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Avid Mac and FCP?
Avid Gurus:
My Avid dealer does not know if my idea will work, maybe you do.
If I have a Mac-Avid Adrenaline, can I also use FCP on that system, at different times, and without having a Kona or other card on it?If so, I’d like to see if a FCP with a Kona Card, can run say Avid Xrpess for Mac (again no Avid card on that). I now have a G5 FCP Kona, and want to add another G5 Mac Avid Adrenaline, both connected to a Medea/Avid SAN. So one could digitize in, and the other system could sync sound at the same time.
Any chance that would work? Again, no I/O cards on the same G5, just software used at different times.
Thanks, Joe
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6 Replies
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Avid and FCP do not use the same media file format. FCP uses Quicktime, Avid uses OMF (mostly).
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Thank you, I am aware the media is different and I would not be reading one’s media from the other, just wanting to use different projects at different times.
Joe
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I would make a system whit two bootdisk, one for FCP and one for AVID. If you make a clean install on the two disks and make sure that there are no KONA drivers on the AVID boot disk, you should be able to have the Kona card in a all time. It would also make the two systems more stable – I would instal FCp and avid on same disk.
Morten Raarup
On Off Line Postproduction
Copenhagen, Denmark -
I would make a system whit two bootdisk, one for FCP and one for AVID. If you make a clean install on the two disks and make sure that there are no KONA drivers on the AVID boot disk, you should be able to have the Kona card in a all time. It would also make the two systems more stable – I would instal FCp and avid on same disk.
Morten Raarup
On Off Line Postproduction
Copenhagen, Denmark -
Thanks. I do not plan to have the Kona drivers on the same system (I don’t think) as the Avid, just use the software of Avid to control the media on the SAN. If I go in or out, I’d always use the other Mac that has the Avid hardware on it.
So I input on the Avid Mac, the simulaneously use the FCP Mac’s Xpress software to sync dailies of that media on the Medea array. Any output would be done back on the Avid Mac.
So there are no Avid drivers on the FCP Mac, right? I know this is hard to explain and even harder to be sure I’m saying it right.
Joe
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yep. You install the FCP disk whitout any avid sfuff and the AVID disk whitout any FCP stoff. The you just restarts when you need to use the other system.
Morten Raarup
On Off Line Postproduction
Copenhagen, Denmark
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