• Avid Media Composer

  Mojo

  Posted by Ken Wanninger on May 16, 2008 at 8:53 pm

  Hello,

  The place I am working at is using Xpress Pro 4.6 on G5 OSX with a Component Mojo. I have Media Composer 2.8 on my Macbook Pro, which I would like to use b/c it’s better. When I connect the Mojo to my MBP the Mojo wants me to update its firmware for it to work with MC. If I update the firmware on the Mojo, will it still work with the old Xpress Pro 4.6 suite as well? I suppose I’m asking if its a backward compatible firmware update?

  Thanks in advance!
  Ken

  Dylan Reeve replied 18 years ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  Barry Ford

  May 17, 2008 at 7:11 am

  I don’t know about other people, but, when I switched to MC 2.7 from Xpress Pro 4.8 I could not get the Mojo to accept the older firmware Xpress Pro wants after reprograming it for MC which made it unusable with Xpress Pro 4. I did upgrade my Xpress Pro to 5.7 and it would accept the firmware for that release. The annoyance is that every time I switched between XPro 5.7 and MC 2.7 I had to reprogram the firmware, I have since eliminated Xpress Pro because of this.
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  Bouke Vahl

  May 17, 2008 at 10:24 am

  Why not run MC on the other machine as well?
  Since avid is dongle protected, it is totally legal.
  If you want both machines operating at the same time, i think shelling out 500 bucks to upgrade the other is a good deal.

  Bouke

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  Ken Wanninger

  May 17, 2008 at 10:37 pm

  I don’t want to use both machines at the same time, I just want to be able to take work home with me on my MBPro. I don’t want to screw with the systems at work, and they don’t want to pay for upgrades from Xpress Pro 4.6. Its kind of annoying.
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  Ken Wanninger

  May 17, 2008 at 10:39 pm

  I don’t want to use both machines at the same time, I just want to be able to take work home with me on my MBPro. I don’t want to screw with the systems at work, and they don’t want to pay for upgrades from Xpress Pro 4.6. Its kind of annoying. Can I run Xperss Pro 4.6 and MC 2.8 on the same partition without conflicts?

  Thanks again!!
  Ken
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  Colin Mcquillan

  May 18, 2008 at 6:37 am

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  Dylan Reeve

  May 19, 2008 at 2:14 am

  You can’t have two Avid installations on the same install, no. For a while I liked the idea of having Xpress Pro and MC on the same system, so I could choose what I needed with Dongle, but that wasn’t possible.

  Although, interestingly, my Dongle (now updated to MC 2.8) still work on another computer with XPro 5.7 just fine.

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