Avid Video Engine Setup Download

[Margarita Lovvorn]

The Avid VENUE E6L-112, part of their VENUE S6L mixer series, is the affordable mixer engine that provides support for up to 112 input channels, offering you the power and performance you need to handle any small- to mid-size live productions. It comes with 3-Year Elite Support (contact your Sales Pro for additional details).

Avid VENUE S6L delivers 100% hardware compatibility across all of its components, providing the same renowned sound clarity throughout the line, which includes control surfaces, engines, and I/O options available to help you configure the ideal system for your live sound needs.

This product is currently available for pre-order ONLY. Placing a pre-order ensures that you will receive your unit as soon as it's available. We are currently expecting the product to begin shipping around July, 2018. This projected availability may vary depending upon manufacturer stock. Please contact your Sales Pro for more information.

I didn't want to waste my "1 per month" tech support ticket with AVID on an issue that is known and not yet fixed so I wanted to check if others are having this problem and possibly found a solution for this?

If I hit the space bar, it tries to plays my accidental "micro selection", but then the system freezes for about 5 seconds, and then displays the "Video Engine Unable to Stop" After that, it seems to have lost connection with either the video reference link or the video engine cannot reestablish normal playback. I think I know this because if I click elsewhere on the timeline, after the first error message, the same delay occurs and "Video Engine unable to stop" comes up again.

That's the weird thing. When the error occurs, the video actually stops, (but claims it's unable to stop???). If I hit the space bar, nothing happens. It pauses for about 5-10 seconds then gives that error message.

My solution: Just save the project and close out ProTools. It comes right back functioning correctly so I'm sure it's just some weird video issue. Now that I think about it, I am using an older video card (GTX580) which is not an AVID approved card. Perhaps its something to do with the GTX driver's compatibility. UGH.

Not sure if this helps but I had the exact same issue you are describing. Fixed it by updating my Blackmagic drivers. I know Avid overhauled the video engine in 11 so it probably broke compatibility with older video drivers. If you need, I can tell you specific software/driver versions when I get back to my studio.

I'd be interested in knowing which black magic I/O card you're using? I've also been toying with updating my system to the new Quadro M4000 so I have at least 3 screens (one for timeline, one for control panels, and one for video playback).

What is the issue with the Jabiru engine? I put about 600 hrs on a Jabiru engine in my Avid MK IV. What serial number is your engine? I've seen these engines used on sale for $4000-5000 occasionally lately. The Jabiru would be the simplest fix most likely. 912 will give better performance, but hard to find a mount, and it does move the CG forward on an already nose heavy design.

The very early Jabiru engine had cooling issues. Rotec in Australia (not Rotax) makes liquid cooled heads for the Jabiru engine and that seems to be a good remedy. Not cheap though, about $3000 for the 4 cylinder engine. Are you sure what is causing the loss of compression?

They do require 10LB min in the tail with 912! Could be tools or battery though so doesn't have to be dead weight. I even have 10LB in my Fat Avid tail with the 912. That said I have no complaints whatsoever with the 912 once I put a slipper clutch and high torque starter on it. Before that I was plagued with issues, but I have an older S model engine. After the slipper clutch and high torque starter the engine has been a dream.

The easiest way to go would be another 2200. You can pull the service manual off of the Jab web site, and at the very end it will tell you what the changes were by serial number. You have an early serial number, which would be the old J-head cylinders. Good news, they didn't overheat as much as the later models- mostly due to the fact that they didn't make the (advertised) power, coming in at around 55 HP, according to the certification of the engine in Australia. SN165 had a checkered past, but the really bad issues with the early engines were taken care of- the aluminum rods and early crank were replaced, along with the early block. It still retained the old heads, and the smaller carb. Those heads are hard to come by, but not totally impossible. Note that the prop was sized for the lower power engine, you'll need to replace it with a repower. 80 hp would make a *really* nice mk IV.

If you do go with an earlier jab (2200a), get a serial number as close to upper limit before they went to the hydraulic lifters, as per that service manual, or try a gen 4 model. It shouldn't be too hard to switch to a 912 series, the cowling would have been stretched to fit the jabiru,, but measurements would tell the tale. I wouldn't be surprised to find a bit of weight back by the tailwheel to counteract the jab installation. Plumbing in a radiator would probably necessitate removing any fairing work under the gear..

The Avid VENUE E6L-112 Control Surface Engine offers the power and performance you need to handle any small- to mid-size live production in a more affordable engine that supports up to 112 input channels.

For independent professionals, small post-production, audio, house of worship, government, corporate, and media education environments, this professional-class standalone storage system can be used alongside other Avid NEXIS storage engines, but not physically mixed with them.

If you use Pro Tools 12 then you may not be aware that when the Avid Video Engine is turned on in your Playback Settings, that it immediately allocates nearly 3GB of memory before you open a Session. We show you how to deal with this.

In their compatibility charts for Mac and Windows for both Pro Tools 12 HD and Pro Tools 12 Avid say that the minimum recommended specification for using Pro Tools is 8GB, so if you use a computer that has just 8GB of memory, with Pro Tools running as well as the Avid Video Engine only around 4GB will be available for everything else when using Pro Tools. This may not such an issue if you are just editing audio and not using any other applications at the same time, but if you are using virtual instruments as well as other background applications that take up memory then it may be an issue.

We have spoken at length about the excellent Video Slave 3 from Non-Lethal Applications, which has a host of great features and also takes up a tiny 64MB of RAM when its and using its optimised video engine.

Even with its optimised video engine and great feature set, the option to take the video load away from the DAW either on the same machine or another one must be very appealing for those wanting to use video with Pro Tools.

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I've just relocated my studio to Somerset, in the west of the UK and have been busy reinstalling my Pro Tools systems - both my Windows and Mac-based setups. Following on from my article about the resilience and reliability of my Windows-based system, it has to be admitted that I wasn't looking forward to trying to get my MacOS Sierra Pro Tools up and running again.

It seems that one guaranteed thing is that the Avid Video Engine (AVE) on Mac will not be happy, even if absolutely nothing seems to have changed. And this time the AVE did not disappoint - true to form, the first time I attempted to open a session with a video track, it stuck with the "Connecting to the Avid Video Engine" progress bar and in Activity Monitor, the AVE was showing up red and "not responding". In fact, its behaviour was completely tallying with this Avid Knowledge Base article - "Avid Video Engine will not launch - progress bar fills but engine never launches".

I'd had this before and the way I got around it was to do a full and complete manual uninstall of Pro Tools. Avid's advice regarding uninstalling seems very simple - "Simply drag the Pro Tools app file from your Applications folder to your trash bin and empty".

Being a seasoned Windows user, I'm used to there being a proper uninstall program, that goes through your system and removes all the components related to Pro Tools. This simply isn't the case on a Mac. Even Avid support engineers admit that the Mac Pro Tools install is, "incredibly messy".

Going by Avid's advice, you'd think that every file Pro Tools needs to refer to is contained within the Pro Tools app file, but in reality, the Mac Avid Pro Tools installer leaves files all over the Mac operating system. It took me pretty much an entire day to manually clear every trace of Avid software from my Mac, using a combination of manual search and delete, plus multiple passes using CleanMyMac software.

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