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  • Tue, Jun 24 2008 3:21 PM

    Upgrading with duo dongle

    I've contacted my local reseller about upgrading my ExpressPro to MC soft …I guess I'll finally retire my old Meridian 9000 work horse.
    I mentioned to him that what I thought was uncharacteristically kind about this upgrade, was that I would still be able to run my XpressPro on my old 12' PowerBook. I mainly use it to  edit LONG audio VO's because I prefer the work flow on the simple, yet almost daily, tasks I need to do in that arena.
    My reseller told me that since I have the old rainbow duo dongle, that I would have to get a new dongle and that the new one would NOT let me work with Xpress Pro. 
    Any thoughts on this, or advice?
    Thanks!

    Main system: Media Composer 9000 ver. 12 (Mac) G-4 933, Meridan. Secondary system: Media Composer 3.0 (Mac), G-5 OctoCore, 4 gig ram [view my complete system specs]

    J. Daniel Jones Pure Entertainment San Diego, CA

  • Tue, Jun 24 2008 3:23 PM In reply to

    • Brickwad
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    Re: Upgrading with duo dongle

    I had a Rainbow duo and thought the same thing. Avid told me it would work, and it did. So, you should be good to go.

     

    Good Luck

    I have 10 Avid systems, DX, Meridian and DNA. 1 MCA 1.8 on 2.5 quad G5 w/ 5 Gigs of Ram, 1 Symphony Nitris DX on eight core mac pro with 4 gig ram, 1 MC... [view my complete system specs]

    Andy

  • Sun, Jun 29 2008 5:40 PM In reply to

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    Re: Upgrading with duo dongle

    "I guess I'll finally retire my old Meridian 9000 work horse."

    On a side note - you can also get a hefty trade-in value of your Meridian hardware going to the DX series.. believe it is only for Nitris DX. 

    XW8200 2x3.2Ghz Xeon nVidia 3450 3Gb Ram Media Composer 3.0 w/Mojo 2Tb storage (mixed SCSI/SATA/1394)---------------Mac Pro 2xQuad-Core Intel 3Ghz 9Gb... [view my complete system specs]

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    Kent Brockman

  • Sun, Jun 29 2008 7:43 PM In reply to

    • Brickwad
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    Re: Upgrading with duo dongle

    I traded in an Adrenalne and a meridian. Got 16 K for the Adrenalne and 2.5 K for the Meridian. That was on two systems though, I gon't know if they'll take more than one trade in on a single system.

    I have 10 Avid systems, DX, Meridian and DNA. 1 MCA 1.8 on 2.5 quad G5 w/ 5 Gigs of Ram, 1 Symphony Nitris DX on eight core mac pro with 4 gig ram, 1 MC... [view my complete system specs]

    Andy

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