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Which Avid on an older MacBook Pro?
MPB 2.33 Ghz,
Dual core Intel
2mb RAM
ATI Radeon x1600 card
OSx 10.5.3No luck on the other Avid forum. Let’s try here…
It’s been a few years since I’ve worked on an Avid – for the last few years it’s been purely FCP. While this may or may not change, I still want to have some form of Avid on my MBP. I won’t be doing much, if any ingesting, and I doubt that HD will enter the equation. I just need something to keep my Avid chops up. I prefer it to be a Media Composer, but XPress Pro would be fine – I simply need something that will work reliably on my laptop.
I understand the NVidia card requirement would be ideal, but does anyone have a clue if MC 3.0 will work on my MBP with the ATI card? Is anyone using any older version of MC or Xpress Pro on a MBP with an ATI card? I don’t mind if Windows & Boot Camp is my only solution, or if nothing else, I imagine I could blow away my Bootcamp partition and reformat it as Tiger if that would work with an older MC version.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks…
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Les,
Greetings from an old Discreet edit*or! I own a second gen. MBP (the one before the Core 2). I can’t remember if that’s one with ATI…I think it is. It’s a 2.16GHz(?) with 2GB of RAM. I have Xpress Pro HD 5.2.4 running in Boot Camp. I’m not sure yet, but I don’t think it works.I can capture okay and when I scrub through the clip, it looks fine. But when I playback, I get audio, but no picture. When I stop, it shows me the frame of video where the timeline stopped. This is with a WiebeTech external 500GB. It has both a SATA and a Firewire 800, both of which I’ve tried with no better result. Also, this is only playing SD video. Same drive/media on the Avid-approved HP nw9440 laptop works without a problem.
I’ve been torturing myself for weeks trying to get my Canon XH A1 (with 24F footage) to capture HDV into Avid. Today, I finally got SD to work. An Avid Assurance genius was kind enough to say that no, they don’t support Canon HDV cameras, because “we only support high-end cameras.” Yeah, and when he’s making lattes after Avid’s next round of layoffs, he’s only going to brew “high-end” coffee.
Brett
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Hi Brett,
Thanks for the response. Apparently there is a way use an Avid MC with the ATI card in version 2.8. Several posts on the Avid forum describe how to go into legacy mode (holding down O & L) which will allow a MC to work without an NVidia card.It I don’t know if this is the case on an earlier MBP like yours or if it’s also true with Xpress Pros. It might work, and it might not. If it does, let us know.
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