AVID MC on Mac Mini

[Jon Zanone]

https://www.avid.com/products/xpresspro/qualified_mac_workstations.pdf

My geuss is it won’t work that well…

Jon

“So you want to throw out the old you – but the old you is old enough to know it won’t make it better”
Del Amitri – “Make it Better”

[Patrick Sheffield]

I imagine it would run fine considering FCP runs perfectly well. Would I be wrong in assuming this?

Yes. You would be wrong in assuming anything about the relationship between demands placed on your system by these two programs.

Patrick

[Richard Sanchez]

The most comparable system on Avid’s compatibility listing on their website would be the iMac with the same processor, but it required an Ati Radeon x1600 video card at 128MB. I don’t know about the upgradability of the Mac Mini, but without that video card, it’s highly doubtful if the the program would run at all. That’s a bet that I wouldn’t take.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Robinbuday]

Really? Does the Media Composer really require that much power? I mean I’m not editing any uncompressed material or anything. I could see maybe some more advanced effects filters not being operational and maybe the lack of some real time effects but not run at all? Geez. I’m gonna try anyway. If it doesn’t work I have 14 days to take the computer back and spend a little more on the iMac equivalent. I’ll report my results here.

[Robinbuday]

An update:

I did a little research* about the GMA 950 card that ships with the Mac Mini. Apparently because the memory on the graphics card is shared with the main memory it will automatically allocate more RAM to the video card if the software running requires it. The amount of this allocation is reflective of the amount of memory you have in the computer. Because my Mini will have 2GB of RAM, it can allocate up to 256MB on the graphics card. Pretty neat stuff. I’m interested to see how this works out.

* – https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303407

* – https://forums.macnn.com/66/ibook-and-macbook/313063/gma-950-can-it-be-uncapped

[Robinbuday]

Just got Media Composer up and running today. It works just fine so far. I’m going to play with some HD material later and let you know how it goes.

[Giulio Tami]

Hey robin!
How did it work out with media composer on mini mac, in the end?
I’m planning to buy a mini mac and use it as a safaty/backup avid MC workstation (just in case my powerbook breaks down on day… you never know…or maybe just to log tapes, or even work on some easy effect-free timelines…)

So.. tell me tell me… how did it go?
You were going to play around with some HD clips as well, i take it…

greetings from Italy…

Giulio.

[Dacey Mathers]

I purchased a new Mac Mini.I installed Avid Media Composer Software 3.5 as posted on Avid’s website (a 14-day trial) and it actually worked.