Avid Editing Application
ReadMe for Media Composer® v2019.12.4(Windows) Installing the Editing Application(Windows) Only a patch installer is provided for Media Composerc IMPORTANTv2019.12.4. You must have v2019.12 already installed. Then use the 2019.12.4 patch toupdate to v2019.12.4.

Documentation Note
The Media Composer editing guide and Media Composer help stated that the maximum numberof characters for Tape Names is 32. The actual maximum is 31 characters.

Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.4
The following have been fixed:➤Bug Number: MCCET-3921. The text in the NRCS tool was almost unreadable in dark mode.

➤Bug Number: MCCET-3978. Ctrl+W did not save and close a bin if one or more clips wasselected.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3843. When working with Titler+, some Arabic text did not display
properly.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3910. In some instances, switching the project format for a MultiRez
clip with Dynamic Relink enabled resulted in MEDIA OFFLINE.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3378. Frames may have shifted after promoting a mixed frame rate
sequence and modifying the speed in Motion Effect Editor.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3360. (Avid Artist DNxIQ) In some instances, the 12G SDI audio
stream was corrupted when using 3rd party gear to downconvert the SDI output. You must have
Desktop Video software v12 to see this fix.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3820. Loading or importing a file into a Pan&Zoom effect might havecaused Media Composer to crash.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3423. (Interplay environment) Media Composer launched slowly ifthere were many MXF media folders in the workspace.

➤Bug Number: MCCET-3922. In some instances when trimming a sequence, the wrong clip wasshown in the Source Monitor.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3042. (macOS) The Creation Date in the Find tool was offset by 100years, for example 2019 appeared as 1919.

➤Bug Number: MCCET-3406. (macOS) In some instances, you could not save a rolling title inthe Title Tool application.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3561. (Windows 10) Microsoft YaHei and JjengHei fonts did not appearin Subcap.

➤Bug Number: MCCET-3350. When sending a sequence with mixed formats in it withTranscode on Send to playback enabled, you might have received a “Can't send to playback:Project format is different than target resolution format” error➤

Bug Number: MCCET-3571. Free space calculations during transcode operation was notchecked correctly.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3867. In some instances you could not mark and IN and OUT in theSource Timeline.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3834. After upgrading to Media Composer v2019.12.2, you might havereceived a “Fatal error” message when opening a sequence containing image (without alpha)clips.

➤Bug Number: MCCET-3748. The title bar did not change in contrast when you switched to alight interface setting.

➤Bug Number: MCCET-3892. Media Composer Floating License consumed 2 seats duringactivation.

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Fixed in Media Composer v2019.12.4➤Bug Number: MCCET-3716. A keyboard shortcut for audio punch-in and record did not always
start recording.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3860. In some instances, when in a Production Management
environment, the application unexpectedly deleted the original files of linked clips.

➤Bug Number: MCCET-2847. (macOS) You might have received a “LegendAudioDev” errorwhen recording audio only with the Capture Tool.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3862. You might have experienced drop outs over cuts and dissolves
when playing back and/or exporting a 5.1 sequence with audio clips that have LFE added in theadvanced panner.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3584. (MediaCentral | Cloud UX environment) When batch
re-importing TIFF that are included in Prunus AAF files, clips display as WRONG FORMAT.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3772. When Dynamic Relink was enabled, you could not link to fullclips of spanned P2 media.

➤Bug Number: MCCET-3563. With Dynamic Relink enabled, media appeared offline after batch
re-importing (PNG/TIFF) and AAF from Prunus files.

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Bug Number: MCCET-3486. When working with Avid Artist DNxIP in an environment using
Evertz Magnum VLAN for NMOS connectivity, multicast information was not being routed forvideo. To see a fix for this, upgrade to Desktop Video v15.5.3.

➤Bug Number: MCCET-3777. You might have experienced audio sync shift on local audio
playback as soon as NDI was enabled.

➤Bug Number: MCCET-3587. You might not have been able to open a sequence or you might
have received “Crumb Exists” errors when opening a sequence containing markers on TC1.

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