A few years ago, when I tried a Symphony on a Mac it was awful compared to Symphony on a PC. More recently, my Avid experience has been almost completely Mac-centric. 10 years ago, I was regularly editing on MC on Mac and PC, switching back and forth a LOT and - even though I am a total Mac fan - Avid was running much better on PCs. I think the engineers at Avid were saying the same thing behind closed doors.
Nowadays, I don't know if that difference exists. I am occasionally on a PC based Symphony that works very well. My Mac based MC system works fine for me too. I would put your bad experiences down to a specific system that was not set up correctly. The PC Symphony that I just used (which was running Nitris hardware and latest software) ran perfectly for the full week that I worked on it. No issues. No crashes.
I'm about to add another Avid system (Symphony software version) here at work and I'm going with a PC even though I am not a fan of Windows. But I don't want to put it on an old MacPro. Apple is killing themselves by not announcing something. I have the latest and greatest MacPro and it's old. Maybe in June we'll get a new MacPro.
BTW, There is a setting to determine when the system saves. Check your settings.
Steve Hullfish
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On Apr 27, 2012, at 8:09 AM, Robert wrote:
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> I spent 6 months working on 5.5 on an iMac backed by Editshare, and it was the best experience working on an Avid I'd had since pre-Adrenaline days. Fast, I could go for weeks without a crash, honestly the first time it had been fun for me to work on Media Composer in years.
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> Is my setup at this post-house just sub-optimal, and if I had a new PC here I wouldn't be wondering?
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