What's new in Avid Media Composer 2024.10?

[@3dus]

I now edit constantly with the transcript panel up, with source/monitor. It’s a narrative time based way to navigate the material. Amazing. Even if the transcript is not 100% accurate.

[@mrplayer183]

Most excellent, thanks for all you do!

[@alanjackman5729]

The spot to timecode dropped my mouth. This will save so many AEs so much time.

[@contactben]

Thanks Jack - Extremely helpful as always! I can't wait to install 24.10 and get a feel for these improvements myself!

[@upsidedownjim]

Thanks for putting this together - really helpful! Nice to finally see the new Titler+ - see how it shakes out over time but progress. Hoping we can select the font box and press down / up arrow to cycle through the fonts instead of clicking one at a time or looking at the drop down list. Assigning a background colour to a name in the transcript would be helpful, I think, as that'll be easier to distinguish when scanning down a transcript. But looks to be some good improvements there, too. Cheers!

[@theavidassistant]

Background colour for speakers is a great ID!

[@TheChunkMonk69420]

Oh man I needed that waveform improvement on my last project I just finished up. What a nightmare, can’t wait to open it up in the new version and lament about how much easier I would have had it.

[@3dus]

The funny thing about transcripts through AI models is that even tho it’s marked in portuguese, it will translate the bits in english from the audio.

[@theavidassistant]

Interesting. Is the language hint set to Portuguese or "multilingual"? I've found weird issues with the default setting and I always have to force mine to English.

[@3dus]

@ its set to portuguese. It’s the typical hallucination. It will translate a bit of dialogue in english and sometimes it will fully change to english and starting translating Portuguese into english as well. It’s funny.

[@bodobademeyster1733]

Danke!

[@eyarouziel3528]

Good stuff.

[@ManenbergFilms]

Yay!!

[@MrXeberdee]

Sweet

[@davidmfriedman]

great video. thanks for that. but lemme ask y'all... i've been an avid editor for decades so this maybe a stupid question... in recent years i've been letting avid link handle version upgrades. but i've also read where people are still uninstalling old versions before installing new ones. what is the current wisdom for installing a new version? and what about user settings within major annual versions vs. 'dot releases'? (iMac Pro, Sonoma 14.7.1)

[@theavidassistant]

Think I already replied to you on Facebook but will say it here too. I always uninstall the previous version with the uninstalled, install the new version and then create a new user profile. Every release. Whole process is only about 10minutes. Doing that is the primary reason I think that my avid almost NEVER crashes. But who knows maybe I'm just a creature of habit :)

[@davidmfriedman]

@ yeah, that’s me asking the same question in both places. Thanks again.

[@Sharpcut]

What happens with your old Titler + titles in a sequence when you use the new Titler +?

[@theavidassistant]

I'm still running tests on this. We are supposed to be able to promote them to the new titler but I'm having some trouble doing so.

[@juanlagos2125]

Is that what they call an Update? I was expecting something more radical and not that crude Update of the Avid Titler. It is a shame for us who used the old Avid. And also a fiasco with the free version of Avid. Avid Titler is a SHAME, GENTLEMEN OF AVID.

[@d.edwardsfreelanceeditorvi4212]

avid is behind in features compared to Resolve and Premiere Pro.

[@juanlagos2125]

@@d.edwardsfreelanceeditorvi4212 You are absolutely right, avid is a disgrace.