If you can wait and have the budget, I'd wait for the new MacPro desktops to be released. They're supposed to come out "this fall" according to apple.com and they are primed to be beasts from what I've read. EDIT: Although, the new MacPro may not be qualified by Avid right away and will most definitely ship with Catalina, which

[quote user="Sheila M. Robinson"]I'm kind of pissed off that it didn't come with everything I would need in the download package.[/quote] It definitely should include everything you need to get up and running. There may be something corrupted with your install.

One solution would be to only work in progressive project types.

Sorry, I should know better about providing my testing specs. This system is Win10, MC 2018.12.6. I'm rendering as DNX145 in a non-Interplay shared environment. No special settings for bit depth etc.

So, this morning I cleared the renders on my sequence and then rendered with the BCC Composite effect (soft light). Then I cleared renders again, removed the BCC Composite and placed Blend-X (soft light) on the sequence. I also modified the magic slider a little. With BCC Composite the render took 4:33 With Blend-X I killed the render after it had been

Has anyone else noticed an increase in render times with Beta3? I have a short 2 minute sequence stacked as follows V1: photos (30 frame dissolves between) V2: color effect (saturation set to 0) V3: BCC Gaussian Blur V4: Avid title (using as a solid color matte - i stripped the title effect off) V5: Matte Key text layer (pngs rendered from After Effects