Media Composer & Xpress Pro on same computer?

[Michael Hancock]

I’m not sure it’s a great idea. Although they both install into seperate folders (Xpress Pro folder versus Media Composer), there might be conflicts elsewhere where they try to install registry settings or something similar in the same locations.

You could great a dual boot system to be completely safe.

Otherwise, I have to know why you’d want to do this? Media Composer does everything Xpress Pro does and then some. Having Xpress Pro on your Media Composer machine would simply limit what you could do when you opened that project–it would gain nothing.

Michael.

[Kimberlee Mctaggart]

He probably wants it for the same reason I do – I have an Xpress dongle full-time for my laptop and my MC dongle only part-time because it is usually running my desktop at the office. When cutting at home, I use the Xpress dongle unless the MC one is available. Does anyone know if this is OK to do on a Mac?

Kim

[Phil Byrd]

Actually, I have Xpress running on a workstation and the kid wants to buy an academic copy of Media Composer which he’s learning at school.

[Michael Hancock]

[Phillip Byrd] “the kid wants to buy an academic copy of Media Composer which he’s learning at school.”

Then you have nothing to worry about–Media Composer Academic isn’t available to students–only the school can purchase it for instructional use in the classroom. Students are only eligable to buy Xpress Pro at an Academic discount, so unless the kid wants to spend $5K I’d suggest they just get Xpress Pro.

However, when your kid graduates, they can upgrade their Xpress Pro to Media Composer. Avid was actually running a deal where they could upgrade their Xpress Pro Academic license to Media Composer Commercial License for about $1,000 upon graduation. That deal may still be available when the kid is done with school.

Michael.

[Yonko Vlashky]

Hello, I’m working on a machine with both Avid Liquid and Media composer, not at the same time, of course. No problems. I can send you an original CD for media composer to try it. Write on my e-mail address.

[Bob Rahfeldt]

You can’t install both, I’ve tried in the past (at least on mac). If you have a computer with xpress pro installed and then try to install media composer, the installation process basically erases already installed xpress pro.