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Hello,

I have installed Editorial Management on a server and am connecting to it with a client computer. Both can connect to the Nexis and mount workspaces. The client computer can connect to mediacentral both within Avid and in a chrome web browser, but in both instances all I see in the directory listing on the left hand side is the name of my Nexis. None of my workspaces show up and no files or folders. I'm out of ideas on how to make files show up, it feels like the Nexis needs to be indexed and then the files and folders will show up? If someone can help please.

Running MCEM 19.5 on Windows Server 2016, and Media Composer 2018.12.5 with Nexis Client Manager 18.11

-LPG

Hi Interplay/Mediacentral users,

After a few hours of searching to resolve a send to playback issue at one of our customers I thought it was wise to share this one here.

If you use XDCAM HD and import pictures/graphics into Mediacomposer and find that the send to playback freezes during the process (at the point in the timeline where pictures/graphics are located), go to your mediacreation settings, open the tab Mixdown & Transcode and select Re-encode for XDCAM bitstream compliance (slower).

For reasons unknown to mankind this compliance is now needed for the transfer manager on the airspeed to be able to transfer the TMF file to itself.

Don't ask me why, Ask Avid... oh wait.. Avid.. why?

Kalispera

We *always* turn dynamic relink off.

Occasionally we have to turn it on to force a relink when media drops offline (eg XTAccess rebooted during transfer - media transferred but masterclip only linked to video).

Always change settings to ‘keep existing’ and ‘highest quality’

Usually that is fine.

Yesterday I had to use it in this manner, turned on for just a few seconds, then off again.

However I later opened a sequence that had one unrelated master clip that had linked to completely different source media.

This master clip was a copy (named Clip_Stereo & modified so that the audio tracks were stereo) the original master clip (Clip_mono) had retained the link to the correct source media. Both these clips have the same tape/start/end). The incorrectly linked media has a different tape & end (they have same start of 10;00;00;00)

The only answer I’m looking for here is how does dynamic relink link? Because it can’t be tape/start alone.

At some places I work, when I close a bin I get a prompt asking if I want to check the bin into Interplay. At other facilities, when I close a bin it automatically gets checked-in (which I don't like). Is that a user setting somewhere?

I am not seeing a best practices or anything in the install docs other than an old guide for version 2.5 or later.

Has anyone virtualized Media Central 2019.6? With VMWare?

I remember from class that it is a resource hog but we are on a push to virtualize everything within the next year, so Media Central and Phonetic Index are the only two I see that are not listed in the docs…

Anyone done it with success?

Avid? Supported or not supported?

Thanks

Marc

From the 2.10.6 readme.

MediaCentral Production Management.

If integrating with MediaCentral Production Management v2018.6 or later, you must use Interplay Access v3.8 - v2017.2 to configure the MediaCentral Platform Services Settings in the Interplay Administrator. Avid Interplay Administrator v2018.6 cannot be used with MediaCentral 2.10.x.

Sorry but here I go again. Have you lost your mind Avid? Who thought that this is was ok?

HI,

I want to update a sequence and...."Sequence warning! Javan.lang.NullPointerException"

add a pic

Help!

Hi guys! I'm setting up a few old multistreams for a client over an interplay workgroup and its been a while since I had to configure one of these. 

Everything looks good but I have just one little thing missing... I remember there was a way to limit the amount of transfers the device can handle, by default is 4 but because of bandwildth limitations and control the idea is to narrow it down to 2. 

Does anyone recall where this tweak is done? 

Now that the 2019.6 releases for mediacentral cloud ux, mediacentral production management, and newsroom management have been released, I have some questions/points about the state of documentation:

1] There is no 2019.6 what's new guide for production management. It links to the 2018.6 version.

2] There is no upgrade guide for cloud ux. Is this forthcoming, or is the product intended to be a clean install from scratch for this release? 

3] The media composer/interplay compatibility document currently lists Composer 2019.6 as Not Supported for MCPM 2019.6, so this release of MCPM has no qualified clients? 

Dear Avid,

Of course Mediacentral/Interplay production updates are welcomed. But this time the readme for the STP-encode server includes something that suggests.... what does it suggest actually?

In the readme it writes:

Summary of STP Encode 2018.11.2 There are no fixes or feature changes in STP Encode 2018.11.2. However this release shares internal software components with Transcode 2018.11.2 and Consolidate 2018.11.2 and the three applications are released at the same time to maintain compatibility.

Compatibility with what? Since when are production services engines ''patch inter (in)compatible"? This needs some eleboration.