Hey everyone,

One of my clients would like to upgrade to Media Composer and they are wondering if the systems performance will improve.

The system is a dual xeon 3.06, 2gig ram, FX1100 and scsi media drives.

All the work is on DV25 - when applying a PANZOOM effect before rendering the system becomes unstable and crashes often - AVID XPRO 5.7 is version! 

Will 2 more gigs of RAM installed + VISTA + New Media Composer will this help their situation or run XP(SP2) with 2 more gigs of ram only!

Cheers

Best Regards,

Julian Ridi

I do not believe Vista s approved with 2.8 versions of the software. I would suggest remaining with Win XP.

What is the exact system? It sounds like an HP XW8000, but we can help more if we know exactly what system it is.

It's a clone of the HP XW8000

Intel 3.06 CPUs, intel SE7505VB2 Mobo, 2gig Crucial ram, Nvidia FX1100 APG, ATTO UL4D, Maxtor 40 gig (system), WD 320 gig x 2, Seagate 146gig SCSI x 2, SBlive card, 520 Vantec PSU. Antec Server Case

Avid Xpro 5.7 with non-SDI Mojo.

Anythiny else??

Thanks

Julian Ridi

More tools and a better interface, better perfomance with 1:1 media, but this may not be relevant for Your client; Pan&Zoom is a memory eater, on MC 2.8.3 it runs in a low quality mode until rendering, which helps, however several unrendered P&Z effects will still be a be challenge for the system; 2 gbs of additional ram will help only if You run the Avid memory patch found in the installer disk, there are quite a few posts in the forums regarding this; as for Vista, I would not go for it: it's not supported until the MC 3 release, moreover, it's much heavier and resources hungry than XP, personally I'll consider switching to Vista whenever Avid will support the 64 bit Vista version, as of today I'd rather buying a MacIntosh than running Vista. Hope this helps.

Thanks everyone - The system acutally requires a re-format and re-install of everything.

I'll get the quote out for the ram and see what they think - they are going up to MC regardless

Let's hope more ram helps them out!

Cheers

Julian

AVIDEDTR@mac.com:

... Let's hope more ram helps them out!

 

Cheers

Julian

 

It certainly will, cheers to You too

"Let's hope more ram helps them out!"

Remember to utilize the /3GB switch in the boot.ini to make the additional RAM available.  Refer to the Readme file for details.

That is a *** of a plugin to work with , but gives good results when not outputting black!!!  My tips:

• Work in uncompressed TIFF format - then you knwo the exact RAW filesize.  You wint know this with compressed files as Avid has to uncompress them to zooom them about.
  
• Keep files to about 4Mb max
• Work to max picture size of about 1500 pixels (on any side).  If you know you will be pushing it to 3 x zoom in then risk more - if not, there is no point.
• Render it as son as you are happy with your move.
• Use Gausian render setting if you have many 'too thin for TV' lines in your source files - minimises the ailiasing/judder

These are only my usual trial and error learn the hard way comments :) but had few problems this time round using those settings on a timeline with many uses of that effect. 

I'll be trying Boris CC's similar plugin next and hope it allows much needed rotate and aspect ratio corrections.

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