Avid and FCP

D10S

D10S

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Has anyone worked with FCP and Avid loaded on the same system? Any reason that this wouldn't work?
 
They can work, but Avid typically requires an older version of Quicktime and/or OS than FCP (which typically requires or works best with the latest releases). To be totally safe, just do a dual boot--one for FCP that you can update as it requires, and another for Avid that you can update when it requires it.

Michael
 
I did find out that 3.5 does support the latest version of QT. So that shouldn't be an issue. Now I want to know about the video card.

Has anyone run Avid 3.5 on an iMac with an ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO video card with 256MB of GDDR3 memory?
I know Avid lists Nividia as the card of preference, but will it run at all on an ATI Radeon?
 
Does Avid still have Express DV for free? I should keep up on my Avid skills. I have not edited on an Avid in 7 years.
 
I downloaded the demo trial version of Avid 3.5 last night and installed it on my iMac. It played and ran just fine. However, I was not impressed with the video quality compared to my FCP program which is also installed on the same iMac.

I imported a couple files and then compared them to the same files on my FCP. The video on the computer and the external monitors was much more fuzzy and soft in the Avid compared to the same footage on the FCP.

Why would that be? Would the Radeon card cause this? I thought the card problems would be more related to locking up the video or not playing it at all. It actually plays and runs just fine, it just looks bad.
 
In the bottom left of your timeline is a colored Dot. This is your quality. If it's Yellow, it's in the lowest quality to help with realtime playback. If it's Green/Yellow it's draft--okay for viewing, but not full rez. If it's all Green it's in full quality. I believe the default is Yellow/Green. Just click it to cycle through the different options.

Also, how are you monitoring out of your computer? You can't judge color or quality on your computer screen.
 
Thanks....I don't have such a button to change the resolution on my Symphony that I edit on at work, so I didn't see the button last night on the 3.5 version and was unaware it even existed.

It was late when I was checking it out. I will change the setting tonight and see if it looks better.
 
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That resolution button will also have another full green option when working with the appropriate media allowing you to have full 10bit. (not sure if it only shows up with hardware or not ... )
 
D10S said:
Thanks....I don't have such a button to change the resolution on my Symphony that I edit on at work, so I didn't see the button last night on the 3.5 version and was unaware it even existed.

It was late when I was checking it out. I will change the setting tonight and see if it looks better.
Click to expand...

There are a handful of things that popped up with the demise of the meridien line that makes a brother go wtf. I never saw the HQ toggle as a HQ toggle so much as a togle for low quality, should I ever wanna dazzle the clientel with that. lol
Little things like the note dialog box popping up automaticly when you add a locator and having to wait a bit to hit enter after adding a dissolve because ram is accesed slower... these are things that added to the feeling of downgrading rather than upgrading when the meridien line was killed.
The gains from the big exchange could possible reveal themselves in the form of RED interactivity and growing interplay coolness.
 
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