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what is minimum system for MC 3.0??
I had MC Express ruinning on a Dell Laptop. I decided to upgrade to MC 3.0 with a Mojo, but now there is no way it will run on my laptop.
Avid specs a $4,000 system for MC 3.0, and there is no way I can spend that.What is the least I need to run a stable MC 3.0 workstation with Mojo?
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‘Approved’ MC requirements HERE.
You will find a big disparity in opinions on this one. There are the folks who “built it with spit and baling wire, and it works fine”, and the “buy from Avid and no one else” camp. Well, maybe not to many of those. I tend to fall in the more cautious camp. I have neither the time, energy or knowledge to build my own system. I need something that works out of the box. I will buy my 4th system from a reseller. My previous 3 are working flawlessly, and I haven’t spent a lot of effort chasing down problems.
If you look at the minimum requirements, I think the thing that stands out is having the Mojo on an integrated FW port, not a PCMCIA card. Make sure you have the correct version of Quicktime and OS, and make sure your video card is approved. My sense is you’ll be fine.
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
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Yes, it seems that it is in Avid’s best interest to keep things a little vague in this area. On the other hand, I can see how it simplifies things.
Do you already have the new software? Have you already tried installing it on your current machine?
I decided to try installing it on the computer I had, and it worked, at least so far. Of course, if I run into problems, I can’t say they didn’t warn me, and I’ll have to get something else, hopefully not in the middle of a deadline.
It really does boil down to what risk you want to take, and how much you want to tweak things to get them to work. Of course, even though it shouldn’t have worked on mine, I have had to do absolutely NO tweaking…yet. So, it’s a tough question to answer in general terms. Try installing it if you have the software and see what happens. What do you have to lose. If you want to work in absolutes, you’re asking for trouble, but the best bet is to drop the cash and have piece of mind.
If you want to save cash, buy an older generation certified system. It won’t render as fast, but it’ll work.
Frankly, video editing was never advertised as a low cost endeavor, at least at the pro level. Hard to get around that fact.
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