• Avid Media Composer

  Avid MC5 upgrade quandry

  Posted by Phil Byrd on January 4, 2011 at 10:58 pm

  I’ve been running MC4 very successfully with this machine:

  Dell Precision 670 with dual Pentium Zenon 3ghz processors; 4gig memory, Quadro FX 1400 video card with 128 mb memory. Running Windows XP SP3.
  
  Finally finished a project and tried to install MC5.

  First, I installed Windows 7 on a new hard drive and completely updated the install. It seemed to run very well.

  I installed a few other programs and they all ran OK.

  Then I installed MC5. The program loads. But then the fun ends. I can play the sample (clips and sequence) files OK in the source viewer and record viewer. But the timeline vanishes. And when I attempt to load a project from the MC4 install (with all the drives attached), it all gets very silly.

  Is there a problem with this relatively old machine running Windows 7 and MC5? Should I try an install of MC5 with Windows XP? Or is there a setting somewhere that I’ve just missed?

  Any counsel and advice would be welcome. And happy New Year to you all.

  phil

  Phil Byrd replied 15 years, 4 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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