ATI Radeon X1900 XT & MC Software

[Rhewitt]

It’s very highly unlikely to work.

Avid applications use OpenGL and hardware video overlay – that is something that nearly all ATI graphics cards don’t do – they use a software-based overlay.

[Richard Definis]

Thanks for the explanation, something I can’t get from my Avid rep!

[Dom Silverio]

Half correct. ATi fully supports OpenGL and hardware overlay.

The problem lies with the implementation. NVidia and ATi have distinct way of achieving OpenGL support.

Avid decided to optimize using NVidia’s technique – including OpenGL overlay – instead of the old Windows Direct Show.

[Richard Definis]

which still means it probably won’t work. correct?

Damn what happened to the days of just editing!

[Oliver Peters]

I’m running a MacPro with this card and it works fine. I haven’t tested it heavily though with layers of effects, yet. Avid tends to be more touchy with the right NVidia cards in PCs.

Sincerely,
Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Richard Definis]

thanks Oliver. Now if I can only figure out how to get all my media from my LVD drives over to the new machine without buying a $500 SCSI card!

Rich

[Annaël Beauchemin]

It might work if you put the graphic card acceleration performance slider in the displays control panel to the mid setting. This is my experience with MC soft and a XW8000 running a FireGL X2. One thing to note is that you’ll get a bit less real time realibility. When you try to playback more than 1 CC, 1 mask and 1 3D dve, it will jerk sometimes.

If you have the choice, definitely get an nvdia…