Film and TV editors across Los Angeles were sweating Monday evening as their workstations were refusing to reboot, resulting in speculations about a possible computer virus attack. Social media reports suggested that the issue was widespread among users of Mac Pro computers running older versions ofApple‘s operating system as well asAVID‘s Media Composer software.
Appleand AVID didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
“A lot of L.A. post shops and people out on shows having their Macs slowly crash, ”reported video post-production consultant Matt Pennon Twitter.
From what I gather there’s a massive failure of Macs with iLok / Avid that’s happening all over right now. A lot of L.A. post shops and people out on shows having their Macs slowly crash and wont boot again. Engineers are looking in to it. Don’t shut your machine off.# postchat
– Matt Penn (@mattpenndotcom)September 24, 2019
Freelance film editor Marcus Pun reposted a message from a popularAVIDFacebook user group, advising users not to turn off their workstations.
Other users reported that multiple computers at their company were affected by the issue, with social media chatter indicating that a number of different companies were affected by the issue.
Some analysis by affected users seemed to suggest that the outage may not have been caused by a virus, but by a recent software update that may have corrupted some data,with some suggestinga OS X reinstall that keeps the existing data to restart the machine.Either way, it’s a good idea for anyone running AVID software on a Mac to back up all data right away .
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Actress and creator Issa Rae is getting into the streaming data and analytics business. Rae has taken a minority stake in Streamlytics, an LA-based startup led by tech entrepreneur Angela Benton, which is aiming to democratize access to streaming media data – with a specific focus on providing data that better improve the usage of […]
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Film and TV editors across Los Angeles were sweating Monday evening as their workstations were refusing to reboot, resulting in speculations about a possible computer virus attack. Social media reports suggested that the issue was widespread among users of Mac Pro computers running older versions of Apple’s operating system as well as AVID’s Media Composer […]
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Google officially launched its Play Pass game and app subscription service Monday morning. Play Pass gives users access to more than 350 premium games and apps for $ 4. 99 per month. The launch comes just a few days after Apple unveiled it own game subscription service Apple Arcade. Apps and games included in this subscription do […]
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HBO’s “Game of Thrones ”and Jharrel Jerome, star of Netflix’s“ When They See Us, ”were among the leaders of social conversation during Sunday’s 71 st Primetime Emmy Awards on Facebook and Twitter. “GOT” picked up 12 Emmys in total for its final season, including outstanding drama series, while series star Peter Dinklage picked up his fourth […]
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