[Ron Vida]

Hi, Glenn

Let me go through your thoughts on this…

[Glenn Sakatch] “Have you tried creating a new project?
Is this the only project that does it?”

Yes, and the problem not only persists with the new project, but also with all my previous projects up to this point!

[Glenn Sakatch] “What is your source material vs your sequence specs. (i know the stills did it too, but…)
“
The problems began when I imported sequences originally from a cell phone. I opened the footage in Quicktime, which saved them as 1920 × 1080 H.264, AAC, mebx. Originally I just linked to these files but then I imported them “properly” to MC.

[Glenn Sakatch] “Linking to clips instead of importing. (don’t know why…but why not)”
Sure, I can try that. Can you see a problem with having clips duplicated in my bins? One version of the clip refers to AVID media and the other is the linked version, pointing to the original .mov file. Any potential conflicts there?

[Glenn Sakatch] “If you would like to post your project and one of the clips/mediafiles, i’d be happy to see how it plays on my system.
Trying it on a totally different box might be your best option right now to see if it persists.”
Haven’t tried this before. It would be great if you could have a look. I’m new to saving out projects, though. What are the key words I should be looking for if I were to learn how — consolidation? exporting projects?

Appreciate the help!

Ron

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[Ron Vida]

Thanks very much for such detailed instructions, Nina. Here’s what happened.

For trashing the user settings, I wasn’t able to find those “z” files you described, even after searching my system for all files containing “z”. I did try deleting (or, rather, moving to the desktop) the entire user folder with my username. AVID did restore a new user identity for me but the problem persisted.

Next, I trashed the other files: MCstate, Site Settings and Site_Attributes. They were all rebuilt, as you predicted, when I went back into MC but the “chipmunk” playback problem continues.

????

Ron

[Ron Vida]

OK, Nina, I’d like to try your ideas. (Glenn had suggested trying new user settings as well.)

I created a new user within MC but the problem persists. Can you tell me more about where to find the “z” folder that you mentioned. I’ve been looking in users/Documents/Avid Projects but not finding it. Also, how do you trash the MC state settings and site settings?

Appreciate your help!

[Ron Vida]

… And I’m back with the original problem. This is truly bizarre. I’ve taken a 2-min screen recording of the problem. Can anyone spot the issue here?

“Too Fast AVID” (02:48)
https://youtu.be/jVBXVttiuv8

Thanks in advance!

Ron

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[Ron Vida]

Thanks, Glenn:

Well, as quickly as the problem appeared — and then persisted for 2 days — it disappeared. Strange as it seems, the one thing I hadn’t tried was advancing through the timeline frame-by-frame a few times. Now everything plays normally again.

Odd. Even more odd is that, unlike just about every other glitch I’ve experienced on AVID, I couldn’t find a reference to it anywhere on the web.

Many thanks again for your suggestions,

Ron