keep everything in one folder like you do with FCP, I use virtual drives. Windows can assign a drive letter to a folder, which Avid sees as an actual drive. You just capture everything for your project onto that “drive”, which is actually a folder, and it’s organized like you do with FCP.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe virtual drives are possible on a Mac. It also looks like you’re on a Unity? I’m sure that would add a layer of complexity to it (I’ve not worked on a Unity).
I guess I don’t mind Avid having a few folders because I hate organizing media, but I understand why others need/want to.
Michael.