Avid Full Screen Playback FX3500

[Lav Bodnaruk]

Hi there! That must be it!
In my Video Display options I do not have the Graphics Card option, ONLY the Software OpenGL? Why is this? Is there a setting I have to do elsewhere to make sure I can get the Hardware option?

I am assuming this must be the cause then.

Remember, I did have the FSP working with a Nvidia GeForce 7600GT card in there, with SoftwareGL. I must be able to change something in my system preferences that makes Avid understand that the new card FX3500 can work as Hardware OpenGL.

Any info on how to work this about would be much appreciated! I am crossing fingers that this is my core of the problem

Thank you for mentioning this Annael!
Best,
Lav

[Mike Dow]

You should be running MC 2.8.3 with QT version 7.3.1. You can’t run full screen mode while DNA is active…make sure the DNA/1394 switch is set to 1394 on your timeline.

The MD

[Annaël Beauchemin]

there is something wrong somewhere. Your videcard should come up. Have you tried reinstalling everything?

[Lav Bodnaruk]

Hey guys,

I am still without FSP even after re-installing everything. I took some days off to attend a film festival and have bought a HP xw8400 workstation up on my return.

I will now put my fx3500 into this unit and see if this will make any difference as I was out of option on why the FSP was not working with my current set-up.

The most puzzling thing of all is that the Video card was not showing up in the avid as a hardware option and that whilst I had the none-certified card (Nvidia GeForce 7600GT) the FSP was working…

Hopefully now that I am installing both Avid and Windows from stretch on this dual quad core xeon machine, i should be OK.

I will post the results as I get there eventually

many thanks
Lav

[Mike Dow]

What model computer were you using before the xw8400, and was it qualified by avid?

The MD

[Lav Bodnaruk]

Hi Mike,

the computer was not qualified by Avid, but it had no problems running the MC till I put the new video card in it – the qualified nvidia quadro fx3500.

It was a gigabyte x38 ds5 motherboard, with q6600 quad core cpu, 4GB of 1066MHz RAM, and bunch of different drives in RAID 0. The video card with which the MC worked for long time (I cut a film on it with no probs) is GeForce 7600GT but when I put the qualified FX3500 Quadro in it, I lost the FSP.

I am yet to build up the xw8400 (install the software, etc) and see if the FX3500 works OK in this set-up or if something similar will happen.

Thanks!
Lav

[Lav Bodnaruk]

… perhaps slightly off my original topic, but since I bought this new machine and it has a SCSI 300GB 15000rpm drive in it, would you recommendation be to use that drive for OS or something else?

I am also thinking about seeing to GHOST my current OS drive from the computer mentioned above to the new xw8400 300Gb 15,000rpm drive.

Any thoughts on that?
Thanks again!

Lav

[Marco Castros]

Hi guys,
I read your interesting thread on FSP on Avid. I tell you my amazing experience on this issue. This is referred to Avid XPress Pro 5.7.5 but it is still funny.
I installed Xpress on my very very very low budget notebook (an old HP pavilion 6000 AMD turion dual core) with a non certified video card (geforce 7200)e GB ram and a hard disk 5400 rpm. I’m running quick time pro 7.5. As you can see everything is saying to me: IT WILL NOT RUN AT ALL ON YOUR SYSTEM.
But… Everything works fine!!! I have FULL SCREEN PLAYBACK (also on a big 40″ LCD screen) with full quality (the green button on the timeline) with effects rendered on the fly… The only annoying thing is the warning: “Not certified video card” as I start the application – and once every circa 10 sessions I get the message: “FSP is not allowed on this system”. I restart and everything goes fine.
Why this?
Many Thanks for you attention and special thanks to Avid that makes our life so exciting…
Marco