Hi GURUS,

I have MC 4.0.5 w/ mojo DX on MACPRO Harpertown. Question is, Can MC 4.0.5 work with OS X 10.8.4? I'm planning to upgrade my OS to this version.

Any known known issues?

Thanks.

Not supported at all.  Last supported version of OSX for 4.0.5 is 10.6.2 - I wouldn't try it.  Refer to the version matrix.

Stay on 10.6.2, or upgrade to MC7.

Thank you very much. Very helpful

FYI -

I know this is ancient but I LOVE MY 4.0.5 -

It runs perfectly on 10.6.8 ~

I wish someone can tell me if it runs on SNOW LEAPORD or LION -

Thanks

I agree! I love MC 4.0.5 on 10.6.8. Rock solid stable and very FAST. I only crash about once a month on projects with MC4.

For the last year I've been using MC7 and MC8 and am continually frustrated: sluggish trimming with audio scrub; sluggish segment mode with four-frame display; unexpected quitting; executive timeout errors; modifier key changes since MC5 that make lasso slip & slide not work properly; audio pops in dissolves...the list goes on.

Not sure what you mean when you ask if MC 4.0.5 runs on SNOW LEOPARD or LION. 10.6.8 is Snow Leopard.

funckdren:

I agree! I love MC 4.0.5 on 10.6.8. Rock solid stable and very FAST.

Same here, except I'm using Symphony 4.0.5 on 10.6.4! Mine doesn't crash at all!

Brickwad:

Mine doesn't crash at all!

Right. I wish Avid would take a close look under the hood on Media Composer 4 and figure out why it worked SO WELL, and why all releases since then have not.

For what it's worth, several Mac developer gurus I know swear that Snow Leopard was the best OS build and that it's been downhill since Lion. They say Mavericks is 2nd best.

Weighing in: like I've stated elsewhere, if I could speak to Avid directly I would tell them, "New features? Yes. But not at the cost of speed and stability."

I think our ultimate combo was Media Composer 5.5.3 in OS X 10.6.8. With both the Matrox mxo2mini and AJA IOExpress, monitoring video was flawless out of all the big apps. It was marvelous.

I don't think we'll ever get back to that, though.

Isaquit0:

"New features? Yes. But not at the cost of speed and stability."

Amen, Isaquit0. I'd give up many new features to get back to the snappy timeline interface I enjoyed from 1998–2011.

And I would agree with you about MC 5.5.3, but they screwed up the modifier keys in Media Composer 5 on Mac. And as a result, using the lasso to get into slide mode STILL does not work properly. I demonstrate the problem HERE.