(I typed 'Hyper' into the search window of the Settings menu and the 'Turn Windows features on or off' applet comes up at the bottom of the choices - SB)Ģ. Turn off Hyper-Visor: Run the 'Turn Windows features on or off' applet and uncheck the entire 'Hyper-V' tree The steps below between the *** are from that post, and my additional commentary is in parentheses and conclude with - SB.įrom Microsoft user FrankB: 'Some of the steps seem mutually redundant, but it only worked when I performed *all* of the below (from a clean Windows 10 Pro installation). The following steps are also found on a Microsoft Community post for a similar issue.link at the bottom of this post. I am indebted to Raff for helping me to get this working!Īfter we determined that 'Virtualization' was enabled per the previous instructions supplied by I was able to use the following steps (also discovered and supplied by RalphC) to disable virtualization and encourage Media Composer to run.

OK, so I was actually able to get MC|First working! Here's what I did. I am a student with a video editing class using AVID this semester, and I'm on week 2 of the semester and cannot even run the software that's needed.Ĭan anyone tell me why MC|F thinks I am a VM and how to convince it I am not? The Surface Book is a touchscreen device with an option to detach the screen and use as a tablet-like device. Graphics Card is GeForce GTX 1660 Ti with Max-Q Design (Oddly, I can run MC|F on a 7 year old ASUS PC, just not at all swiftly or soundly.one click and 3 minutes later something will occur.)Īnyway, the additional specs for my computer are: Hypervisor is not running/enabled, nor are any VMware items that I'm aware of, but somewhere, MC|F is seeing something that makes it think I am running a VM. I have performed a variety of gpedits and regedits per Microsoft's suggestions, to no avail. 'This program is not supported on VM instances'Īfter over two weeks of research, reading, downloading, tinkering, upgrading, and more, I still have not found any solution to this. Everything downloaded nicely however when I go to run MC|F, I am greeted with the following message:

I have a brand new Microsoft Surface Book 3 running Windows 10 Pro version 1909 and have recently downloaded Media Composer|First 2020.6, then a few days ago updated to 2020.8.

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