I've seen this pop up in other places around the forums, but it always seems related to 5500 graphics cards, and we have Radeon Pro Vegas in our systems. Across our systems, editors will be playing back a sequence and then the computer just cuts out with the black screen of death. The weird thing... (read more)

Hi there Anyone else having system crashes (panics causing black screens and restarting) with the iMac 2020 (Model 20,1 / 3.8 GHz 8-core i7 / 5500XT)? As an assistant editor I came across 3 of these units in different facilities / with different editors and all of them were not able to run Media Composer... (read more)

My last AE job was in a facility full of Mac Minis (the last Intel model), connected to Nexis via 10Gb. They're neat little workhorses! (read more)

[quote user="Pat Horridge"] We should seen them in November so that will be helpful. [/quote] Probably in November 17. [quote user="Pat Horridge"] I guess initially they will just be a different platform not compatible with MC until such time as Avid ports the code across. [/quote... (read more)

They're starting to arise… Report: Apple Silicon iMac Featuring Desktop Class 'A14T' Chip Coming First Half of 2021 (read more)

I was given a dongle by my producer. Its a version 8.0 and works well in his 2018 MacBook pro runing mc 8.9.1, it also runs in 2 of my laptops runing mc 2019.8, one of my macbook pros is 2015 15inch the other one is mid 2012 13inch. The problem is with the iMac Retina 5k, 27 inch, 2017( iMac18,3) , where... (read more)

This is a general question about preferences and when to decide to upgarde. MC 5.5 is on my desktop and I didn't upgrade to 6.0 because I was working on a long term project and didn't want to disturb anything. I also have MC 8.0 (8.5) on my laptop used it a few times for class or personal projects... (read more)

Hello, There is maybe already an answer to this somewhere but I haven't found it and would really appreciate some feedback. I need to get a new imac (not the expensive pro model, but a modest little imac). This one is on sale, but is not listed as an Avid supported model. Could anybody tell me if... (read more)

Hi I need to purchase 4 more iMacs for additional edit suites asap. We currently use 21" iMac 14,3s [3.1Ghz i7] with a Dell 1080p bin monitor and BM mini- monitor connected to a Toshiba client monitor. We use ISIS 5500 and most work is HD or 2K ProRes or Proxy resolution, currently running MC8.6... (read more)

needing to update a couple sytems that have fallen out of date in every way imaginable. originally planning to just "fix" the Mac Pros with a new clean install and new parts but this latest 27" iMac release has me thinkng differently. realize it's only been like 10 days but wondering... (read more)