That said, Nehalems AND Westmeres are both awesome machines, IMHO, and very much worth keeping around. Based on your description, I'm pretty sure you have a Nehalem Mac Pro 4,1 (2009). Processor: 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel XeonįWIW, there's no such thing as an early 2009 Westmere. macOS Sierra looks like a worthy successor, but El Capitan wasn't ready for primetime.
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Then, don't upgrade to El Capitan (OS X 10.11.x). My opinion: I think your Mac Pro's worth upgrading. And now there's some video buffer setting in 8.5.x.? I'm sure someone will clarify. In the past, it didn't, but certain effects may (e.g.
Your graphics card - I'm still unclear on how Media Composer uses the GPU. That said, OS X 10.10.15 and MC 8.5 seem to work:ģ. Your Matrix mxo2 mini - Matrox officially dropped support for the mxo2mini as of OS X 10.11 and MC 8.3. But you could get around that with an offline / online workflow, or you could upgrade your Mac Pro.Ģ. The question is: will they keep up? For most work, probably. Systems shipped before 2008 are not likely to support this functionality and Media Composer will fail to install. Quad core, will include this functionality. Most systems shipped since 2008 with four or more processor cores, i.e. Media Composer 8.3 and newer systems require a micro architecture that supports the SSE 4.1 CPU Instruction set. Media Composer | Software installation will be aborted.” Please consult the Specifications information on for supported configurations.
A new message has been added to this release that detects if you are installing on an unsupported system: “Your system does not support this version of Media Composer | Software.