I did not see that the FYI was attributed to Howard Brock on the forum. I assume he's an employee of Avid?
owen
On Mar 13, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Robert Ferguson wrote:
> There are at least two possibilities here on the Mac side. The dongle driver
> can be updated to 64 bit by the time MC 6 comes out.
>
> And on the Mac, it has been able to run 64 bit software since 10.5. The
> kernel itself can run as 32bit or 64bit. The recent change is that starting
> with the release of Westmere based Macs, the default kernel setting changed
> to 64bit. 64bit software runs just fine with the 32bit kernal and can take
> advantage of the increased memory that 64bits brings without the kernel
> running 64bit.
>
> You can see what software is running as 64 bit from the Activity Monitor or
> by selecting Applications in System Profiler. (About this Mac, More Info.)
>
> Back when 10.5 first came out, there was much debate on the benefits of the
> availability of the 64bit kernel. Most determined the advantages were
> theoretical to most users.
>
> A lot of After Effects users were hit by orphaned 32nit plugins when CS5 was
> released. Some were updateable to 64bit for free, some required a paid
> upgrade to a new version and some remain unavailable as 64bit, requiring
> keeping CS4 installed to open older projects that used the orphaned plugins.
>
> Robert
>
> on 3/13/11 2:36 PM, Jimmy Dutt at bytemonkey@mac.com wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 13 Mar, 2011, at 4:28 PM, owen wrote:
> >
> >> > so, no more dongles?
> >
> > This recent thread post would indicate dongles remain an option:
> >
> > "FYI dongles will still be supported when Media Composer moves to a 64-bit
> > application (MC 6)."
> >
> > http://community.avid.com/forums/p/94706/541752.aspx
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