Avid – Important Update Media Composer 2018.12.5

This release addresses many bugs and issues, including:

• You might have received an Exception error when deleting an asset from a bin
• Intermittently, saving bins resulted in Exception errors.
• In some instances, rendering some effects on linked H264 media resulted in mixed up frames.
• (Windows 10) The Audio Tool was not updating when scrubbing with CAPS lock enabled.
• (Avid Artist DNxIO and DNxIQ) Audio meter levels were not displayed in the Audio tool when recording.
• (Interplay) In some instances, Media Composer would crash during check-in of sequence.
• The Property Merge window would inadvertently appear when checking in a clip for first time into Interplay.
• Media Composer would hang when playing back an Avid Titler + title in the effect editor.
• You might not have received the correct find results when searching group clips in PhraseFind.
• Switching camera angles in Multicam stopped playback if the group contained mixed frame rates.
• If you were working on a system using Chinese locale, you might have experienced consolidate and transcode audio issues.
• You might have been unable to import an EDL.
• Saved presets did not always retain the last keyframe.
• You might have seen performance issues when editing a long AVC Long GOP 25 clip.
• Changes to Audio Reference Level settings changes were not properly reflected when you switched between Normal and Narrow Mixer View.
• (Mac v10.14.x) When linking to media on a shared network drive, the UNC path in the Drive column might have had the network user name in the path.
• When consolidating AVC Long GOP subclips created new master clips that were too long. A new check box has been added to the Consolidate/Transcode dialog boxes. Select the “Re-encode AVC Long GOP media to ensure shortest subclip durations” option when you consolidating AVC Long GOP subclips.
• (Mac) You might have received “not authorized” errors when trying to use PhraseFind or ScriptSync.
• If Dynamic Relink was enabled, imported DaVinci Resolve AAF media was offline.

Please Note: Avid had previously released 2018.12.4 last week but pulled it almost immediately after a serious deletion issue was found. Any users on 2018.12.4 should upgrade to 2018.12.5 immediately, and any users on 2018.12.3 or earlier should upgrade past 2018.12.4 to 2018.12.5.