yes, u should abandon. calm myself on the virtual machine issue? your telling us to calm down? your the one who wont calm down because you have all these issues and we're just trying to help and ur dodging all our answers. (Hardware demanding software? wow? I have never heard of a PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE PACKAGE needing to be hardware demanding..

[quote user="Randall L Rike"] "... There's no better way to evaluate things than using a virtual machine ..." Unless it just doesn't work. "... I can't play it back. Only every now and then a new clip image is displayed in the editor. And whenever I pause the clip, an exception is raised "Unable to stop SprngBuf's

wats the point of evaluating if you run using the lowest performance? its like evaluating a ferrari and not knowing how to drive...how will u ever experience the full power?

"Unable to stop SprngBuf's FillThread" lots of people get this because there system isnt fast enough. ive tested this on an older system and YES IT DOES THIS! when tested on a much faster system with Quadcore and atleast 4gb of ram, the videos will play no problem. and why would u virtualize an os just for avid? that will just kill the

joined the club along time ago. im better off with 4 now.

im not sure what is wrong, but reinstalling quicktime doesnt work, tried a bunch of settings, bin view off from text view, plays my h.264 content REALLY bad!dang thing.......................4.05 worked flawlessly now if i try color correction or changing the quality it crashes..........corethreads.dll is the crash module name.

it uses ALOT! i can scrub good but cant play the files well at all. im switching back to 4, good thing i didnt buy 5 yet, damn performance crash everytime i start the color correction!

WOAH! all this is free? i would have to pay from the lynda site with this. how is this possible? thank you anyways avid with FREE 2 hrs of beginner training...its is VERY USEFUL! I've never seen a company do this actually......im suprised.

i think your getting the wrong idea though, i dont use that computer, i said now i only use it for typing, i have a macpro which i DO use for it, it was just an experiment i did with avid on my old comp with the trial version. but you are right about the risks

weird. i have this old computer of mine, now i just type on it basically, and it runs media composer 4 really nice. its a SINGLE CORE Athlon 3200+ with 2gb o memory and a ati radeon 4670. i find it suprising that your BETTER radeon wouldnt work with avid, while mine worked flawlessly, all bcc effects were working, renders worked, and 3d was wroking