Yes, there have been numerous Windows updates since my last successful editing session - 55, in fact! With work needing to be done, I have removed Avid from my system. I am running 3 other NLEs with no issues.

Nothing in the FAQ really matches my situation. All recommendations/specs I've already met (and with no issues in the past). I removed my entire MC First installation today, redownloaded and reinstalled. No change. The program starts up, normal opening menus/background appear. Selecting anything gives me a black screen and everything freezes.

MC First 2018.12.1, which Avid shows as "up-to-date". The last time I needed to edit video was back in October, so it's been a few months - everything worked normally. There have been some changes in my system, most with audio-editing and photo-editing program updates from Adobe. I don't use the Adobe video products, so I doubt that

Any attempt to create a new project or open a previous project results in a black screen. A few seconds later Win7 informs me that MC is no longer responding. On start-up, everything looks normal - the editing windows appear in the background and the standard project and tutorial overlays appear. After that, nothing responds after the open file or create

This is the 1st time I've seen this issue, as I have completed all previous updates. All items appear to download successfully. The Installer itself updates but the main program portion goes into the "spin cycle" and never leaves. On the 3rd attempt I let the installer run all night - it still didn't work. I'm still able to run

Thanks. Yep - it is indeed a lite version, tho it seems to be OK for most of what I need today. Even with MC 7 removed, FX appears to be running fine as a stand-alone. I guess I'll experiment with export/import and see how it goes.

Ralph, It turned out there was incompatability with most of my standard media players. However, I was able to play it thru VLC. After passing the output through a transcoder for other projects, I was also able to play the new files with other players.

When Apple dumped Pro QT codecs for PC users, I could no longer access production footage from some of my legacy work. I was forced to dump MC 7 and installed MC First in its place. It's generally OK, though I have to transcode some output for some uses. As an old standard MC user (v7), I have Avid FX installed. FX has always been a great tool

I published a 22 min. video to a local drive - I verified that Video + Audio was selected under the options ( the default settings were all correct so I made no changes). After about 90 min. I got a beautiful video... with no sound ! Any ideas?

I have found the "First" version of MC to be OK for my needs (retired broadcaster, but still need to produce some videos). However, I've run into a problem with sync - either there is no way to change the sync (simply change the timimg/position btwn video and the accompanying audio tracks) or you've hiden it so well I can't find