Showing posts with label Media Composer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Media Composer. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Avid Hates You - MC Crashes On Launch Scanning For "AMPIPluginDSM.avx"

 Avid hates you that's a given. Avid MC is a wonderful piece of software, it's also the most aggravating piece of software.

 All right so today MC crashes on launch on my Mac while scanning for "AMPIPluginDSM.avx". That's MC telling you right now it doesn't like your audio plugins.

 It didn't have a problem a moment ago, and times and times before that, but that does not matter with Avid, now it decided to crash.

 Tomorrow it'll open fine, or something else will make it crash. It won't tell you what makes it crash either, why would it?

 So for the moment you cannot open MC because of this tantrum.

 No worries. Go to: BootDrive/Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/

 In there you will see a "Plug-Ins" folder. All your audio plugins live in there.

 Add another folder and name it "Plug-Ins (Unused)".

 Move all your plugins from "Plug-Ins" folder to "Plug-Ins (Unused)" folder.

 Launch MC, lo and behold it opens. Wonderful! Except that now you have no access to your wonderful audio plugins.

 Quit MC. This time move all your plugins the other way around from "Plug-Ins (Unused)" folder to "Plug-Ins" folder.

 Launch MC. Lo and behold, it opens fine!!! What a piece of crap.

 OK, now go edit you lazy ponce.

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Avid ProTools and Media Composer Pricing 2019

I'm seeing the new prices for ProTools and MC on Avid website. They are leveling the offer for ProTools and Media Composer "vanilla" at $34.99 per month on a month to month basis.


There is still a $10 pricing difference though between ProTools ultimate at $84.99 and MC Ultimate at $74.99 Avid figures it can still milk sound editors and mixers for more money.


I'm using the month to month as the only relevant $ figure. At the end of the day all the yearly, multi-year, advance payments schemes are just discounts. These guys (Avid, Adobe...) model of software as subscription is not to be fully trusted anyway.