hey guys it's Landsat McVie audio and today rather tonight I just got my email from my avid dealer at
alto music they sent me my activation card and serial number for my Pro Tools 12 HD upgrade
support plan I got it in right on December 31st the last day of 2015 I didn't see any reason to
jump in on it early because I want a stable system to work on and the fact that a lot of the bells
and whistles didn't come out to the very end of the year anyway so why waste the money now next
year of course at Christmas time I'm gonna have to spend $400 to keep that upgrade plan going
if I want to continue which more than likely I will anyway first step to installing Pro Tools
12 HD or any major upgrade to your computer is to backup your computer and it's not just backing it
up I recommend cloning it I use Carbon Copy cloner it's now you have to pay for it it used to be free
but it's great software and basically I copy from my internal SSD to another SSD so it's very quick
you know and I like to keep my system Drive small because if you have a 2 terabyte system drive your
computer is gonna be burning all night long to back up those 2 terabytes so I like to keep the
system drive small I put samples and everything else out on other drives but anyway so step number
1 to installing Pro Tools 12 HD is to clone my system so I'm gonna do that first and then I'll
be back in an hour or so maybe even tomorrow I finished my Pro Tools 12.4 HD upgrade install it
was a fairly lengthy process because once you do get Pro Tools installed up and running then the
application manager pops up this is a new thing in Pro Tools 12 and it showed me all these plugins
that I could install so there's like I don't know ten guitar stompbox plugins that all sound pretty
good actually but you got to install them one at a time download install download install so that
took quite a long time and then there's another slew of pro-grade plugins from avid that you get
to use in your one year of your subscription if you don't renew you're gonna lose the use of those
plugins and I guess same with the stompboxes I'm not really sure maybe you get to keep those only
the higher-end plugins the reverb and the pro limiter the pro compressor those had to have
I lock licenses installed on the I lock and all that stuff happens when you're running Pro Tools
it didn't authorize first and then I could launch Pro Tools BAM I ran I looked at my I lock account
I I never saw after I did the whole registration thing I never saw Pro Tools 12 being on my I lock
so I thought that was weird then I launched Pro Tools and then it the I lock to run Pro
Tools 12 this whole thing went back and forth and and that activated the I lock and then protes was
12 ran then the application manager launched and showed me that all these plugins need to
be installed or can be installed so I installed all of them and since then I've been mixing for
two days and it's been running very smoothly I haven't had any errors on playback I'm not
running a huge session but I do have quite a few plugins running and I'm only at like 20% on my 12
core Mac Pro and running video I'm mixing this song Jane get her she's sort of a fusion metal
guitarist and Corey Glover is guest singing on the song it's a cool song called train man
so they played at the iridium about two weeks ago maybe not even but anyway I'm getting around to
mixing it they're gonna post a couple of clips on YouTube from the show for a promo so yeah
ProTools 12.4 HD is running great except for that unfounded graphics bug I'm gonna go to the screen
now and we'll have a look at exactly what's going on okay so the bug really comes down to moving
the cursor around in the Edit window over the wav files so watch I'm gonna start moving the cursor
and look at the clock the clock the playback head especially if you move it slowly the clock and the
playback head come to a standstill as I'm moving the cursor around in the Edit window and that's
basically the bug if I go down here where there's no audio it doesn't do it it's only in the track
it's doing it where there's a video track also so it also it doesn't anywhere in the track area so
here I am again moving it around you can see the counter is totally getting stuck the playback head
is stuck and then if I have the mix window open and uncurse ring around I usually have my mix
window on its separate display all my automation all the graphics they all get glitchy and the
meters the meters totally get stuck if I put the cursor over the mix window there's no issue so it
really comes down to the bug only exists in the Edit window not the mix window so again I go to
the Edit window I'm moving my cursor right here back and forth totally glitchy clock I go down
here everything smooth so that's it basically to really test out this bug I took my old 5870 Mac
approved came in a Mac Pro graphics card and put it in my Mac Pro the problem was still there then
I put my r9 280x which is a flash graphics card so you could blame but the problem was with it
was still there with both graphics card in my Mac Pro then I took my Mac Pros backup system drive
of the exact clone of this system and booted my MacBook Pro up off of it and my MacBook Pro has a
GeForce graphics card so it's it's an Nvidia card it's it's different than AMD so totally different
company totally different drivers for the graphics card same exact problem the only other thing I
could do is a complete clean install of El Capitan and Pro Tools 12 no other software and see if it's
still there my guess is it is because I did that with Yosemite it's a real pain in the ass to have
to do that full install just to see if you still have a bug or not takes hours you know so probably
not going to do it this time I'll just wait for an update and hope they fix it another thing is if
you do have this problem and you're on a support plane you really should call avid and tell them
about it so they get to fixing it hopefully you know 12.5 will be the cure for the graphics bug
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video and hopefully by the next video these guys will have fix this problem