Avid Media Composer Installation

Ensure permissions are set

Make sure that Jumper is installed, and JumperHelper has Accessibility Permission, and Jumper.app has Full Disk Access. If you install Jumper for Final Cut Pro, it will prompt you for these.

Close Avid Media Composer

Make sure that Avid Media Composer and all it’s various helper apps (such as avid-api-gateway) are closed in Activity Monitor / Task Manager.For example, quit these:

Launch Jumper

Launch Jumper.app from your Application folder.

Enable Jumper in Avid Media Composer

Click Enable Jumper in Avid Media Composer.This will install the Avid Panel.For those that care, the Jumper Avid Panel exists in /Library/Application Support/Avid/PanelSDKPlugins/jumper.avpi.

Launch Avid Media Composer

Access Jumper from Avid

You’ll find Jumper in the Tools menubar item. In newer versions of Avid Media Composer (2025.12 and later), you can find it in the Extensions menubar item.If for some reason you don’t see Jumper in the Tools or Extensions list, please try restarting your computer before contacting support, as this has fixed the issue for some users (we’re not sure why, and are actively discussing with the Avid team).When you click on Jumper it will launch the Jumper for Avid Media Composer panel.

Understand the Media Panel

The only real difference between Jumper for Avid Media Composer and Jumper for DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro is the Media Panel.In Jumper for Avid Media Composer, you populate the Media table using the Scan MXF Metadata button and the Load Media dropdown (next to the filename filter in the Media tab). See Adding media for the full workflow.