A few Avid questions from a potential convert.

[John Cuevas]

I’d take it.

Seriously I’ve heard of some people having problems with the Adrenaline, but it’s become the work horse in our shop. HD & SD, use it all day long. Crashes are extremely infrequent. The biggest problem we had was that RAM bug, but that’s been since corrected. I run it with photoshop and AE open all the time(though I know I shouldn’t)

Guess the only real issue that I have still is with firewire capture, that is goofy sometimes.

Sorry to hear about all your problems Grin.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[Annaël Beauchemin]

[grinner] “I’ve seen many changes… most for the better but I can’t say I’m a fan of the new Media Composer. I had a Meridien-based Symphony and I got more than my money’s worth. It was VERY used when I got it and I went on to kick the heck out of it daily for the next 2.5 years. I billed out well over a half million dollars on that box before it finally croaked. Now I have an Adrenaline HD and I can’t tell you how much I wish I had just fixed the ole Symphony. The Adrenaline is buggy, overpriced and in a few more software upgrades, I’d say it may be ready for a version 1 release to the public. Right now, we as paying customers are beta testing for Avid as they try to sift through the buggyness.”

I’ve been learning Avids recently (being a young editor coming from FCP) and i’ve been surprised by the stability of MC adrenaline on a XW8000. I’ve worked on long and pretty complex sequences sharing both XDCAM MXFs and 2:1 media with only very few bugs that I could workaround easily.

On the opposite, on a mac Symphony (meridien) I get lots of random errors popping up, render corruption (especialy with QT imports), sluggish timeline and GUI responsiveness, very limited RT (you need to render audio dissovles on a symphony! are we still in the 90s?).

Is there anyone else working on MCA without problem or am I just plain lucky?

[John Kleber]

Out of curiosity Grin, are you capturing across firewire on a separate PCI bus than the Adrenaline?
For example do you capture from the on board firewire and have the Adrenaline hooked up to a firewire card, beacause if you don’t there’s a huge part of your problems.