Hi, I'm not using an Nvidia card - it's an AMD Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB - I got this because I didn't want the hassle with the Nvidia drivers this machine was bought, is used, and has been upgraded specifically for Avid Media Composer - so the CPUs have been qualified for years - 6x8GB matched 1333 Ghz RAM etc - it's a mid 2010 5.1 tower

All my system specs are listed below. my particular experiences have been with spectramatte keying, a realtime effect. Key will playback fine until a matte blur/erode/dilate is applied, then playback becomes choppy. DNxHD120 media 1080 25p this used to work fine in previous versions of MC, but I noticed around the time of moving to MC 8.9.2 it didn't

I noticed absolutely no difference swapping my 1GB HD5870 to an 8GB RX580 - apart from the message changing from "you don't have enough GPU memory" to "GPU FX acceleration is enabled" . But then I don't have any Boris FX anymore - is that all that takes advantage of GPU ?

Hi, I finally got a sapphire pulse RX580 installed in my Mac Pro 5.1 - Avid MC 8.9.2 reports GPU accelerated fx is enabled now ( previously it told me that my hd5870 didn't have enough memory - 1GB) I'm using OS 10.12.6 Sierra . As I wrote back in October I was having trouble with spectramatte keying (something that used to work very well in

Hi Ralph, thanks for your reply - it's going to take me a while to understand it - but are you saying that if I install the security update then it's likely that all the permissions will get shot ?

Has anybody installed the Sierra security update 2017-002 recently? .. Wondering if it will impact Media Composer performance at all . Seems a sensible thing to do given current issues with meltdown etc.

Hi just to report I got BCC lite with the symphony upgrade yesterday, installed but no Boris fx showing up in the fx palette. OSX Sierra 10.12.6 - MC 8.9.2 I thought it was Sierra that wasn't compatible ?

Oh well, Thanks for having a go Marianna .. But as a Mac user my quest will have to continue to find answers. cheers.

Hi, Great blog, all interesting information. I have two questions about FX in media composer. 1 . I'm having problems playing back a spectramatte with a matte blur - if I don't add matte blur then the effect plays back fine - so is the GPU trying to compute the matte blur ? my current GPU has 1GB memory. 2. I'm looking to upgrade the GPU

Hi Pierre, that's very kind of you - I will see if I can send you something. How do I find your email address. FORGET THAT ABOVE I CAN SEE A LINK TO EMAIL YOU.