Avid Media Composer 6 (or even 5.5.3)

[rjeanpierre]

for the audio plugins go in: /Library/Application Support/Digidesign

and delete or move the audio plugins, leave only the one with avid name, restart your hackintosh and all will work fine.

Thanks! Will try this if I get stuck again in the future. I just ended up uninstalling 6.5 and reinstalling 6.0 since 6.5 was giving me issues and I needed to make deadline.

 

[rjeanpierre]

I recently built a Hackintosh for editing on Media Composer. So far everything works 100% and it's much faster than the current Mac Pro I'm editing on at work. I was quite surprised how easy it actually was setting this up.
I'm using MC 5.5.3 because I don't think MC 6 is quite ready for feature film editing. I'm using Lion 10.7.4. I have an old Mojo box which works fine and am planning on getting Matrox MXO2 mini later on for HD work.
I am currently working on a film on my rig which is loaded in HD but the Mojo down-converts to SD just fine.


The rig:
Motherboard -
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3
CPU -
Intel i7-2600K
GPU -
Gigabyte HD 6870 OC 1GB
RAM -
8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz DDR3
SSD -
OCZ Vertex3 Max IOPS
HD -
Seagate Barracuda 1TB
Optical Drive -
Sony Optiarc
Firewire 800/400 card -
DeLock 89106
WiFi -
TP-Link TL-WDN4800
Case -
Corsair Obsidian 650D

Have you had a chance to test your Matrox Mini? I will be plugging mine in later this week but was hesitant because I needed to finish a current job while the system was working.

 

[TyroneLT]

How well do these kinds of rigs handle Canon DSLR h.264 footage via AMA?

 

[joebingo]

How well do these kinds of rigs handle Canon DSLR h.264 footage via AMA?

I'd just transcode it to DNx to be honest, I'd never trust a project with only AMA linked media, even on a real mac.

Also, if you are using AMA and you lose a link somewhere, Avid 6 comes up with an error message saying "the application binary is corrupted, please reinstall the system". This is fixed by closing and reopening the Avid.