Specifications

TDM Hard Drive Minimum Requirements page for details.
● Video Drives: Avid rS drives, iS Pro drives, iS Plus drives or
DigiDrives. At this time, the Avid MediaDock is not officially
qualified for use with AVoption.
Third Party Video Capture Cards: The Pinnacle miroMotion DC30 Plus
QuickTime capture card (with firmware v1.1.2) is not officially qualified for
use with AVoption, but it does appear to coexist with the ABVB/Janus
cards in Digidesign's limited investigations. Your results may vary from
these findings.
Dual Screen Monitor Cards: Currently, the only Dual Screen Monitor
Card qualified for use with AVoption is the Appian Jeronimo 2000 AGP for
Macintosh. This is a single AGP card which can drive two VGA monitors.
This card is currently qualified only for use with single-processor G4
computers with AGP graphics systems. The PCI version of this card is not
supported.
For more information see the Appian page in Digidesign Downloads
Maximum Performance Guidelines
Compatible Dual-Channel SCSI HBA card
Total System RAM: 192MB recommended, 256 MB preferred
Note: AVoption supports "plug and play" compatibility with many Avid
systems. When "inheriting" a drive containing audio and video data from
an Avid system, we recommend you connect this drive to the SCSI
channel dedicated to video storage. There is no need to copy the audio
data from such a drive to your dedicated audio drives, however we
recommend that you not record any additional audio tracks onto this
drive.
Virtually all the testing for AVoption was done with a baseline of 32 tracks
of 24- bit/48k audio and one stream of AVR77 video data (record and/or
playback). These test configurations generally included one drive for every
16 tracks of audio. One way to achieve higher track counts is to dedicate
more drives to the audio tracks.
On a supported configuration, you should be able to easily achieve this
performance baseline, even with a high degree of edit density on each
track. The higher the edit density, the more heavily taxed will be the
storage subsystem.
You may find much better results than this baseline, since Digidesign's
performance tests re designed to stress the storage subsystem more
heavily than the average "real world" usage. In several cases, our test
group was able to continuous record or playback of 64 audio tracks and
AVR77 picture simultaneously.