This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Third Party Cards and BOBs

Thanks, Terry. I was afraid that would be the answer.

And thanks to everyone else. The replies and "workarounds" are very helpful.

tony

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> No external card "accelerates" the editing, not even Avid's. What the Nitris DX does is offload the processing of DNxHD, and AVCHD (with daughter-card) which frees up the CPU and GPU for the rest of the tasks at hand.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Breuer" <tonybreuer@> wrote:
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> > I hope this isn't a stupid question, but do any of the third party hardware options (Blackmagic, AJA, Matrox etc) actually accelerate the editing functions? I can't tell from their websites.
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> > I'm running software only Symphony 6.x on my MAC Pro Nahelem with 16 gig memory and G-Raid esata hard drives. Right now I have a Matrox mini to monitor the video.
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> > I get audio underrun errors if I try to move clips around in the timeline with the segment tool and audio scrubbing is on and when exiting trim mode by clicking on time code track get beach ball and then message: exception: blipplayer: nonthreadedplayblipfield: timed out waiting for sinle frame player to stop. if scrubbing a complex sequence of unrendered effects, consider rendering them for best performance.
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> > I like to leave the caps lock key activated so I can scrub audio and have done that since I started editing on the Avid more than twenty years ago. I think it is now genetically impossible for me to remember to turn off the caps lock and it's really ticking me off.
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> > Do any of the third party options accelerate the performance so I won't get these errors or am I forced into a Mojo or other Avid hardware solution?
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> > Thanks
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> > Tony Breuer
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