Hey everyone, I am looking into learning AVID Media Composer. I was thinking about getting a macbook pro to run it on. Any suggestions. I want it to be fast so I would probably upgrade the ram. I am going to buy it used and get applecare and I dont want to spend more than 1700 at the absolute most.
Re: Avid Laptop by Tyler Groom on Mar 6, 2008 at 4:01:58 pm
I realize that their are specific requirements and I have looked at them, but I want peoples personal experiences with avid media composer on a macbook pro. Thanks
Re: Avid Laptop by Steven Friedman on Mar 6, 2008 at 11:08:08 pm
I've setup Media Composer on two 17" Macbook Pros for editors, runnning 2.4GHz - 120GB 7200 RPM - 4GB RAM - running Avid Mojo. Also a 15" Macbook Pro only running 2GB RAM via Avid Mojo. All systems run very smoothly, a year ago running Media Composer on the Powerbook G4's was not as smooth and not as stable back then. I can definatly say that if you want to run Avid on the Macbook Pros, the only guide lines that I recommend to you is to have at least 2GB RAM and I know you can run problem free with a 5400RPM drive but I would reccommend a 7200RPM drive, Also if configuring with a Avid Mojo and external firewire drives I would reccomend purchasing a secondary Firewire card for your macbook pro (connect mojo to system firewire - drives to secondary card). Hope this was helpful...Note you can also have Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Studio 2 installed on the same laptop.
Re: Avid Laptop by Tyler Groom on Mar 7, 2008 at 8:12:00 pm
Well I can get the educational deal on avid, but lets talk about the macbook pro. send me a message at quicksilver8907@yahoo.com when you can, and we can communicate that way.
