I’m also sure that there were a lot of efforts and interests from people in the early release of M1 Macs (which had macOS Big Sur, which Avid Media Composer was not compatible at the time with). My goal is to build a page for every point release of MC since 5.5, including known bugs and workflow issues. I realize no current version of Avid Media Composer is natively compatible with M1 chips. Let me know any tweaks you'd like to see as well. Will Media Composer run OK on my system I checked the Avid site for a DEMO to test but there was none available that I could see. My hope is to eventually take it off my own website and turn it into an AvidBlog which is updated continuously.īut in the meantime, if any of you are needing immediate info on versions of MC (current and past) as well as what point-releases of the Mac OS they run on, then I hope this helps. On the Avid website under qualified/tested Workstations they have an xw4400 listed as being compatible but to be honest I’m not sure what the difference really is between the two workstations. Yes it's a bit clunky (it's just a hobby) and corny being on my own website. Essentially when I'm in a crunch for time, it's the cheat sheet I've been using to moderate users here and on the Avid Editors of Facebook.

It's a thumbnail-view of the Avid Version Matrix, but with the added feature of listing all of the MC versions qualified for each OS point release. If the driver being used by AVID Media Composer is not verified as a compatible driver of GPU, it will give a message that says: GPU display driver mismatch. Here is a resource for Mac-based Media Composer users (and some Windows users too):īy moderating, I've been compiling data on correct version environments for years from all the various readme files.

Avid media composer compatibility