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avid on my mac
Dear Colleagues- I am a final cut user, but trying to expand my horizions by learning Avid. I recently started working with a guy that uses avid, and I would like to be able to share projects. We have ran through all the trying to share outputed or captured material with no avail as you know. So I am trying to decide if I want to install Avid on my Mac using OSX or Win!$%*. The Idea here is that we can share external hard drives on the same projects. I can work on it, then he can. I know it would work with boot camp, but that is not my first choice. I dont want to partition and loose hard drive space to bill. Will Avid write the same kinds of files if im running it in OSX? Will we then be able to just switch the hard drive to his PC and boot the project, and then back to mine? I bow to the editing gurus.
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Your main issue will be selecting how you want to format your media drive that you want to move back and forth. If you format HFS on your Mac he will need to have MacDrive on his PC to be able to see the drive. This is most likely the best route to take. If you format it Fat32 so that both systems can read and write to it you have to worry about the 2GB file limit and some say stability issues. If you have an NTFS drive the Mac can read it but not write to it so you’ll have to move the media to a suitable drive for the Mac. Other than the drive format issue, there should be no real obstacles. I move back and forth between Mac and PC frequently.
Also, I have three Mac systems with both FCP Studio and Avid on them and do not have any problems with them living in the same place. I did run using Bootcamp before the software was ready for Intel Macs and it worked fine once I got the graphics card properly configured. So, you have options and any choice you make should be ok.
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Can you be more specific about what graphics card configuration you did? I just finished installing MC 2.7.2 under Boot Camp with SDI Mojo and an ATI XT1900X card. Interestingly, it all worked OK for digitizing, but not for playback. I get a flamethrower/IEEE1394 etc. error message on playback, which I can make go away if I switch away from the Mojo (Avid DNA) back to software-only mode. So close, so close… By the way, I know that ATI cards are not supported, but this box is for FCP first, Avid (Mac) second, and Avid (Windoze) third, if at all. It would be awesome to score a triple, but I suspect that the video card is going to prevent that.
Thanks,
David
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David,
Did you ever get Avid-Windows to work on your mac?
I have 17 intel imacs running windows xp with Xpress Pro 5.6 on them. I can capture but can not print back to tape. ADM_DIO_ERROR_OCCURRED, DIOerr:Flamethrower timeout: on all 17 units. I can deselect “Tape Out” and timeline will play without error, but this does not solve the problem of printing video back to tape. Any ideas? The imacs are brand new and have 4gigs of ram and are 2.66ghz. My only option is to purchase MC3 for the Leopard OS if I can’t get it to work. Such waste of money if I have to do this.
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