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Avid DS 8.4 Assist Station & RP Minimal Requirements |
This is a list of approved components to help you set up an Avid DS Assist Station and Avid DS RP (remote processing).
Avid DS Assist Station | Avid DS RP
Avid
DS Assist Station
What is the Assist Station?
Avid DS Assist Station is capable of realtime playback and processing even without the full hardware equipment of Avid DS Nitris. When installed on any standard desktop system (with the minimal specifications described below), it can be used to off-load tasks from the heavy-duty editing stations—tasks such as conform checks, rotoscoping, graphics, effects, and compositing.
The software-only workstation is designed to either work in a shared workgroup environment with Avid DS Nitris or stand alone. It doesn’t have any I/O capabilities of its own for signal-based video and audio, however, you can capture and output from file.
Note: Processing of effects is all done by the software. These capabilities are only limited by the underlying hardware and an adequate disk subsystem on the workstation where it is installed. The drive type, cache size, speed, capacity and connection will have an impact on the real-time playability of media. Ordering HP xw8400 components to build your own Avid DS Assist workstation
Minimal requirements for a generic Avid DS Assist Station platform:
Dual Processor - Dual or Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® - Dual-Core AMD OpteronTM (AMD single-core not supported) RAM - 2GB for SD (Windows XP 32-bit) - 4GB for HD (Windows XP 64-bit recommended) - 8GB or more for HD RGB and 2K/4K (Windows XP 64-bit only) Graphics card - ATI FireGL X1 or X2 - NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400, 3450 or 3500 (for HP xw8200, 8400 and 9300 only) - NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500, 4500 or 5500 (for any generic workstations) Monitor - HP LP3065 supporting 2560 by 1600 in a single large display - SVGA supporting 1280 by 1024 display resolution (dual monitor suggested) Network - Gigabit Ethernet adapter Operating system - Windows XP Professional (32-bit and adequate for SD and HD work) -
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (recommended for HD RGB and 2K/4K)
Optional component that can be added to the Assist Station: Video card (supported on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition only)
This option requires a license update to enable the Dual-Link hardware.
Install the driver for both cards by running the Avid DS Nitris DNA 64-bit drivers and firmware installer. Skip the Nitris Base and Codec steps and the AJA driver will install. This is the only Avid DS qualified AJA driver. Do not install other versions to avoid issues.
Warning!
The AJA option on Avid DS Assist Station is strictly to allow external video monitoring and we do not certify the audio integrity nor its accuracy with the video material. If used for crash record to tape, we do not guarantee nor support that it will work properly.- AJA Dual-Link Xena 2Ke
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(http://www.aja.com/html/products_windows_xena_LHe.html)Qualified Laptop for Avid DS Assist Station: - HP nw9440 Mobile Workstation with FX1500M graphics and 2GB of RAM
Avid DS
RP
What is an Avid DS RP?
Avid DS RP enables editors and digital artists to explore their creative options while computationally intensive tasks are distributed to remote processors. This frees the Avid DS Nitris and Assist Station from long processing jobs that would otherwise paralyses the workstation to this unique task. When Avid DS RP undertake remote processing jobs, the Avid DS Nitris and Assist Station are free to work on other effects in the timeline or they can load a different sequence, even a different project without disturbing the Avid DS RP.
Minimal requirements for a generic Avid DS RP platform:
Processor Minimal requirements - AMD Athlon - Single-Core Intel® Pentium® 4 - Single-Core Intel® Xeon® Recommended requirements - Dual or Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® - Dual-Core AMD OpteronTM (AMD single-core not supported) RAM - 1GB for SD (Windows XP 32-bit) - 2GB for HD (Windows XP 64-bit recommended) - 4GB or more for HD RGB and 2K/4K (Windows XP 64-bit only) Graphics card - Wildcat 6210 - ATI FireGL X1 or X2 - NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400, 3450 or 3500 - Note that you do not need to use one of the above qualified graphics card for a remote processing workstation. OpenGL effects will simply be processed in software. Monitor - Supporting 1280 by 1024 single-display resolution Network - Gigabit Ethernet adapter Operating system - Windows XP Professional (32-bit) - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (not supported for the Avid DMS Broker)