• Avid Media Composer

  upgrade win xp pro to win 7

  Posted by Peter Groom on October 17, 2011 at 8:12 am

  would upgrading to win 7 pro 64 bit Now, give me much advantage over mu current xp pro install. Im aware that future versions of avid will be 64 bit, but will it make any difference to me now.
  Peter

  Post Production Dubbing Mixer

  Peter Groom replied 14 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Michael Phillips

  October 17, 2011 at 11:02 am

  It won’t make that much difference to MC at this point, but other applications you may be using may take advantage of it such as Photoshop and After Effects, etc.

  Michael

  Michael Phillips
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  Scott Cumbo

  October 17, 2011 at 11:26 am

  I disagree, I feel that MC runs better on a 64bit OS, even though it’s still a 32bit app. At least MC isn’t sharing 4gigs of ram with the OS and whatever other programs you may have open at the time.

  Besides the fact that once it’s setup correctly, your PC will boot 2 or 3 times faster (mine is up and surfing the web in 45 secs)

  MC runs pretty smooth on windows 7. though beleive it or not, i still prefer vista 64 (setup in classic mode, with all the pretty stuff turned off)

  Scott Cumbo
  Editor
  Broadway Video, NYC
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  Peter Groom

  October 17, 2011 at 4:12 pm

  Thats sort of what i was hoping for Scott.
  Ill save a few pounds up, get win7 Pro 64, and rack up my ram to 8gigs
  then ill be ready for the new avid when its released as a 64 bit app.
  Cheers
  peter

  Post Production Dubbing Mixer

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