Lack of RAM can cause all kinds of random errors - especially in Media Composer.

If you don’t cut it slack, your computer will force your hand. You can have the beefiest computer but at some point the pressure on the RAM will be too much. The other reason why rebooting helps is that it frees up all the RAM that those programs were using. Rebooting clears all of that out and gives you a fresh start. The longer that the computer is running, the more opportunities there are for one of those unusual circumstances to happen. Suddenly, your levels don’t work properly, and you don’t know why. Maybe you plugged in your headphones while Pro Tools was in the process of loading and you had just started playback in Media Composer, and that those simultaneous actions messed up your audio routing.

A bug is usually caused by an unusual circumstance that the software developers didn’t account for.

The longer that each of these programs runs, the higher the likelihood that a bug will occur. Media Composer itself has been running for the last week. Spotify is playing on one of your 18 Chrome tabs and Photoshop is open from yesterday. You’re color correcting and playing back 4K footage. Picture this: you’ve been editing for five hours. Rebooting helps gives your computer a nice clean slate and frees up RAM, regardless of whether you are working on a Mac or PC What Does Turning Your Computer Off Then Back On Accomplish? “Have you reset your computer?” It’s the question every IT tech will ask you. This has led me to countless situations like the above example with no one to turn to. The vast majority of errors I’ve come across are solved with the troubleshooting techniques below. I’ve spent nearly the last decade as a senior video editor, and often the only video editor, for companies. This article will teach you how to troubleshoot this problem and many other issues in Media Composer using a few common troubleshooting techniques. “Why is this happening?!” you ask yourself as you read the seemingly foreign language in the error box that’s popped up in Media Composer.ĭon’t worry. All you had to do was make one tiny change to the video and upload it in time for it to be played at the conference. There are a half-dozen text messages on your phone asking where the video is. The coffee you poured an hour ago is ice cold.

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