[quote user="Brent Marginet"]Really why are Dongles no longer going to be supported.[/quote] Chris Bové from Avid answered this in a blog post: https://www.avid.com/resource-center/avid-media-composer-in-2022-lets-talk-licensing There's a lot of good information there, but if you're looking for a short answer: [quote]... during

Sorry, I'm a PC guy. Hopefully someone who knows Macs will respond soon.

[quote user="Adrian Redmond"]But I still find MC - under certain circumstances - sluggish - for example, when scrolling horizontally on the timeline, movement is delayed and not smooth. Altering the timeline zoom is slow top react. Adding a new clip (even on an almost empty sequence) has a few second delay before the clip actiually apears

I work regularly for two international broadcast news channels. One still hasn't fully gone back into the office, so for them I'm using 2022.4 on my home system. The other one is all the way back to normal operations, and they're running 2021.12. They haven't upgraded because they've got a lot of other Avid stuff that needs to be

[quote user="didGe-boi"] All is well now ... thanks a million!!! [/quote]You're welcome!

Try this: https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Error_Message/EssentialResourceNotAvailableError-Launching-Media-Composer-2022-4

Hi, See if this helps: https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Error_Message/EssentialResourceNotAvailableError-Launching-Media-Composer-2022-4

In my experience with Media Composer the only thing that's ever made an appreciable difference in performance is a faster processor.

With the Avid Link app you should be able to activate or deactivate a license from anywhere. If that's not working you should create a case on the MyAvid support portal and someone will get to you asap. https://www.avid.com/US/support/support-contact If you don't get anywhere with them, send an email to Chris Bové (chris.bove@avid.com

[quote user="pk.roberts"]Any other thoughts on fix for this?[/quote] Is using an earlier version of Media Composer until the next update is released an option?