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What was the best Mac Avid editing system for Nubus machines?
Not sure how far back you guys go in the editing business, but what was the best System/Software Avid produced for the Nubus era Macs (68K and early PPC)?
Also is there an archive around where you can get pdf manuals and drivers/software for the old Nubus gear? I have not seen anything Nubus related (outside of a few tech notes) on Avids site. Google does not turn up much either for old gear.
I am still trying to find drivers or test software for my Truevision based ABVB board with Python II card.
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Gosh, that was a long time ago, but as I recall it was an ABVB board-based AVR 70 system if I remember correctly. I remember it had something to do with video and picture thingies and moving them into different positions and stuff…
:o)
Have fun,
Ron Lindeboom
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There is quite a lot of litterature on knowledge base about Nubus !
https://www.avid.com/search/google.asp?client=supportTest&site=knowledgebase_acsr&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=0&as_q=nubus&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&productID=0&versionID=0&topicID=0&localeID=0&as_occt=any&advancedSearch=search+the+knowledge+base -
quadra!
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Some troubleshooting and 2 patches for specific problems. I was looking for product literature with system name and hardware/software lists plus requirements. It would be nice if I could get the test software for the boards I have and maybe the control panels so that I could atleast test them out using Premiere. I don’t see why they don’t have the old unsupported software and pdf manuals out for download (maybe they do if you are a current paying user, I am not) since you need specific hardware for it to work (and probably a dongle as well).
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The boards will not work with Premiere under any circumstances (if I understand your comment correctly). In order for Premiere to access and use a board, there must be drivers written that “hook into” the chips and capabilities of the board. That never happened with the Avid ABVB boards. Only Avid software of the correct variety works on Avid boards.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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The Avid ABVB board looks like a modified Targa 2000 board so I didn’t expect it to work with premiere (why would Avid bother writing drivers for competing apps). The older Avid card that shipped with the Media Suite Pro setup (MSP) was just a stock Nuvista+ Nubus card and there should be drivers for that (might need a bios flash).
Currently I am sitting on a ABVB card with pyhton 2 but no dongle, I do have a dongle for the MSP 3.0 (with enhanced image) setup but I have no idea if the software for that (which I do not have)would support a newer boardset like the ABVB. Avid seems to have a few systems with somewhat the same hardware but different software (and possible dongles) in their lineup (atleast that is what I can make out of googling). Media 100 did the same thing with their Nubus card, the dongle unlocked features present in the software but used the same hardware. I would think Avid had a seperate diagnostic software application that would check its cards to see if they are OK (media 100 did this). Finding that software would atleast let me know if the cards I have even function, before I waste more time tracking down software I cannot use. At the very least I could use the MSP 3.0 software since the Nuvista+ boards pop up on ebay once in a while to get a working system (since I have the dongle).
This is just a hobby for me, I collect 68K Macs and 68K Nubus cards plus some older x86 ISA video capture cards and a Radius Videovision telecast PCI setup. I just like how video capture had advanced from the early Supermac Spigot (just an RCA video input) to the later generation Avid, Media 100, Targa, Bravada, etc hardware. Finding drivers, manuals, and software for anything pre PCI era is very hard to do (I enjoy the challenge) and seems to be harder as time goes by.
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