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Avid and Final Cut on the same drive
I learned the hard way that Avid and Final Cut Pro do not play nicely when loaded onto the same drive. Avid erased drivers for my CineWave card, my Wacom tablet etc. I fixed the mess, reformatted the second internal drive to run Avid on a separate OS and everything is great except for one thing. My G5 no longer sees my CineWave card and I know that it works because I but in into another G5 with no problems. I have reloaded the driver, but it still doesn’t show up in the System Profile.
Any ideas?
Here’s another question. Believe it or not I am thinking of trying this again on a different machine that has a Kona2 card. This time I will physically disconnect the drive running FCP before I try to install Avid Xpress Pro on the other drive. This should work right? Right????? Anyone????
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Hello:
I currently run AXP/Mojo and Kona 2/FCP on my Dual 2.7 G5. I cloned my main internal drive (which had all the FCP/Kona stuff on it) and then when I rebooted onto the second drive, I uninstalled all FCP/Kona files/drivers before installed AXP. It works like a charm. The AVID setup doesn’t ‘know’ the Kona card is installed because the drivers aren’t there. It just sees the Mojo via the firewire connection. When I boot back on my FCP drive, I leave the Mojo off, and voila — I’ve got FCP Studio/Kona 2!
I even discovered that I can put both OMFI and FCP Quicktime files on the same RAID array…just make a separate folder for the FCP media and make sure you point FCP to that folder. I routinely flip back and forth, as right now I’m editing AVID on one project and FCP on another. Works great.
Hope this helps.
Best, JIM.
OSX.4.3
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box
Seritek 1.2 TB RAID
AVID XPRESS PRO/MOJO -
Good to hear.
Thank you Jim
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