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:
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> On 13 Mar, 2011, at 4:28 PM, owen wrote:
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>> > so, no more dongles?
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> This recent thread post would indicate dongles remain an option:
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> "FYI dongles will still be supported when Media Composer moves to a 64-bit
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> http://community.avid.com/forums/p/94706/541752.aspx
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