Here's another installment of our weekly selection of serious, useful and bizarre bugs in your NLE.

Avid

Playback issues with non-standard variable GOP AVCHD media

How to temporarily disable your Blackmagic card

How to prevent adjacent clips from being merged in EDL Manager

Premiere

Audio corruption with Denoiser filter
(I too have experienced issues with this filter and have stopped using it)

Cannot export a frame from the program monitor if an audio-only sequence is open on another monitor

Hold shift to snap to an edit point when dragging the playhead

FCPX

Performance comparison between different apps playing an H.264 file
(the strange part is that QuickTime Player and FCPX both use AV Foundation)

OS X

You cannot hold down Option at startup to boot from a recovery partition on a Fusion drive

We're back with more serious and unusual bugs in your NLE.

Avid

Workaround for Avid bins opening off screen

Cannot change bin capitalization

New iMacs qualified for MC 6.5.2

Premiere

Premiere has no continuous rasterization function so scaling of vectors may not be high quality

Walking away from the computer without saving the project will eventually fill up your Autosave Vault with identical copies
(this is where Pro Versioner can help)

Video playback may not work with the Blackmagic 9.7 driver

Mono tracks may be quieter than stereo tracks

FCPX

Performance issues with the new 27" iMac

Workaround for flash frames in FCPX 10.0.6+

Encore

Embedded Premiere chapter markers can sometimes cause an Encore burn to fail

Compressor

Certain frame sizes with a watermark make jobs fail

Misc

Typing a specific text string can crash almost any app on OS X 10.8

Another installment of serious, useful and bizarre bugs in your NLE.

Avid

QuickTime movies with timecode tracks do not work correctly with Fast Start

DISK_TOO_MANY_OPEN error on ISIS could be caused by invisible OS X system files

Select Project window cannot be resized to show long filenames

Users still experiencing lag with third party I/O cards

Unable to rename template items in Marquee

Premiere

The timeline doesn't play back (CS Repair can fix this)

Blend effect does not work well with retimed clips

Error 213:11 if permissions are incorrect (Windows)

No way to customize the autosave location (Pro Versioner helps with this)

Keyboard timeline navigation sometimes stops working

DNxHD clips exported from Avid in 601/709 space will need a level adjustment before they will display correctly in Premiere

Several Blackmagic users reporting playback issues

Premiere does not allow Firewire output when hardware MPE is active

FCPX

Final Cut Pro X hangs when loading a project

Tips for color correcting with dual viewers

Misc

I suddenly feel better about Avid's cryptic errors

After a little hiatus, Bugs of the Week is back with more serious, interesting or unusual bugs for your NLE.

Premiere

Premiere doesn't have a disk-based thumbnail cache so all thumbnails need to be regenerated upon opening a project

Premiere has a 99 track limit which limits the number of possible layers in a PSD file

You cannot move a clip by typing in numbers if your keyboard doesn't have a numpad

Dip to White start value is ignored with CUDA acceleration enabled

Speech recognition modifies the script

If Premiere crashes and won't relaunch, check that the process is no still running (Windows)

Trick for match-framing to a sequence in a nest

Avid

Summary of some of the changes in Media Composer 6.5.2 (improved trimming performance is huge if true)

Surround channels can be incorrectly assigned when imported from Pro Tools

Blue color shift with Avid FX

Misc

Thunderbolt devices can be disrupted by mobile phone signals (apparently this can also affect FireWire)

Here are some more critical, useful and bizarre bugs that you should know about.

Premiere Pro

Canon C300 spanned clips can be merged in the wrong order

Premiere processes all audio clips in a sequence, even when only exporting a small section

Clip markers disappear after reconnecting media

Several reports of render files disappearing

Premiere may not load after updating QuickTime to 7.7.3 (Win 7)

H.264 CBR is not constant

Incorrect in and out points in subclips when importing FCP XML

Premiere hangs when opening a project on a computer with fewer monitors than the one it was saved on

Unable to name a captured clip if capture is stopped

Switching to "H.264 for Blu-ray" preset causes bitrate option to disappear

Audio out of sync when exported as AAC

Positions in the title editor are relative to the center of the object so it is difficult to line up left/right aligned text

FCPX

FCPX 10.0.7 released with several major bug fixes

You may experience problems running plugins and Motion templates created for 10.0.6 on earlier versions

Upside-down frames from plugins not fixed in 10.0.7

Cannot eject external drives while FCPX is running

Several reports of frames not being shown in the timeline

FCP 7

How to Fix Red Exclamation Mark Error in FCP7 Log & Transfer

Another installment of our weekly list of serious, useful and bizarre bugs in your NLE that you should know about.

Premiere

Potential fix for slow playback

Project Manager does not copy spanned AVCHD clips

Titler adjustment handles invisible on white backgrounds

Timeline scrolling with the scrollwheel slower in CS6

CUDA crashes on Windows 7 (includes lots of tips and a registry tweak)

Premiere crash when sending merged clips to Audition

Avid

Trick for getting Avid to ignore a drive

Bins can appear off-screen when opening a project created on a system with a larger monitor

You may need to delete the AVCHD AMA plugin before updating to a newer version

System audio can only be heard if Avid is active

Fix for "expand luminance range for computer displays" not working

FCPX

New AJA Kona drivers with support for automatic FCPX event creation

Green flashes can occur if FCPX drops frames

"Cannot save changes" error appears when using third-party plugins

Cannot switch to other clips after applying settings in the Inspector

Lots of reports of sharing problems, primarily when burning DVDs

Several reports of audio turning red in the timeline

FCP 7

With the playhead on the clip, hitting Option + Down Arrow on a clip collision causes the clip to shift one pixel down - Strypes

Here's another installment of our weekly list of critical, useful or bizarre bugs that you should know about.

Premiere

Solution for being unable to play back on second monitor

Video freezes when a transition is used on an adjustment layer

Projects sometimes forget audio configuration

Premiere sometimes loses Dynamic-Linked renders

Avid

Problems syncing stereoscopic EDLs

Alpha channels not recognized in ProRes 4444 media with MC 6.5

Windows tool for fixing DISK_ACCESS_DENIED errors

Crash on startup if you are using a case-sensitive formatted hard drive

FCPX

Workaround for setting in and out points in the new Import window

FCPX sometimes deletes media when you try to relink it

Text may be rendered incorrectly

Another installment of our (semi-) weekly list of important, interesting or unusual bugs in popular NLEs.

Premiere

Many people reporting problems with NVIDIA driver 306.97 for the GTX285 on Windows

Corrupt JPEG headers can cause Premiere to reference the wrong file

The Encore process doesn't stop when quitting Encore on Windows

Premiere crashes when you reanalyze a clip with the Warp Stabilizer effect switched off

To export H.264 video in higher than 1080p resolutions, you must be using H.264 Level 5.0 or 5.1

Premiere crashes if dynamically-linked applications are not closed before it exits

Workflow notes from an FCP switcher, including several bugs and workarounds

Avid

Media Composer 6.0.3.2 released

Several complaints about waveform drawing times

New Blackmagic 9.6.8 driver improves Media Composer 6.0.3.2 trimming performance

Media Composer doesn't remember settings when outputting more than 8 audio channels

Symphony appears to use 12-bit data for color correction when a ProRes 4444 file is fast imported

AMA can sometimes misinterpret and clamp luma levels from some QuickTime sources

Issue with Avid only keeping a few copies of a bin in the Attic (Pro Versioner can help with this):

FCPX

10.0.6 stability discussion

Many threads about 10.0.6 users being unable to Share or it being very slow

Exported audio levels not matching audio meters

Several threads about reduced responsiveness in 10.0.6

Titles may be shortened when uploading to Vimeo if they contain an ampersand

Encore

Here's one I had myself this week - encoding an H.264 for Blu-ray and an MPEG-2 for DVD in Adobe Media Encoder from the same ProRes 4444 source resulted in them being labelled as different lengths by both QuickTime Player and Encore. However, they both had the same start point and end point, were the same frame rate and the audio matched up perfectly so it would appear to be an issue with how the duration was reported. The strange part was that it occurred even after I re-encoded the file in Compressor.

The reason this was a problem is because Encore has a great feature where you can link Blu-ray and DVD media to create both types of disc from the same project. However, this feature relies on both files being of identical length. In the end my workaround was to simply duplicate the project and create a separate copy for the DVD version.

FCP 7

Autosaves not appearing in interface after restart

Trick for quickly revealing a sequence in the browser

Cinema Tools

Cinema Tools expects certain fields to use alphanumeric characters only

Here's your second installment this week of critical, interesting or bizzare issues you should know about.

Avid

MC 6.5.0.1 released with XDCAM Edit While Capture support and several AMA improvements

New Sony AMA plugins to support the new XDCAM features of 6.5.0.1

Trick for improving Avid shared storage workflows

MC 6.5 requires less RAM for stereoscopic workflows

Subcap cuts off text

Discussion about the best Blackmagic drivers to use for Avid

Premiere

Reveal in Finder not working in OS X 10.8.2

Exporting MP4s without audio creates M4Vs that are unreadable in most apps

FCPX

Issues with third-party plugins showing upside down frames

We missed last week's post and were going to combine them with this week's, however Apple released FCPX 10.0.6 which introduced new bugs that we wanted people to be aware of.

Premiere

Issues moving clips with a pen / tablet (via Strypes)

Dynamic link failure caused by RelevantKnowledge malware (Windows)

Changing the scale causes playback corruption

Wrong interface fonts

Audio offline after sending to Prelude

FCPX

FCPX 10.0.6 released

Many third party plugins have rendering issues

The Offset option has been removed from the Letterbox effect

Memory usage has been reduced

Several reports of FCPX insisting on dual-layer DVD media unnecessarily

You cannot search in the new Import dialog

Blu-ray and Export using Compressor Setting have been moved to the Add Destination section of the Share window

Color picker stops functioning with multiple layers

You need to Break Apart Clip Items twice if you have dual mono audio

Core Image filters have been removed from Motion 5.0.5

FCPX 10.0.6 renders a lot faster

Duplicate backups can cause FCPX to be unable to save your project

Avid

ISIS client 4.2 beta with OS X 10.8 support

Title tool goes opaque the second time you launch it

New Canon AMA plugin