I've been having serious playback issues in media composer 8 recently. I'll get the red line above my sequence editing tracks, but rendering doesn't help (I've tried rendering in/outs and expert renders). We've tried AMA linking, transcoding, and importing. I reduced playback to 720...

I can't import any files (neither audio nor video) with dragging them from a Windows folder to Media Composer's bin. At first I thought it's because I use a rather old version of MC (it had other problems with Windows 8 as well), but now I upgraded to MC 8 and this particular problem persists...

Added narration to sequence, changed the speed of the narration to 1.10 and then rendered it. After the render there where sudden drop outs in audio wave forms and sound mid sentence and then audio would work again fine. Why is the audio dropping out after the speed change? It doesn't happen all...

I just upgraded to MC 6.0 from 4.5. Immediately I noticed that I was not able to move or resize any of the windows (timeline, bin windows, or monitor) by dragging with the mouse. (Strangely enough, I can move or resize the windows with the mouse, but only by fractions of an inch at a time.) Additionally...

It is not easy to give up comfortable routines. One of the biggest obstacles to newcomers to Media Composer is to try and understand that 3-point keyboard editing is far more accurate and much quicker than drag & drop editing - AFTER you have spent a lot of time learning it! Regards, Douglas This...