Creative COW | Mike Drew | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/mikedrew4/activity/ Activity feed for Mike Drew. Sat, 02 May 2026 20:49:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 32552931f841581ae77b1f839487faa5 Mike Drew replied to the discussion No video output - Decklink 4K Extreme 12G in the forum Avid Media Composer https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/no-video-output-decklink-4k-extreme-12g/#post-2424139 Fri, 28 Jan 2022 01:34:29 +0000 Reply to No video output - Decklink 4K Extreme 12G

Just found this, might help

https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=153171

]]> f0cc857bceb7106b984ebadc2e088d27 Mike Drew replied to the discussion No video output - Decklink 4K Extreme 12G in the forum Avid Media Composer https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/no-video-output-decklink-4k-extreme-12g/#post-2424135 Thu, 27 Jan 2022 23:37:59 +0000 Reply to No video output - Decklink 4K Extreme 12G

Make sure you install the black magic decklink software after media composer, it wont install the plugin for Avid if its not installed, and make sure you run Avid as an administrator on first run. Also check the MAC’s security tab in settings to allow the driver to run.

]]> 16a16c9cd957061c282aabfefae5ab6f Mike Drew replied to the discussion Educational Networking in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/educational-networking/#post-2411042 Sun, 30 May 2021 23:20:04 +0000 Reply to Educational Networking

What editing software do you want to use? At that number of users at 4K you will need to go to either Avid Nexis, EditShare or Facilis Technology. Switching will be an important part of it. You should engage a system integrator as this sounds like quite a large project. HTH

Mike

]]> 62eb736051767e840e9ee94979f8a85a Mike Drew replied to the discussion Media Composer Transition issue in the forum Avid Media Composer https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/media-composer-transition-issue-2/#post-2408557 Thu, 22 Apr 2021 03:49:51 +0000 Reply to Media Composer Transition issue

You will need to NEST the V2 layer and apply the fade to white in the nested track and re-apply the pic in pic on the V2 track above the nest. Look up Nesting tracks in the help.

HTH

Mike

]]> 0cc571e950981b2cbf56649e59e3b143 Mike Drew replied to the discussion Last version of Avid - 2021.3 in the forum Avid Media Composer https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/last-version-of-avid-2021-3/#post-2408303 Mon, 19 Apr 2021 01:01:08 +0000 Reply to Last version of Avid - 2021.3

Have you tried cleaning out all of the MCState files also you SHOULD NOT use settings from an older version as this will cause issues. Clear MCStates and use a new user.

HTH

]]> 198e3e0bf57c3a85acec8c4904273ae9 Mike Drew replied to the discussion G-RAID in RAID-1 configured to exFAT on Windows? in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/g-raid-in-raid-1-configured-to-exfat-on-windows/#post-2341161 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:29:46 +0000 Reply to G-RAID in RAID-1 configured to exFAT on Windows?

I would not wait until the day of the shoot as you might get a thunderbolt RAID and not have the right connections. Also exFat is crap on spinning disks as it was produced for Flash drives etc. Double check with the editor directly what their requirements are and don’t assume anything. If you are doing the main copy on windows NTFS will be much…

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]]> 6e6cfde2efb795d7ec1e71832738c71b Mike Drew replied to the discussion Cache-A Prime Cache expertise? in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/cache-a-prime-cache-expertise/#post-2337732 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:55:47 +0000 Reply to Cache-A Prime Cache expertise?

Tim. Cache-A also uses LTFS, as we use here, this is readable on most modern systems, SDNA, Spectra etc as long as the tape generations match.

]]> ca6651a974e3643bb1eb42a649c8cb55 Mike Drew replied to the discussion Avid DNX Nitris DX Not Connecting in the forum Avid Media Composer https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/avid-dnx-nitris-dx-not-connecting/#post-2335963 Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:01:04 +0000 Reply to Avid DNX Nitris DX Not Connecting

avid DX test?

https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Download/en430911

]]> d879cc522818abd1baf8393e8ca4dd3f Mike Drew replied to the discussion Glitch frames while transferring from Betacam SP to digital in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/glitch-frames-while-transferring-from-betacam-sp-to-digital/#post-2335923 Sun, 27 Sep 2020 22:42:15 +0000 Reply to Glitch frames while transferring from Betacam SP to digital

Sounds like good old Betacam dropouts, not much you can do as the tape has been damaged at that point, make sure the VTR and Computer have reference going to them so they will lock to each other can sometimes make the dropouts appear less gruesome.

HTH

Mike

]]> fc1596fb08e6ba33f469617519063223 Mike Drew replied to the discussion Cache-A Prime Cache expertise? in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/cache-a-prime-cache-expertise/#post-2335758 Fri, 25 Sep 2020 01:38:23 +0000 Reply to Cache-A Prime Cache expertise?

This may help, all of the Cache docs from ProMax

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4290574/Support_Docs/Cache-A%20Documentation.zip

]]> 794ca6ac79de558ed642b6cb772a72d6 Mike Drew replied to the discussion DNxHR HQX not playing back in the forum Avid Media Composer https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/dnxhr-hqx-not-playing-back#post-2331634 Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:59:30 +0000 Reply to DNxHR HQX not playing back

http://resources.avid.com/SupportFiles/attach/High_Res_WorkflowsGuide.pdf

]]> 3bbcfa25193a6bd31f3585a853f05926 Mike Drew replied to the discussion DNxHR HQX not playing back in the forum Avid Media Composer https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/dnxhr-hqx-not-playing-back#post-2331633 Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:58:02 +0000 Reply to DNxHR HQX not playing back

Green/Green or Green/yellow mode?

]]> 2c3144b0db3827f2c5d70ebd85105808 Mike Drew replied to the discussion Can a Pre Roll Post tape archive be opened with any other software? in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/can-a-pre-roll-post-tape-archive-be-opened-with-an#post-2333975 Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:47:13 +0000 Reply to Can a Pre Roll Post tape archive be opened with any other software?

Nick, to answer your question, PreRollPost is LTFS so other software will be able to read your tapes. One issue may arise if you have spanned tapes. YMMV

HTH Mike

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