bobby7z - Have you had any success with capturing HD footage into AXP on Leopard?  I've got it semi-working for just cutting, but haven't been able to capture anything yet.

And yes I know nothing is supported, but if you have the time, it doesn't hurt to have some fun and try.

wow you will get your head bitten off  by the blkdog for just asking a question maybe that dog needs to be FIXED or mabey just some time  off

as i need to get a new laptop since my sound guy  knocked  mine off the magliner on the last  shoot  and now it is kapute 300 pieces and yes the sound guy is paying for it

so i went into the local apple store to get a mac book pro 15'' mon .but they are only shipping them with leopard now!  and the guy at the genius bar and i use the term loosely told me that  the dvd player /burner was changed and it will not work  with tiger . so now i need a laptop for a remote show im producing may 2  so as you all can see i dont have the option to even use my avid that i allready own  because of this os problem   and with the impending announcement from avid they say  feb im betting that really means march ,april,or may and i did not want to buy anything(hardware or software) untill it was made  (as you all have advised) so i will have to go out and  rent a  remote editor for the show ...now how is avid's  slow responce helping me.. in fact it is now costing me money the thing so many of you say  your certified systems save you as i recall last time i looked at the list of cert systems the mac pro was on the list

Why not run the PC version under Bootcamp, until the Leopard version is released?

what a great work around Randall thank you  so very much i never even thought of that being as im  just now converting to a mac that is what im gonna do

going out to buy laptop now  thanks again as the rental was not in the budget of the fundraiser

any ideas on how to fix a sound guy cause i think im gonna wack mine

never mind its allways quiter without one anyway

ps just a thought why doesn't every body just do the bootcamp thing instead of bit**in about the  os thing i thought the thing was to be able to edit and Randall has a great work around till we have a solution 

 just a thought.

Although running under Bootcamp works, some need additional Mac apps for a seamless workflow, and they'd rather not have to boot back-and-forth.  So it might not be a "complete" solution.  But, for many, it'll get us through while we're waiting.

Uh..I really don't think that i "bit" anyone's head off here...havin' a bit of fun maybe,,,

As to why...one big reason is that not all of the GFX cards in the MBPs will support the Windows XP version of Avid. ATI has a particularly rough time.

maybe it is just in you matter of  factness it just seems a bit like there is an edge to some of your comments not that your not very helpful that you are  and we do need the help sometimes and I commend you for your time and help its just that sometimes the extra comments might be percieved as  mean and you would not wanna be  that mean blk dog  we need that super friendly blkdog that we all like  no dig intended at all     my crews think im hard to work with sometimes also go figure  a pussycat like me

thank you for your comments  do you know if the new mac book pro  has ones that will work as Randall has  suggested? 

Randall L Rike:

Although running under Bootcamp works, some need additional Mac apps for a seamless workflow, and they'd rather not have to boot back-and-forth.  So it might not be a "complete" solution.  But, for many, it'll get us through while we're waiting.

thanks for the info Randall

My MBP 17" came with an nVidia video chipset and works great.

Tom, I apologize if you perceive an "edge" to my typing. Most days I am posting here in between renders with a client in the room so I am guilty of being overly brief I suppose.

Please know it's with the best of intentions.

Now, as to your new MBP. It is true that you cannot install Tiger from the internal optical drive but, what we have done is attach the MBP to another Mac and boot it in FW disk mode. With the MBP in that mode, you can use the second Mac to run the Tiger installer and successfully downgrade the OS on the MBP.

Just in case the Bootcamp thing doesn't work out.

no problem man its just that some times you big dog guys  no pun intended do tend to intimadate us newbees  as we are coming from  some other app ie premiere pro  for me  and we had the computer and we were not getting what we wanted  from the app so we bought an avid mine off ebay with mojo and we try to get it to work  then we learn what we really need   so anyway  thanks for all the help  your post are great

and thanks for the info on the mac as i will be buying it soon   as my remote editor 

I've been following this thread of late, because I've just ordered a MacBook Pro - - I now know how to install Tiger. Thank you for this.
For me, unfortunately, that's just step one.
I don't suspect that most people on this forum would have any real reason to plumb the depths of my next conundrum, but I'll mention it, just in case BLKDOG or someone has figured out a workaround for this as well.
Since Sony's Clip Browser, on a PC, “re-wraps” the Sony EX-1 camera's .mp4 files to MXF (so they can be imported into AXP)... but the Clip Browser for Macs doesn't do this... I'm left with either this new EX flavour of .mp4 files on my MacBook Pro, or (I think this is the case, if I use an XDCAM transfer tool), .MOV files. And I don't think I can import either file type into AXP.
So... the approach I'm thinking of taking, unless/until Sony and/or Avid update... is to run VMware of Parallels on my MacBook Pro, so I can use the PC version of the Sony Clip Browser to re-wrap the EX files to MXF, which I'll put on my desktop. I'll then boot in MacOS, import these MXF files into AXP, and edit.
Does this sound right? If so, do people on this forum have a preference between VMware of Parallels?
Thanks,
Malcolm

Maybe I read that wrong Malcolm but you CAN import .mov clips into your Avid.

If you are going to just run the clip browser in windows, I would go for VMWare.

However, since QT pro will open .mp4 could you not just export to the codec of your choice from there? Better yet..will compressor transcode those files?