• Media 100

  Help setup. Would like to try Media100-HD

  Posted by Gerry Condez on March 12, 2010 at 4:18 pm

  I am using a G5 dual 2.7 with AJA Kona 3x card and a Convergent Design LE box. Upgraded to an Xserve 3.0 Quad Core Xeon pre 2008. 10 gig ram. Its the last machine I can make use of the Kona 3 PCI-X card (according to AJA). Can anyone here help me in what software versions I need to be able to use Media 100-HD? Like Kona driver version, Mac OS and quicktime versions, Media 100 version and those small details to get me started.
  I read somewhere that G5 wont be able to use ProRez that is why I moved to an Intel Mac.
  Thank you

  Jim Wiseman replied 16 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Floh Peters

  March 12, 2010 at 4:24 pm

  [Gerry Condez] “Like Kona driver version, Mac OS and quicktime versions, Media 100 version and those small details to get me started.
  I read somewhere that G5 wont be able to use ProRez that is why I moved to an Intel Mac. “

  If you want to use the latest Media 100 version (Suite 1.5), you are good to go with the latest of everything (Kona driver 7.5, latest QuickTime on 10.5.8 or 10.6.2, depending on which OS you want to use). ProRes does work on PPC (at least in Media 100 – not so well in FCP), but of course it takes some CPU power for decoding. Obviously better on Intel Macs.
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  Gerry Condez

  March 12, 2010 at 4:32 pm

  Thanks Floh for the information. You were right about the ProRez, I read it at the FCP forum, that made me confused. -Gerry
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  Jim Wiseman

  March 13, 2010 at 3:10 am

  ProResHQ works fine on my Quadcore G5.

  Jim Wiseman
  Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 1.1.2, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi Avid MC, Macbook Pro Core2Duo, G5 Quadcore PCIe, Media 100i/XR

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