Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.4
Avid® Editing Application ReadMe Fixes for Media Composer® v2019.x
IMPORTANT: This document provides a cumulative list of fixes for the Media Composer v2019.x releases. To see detailed information on each release, see the individual ReadMe for each release here.
Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.4
The following have been fixed:
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3935. (Windows) You can now use Ctrl + click Overwrite Button to perform a one-step prelap overwrite. For example, if you cut a clip into a sequence, go back a number of frames and mark an IN point, deselect V1 on the record side, leave the source tracks enabled, then hold down Ctrl + click the overwrite button and you will see an L-cut at the end of the sequence. (This still functions as ALT + B on the macOS.)
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3967. Media Composer might have been improperly importing audio track metadata.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3921. The text in the NRCS tool was almost unreadable in dark mode.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3978. Ctrl+W did not save and close a bin if one or more clips was selected.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3843. When working with Titler+, some Arabic text did not display properly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3910. In some instances, switching the project format for a MultiRez clip with Dynamic Relink enabled resulted in MEDIA OFFLINE.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3378. Frames may have shifted after promoting a mixed frame rate sequence and modifying the speed in Motion Effect Editor.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3360. (Avid Artist DNxIQ) In some instances, the 12G SDI audio stream was corrupted when using 3rd party gear to downconvert the SDI output. You must have Desktop Video software v12 to see this fix.
1 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.4
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3820. Loading or importing a file into a Pan&Zoom effect might have caused Media Composer to crash.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3423. (Interplay environment) Media Composer launched slowly if there were many MXF media folders in the workspace.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3922. In some instances when trimming a sequence, the wrong clip was shown in the Source Monitor.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3042. (macOS) The Creation Date in the Find tool was offset by 100 years, for example 2019 appeared as 1919.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3406. (macOS) In some instances, you could not save a rolling title in the Title Tool application.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3561. (Windows 10) Microsoft YaHei and JjengHei fonts did not appear in Subcap.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3350. When sending a sequence with mixed formats in it with Transcode on Send to playback enabled, you might have received a “Can't send to playback: Project format is different than target resolution format” error
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3571. Free space calculations during transcode operation was not checked correctly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3867. In some instances you could not mark and IN and OUT in the Source Timeline.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3834. After upgrading to Media Composer v2019.12.2, you might have received a “Fatal error” message when opening a sequence containing image (without alpha) clips.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3748. The title bar did not change in contrast when you switched to a light interface setting.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3892. Media Composer Floating License consumed 2 seats during activation.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3716. A keyboard shortcut for audio punch-in and record did not always start recording.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3860. In some instances, when in a Production Management environment, the application unexpectedly deleted the original files of linked clips.
2 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.3
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2847. (macOS) You might have received a “LegendAudioDev” error when recording audio only with the Capture Tool.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3862. You might have experienced drop outs over cuts and dissolves when playing back and/or exporting a 5.1 sequence with audio clips that have LFE added in the advanced panner.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3584. (MediaCentral | Cloud UX environment) When batch re-importing TIFF that are included in Prunus AAF files, clips display as WRONG FORMAT.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3772. When Dynamic Relink was enabled, you could not link to full clips of spanned P2 media.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3563. With Dynamic Relink enabled, media appeared offline after batch re-importing (PNG/TIFF) and AAF from Prunus files.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3486. When working with Avid Artist DNxIP in an environment using Evertz Magnum VLAN for NMOS connectivity, multicast information was not being routed for video. To see a fix for this, upgrade to Desktop Video v15.5.3.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3777. You might have experienced audio sync shift on local audio playback as soon as NDI was enabled.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3587. You might not have been able to open a sequence or you might have received “Crumb Exists” errors when opening a sequence containing markers on TC1.
Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.3
The following have been fixed:
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3822. In some instances, even when Dynamic Relink was set to Highest Quality, video clips were relinked to the proxy resolution.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3758. With “QuickTime Live Link” enabled, Media Composer might have crashed when modifying linked TIFF files multiple times.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3605. (macOS) Event logs might have mislabeled a “DSM path not found” error as a critical error.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3752. (Interplay) In some instances, assets were offline if the NEXIS workspaces that contain the media files were not mounted.
3 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.3
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3762. You continued to receive the warning, even after selecting the “Don’t warn again” message, when loading IMX50 SD clips with restrictions.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3750. (Japanese locale) In some instances, you could not open your Project by double-clicking the .avp file
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3551. Performing an XDCAM proxy import or batch reimport might have resulted in a crash to a Breakpad window.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3742. Markers did not display in an EDL if placed on a group clip.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3357. You could not successfully playback Capture in progress files coming from MOG.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3670. You could not successfully Dynamic Relink to XDCAM HD 50 and MPEG 50 SD (IMX50) at the same time. The Dynamic Relink options would not allow you to relink XDCAM HD 50 and MPEG SD 50 at the same time, with the proxy offline.To fix this, an additional option has been added to the Dynamic Relink dialog.
See the following examples: • Greater or equal to SD - all media smaller than SD raster become offline • Equal to SD Proxy - all media appears offline except SD proxy • Greater or equal to SD Proxy - all media greater than SD proxy appears online
4 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.3
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2665. With an Avid Artist DNxIO or DNxIQ attached, you could not playback a sequence in the Timeline if calibration tone was playing.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3775. PhraseFind was not indexing linked media.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3751. (Interplay) Media create by EVS with international characters in bin column names could not be checked out.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3660. Media Composer displayed the transcoding count from the progress window incorrectly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3719. In some instances, the area for resizing a window was smaller than in previous releases making it more difficult to select the window for resizing.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3680. Timecode Burn-in effect did not always show Clip Notes.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3569. (Artist Mix) Audio Mixing using Live Mode did not work when performing an audio punch-in.
5 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.3
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3462. You received Exception errors when closing a bin on a Read-only drive.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3741. You might have received a “Target sample is entirely past EOF” error when scrubbing or trimming partially restored media.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3739. Media Composer used “Take” name for a filename even if the option was disabled when linking wave groups.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3812. With Dynamic Relink enabled, you might have received a “Structure Exception” error when loading a sequence.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3429. The Segment mode and Trim type were reverted to default (Red/Yellow) after using the Smart Tool toggle to re-enabled the Smart Tool.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3207. The text “%20” replaced spaces in UNC and NAS paths in the Source Browser.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3533. You could not successfully update your sequence after editing group clips.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3655. Linking Vantage created MXF media crashed Media Composer with XDCAM HD 50Mbits (1080i/60) project.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3701. Partially restored media from Archive did not relink to high resolution if Dynamic Relink was set to Highest Quality.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3150. In some instances, restoring a floating window and maximizing windows did not work properly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3473. In some instances, you received a “You cannot import this file into a bin” message when trying to import a file you previously exported.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3785. After performing a consolidation with handles, the consolidated sequence was not always fully online.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3651. Renders might have been lost after consolidating a sequence with XDCAM HD media in the Timeline.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3799. MCCET-3799 With Direct Audio Channel selected, performing a Send to Playback with Dynamic Relink enabled created an audio mixdown.
6 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.3
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3805. When in Frame View, thumbnails did not always match the clip and might have changed once selected.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3267. In some instances, when performing a render operation, a low disk space warning is raised multiple times instead of once.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3546. “Hide Video” in a floating Composer Monitor did not resize the monitor correctly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3704. Audio track effects did not show Bypass status.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3799. Performing a Send To Playback with Dynamic Relink enabled created an audio mixdown if Direct Audio Channel was selected.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3407. If you switched the project to Stereoscopic or changed the One row or Two row Button Display at Bottom options in the Composer Settings, the Source/Record buttons reverted to default.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3825. Deleting a custom-saved Title Style from the settings resulted in a crash to a Breakpad window.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3610. In some instances, double clicking assets from Production Management Window could result in a hang or crash.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3871. You could not successfully send a mixed resolution sequence to Send to Playback if Dynamic Relink was set to a specific resolution.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3831. The MultiRez button in the Timeline did not display colors properly as in previous releases, making it difficult to distinguish the status.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3830. Using the MultiRez Button in the Timeline did not change the Timeline segment colors for working/target mismatches.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3868. In some instances, you might have received an “Exception” error when accessing the Dynamic Relink settings dialog. This happened if the Dynamic Relink Override Target Video menu did not populate correctly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3792. If the primary Transfer Engine was down, the Send to Playback list would not appear.
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7 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.2
Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.2
The following have been fixed:
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3331. In some instances, linked MOV files failed when performing a background transcode.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3596. Adding Key Code to a Subclip did not work properly
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3474. Marking an IN and OUT and then dragging an effect to the Timeline sometimes caused multiple additional add edits.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3635. AAF exports were much slower than in previous releases.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3644. Info Window header information was missing.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3409. Manually locked Scripts became unlocked when opened and closed again.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3654. The list of bins and folders in the Sidebar scrolled to the top if you renamed or created a new bin.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3708. When bin content is selected, Shift+Q and Shift+W don't work with “'Menu to Button' Reassignment” key assignments.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3481. If you zoomed in on a Paint Effect object in a sequence and then scrubbed the Timeline and moved the object, the image displayed was incorrect.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3443. When working with Paint Effect, video on a lower track appears when you first drag the paint object.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3566. In some instances, AMA linked clips with Dynamic Relink enabled were offline.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3542. Performing a mixdown of a sequence with Timecode Burn-In may have resulted in a “No such track” error.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3667. Color Correction Segment Preview was not working when the sequence was more than 20 minutes long.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3597. You might have lost renders when working between two systems and using the Sapphire Plugin.
8 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.2
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3631. Exporting Wav files from 59.94p sequences, the Start and End Timecode incremented to later even number frames.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3394. Pitch correction during shuttle did not work.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3639. You can now name the NDI stream to a custom name, no matter who logs in. Use the following the console command. You should be able to use spaces in the service name if you use quotes.
ndiservicename
For example:
ndiservicename “Jeff In The Home Office”
Stop and restart NDI in Media Composer. You might need to restart your NDI viewer to see the service name has changed.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3324. Audio Mixer modifications on master clip were lost when re-opening the master clip.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3481. If you zoomed in on your sequence and then moved a paint effect in the Timeline, the image did not display properly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3635. AAF exports were much slower in the v2019.x release than in the v2018.12 release.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3591. (Interplay - Distributed Processing) When rerunning the same transcode job one more time a new PCM audio clip was unnecessarily created and checked in.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3650. You might have received a “File compression is not supported for media creation” error when consolidating Panasonic AVC Intra 100 media.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3608. XAVC Intra 300 and 100 exported with the Sony XAVC Intra 4K constraint option enabled using the Avid Media Processor did not pass Sony Format Check Tool.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3708. When bin content is selected, Shift+Q and Shift+W don't work with “'Menu to Button' Reassignment” key assignments.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3630. Enabling Dynamic Relink set XAVC-I class 300 clips to media offline.
9 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.1
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3566. In some instances, AMA linked clips with Dynamic Relink enabled were offline.
Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.1
The following have been fixed:
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3479. When working with Edit While Capture subclips, the cursor and position indicator did not follow smoothly when scrubbing with the mouse.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3354. Fixed support of mixed rate media for fps other than project multiples.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3530. Segments were deselected if you switched between red and yellow Segment mode.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3577. You might have seen Timeline changes and the audio might not have been correct after performing a batch re-import or relink of the audio.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3411. FrameFlex might add a black line to the bottom of the Record monitor when changing Reformat to Pillarbox.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3501. A BreakPad window appeared when applying a 3D DVE effect to a Step In video track. The 3D DVE effect appeared by mistake and has been removed.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3237. (Windows) FrameFlex scaling might have appeared blurry on some images.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3334. You could not transcode if the space required for transcoding exceeded 2097152 MB on 8K projects.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3499. In some instances, Frameflex quality was not good when linking a 2048x1152 MOV file.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3555. You could not move position (X,Y) in FrameFlex effects editor parameters.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3332. AAF exports from Media Composer v2018.12.8 and v2019.9 did not import into Pro Tools.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3403. If you had many bins and at least one folder, the Sidebar and Project window bin list scrolled to the top when you closed a bin.
10 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.1
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3451. The AudioSuite Vari-Fi effect was not working correctly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3442. The AudioSuite Reverse effect was not working correctly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3316. When working with the SubCap effect, the Outline Weight behaved differently in Media Composer v2018.x and above (the space between the letters became larger) compared to Media Composer v8.x. In order to fix this, the Outline Weight includes two options to choose from: Basic Outline and Basic Outline (extra spacing.)
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3448. You might have received “Assertion failed” errors and audio channels offline when opening a sequence restored from archive.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3421. In some instances, the bin would hang or crash when trying to open the bin.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3414. In some instances, you might have seen banding issues after rendering or performing video mixdowns.
11 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.1
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3279. A new setting has been added to Trim Settings. The “Sync Rollers at Position In Filler” puts sync rollers at the blue bar in filler just like non-filler. This makes sure markers in filler will stay in sync with other tracks as they are trimmed. This option is defaulted off.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3233. If there was filler between segments, jumping to specific timecode did not work properly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3482. When working with Dynamic Relink, if relink was set to Highest Quality and you do not have access to the drive containing the highest quality media, you received a “cannot find file requested” error message rather than remain linked to the lower resolution media.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3115. In some instances, Import and Export Options windows were unresponsive.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3069. (NRCS Tool) You might have experienced issues on your first attempt at scrolling down and clicking at the bottom of the Story Panel.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3439. If Run Length Endcoded (RLE) was enabled in the Import Setting, you might have received errors or a system hang when importing MOV files.
12 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.1
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3487. Assigned local clip colors changed to default when the volume was adjusted.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3461. Audio frames might have been missing after performing a mixed down or an export.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3553. The editing application would sometimes crash when switching between bin layouts.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3564. When XAVC files were linked when Dynamic Relink was enabled, that Data track displays as Media Offline.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3329. With certain keystroke combinations you might have experienced behavior such as slow motion frames or K not stopping playback.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3434. There was no audio when linking and importing .mts and .m2ts files on Media Composer v2019.12.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3485. Media checked into Interplay as XAVC I CBG Class 100, was checked out in new project as AVC-Intra 100.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3455. Dynamic Relink will now properly relink to either XAVC 100 or XAVC HD Intra CBG Class 100.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3537. Saving a new workspace with single monitor selected, switches back to dual monitor unless you re-save the workspace.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3562. Media Composer crashed to BreakPad during Send To Playback if background check in was enabled.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3545. Duplicate shortcut (Ctrl+D) was not working in Script View.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3307. When working in the Color Workspace, user interface responsiveness was slower in the Effects Editor window than in the Color Correction window.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3227. Media Creation Settings were not retained when added to Site Settings.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET- 3427. In some instances, when performing a Send to Playback, even if the Minimum Resolution warning threshold was enabled in the Transfer Settings, the warning did not appear if the Timeline contained proxy resolutions.
13 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3436. Remapped keyboard shortcuts did not work when Bin Container Sidebar was the active window.
Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12
The following have been fixed:
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3285. With connected IO hardware such as AJA or Blackmagic, you could not downscale monitor output on an HD client monitor.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11345. When tools were tabbed with the Composer Window, the video displayed on top of the tools.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3374. Bin sifting was not retained after closing and opening the bin.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12014. Sometimes when the Audio Mixer was layered over another tool or bin, and the Timeline or Composer had focus, hovering the mouse over the Audio Mixer made the Audio Mixer the active window.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12015. Minimizing Media Composer on dual monitors with auto hide sometimes resulted in losing Menus, Workspace Bar, and background host panel.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3210. The Source Record monitor would go black, and menus stopped working if you were working with the Source Browser and the Windows taskbar was set to auto-hide.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12099. Thumbnails for subclips were recaching every time you opened a bin in Frame View, slowing performance.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12347. With large projects on shared storage, updating the project after changing a bin name was slow.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3257. (macOS). When waveforms were enabled, clicking in the Timeline might have resulted in a crash and Breakpad error.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3345. (macOS) In some instances, after performing a lasso and trim, the Source monitor would display black.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3171. (macOS v10.12.6). Media Composer was not populating the second screen on a dual monitor setup.
14 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3305. You might have received a “Cannot find bin x in Project x” when performing a Find Bin.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3108. The text to identify locked bins was not displayed in bold.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3299. Using JKL did not work properly when playing a clip with a Timewarp effect.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3355. Imported tga files were only one frame in duration.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3304. Newly created bins that were empty did not save size nor position when working with shared storage.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3206. In some instances, clip frames would rebuild on the entire sequence.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3388. You could not resize an effect +/- 10 steps using the keyboard shortcuts.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3369. French, Swedish, German, and Danish letters in Bin Script View comment field didn’t display properly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3333. Sequential Targa (.tga) files could not be imported correctly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3337. When right-clicking on linked clips in a bin, the Relink to Files option might have been grayed out.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3404. (NRCS Tool) When browsing iNews database, the cursor continued showing a spinning wheel even after the result had been returned.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3292. A Transition did not play correctly in full quality if the first clip was an imported still image with XDCAM HD or AVC Long GOP.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3399. The position info did not display even if you selected Settings > Grid > Display > Show Position Info.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3372. Media Composer became unresponsive when you tried to perform a transfer to a Transfer service that was not available.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3342. If Waveforms were enabled, the Timeline responsiveness lagged when dragging or trimming.
15 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.11
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2817. Trimming a clip with an AudioSuite Time compression/expansion effect might have affected subsequent renders.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3251. In some instances Media Composer vaporized when extracting a segment.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3330 (Avid Artist DNxIO, Avid Artist DNxIQ). In some instances, 720p25 projects were incorrectly converted to 1080i50.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3250. (macOS) In some instances, when editing keyframes and then entering Trim mode, the Source Record monitor would appear black.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3230. Timecode Burn-in added pulldown frame info when added to V5 or V6 track.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3306. In some instances, if the Effects Editor was open, Color Correction was not always added correctly and the wrong clip was modified.
Fixed in Media Composer v2019.11
The following have been fixed:
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11309. (Titler +) Triple-clicking text did not select all of the text.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11963. (Titler +) Word selection bounding box was displayed at the wrong end of the line.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3346. You might have received an “Exception: Audio Buffer for TMF Export” error when performing a Send to Playback.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3321. When importing an XML with markers, the markers appeared in the Timeline but the Markers window was blank.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3343. With a Japanese locale, characters appeared corrupted in the Project format tab of the Settings window.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3327. When entering fade values in a Fade Effect, the opacity in the fade would go from 0 to 1 instead of 0 to 100.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12124. Typing in the Effects Palette search field would crash if a Symphony Color Correction relationship effect had been deleted or muted in the Timeline.
16 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.11
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3192. The Timeline jumped to the blue bar if you clicked one of the segment mode buttons on Timeline Palette.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11970. Reloading frames when opening multiple bins in Frame view was very slow.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11982. If the Motion Effect Editor window was open, pressing the K (pause) key did not stop playback.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11827. The Timeline Video Quality menu reverted to a previous setting when a project was re-opened.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12099. When in Frame View, subclip thumbnails recached every time the bin was opened.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12055. Match Frame selected clips from the wrong track.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11989. The bin did not refresh after a save when Set Bin Display was set to Show Reference Clips.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11998. In some instances, performing Waveform Sync on a sequence resulted in an “AutoGainPane EXCEPTION not handled” error.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10649. Performing Choose Column did not place the newly added column to the right of the selected column.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11048. Creating a new bin or renaming a bin temporarily blanked out Side Bar data.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11772. (Mac) In some instances, Media Composer crashed when turning off Dual-Monitor configuration and switching between workspaces.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11895. In some instances, deleting media files from a bin deleted columns and caused Media Composer to crash.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11906. Long clip and sequence names were cut off.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12000. Changing the default Transition Manipulation icon in Timeline toolbar did not persist between launches.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12002. Transition Manipulation was unexpectedly disabled when clicking in the ruler if the Timeline Settings were set to click the TC Track or Ruler Disables Smart Tools.
17 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.11
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12017. The Color picker didn’t show the selected bin background color.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11565. The Composer and Timeline windows sometimes used an incorrect font.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11918. Show Bin in Sidebar failed if the bin was in a folder.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12034. Media Composer vaporized when running out of space during render.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12031. (Mac) (Titler +) Grouping was not working with Title +.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-12018. (Titler +) Field interpolation was lost when adjusting roll/crawl position.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11945. (Titler +) In some instances, spaces were inserted at the beginning when typing text for a title.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10457. (Titler +) The contents of the title did not change correctly when adjusted using the Global|Foreground Level slider.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3198. (Mac). In some instances, dragging items from Interplay Access did not always place the selected items in the bin.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3121. You might have received a “PMM insufficient media” error when performing an Audio Punch-In.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2618. The HW/SW button might not have detected an attached hardware device.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3082. Group clips did not match-frame accurately if the group clip had a different frame rate than the project.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3205. In some instances, MXF DV25 420 files could not be imported.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3188. When a search was filtered, Media Composer would freeze when editing Timeline Clip Notes in the Timeline Clip Notes window.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3203. Audio waveforms were offset on a muted audio clip, if the previous segment on the Timeline had a dissolve effect added that ended on a cut.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3057. Group clip names were not in order.
18 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.11
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3271. You could not adjust 3D warp border and perspective parameters by 1 using arrow keys.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3232. Linking BWF files linked as non-drop frame even if drop frame was selected.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3240. Media Composer inadvertently allowed you to drag sequences without frame-rate conversion from Interplay into the Source monitor.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3185. Effects became unrendered after a sequence was consolidated twice. This fix applies to media consolidated with this release.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3141. Media Composer would intermittently hang, vaporise, and display a Breakpad message, when performing the following actions: adding In and Out points, trimming, double clicking on clip from Product Management window (to be loaded on Source Monitor), loading a sequence from the bin, clicking on the Lift button, entering Timeline Fast menu from right click.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3173. In some instances the Text View button, Frame View button, search field, thumbnail slider, and scrollbar would disappear from the Source Browser.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3182. Sometimes the system would hang when performing Loop Play and then switching workspaces.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3076. Color space metadata was not included in QuickTime when AMA linking.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3254. You might have received an Exception error after dragging and dropping the Stabilize effect to a segment on the Timeline.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3075. Some DPX exported images were distorted/corrupted.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3290. You might have received “FatalAbort VDM Scheduling failed” and “MultiFrameCombiner” errors when trimming.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3253. Newly created bins using shortcut keys Cmd+N (Mac) or Ctrl+N (Win) could not be renamed easily.
19 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.9
Fixed in Media Composer v2019.9
The following have been fixed:
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3142. Using Transition Corner Display with ripple trim didn’t update the lower 3 frames correctly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3158. Locked tracks became deselected when you changed export settings.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3122. If you exported an AAF for a second time, changing the name resulted in a crash.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3058. After performing an Insert Edit, returning to the Insert Edit Export option, the selected check boxes were not saved.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3168. The editing application would crash when opening a bin from Media Composer v8.4.5.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3190. (Mac) In some instances, bin saving did not complete.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3144. OMFI did not rescan or relink properly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3175. If Windows scaling was set to 150%, 3D Warp effects displayed as a negative image.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3211. (Windows) Video did not expand when you resized a pop-up window.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3110. When in Text View, you did not have the option in the Bin Window to lock columns during scrolling left and right. See the Media Composer v2019.9 What’s New for information on Bin Left Lock.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2951. (Nitris DX) You might have received an “Assertion failed” error. when adjusting audio using the Audio Monitor Control button in the Timeline.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3021. You might have received an “Exception: CC Relationship Failed” error and the editor crashed when removing Color Correction.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3153. In some instances, video mixdowns did not display the correct timecode.
20 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.9
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3189. When performing a Digital Cut with the Digital Cut Safe Mode enabled, effects were rendered, but the render progress windows stayed on the screen when the playback starts. This blocked access to any controls in the Digital Cut window.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2819. Saving an Export Setting that included the Avid Media Processor option did not always retain the correct settings..
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2972. In some instances, bins did not save after placing resize effects on clips.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3178. The YCbCR 2020 HLG Color Space did not carry over into the project.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3194. In some instances, K did not stop playback when working with JKL playback.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3187. Selecting File > Open Bin did not always make the bin visible.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3109. You could not always save a Color Correction (current/previous/next) setting as a custom setting.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3221. Performing a Quick Find using the Bin filter field with enable/disable reference clips did not work properly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2676. Audio Meters in the Audio Mixer tool responded later than the audio meters in the Timeline.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3215. In some instances, if the Tool Palette was opened across two monitors, the editing application would crash.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2759. (Interplay) The wrong file might have been transferred when performing a drag and drop from a bin to an FTP Browser.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3140. In some instances, the video might have looked skewed after applying a tracker effect.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2854. Dragging and dropping a clip from AirSpeed Remote Console to a bin resulted in Media Composer closing.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3219. You might have received a “Current hardware is not compatible with this project's settings, and is being switched to inactive” error when connected to a Nitris DX or Mojo DX. The IO device should not have been disabled for supported resolutions. This has been fixed.
21 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.8
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3007. MXFOP1a exports from Avid Media Processor may have had a “Timecode of first frame” value of -1 if the start of sequence had an odd timecode.
Fixed in Media Composer v2019.8
The following have been fixed:
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3092. The text in the Source Settings dialog box was corrupted if you were in a Japanese locale.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3096. Adding an animated scale to a title text created with Avid Titler + resulted in jittery text.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3088. In some instances, when working with dual monitors, minimizing the application did not minimize the application in both windows.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3018. Importing .scc files toggled the input/output signal on the Avid Artist DNxIO.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2878. In some instances, consolidating HD material in a UHD project would blackout a Quad Split client monitor.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3136. (Mac) Arrow keys and Command+W did not always respond when in the Marker window.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3046. Timeline video quality playback settings altered AVC Long-G color difference when transcoding full vs 10bit.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3063. You might have received “CDCIReader_Unkown_Compression_Type” error when trying to link and playback Telestream files in MXF OP-1A Prores HD format.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3094. You might have received “assertion failed “errors when trimming compressed stereo MP2 audio clips if audio scrubbing was enabled.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3156. (Mac) Video Satellite offset and delay fields changed from -1 to 4294967295 when re-opened.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3105. Shift + F10 to select a camera angle was not working properly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3008. In some instances, vertical centering during image import were sometimes offset by one pixel.
22 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.8
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3099. Playback stopped after adding a Mark IN/Mark Out in Script View Mode.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3116. You might have received a “filename already exists” message even when saving an export setting with a different file extension.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3155. You might have received an “assertion failed” error when opening a sequence with Dynamic Relink enabled.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3114. Logging into Media Central from Media Composer using % or & in the user name or password resulted in a “Requested time out” error.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2990. It could take up to a few minutes when logging out from Production Management in Media Composer.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2987. Markers ignored sync lock when using extended trim.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2955. In some instances, pressing JKL intermittently scrubbed on its own, or did not stop when pressing K (pause).
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3106. Project metadata was not displayed in the Project column for linked then consolidated/transcoded media.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11718. (Bin all views) You were able to create empty clip name using spaces.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11729. The Mac Desktop Audio was muted on launch. This helps users who launch Media Composer while they are in the middle of a video call.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11719. Timeline Track Color feature did not show color correctly.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11749. Dragging a few selected clips in Frame Bin View to Timeline added clips in wrong order.
➤ Bug Number: . MCDEV-11370 Bins: Creating too long Bin View name caused an Assertion failed error message.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3123. The width of columns did not adjust to the clip or sequence name automatically.
➤ Bug Number: . COGS-5897: Timeline - Display tooltip when hovering over sequence name on bottom row.
23 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.8
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3113. In some instances, the option “Set column for selected clips” was not available for selected clips.
➤ Bug Number: . MCDEV-10584 Adding a Custom Column worked incorrectly with an empty bin and columns cannot be rearranged.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3146. Using the Mark clip (default T key on the keyboard) did not work in Script view in a bin 2019.x. Note that other keys that were supported in previous releases are also included in this fix:
E - Mark In Key
R - Mark Out Key
T - Mark Clip Key
I - Mark In Key
O - Mark Out Key
D - Clear In Key
F- Clear Out Key
G - Clear Both Key
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2926. Zoom into Region was not visible on all tracks.
➤ Bug Number: . Solo/mute icon substitution color - on dark skins it was difficult to read the 's' and the 'm' over the green/orange backgrounds.
➤ Bug Number: . MCCET-3124 After sifting some clips and then sorting, other clips (not sifted) appeared.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3117. Timeline Quick Find to the left and right was not working if the sequence contained an audio track effect.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3098. You might have received a “failed to import” message when trying to import exported AAF media.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3087. In some instances, the editing application would crash when rendering audio effects on a long audio clip.
24 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.7
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2992. The Stop and Pause buttons did not work if you used them from the Active Palette option of the Command Palette or if you mapped them.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3134. In some instances, after opening and closing the Audio Punch-in Tool, some text is missing from the window.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2981. In some instances, clicking the Stop button on the Audio Punch-In tool only worked intermittently.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3145. The editing application might have crashed or resulted in an “Out of memory” error when trying to load an archived sequence.
Fixed in Media Composer v2019.7
The following have been fixed:
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2905. Using the arrow up and arrow down keys to move clips from one track to another did not work when a nested effect was open.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3016. Audio meters did not display in the Audio Tool, Audio Mixer or Timeline window during a Digital Cut.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2986. In some instances, adjusting audio level from the Audio Mixer, while playing a sequence, did not affect the volume.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3006. (Windows) Media Composer would crash when importing embedded AAF into a 25fps HD project.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3112. (Script View) In some instances, Media Composer would crash when scrolling in a large bin and while playing in the Source/Record monitor.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3003. You could not rename group clip tracks.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-2899. All related media object were not highlighted when selecting media relatives if you grouped clips and selected Select Sync Clips Using “Film TC/Sound TC”.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3031. In some instances, when I/O hardware was enabled, you could not import/transcode to AVCIntra50.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3036. When working with an HD 1080p 25 project, transcode options changed if I/O hardware was enabled/disabled.
25 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.7
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3032. You might have received an “Exception: No Source” error when performing a video mixdown and choosing over/under as a Stereoscopic option.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3086. You could not copy and paste markers using Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3059. You could not save newly created and renamed shared bins in project sub folders.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3041. If you pressed ESC a few seconds after performing a trim, the Timeline did not update correctly.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3026. When consolidating a subclip with “Delete original media files when done” enabled, an unrelated Transcode notification message was displayed.
➤ Bug Number: MCCET-3073. AAF exports did not include the media if the clip was muted.
➤ Bug Number: ETE-1512. A dark gray fill (instead of black) is provided now in the viewer for Pillar and Letter box areas that are not masked.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11146. Removed Show Position and Show Effect Contents from the Timeline settings.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-8227. When switching between MXF and OMF media types in the Media Creation window, the window would not refresh until it was reopened.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-8527. The Tool Palette moved position after resizing.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10060. Precomputes were lost when reentering the Avid Titler+Title tool.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10346. An asterisk might have appeared in the Bin name even if no changes had been made to the bin.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10412. You might have experienced problems loading sequences with Avid Titler+ titles between Windows and Mac systems.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10512. Avid Titler+ characters did not maintain relative position between each other during animation playback.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10624. Scrolling in Text view in a bin was column by column rather than by pixel.
26 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.7
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10632. Even when a change was made, the Bin View name did not display in italics to indicate a change to the view had been made.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10801. Changing the sequence name in Frame View did not update the name in the Composer monitor or in the Timeline.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10818. Floating a bin might have resulted in the bin resizing too small.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10880. When creating a Volume Bin, “Export Folder” and “Set location” text does not display correctly if you are working in a Russian locale.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10918. Mapping “Set Bin Display” to a letter on the keyboard did not work.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10934. Typing the first letter of setting displayed the setting at the bottom of the window rather than in the middle of the window.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-10995. When in Frame view, if you dragged a clip to the Source Monitor, the clip would load into the source monitor, but the clip’s thumbnail was moved to an unintended location within the bin.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11131. In some instances, effects with graphic backgrounds did not draw correctly in the track effect dialog.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11145. An Interlaced Roll/Crawl motion effect created with Titler + appeared as a frame motion rather than field motion effect.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11191. Double clicking to float an existing bin always stacked the bin in same position/size and did not retain its last known state.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11231. You might have experienced an occasional crash on exit with AJA 4K hardware attached. You must update to AJA Desktop software v15.2 to see this fix.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11245. The File Cache tab in Media Cache Settings window was cut off and difficult to activate.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11299. The font appeared bold in the Name fields for the Source and Record side of the Composer window.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11317. Titler + titles appeared in the bin without an icon.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11429. The Name column did not appear as the first column in the Media Tool.
27 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.7
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11442. (Bin Frame view) Clicking near edge of a selected item in the bin while in text-edit mode deselected the item.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11453. The Audio Clip Gain window did not remain open when you tried to enter a value from the keyboard or if you tried to move the slider up with the mouse.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11491. Pressing and holding the ALT key while dragging a number of clips onto the Record monitor did not create a sequence with the clips in the order they were sorted in the bin.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11492. If you selected a dropdown menu in the Inspector Tool and then clicked on another window, focus remained on the Inspector Tool.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11530. Double clicking a clip in Bin Frame view to load in the Composer monitor did not leave focus on the Composer monitor.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11534. The Lock/Unlock Bin options were missing from the Bin Container sidebar context and Fast menus.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11546. You might have received a “Crumb not found” error when deleting markers in the Source monitor.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11550. Perf information was missing in the Setting format pane of a film project.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11562. Tab and Shift+Tab did not allow you to move to the next or previous column in Bin Text View.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11568. With the Interface Brightness set to dark, track numbers were too light when you expanded the Audio Mixer Tool.
➤ Bug Number: MCDEV-11569. You might have received a “PMM_SYNC_FAILURE” error when performing an Audio mixdown of a sequence with sub-clips and sample slip.
28 Fixed in Media Composer v2019.7
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