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Avid Media Composer Compatibility
Hi everyone,
I’m new here so if this is posted in the wrong place just point me where to go and I’ll happily oblige!
I’ve decided I want to get Avid Media Composer. I’m running an HP xw4200 Workstation. Dual P4 3.2 gig processors, 2 gigs of RAM and an ATI FireGL v3100 graphics board running Windows XP sp2. On the Avid website under qualified/tested Workstations they have an xw4400 listed as being compatible but to be honest I’m not sure what the difference really is between the two workstations. Will Media Composer run OK on my system? I checked the Avid site for a DEMO to test but there was none available that I could see.
Thanks for all the help!
-Chad
The Job: http://www.8bitaudio.net
The Band: http://www.outside-the-skin.com
The Community: http://www.darksonus.com
The Label: http://www.invisiblerecords.com -
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The Avid forums are the best place to ask these questions really.
But in general if a is system not explictly included in the supported list (especially from a similar family like the 4200) then it’s not quite up to spec for some reason.
In your case the video card would definately be a problem – Avid relies on some specific NVidia features, and doesn’t play nicely on other cards (even many NVidia cards that aren’t in the supported range).
With a supported video card you’d probably find it would work okay, but being non-supported there may be some areas where it’s problematic (most likely would be in working with Mojo or Adrenaline hardware).
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The difference between the 4200 and the 4400 might be, for example, bus segmenting.
Avid requires full access to some internal data busses. The 4200 may not be configured in a fashion that makes the Avid happy.
Or it might be an AMD processor. Avid is not fond of those either.
The best course is to e-mail the Avid folks and ask them what the problem is with the 4200. (Besides that video card).
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Thanks for the insight! Looks like I’m off to Avid-land! 🙂
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The Job: http://www.8bitaudio.net
The Band: http://www.outside-the-skin.com
The Community: http://www.darksonus.com
The Label: http://www.invisiblerecords.com
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