Installation guide

CinéWave 4.7 Configuration and Qualification Guide for Mac OS 10.3.6
11/11/2004
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General Limitations with Power Mac Systems
 The system boot drive must be an Ultra ATA drive. (SCSI boot drives are not qualified for
use with CinéWave)
 A minimum of 512MB of RAM is required for Standard Definition RT or High Definition
editing (in a split bus configuration – see notes on p. 4
– a minimum of 1GB may be required
for reliable performance). For real-time DVC Pro HD editing, the minimum is 1GB.
 The display monitor must be set to millions of colors.
 For use with Final Cut Pro and CinéWave, the primary desktop (VGA or Digital) display
should be connected to the Apple supplied AGP card (including the XServe, where an AGP
“Riser” card should be added).
 Pinnacle Systems does not recommend using PCI graphics cards for secondary displays
under Mac OS X
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if two display monitors are to be used, it is recommended to use a dual
head AGP display card.
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Note Regarding Secondary PCI Graphics Cards:
Apple is aware of a problem with the memory management of Mac OS 10.2.x when multiple PCI cards
containing memory (e.g. display cards & the TARGA Ciné Engine) are installed in a G4 with larger
amounts of memory. The system may experience "Kernel Panics". There can also be failures in
mapping the hardware, which will appear as the CinéWave System Preference reporting that no
hardware has been found. The only current solution is to remove the secondary display card, or reduce
the memory to a configuration between 512MB & 1GB. Pinnacle has found that the problem is most
likely to occur when the AGP & PCI cards are from two different vendors. With the availability of
AGP graphics cards with multiple outputs, however, the problem is completely averted. This is,
therefore, the configuration most highly recommended by Pinnacle Systems. Users who have not
upgraded to Mac OS 10.3.x or a G5 are still advised to run with less than 1 GB of RAM installed to
avoid the increased likelihood of other issues, including the potential for corrupt renders. This issue
has been resolved with Mac OS 10.2.7 & 10.2.8 on G5 systems. Note that 10.2.8 for the G4 does
not include this change. The issue is resolved under Mac OS 10.3 (Panther) on all Macintosh
computers.