Category Archives: Support

AJA Release New Open I/O Plug ins to Support Avid’s V6 Composer Editor Release (Updated)

AJA have released v10 drivers in support of Avid’s Open IO initiative released with the v6 Media Composer release. Drivers for the Kona 3G, Kona 3, LHe Plus, LHi and IoExpress have been posted and they are available on the AJA … Continue reading

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Canon XF and Sony XDCAM, XDCAM EX and HDCAM SR AMA plug-ins potentially not available for Media Composer 6, Symphony 6 and Newscutter 10 release date of November 15 2011

Avid has notified its Support Community that some manufacturers have yet to release Avid Media Access (AMA) plug ins that are compatible with the latest versions of Avid editors. The article is located on Avid’s Knowledgebase and can be read … Continue reading

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Do you qualify for a free upgrade to Avid Media Composer v6?

Avid Media Composer version protection for recent upgrades to or purchases of Media Composer v5.5 software. Avid have indicated that they will allow customers who recently upraded to Media Composer v5.5, or purchased a new instance of Media Composer v5.5, … Continue reading

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Extending Sony 8-pin camera remotes

How far can the camera control signals from any smaller Sony camera go? If you talk to Mr Sony it’s around 50m (the longest cable they sell) – but as the pictures (below) suggest it’s at least the length of … Continue reading

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Nano Flash Workflow Guide

Nano Flash is now a very popular tapeless recording addition for any camera with an HD-SDI out. The reason for it becoming so popular is that it can record a number of different formats which broadcasters approve of (basically anything that … Continue reading

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FCP X released; time to get reading…

If you are one of the editors who is waiting for the release after the dot zero of FCP X, here are the manuals on line. However if you are thinking of installing it here are a few kb entries … Continue reading

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Avid releases Media Composer & Symphony 5.5.2 with support for Windows 7 SP1

Avid released Media Composer 5.5.2 yesterday and there are a number of new additions/fixes/supported configurations worth taking note of. Briefly they are Phrase Find now bundled into the main Media Composer installer Phrase Find demo included in Media Composer demo … Continue reading

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Avid have quietly released v3.2 of their ISIS 5000 Shared Storage Product

If you are interested in Avid Shared Storage solutions, you may like to know that Avid made v3.2 of their ISIS 5000 Shared Storage Product available on Friday May 6th. This new release adds some helpful new features as well as support for new switch and storage chassis hardware and of course some bug fixes. Continue reading

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The party is truly over for Mac OS and malware

For a very long time Mac users have reassured themselves that the nasty stuff will always happen to those uncreative and unimaginative Windows users. As a consequence an astonishing number of Apple OS X users run their computers with little … Continue reading

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Ethernet Attached Unity Clients getting ‘Project Is Locked For Write’ error

I recently came across this error while configuring ethernet attached clients on a Unity MN 5.1.3 system. It is a useful fix to know about – hope it helps. When trying to open a project on an Ethernet Attached Client, … Continue reading

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