Installation guide

Qualified Hardware and Operating Systems
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Qualified Hardware and Operating Systems
Some features are processor-intensive and require specific hardware. See “Feature Performance”
on page 23
for more info.
The following tables provide the information on qualified Windows and Macintosh hardware.
For 3rd-Party Open IO hardware qualification refer to the manufacturer’s documentation. See the
Open IO Frequently Asked Questions document on the Knowledge Base:
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/faq/en422991
The following tables also list the qualified Operating Systems. Depending upon your hardware
the qualified Operating Systems are:
• Windows v7 64-bit SP1(Professional) and Windows v8.1 (Professional and Enterprise)
• Macintosh v10.8.5, v10.9.4, v10.9.5, and v10.10.
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While Media Composer has been qualified with Mac OSX 10.10 we have observed reduced
performance with operations like render, transcode, and playback on higher core count
systems. The dual 6 core Mac Pro tower (Westmere) and the 2013 Mac Pro with 12 cores
are the most susceptible to this issue, particularly with higher bandwidth media. The
performance issues do not affect Mac OSX v10.9.4, v10.9.5 or v10.8.5 on the same CPUs
noted above. Avid is working with Apple to identify the root cause of the issue.
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The Avid VideoRaid SR disk array is not supported with MAC OSX v10.10.
Macintosh OS Permission Information
As of Macintosh OS 10.7 Lion, the default permissions for the root level of the system drive are
now set to “Read Only” for all users. This prevents the Avid Editing Application from being able
to use this drive as a media drive. You will see the drive grayed out in Media Creation settings or
as an option for import, mixdown, render, and consolidate/transcode.
If you don’t intend to use the system drive for media you can leave it alone. This is ideal in most
cases.
If you do need to use the system drive, perform the following to change permissions.
To change permissions:
1. Click on your system drive (Macintosh HD in most cases) to highlight.
2. From the File menu select Get Info (cmd+I)
3. Click the lock icon in the bottom right to make changes