Every week, Frame.io Insider asks one in all our knowledgeable contributors to share a tip, software, or approach that they use on a regular basis and couldn’t dwell with out. This week, Jack Brown shares how one can rebuild your Media Composer profile.
Knowing how one can rebuild Avid’s profile could also be crucial tip for anybody who works with Avid Media Composer. Every time you replace Media Composer, set up on a brand new system or are going through buggy habits you possibly can’t clarify, simply rebuild your person settings.
Avid’s person profiles, whereas very useful and customisable, are liable to corruption. Especially when shifting between Avid variations. This is normally because of the code within the settings altering as new options are added and the settings of your previous person profile not taking part in good with these updates.
Avid did attempt to deal with this by including an “update user profile” operate to the person settings drop down menu, which is meant to examine for any conflicts between variations and resolve them. But it usually fails, so I’ve by no means bothered with it. Personally I create a brand new person profile firstly of every undertaking and title it after the model of Media Composer I’m utilizing. For instance my present person profile is “J Brown 2024.2”
Now I understand that many people Avid customers have very custom-made keyboards and this generally is a chore to rebuild however there’s a technique to port settings from an previous person into the brand new one. Here’s how:
- Open up your settings window and go to the person tab
- Go to File->Open Setting File (Cmd/Ctrl+O)
- Navigate to the place your previous settings are saved. (If you possibly can’t discover them you could possibly export your previous setting to your desktop earlier than doing this half.)
- Go into the previous settings, choose the XML file and hit Open.
Now you’ll see two settings home windows. One exhibiting the settings of the previous person profile and one of many new/at present opened person profile. You can drag and drop settings between these to get better custom-made gadgets out of your previous profile. One be aware of warning—solely use this to revive issues like keyboards and bin layouts. Doing this with different settings could cause the very corruption you’re making an attempt to keep away from as the opposite settings are sometimes up to date and altered between variations of Media Composer.
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