
Avid not starting) hold “L” and “O” at power up to force this mode once, then enter the console command. On: use older methods for graphics adapters with incomplete OpenGL implementations. LegacyOverlay Off: use best desktop video overlay method advertised by OS. You’ll see this a lot in cinema films where television archive has been incorrectly imported. Otherwise, QuickTime files with frame rates different from your project are imported with a crude frame-dropping or frame-repeating speed-change added.

Enable3D Re-enables some OpenGL if earlier disabled with Disable3D ForceHDTranscode True: forces transcode of HD media to SD before export False: makes transcoding of HD media optional before export HDTitleFilter A toggle: controls the filtering of HD titles during downconversion to SD IgnoreQTRate For video-only QuickTime files: ignores file frame rate, and imports file frame-by-frame. audioextras Enable or disable extra audio features. If you don’t use this interface, your operating system’s audio control panel opens. Example answer "How many beans make five?" with "One" OR "Two" OR "Five" asiocontrol Opens your ASIO control panel for audio I/O. Permits Avid to write to shares on Windows-style networks that are not mounted as drive letters such as \\OFFLINE_001\MyDirectory\Filename.mov AMA_SetLoggingLevel 0x0 = Errors, 0x01 = Warnings, 0x02 = Verbose, 0x04 = Trace, 0x08 = Info, 0xff = All answer Create a pop-up asking a question with up to three click-button choices, and return the result. They are not supported by operations such as Modify, Relink, Batch Capture, Batch Import, Decompose, Import/Export, and use within the Interplay environment. The newly generated media is valid for playback, but the clips cannot be used with many operations. It produces the warning: “Clips created using the cross-rate transcode feature can only be used for playback. AllDrives 1 Makes all drives act as media drives AllDrives 2 Makes all drives behave normally AllowCrossRateTranscode This is a toggle setting.

Later versions may vary.Īccess the console from the “Tools” menu, or by typing CTRL-6 or COMMAND-6. These console commands are from Media Composer 8.2.2. The command every Avid user should know is subsys monpane debug, allowing precomputes and other unusual media to be loaded directly into the composer window, and used as edit sources.

These might be useful to some Avid users. While waiting for a file to convert, I typed help commands into the Avid console.
