• Avid Media Composer

  Media Composer Max RAM

  Posted by Nathan Baker on April 13, 2009 at 6:49 am

  How much RAM can Media Composer 3 actually use?

  I just built a machine with 12 gigs, and I’m wondering if MC can actually use it all.

  Bonus question: If MC can’t use it all, is Vegas the only video editing software that can?

  Job Ter burg replied 17 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Hancock

  April 13, 2009 at 7:04 pm

  Avid sees at most about 3GB. It’s just a limitation of a 32-bit app, even though it can run in a 64-bit OS. The extra RAM will be nice if you keep a lot of other apps open–they’ll each have their own RAM to fill instead of a system with just 4GB total, which means those 4GB are shared by Avid, other open apps, and the OS.

  Is Vegas a 64-bit app? I didn’t know that.

  Michael

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  Job Ter burg

  April 21, 2009 at 6:45 pm

  I run my Symphony Classic Nitris & Media Composer systems on Windows Vista Business 64-bit, which is a supported OS to run them on. Of the 8GB in each system, a full 4GB’s are available for the application. This is much more than the 2.7GB that you could get running the Avid editors under XP 32-bit. The switch to Vista 64 really saved the day for me.

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