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Bugs of the Week - 10-19-12

Here's another installment of our weekly list of serious, interesting or bizarre bugs in various NLEs.

Premiere Pro


Blackmagic 9.6.6 drivers may reduce Premiere latency

Several users are reporting the inability to send clips to Audition after installing the latest Dynamic Link update

Workaround for Premiere not exporting to Media Encoder queue

Reference window will now update when RGB Color Corrector is applied to a clip

Workaround for audio clips turning red when loading a project

Audio channel limitations for various containers

Avid


OS X 10.7.5 and 10.8.2 now qualified for MC and Symphony 6.5

Media Composer 6.5 stability discussion

Posted by Jon Chappell on Oct 19 2012 to Bugs of the Week, Video Editing, Software
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Bugs of the Week - 10-12-12

Here's another pick of series, interesting or useful bugs we came across this week.

Premiere


Can't export to QuickTime H.264 or DNxHD (Windows)

Subclip descriptions set in Prelude do not show up in Premiere

Fix for Premiere Pro "Media Pending" error

Avid


Moving the playhead in QuickTime Player changes the source timecode

Fix for DISK_FILE_ALREADY_EXISTS error on Unity

Dupes are detected on effect tracks

After Effects

After Effects CS6 11.0.2 released with bug fixes and new CUDA GPU support

Compressor

Fix for Compressor 3.5 crashing at startup

Posted by Jon Chappell on Oct 12 2012 to Bugs of the Week, Software, Video Editing
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Bugs of the Week - 10-5-2012

We've got more important, useful and bizarre bugs this week that you should know about.

Avid


A fix for the hang when scanning media folders is coming in 6.0.3.2

Various issues with ExFAT drives

Avid FX installer does not install the Avid FX plugin by default

Issues with AMA linking 24p CanonXF files

Despite what it says on Avid's site, the Artist Color only fully supports MC 6 and higher

Premiere


New Mac NVIDIA drivers improve CUDA stability

Audio goes offline after pasting clips from another project

Application windows may appear offscreen if you disconnect a monitor (Windows but may affect Mac too)

Playback stops several frames after you pressed Space

Tip: to enable CUDA support, delete the entire cuda_supported_cards.txt file instead of editing it

QuickTime HDV file issues in Premiere Pro CS6 for Windows

FCPX


Various issues with standard definition media

Compressor


Green bar when Frame Controls are switched on

Posted by Jon Chappell on Oct 5 2012 to Bugs of the Week, Software, Video Editing
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Bugs of the Week - 9-29-12

Here's more important, useful and bizarre bugs that we discovered this week.

Avid


Media Composer and Symphony 5.5.3.5 released

MC launches slowly unless network access is disabled

Effect changes in MC 5 and 6

'Online Resources' window hangs Avid

Typing too quickly in Subcap causes characters to be swapped

Workaround for unsupported foreign characters in Marquee

Bin memory drops to 0%

Canon EOS clips appear blank when Perian is installed

Workaround for "Audio has attempted to overrun its buffers" error when capturing

Premiere


Adobe has released updates for a security issue on Windows

The main problem affecting users of Adobe products is that the code signing certificate will now expire on October 4th, which could cause Windows error messages or problems with anti-virus tools. It is therefore worthwhile installing the updates before October 4th. Mac users do not need to update.

Premiere Pro 6.0.2 fixes the long-standing issue inability to render more than 2.15 GB to a network share

Problems with Adobe Application Manager on Windows showing applications not installed

Workaround for titles not appearing in exports

Retimed clips need to be nested in order to add additional effects to them

FCPX


OpenCL issues with plugins

FCPX does not support straight alpha

Blank viewer window if monitor color profile is incorrect

Posted by Jon Chappell on Sep 30 2012 to Bugs of the Week, Software, Video Editing
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Bugs of the Week - 9-21-12

Here's another roundup of some of the important, interesting or bizarre bugs we came across this week.

Premiere

Unable to relink to an image sequence from an EDL

Avid

OS X 10.8.1 approved for MC / Symphony 6.0.3.1 and 6.5

FCPX

Background Tasks window not appearing after OS X update

Mac Pro

SuperDrive not appearing when cards are in the third PCI slot

Posted by Jon Chappell on Sep 22 2012 to Bugs of the Week, Software, Video Editing
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Bugs of the Week - 9-15-12

We've compiled another list of critical, interesting or unusual bugs you should be aware of.

Avid


You can no longer mark in and out to select an audio region for keyframe adjustment in MC 6.5

Clips in bin not staying highlighted

Poor trim speed with hardware

Corrupt audio transitions can throw duplicated sequences out of sync

Premiere Pro


Media Browser keeps scrolling back to the top

Issues with RGB Color Corrector in 6.0.2

Posted by Jon Chappell on Sep 15 2012 to Bugs of the Week, Software, Video Editing
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Bugs of the Week - 9-9-12

This week we've got more critical, interesting or unusual bugs that you should be aware of.

Premiere Pro


Adobe released Premiere Pro CS 6.0.2 with many bug fixes

Unable to change position / scale of retimed clips

CUDA processing unavailable with multiple monitors

Zooming in the Effects panel doesn't center the playhead if the clip is not at the beginning of the sequence

Premiere doesn't maintain folder structures when importing directories

Maximum bit depth creates strange artifacts

Avid


Avid Media Composer 6.5 released

Here's a list of some of the smaller changes in MC 6.5

A site bug is preventing students from upgrading to MC 6.5. Avid is working on fixing it

Dupe detection disappears when effects are added

Quad split reverts back to single frame when playback stops

DVD Studio Pro


DVD Studio Pro keeps burning an old version of a DVD

Cinema Tools


Fix for Cinema Tools crashing on Lion

Posted by Jon Chappell on Sep 9 2012 to Bugs of the Week, Video Editing, Software
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Bugs of the Week - 9-2-12

This week we've got more serious, unusual or interesting bugs that you should be aware of.

Premiere


Crashes and kernel panics with new CUDA drivers

Workaround for conforming multiclips

Almost invisible interface text

Workaround for keeping handles when sending to After Effects

Avid


Remove Effect also removes locators

Bins start flashing

FCPX


Third-party plugins can conflict if they reference different versions of a third-party framework

FCP 7


Visual distortion in FCP 7 on Mountain Lion

Posted by Jon Chappell on Sep 2 2012 to Bugs of the Week, Software, Video Editing
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Bugs of the Week - 8-24-12

One again we've hunted out important, unusual or interesting bugs that you should be aware of.

Avid


MC 6.0.3.1 released to fix issue where Marquee wouldn't launch

Line at edge of video with Use Avid Codec selected

Incompatibilities with stereoscopic AAFs imported into Resolve

AVCHD 50 and 60 unsupported by AMA

Various workarounds for disabling a drive in Avid

Consolidation may not work with NTSC-formatted drives on the Mac

FCPX


Break Apart Clip Items corrupts XML files

Keyboard layout export broken in 10.0.5

OS X


OS X 10.8.1 released but some users still reporting reduced battery life compared to OS X 10.7.4


Greyed out .MOV

I wasn't sure what was causing this so I asked on Twitter and got a variety of replies including camera failure, a full card, ejecting the card too early or an interrupted Finder copy operation. No-one seemed to know for sure so if you've seen this before, please let us know by leaving a comment.

Posted by Jon Chappell on Aug 24 2012 to Bugs of the Week, Video Editing, Software
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Bugs of the Week - 8-17-12

Once again we've trawled the NLE manufacturer forums to find the serious or just plain weird bugs of the week. Know about them in advance so they don't slow down your workflow.

Premiere

Features and Sequence Presets are missing from Premiere Pro CS6

Bins have to be named twice after dragging clips onto the New Bin button

Cross-dissolves on multicam footage sometimes show the wrong angle

Interesting discussion about clip marker behavior in CS 6

Avid

Marquee is not functional on OS X 10.8 and prevents Avid from shutting down properly

After upgrading to OS X 10.8, Media Composer gives Interplay errors at startup

Reports of lag with new Blackmagic drivers

Interesting discussion about changes to cross-fade behavior

Posted by Jon Chappell on Aug 17 2012 to Bugs of the Week, Video Editing, Software
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