![]() While I share your MC5 frustrations, I can offer a ray-of-sunshine concerning the "quit-at-launch" of Avid DVD. if I can do it (not always easy) you can! Don't shelve it!!!!!! My point being between you, your house techs, fellow Cape Town editors and the plethora of online information you can get MC5 to run on approved equipment. I am far far far from an expert or professional TV tech but I managed to tweak my system to run perfect. To say that “ MC5 JUST DOES NOT WORK! “ is not true! Don’t shelve it- fix it! If your working for broadcast isn’t there a team of technicians who know PC’s and can do installations and troubleshooting? I’m a one-man-show here and have to track down and fix anything that might go wrong by myself. All the better that you have other Avid editors nearby to talk over problems and figure the best way to fix or get around them. Instead they said that they couldn’t do a show as complicated as “Lost” without Avid! It’s funny that only 1 person in all of Cape Town got MC5 to run without problems and everyone else rolled back to earlier versions MC (good thing “Lost” wasn’t posted & edited in Cape Town !). I just finished watching the editors of “Lost” talk about their experiences with Avid & ProTools and not one of them “shelved” Avid because of buggy problems. MC 5 had been rock solid with zero conflicts on my HP. Now I expect a lot of comments here from people who are working with MC5 and they are (sort of) happy. I can work effortlessly on MC3.1 for days without any problems, but MC5 JUST DOES NOT WORK! As I said earlier, I have two system drives (one not connected) with MC5 on 1 drive and MC3.1 on another. I can go on but these are enough for me to turn a good day into a struggle. As soon as I touch the video inside the program it quits with no errors ![]() ![]() While playing out to tape, the machine will randomly stop with no error displayed. I cannot export an uncompressed QT directly from the time-line for audio mixing and to make DVDs my capture window behaves erratic with the TC readout displaying weird numbers and random figures. I then have to close and open it again to see the TC MC5 struggle with all of these except the grade and titles. I need to capture, grade, do some FX and titles, clean-up a few drop-outs, creat sub-titles and then play out to tape and make DVDs of the material. I do most of my work for broadcast and DVD distribution and my workflow and pressure requires that I work fast with no slip-ups and deliver on time. Of 7 people in my city who upgraded to MC5 at about the same time, all but 1 of them has gone back to MC3.1 or MC4. Now I expect a lot of comments here from people who are working with MC5 and they are (sort of) happy, but here in the the real word things are not that bright. ![]()
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