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Mac Mini? = MC, Express or FCP 6
I have always loved the idea of a Mac Mini as a supplementary editing machine to my Ma Pro.
I’m looking at a 320G, 2.26GHz Intel Dual Core Mini with 4GBs of Ram and an external HDD.
I have been running Avid Express HD 5 a on similar spec PC, will it run on a Mac Mini with the above specs?
It is time to upgrade to Avid Media Composer but it requires a NVIDA FX560 or higher nVidia Graphics Card and the new Mini has that. I only to really want to use it to digitise/capture hours + hours of “talking heads” some DV some HDV. I can use the Mac Pro for all the other stuff. But if a Mini can help me capture all the footage I have then I can double my output very cost effectively. I would only use the Mini to run Snow Leopard and either Avid MC or FCP 6.
Any advice? BTW – Has anyone tried FC Suite 2 on a Mini or at least FCP 6??
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I’ve occasionally used my Black MacBook (2.16) to do some mobile editing on large projects. MC 3.x. Ran fine. However, capturing is another story, I didn’t try that. You should be fine capturing over FireWire to the internal drive, or Mojo to the internal drive, but since the Mojo requires it is the only device on the bus, you cannot have any external drives attached as well.
Also: at the time, Snow Leopard has not (yet) been qualified to run Avid. Some folks are doing it anyway, check the Avid Community Forums, I hear some mixed results, but in general it seems OK. -
[Patrick Bronte] “I would only use the Mini to run Snow Leopard and either Avid MC or FCP 6.”
Patrick,
Avid has never qualified the Mini for any of their programs. I don’t think the Express software is any different. They have qualified the iMac …
https://www.avid.com/products/Media-Composer-Software/system-requirements.asp
And as was posted, Snow Leopard isn’t qualified. Avid takes a little time to make sure their systems work on new OS’s.
While I haven’t talked with anyone running FCP on a Mini, it is possible. There may be issues with Motion not running fast. Check out this thread from the Apple site…
https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1926725&start=0&tstart=0Hope that helps.
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