After Effects and Windows Vista?

[Colin Braley]

Personally, I don’t know why you would want to use Vista. Sure it may have cool transparent windows and neat effects when you minimize windows, but AE and your other production studio apps will probably perform a fair amount slower than on Windows XP, due to all the RAM Vista will eat up. If I was buying a Windows machine primarily to use Production Stuido, I wouldn’t get Vista. However, if the computer will be used primarily for non video related stuff, maybe Vista would be alright. Just my .02 however, and I’m no Windows Vista expert.
~Colin

[Manaxter]

I see your point, however Production studio is a major use, it is by far not the only use, and Vista is ideal for everything else. It’s just the studio that I’m worried about.

[Smokeditor]

Tom’s Hardware just did a benchmark test between Vista and XP. Interesting results under the application benchmarks, seems Vista performs worse than XP.
I don’t think I would run Vista for a production machine at this point, still too new.

https://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/

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[Mylenium]

Stay away from Vista for the time being. You will have problems on all ends. Encore may not be able to find a disc burner, Premiere may not be able to capture via Firewire and most importantly, OpenGL in AE is going to be a major pain due to drivers being very unsophisticated and so on, and so on. If you are seriously thinking about actually producing anything with the system, going Vista would be the dumbest thing you can do at the moment. Not saying Vista is unusable or something, but give it time to season and wait at least a year.

Mylenium

[Pour Myl

[Mark]

I think that I will let Adobe do the trouble shooting and testing before I make the move to Vista.

[Jimmy Brunger]

I’d go for XP64 if I were you. That way you take advantage of the 64bit OS and being able to use lots of RAM with Nucleo,etc and AE will also see 4GB RAM. Vista is just a fancy ‘aren’t I pretty’ OS for now…before XP64 alot of hardcore AE’ers used XP in classic mode or even windows 2000 or NT because it ate up less ram and kept it simple.

*Production Studio Premium / *Combustion 3
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[Tony Kloiber]

Oh to rant or not.
These are the same kinds of things people said when the question was ” I’m going to buy and Intel Mac will AE 7.0 work?”

Manaxter, Get the system you want with the OS you want. Load your key applications and try them out. If they work for you than great you get to make a small step forward in the world of computing (even if its windows with a view). If not,
erase the HD and load your current copy of XP, put your apps on and get to work.

Like a self-righteous maid I don’t do windows but it’s not the end of the world if you try and advance your little piece of the computing world.

BTW, If I understood the Adobe point of view about why no up dates to AE to a universal binary, you can expect to be able to use Production Studio on Vista about two years from now.

TonyTony

[Nicholas Toth]

About a month ago when I was freelancing at a studio, we successfully used a Cord Duo Imac installed with Vista and After effects 7.0 across a network. It was quick, but nothing to gawk at.

I’d sit on it. Run windows pro 64 and pimp out your memory, don’t bother with vista now. I still remember going from windows 3.1 to the 95 switch, which was TERRIBLE — i hope microsoft has their stuff together.

Nicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
nicholastoth.com

[Mylenium]

[TonyTony] “Oh to rant or not.
These are the same kinds of things people said when the question was ” I’m going to buy and Intel Mac will AE 7.0 work?”

Manaxter, Get the system you want with the OS you want. Load your key applications and try them out. If they work for you than great you get to make a small step forward in the world of computing (even if its windows with a view). If not,
erase the HD and load your current copy of XP, put your apps on and get to work.”

Actually you are oversimplifying things, and not just a tiny bit. The real culprit here is: does the system give me the performance I can get from a comparable “conservative” system? The answer here simply is: No. Trust me, I know a ton of users who have tried Vista (the latest release candidates and te pre-relesed final versions), and if nothing else, the lack of proper graphics card drivers for OpenGL-based apps (obviously a lot of those users are 3D artists dependant on that), is a major setback. Other things to consider is the lack of a stable Quicktime release for Vista, potential problems when installing Windows Media components, product activation, incompatibility of CoDecs and whatnot along with the other things I already mentioned. ATM using Vista when working as a member of the digital content creation crowd is just plain stupid and unlike buying a Mac Pro and using Bootcamp, you have no fallback position.

Mylenium

[Pour Myl

[Tony Kloiber]

It sounds like you have the advice that is relevant to Manaxter’s situation. The fall back would be (as i suggested) to erase the HD and Load XP. Personally I would not buy a Mac and load Windows, that’s kind of like buying a flash convertible and driving along the Mediterranean on a sunny day with the top up.

P.S. Still going to be two years before you can run Production Suite on Vista?

TonyTony