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10 Fixes For when Avid isn’t working

Hey Guys! Thank-you so much for watching!! You can treat this video as an FAQ of common support tips for Avid Media Composer.

These are the most common fixes to various problems I could find and they have got my Avid back up and running in no time on countless occasions so I really hope they can do the same for you! As always there are chapter markers for the video listed below as well as links mentioned in the video.

Official Avid page for downloading AMA plugins:
https://www.avid.com/plugins/ama-plugins

AMAZING Avid compatibility and info site courtesy of Chris Bové:
https://www.alwaysediting.com

Specs of Avid system at time of recording this video: MacBook Pro 2018 Six Core i9 2.9GHz CPU / 32GB of RAM / 4GB Radeon Pro 560X MacOS 12.2 – Monterey Avid Media Composer 2022.4

Chapter Markers
00:00 – Intro
00:49 – 01 – Restart and Relaunch
01:22 – 02 – Check RAM Usage
03:07 – 03 – Delete MC State
05:45 – 04 – Recreate User Settings
09:37 – 05 – Recreate Media Databases
15:24 – 06 – Issues with SearchDB
18:31 – 07 – Check your AMA plugins
20:35 – 08 – Porting bins to new Avid Project
24:08 – 09 – Avid and OS Compatibility
27:30 – 10 – Forcing open a locked bin
29:10 – Outro

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