You should see an improvement in performance if you upgrade to a 64 bit OS, as Snow Leopard (10.6.8) is only 32 bit, and Media Composer on Version 6 and later can do 64 bit. Lion is a no brainer for MC 6.5.4, but to do Mountain Lion or Maverics you have to use specially patched versions.
Check out the document Legacy MC Version Matrix for details. I will try and link it here:
Dave
On Monday, December 22, 2014 11:07 PM, "bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
That's great info. Thanks for sharing. I have found 6.5.4 to be slow to launch etc... but as I really do more than peripheral tasks with it I haven't been too frustrated. I'm still running OS 10.6.8 on it for now. I'll see how it's performance is with the new ram and SSD just for the heck of it. If nothing else it will help the Adobe suite.
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Your MacBook Pro 5.2 circa 2009 only has two cores, and is not part of the modern family of "i" processors. It isn't certified to run v7.x and in the 64 bit versions of avid before that (6.0 and 6.5) it is certified Software only, and SD Mojo. It can possibly play back media via Mojo DX, but it's not certified to be able to digitize with it.
Max RAM on your model is indeed 8 gigs. I have a similar machine, and while MC 5.5 runs on it OK, it is very sluggish with 6.0 and 6.5. Mine has 8 gigs of RAM and an SSD (which is awesome in any machine), but I only consider it professionally useable on 5.5. One time when my newer machine was out on rental I had to do something simple in MC6.5 and it took forever, not really useable in HD. It might be OK with SD media, but AMA linking and transcoding is near impossible with 6 and 6.5 on it.
I recall reading also that AVID software requires at least 7200rpm drives on the application drive. The SSD is much faster, but that machine isn't really very good after MC5.5. If I recall you have a dongle license, which will allow you to run v5.5 latest release, but nothing older.
A newer MacBook Pro with 16 Gigs ram and an i7 quad core (virtual 8 core) can handle MC/Symphony v 7 quite well, but I am sure will fall to it's knees if I try to start using it with 8.3 and 4K footage.
Hope this helps...
Dave Hogan
Burbank, CA
On Monday, December 22, 2014 5:40 PM, "tcurren@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
As you can see from that page, 8GB doesn't get you much.
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