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MC4 Editing - Overview
Overview | Basics | Media Mgt |  Editing | Shortcut Keys | Workflow  | Backup  | Effects | Titles  | Audio   |  Encoding
 
 
Liquidians:   Don't miss these tutorials - NEW - Media Composer 5 - Getting Started  & Intro to Smart Tool

Note: Most of these pages and links are cut and pasted from other people's creativity that I read and want to remember for my personal editing growth.  I try to give credit when I can - but sometimes the cut and paste just doesn't get that done - so my apologies to all for missing credits. 

I have divided the "multi-colored tab headings" above into several sub-sections under each heading topic, and have tried to organize navigation in a way that a Liquid editor might find useful in making the transition between Liquid and MC. Think of these pages as my personal notes as I go through the learning process.

 
Getting Started from Ground Zero (after successful install)
  First of all - go over these tutorials - Avid Media Composer Quick Start
   
Before Basics - check out these tutorials
Tutorial Link 111  Before Basics -  1. Track Selectors
Link 112  Before Basics -  2. Splice-in, Overwrite, Drag & Drop
Link 113  Before Basics -  3. Lift & Extract from IN to OUT points
 
Hard drives should be 7200 rpm.  Connect external 7200 rpm drives using firewire if possible - firewire is better than USB for video editing.
   
Consider using a 1920 x 1080 monitor connected via HDMI or DVI cables.  A lot of people seem to like 26" - 32" monitors. Dual monitors are great too.
   
Installation & Registration & Activation - If you are using a wireless connection, you may be changing the NIC that was used to activate the system. Since the activation is based on your MAC address, this will deactivate you. You can call into 1-800-800 2843 and choose Option#2 for installation / registration  help. It's a free call.  <<more >>
 

 
Disconnect from the Internet
  You will find the entire application will run smoother if, while Media Composer is running, you disconnect from the Internet and disable your anti-virus and firewall software. Also, for capturing longer segments, check your capture settings for the longest capture default time - the factory default is 30 minutes - you may want to increase that. - Larry Rubin
Minimum System Requirements  (Avid Site)
  Internal Hard Drive: must have about 10 gig free drive space.
Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX family** (FX 560 or higher
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz processor or faster
 
Update/ Patches  Links
  MC Patches     Support Download Site on avid.com.
For Liquiidians
        New VERSIONS are in a 2 dot configurations 5.0.0 ; 5.0.3
        Update patches are a 3 dot configuration - 5.0.3.5

Before installing new Version, deactivate MC,  and in control panel, uninstall MC and Avid Audio Drivers

Before installing patch - do not have MC running when you install patch.

Sonicfire Pro 5.5.2 Update
Sorenson
Boris   

 

 

 re: installing updates:

I always run the AvidMediaComposer, AvidCodecsPE, AvidDIORuntime and AVidCoreRuntime uninstallers every time.  I'd also suggest repairing permissions after the reboot.