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Neil Ryan started the discussion Show Effect Contents in the forum Avid Media Composer

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:28:14 +0000

The option to ‘Show Effect Contents’ seems to have disappeared in 2019; has it ever appeared since then?

I’m running a version from 2024 and no version I’ve had since 2019 has had the option.
I’m guessing it created an issue and was then removed and permanently parked…?

Bug Number: MCDEV-11146. Removed Show Position and Show Effect Contents from…

Neil Ryan replied to the discussion Why is a playhead always automatically an In point? in the forum Avid Media Composer

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:00:28 +0000

Reply to Why is a playhead always automatically an In point?

You’re right; this is an observation, not an error. Avid was developed decades ago, by film editors. Much of it was based on how editing was done on film. You can find many critics of Avid these days but, fundamentally, Avid Media Composer – at the basic editing level – remains one of the best editing systems because they got so much right at the…

Neil Ryan started the discussion Non-native frame rate clip in Timeline - Temporal vs promoted in the forum Avid Media Composer

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 05:58:00 +0000

Non-native frame rate clip in Timeline - Temporal vs promoted

I’m wondering, when a clip with a non-native frame rate is cut into a Sequence (and then appears with a Temporal Adaptor icon) and is then promoted, does the Source Setting ‘Playback Frame Rate’ [Clip/Project] get overridden, such that, the speed settings applied in the Motion Effect Editor are created always using the Clip’s Frame Rate? So, if…

Neil Ryan replied to the discussion display issues in the Effect Editor in the forum Avid Media Composer

Tue, 28 May 2024 01:03:39 +0000

Reply to display issues in the Effect Editor

Have you drawn a shape in the effect? That Blur effect doesn’t simply apply to the whole frame; it does far more than that. Note the toolbar on the right side. Within the effect, you draw (select) the portion of the frame that you want blurred, using the Circle or Rectangle tool on the right. Then the Opacity, Hor & Ver will fill with numbers for…

Neil Ryan replied to the discussion select arrow changing to overwrite or splice in in the forum Avid Media Composer

Wed, 15 May 2024 08:45:48 +0000

Reply to select arrow changing to overwrite or splice in

Can be turned off in the Timeline Window on its toolbar at the far left – click on the existing Segment or Overwrite button and it will stop being highlighted and therefore, inactive. You’ll then be left with your cursor arrow when it is over a segment.

See also, in the Timeline Settings (in its Edit tab) that you can select/check ‘Clicking the TC…

Neil Ryan replied to the discussion Preparing AAF for ProTools in the forum Avid Media Composer

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:53:24 +0000

Reply to Preparing AAF for ProTools

2 paths to consider. I’ve used both. One way, you do the fix and the other way, the Sound Mixer does the fix.

Yes to your actual question if the tracks 1 & 2 you mention belong to the 23 tracks in question and they are all in the one source.

If this is so, with your completed Sequence, you can duplicate track 1 21 times. Then, (for example) take the…

Neil Ryan started the discussion Title Tool in Newer media Composer- compatibility in the forum Avid Media Composer

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 03:53:33 +0000

Title Tool in Newer media Composer- compatibility

I was wondering what happens when, with a newer version of Media Composer (which doesn’t support the Title Tool app) what happens when you open an older Sequence that has a Title Tool effect in it and that media is also online?

Does the new version MC see the effect and play the media?
Or does it not have the Title Tool effect in in the Sequence…

Neil Ryan replied to the discussion Adding LUTs to a sequence in the forum Avid Media Composer

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 02:31:17 +0000

Reply to Adding LUTs to a sequence

Try ‘Refresh Sequence’ with the ‘Color Adapters’ option

Neil Ryan replied to the discussion Blank Record window when stopped on clips with effects in the forum Avid Media Composer

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:14:34 +0000

Reply to Blank Record window when stopped on clips with effects

Check that Render On-The-Fly is turned on (Ticked.)

It’s under the Composer menu option.

Check the Online User Guide and have a read on this section:

High-Resolution Workflows : Working with High-Resolution Media : Rendering Effects

Neil Ryan replied to the discussion Symphony Color Groups by Src Tape? in the forum Avid Media Composer

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:27:31 +0000

Reply to Symphony Color Groups by Src Tape?

In your Bin, show Sources; do you have many instances of the same Source Reel?

Creating media in Resolve and bringing it into Avid can have the effect of creating essentially a unique Tape Name for each clip, even if it looks like the same name!

I had your problem and this was the issue. I modified all the clips that had the same effective Reel…

Neil Ryan replied to the discussion Confusion surrounding dissolves from/to black in the forum Avid Media Composer

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:17:26 +0000

Reply to Confusion surrounding dissolves from/to black

What you’re seeing is correct.
The first frame of your program will not be black, but the first frame of the transition – a very dark picture. Effectively, if the first frame of the program was black, then the fade up would be commencing 1 frame in.

What you are currently seeing is both correct and standard practice.