Anyone tried running Vegas on Mac Hardware?

[Ben Edwards]

Thanks everyone for the replies.

I ended up getting a Mac Pro 2*Dual (i.e. Quad) Core 3Ghz. Hopefully this will be OK for HD. It is a very similar spec to my Windows PC except the mac has a much better graphics card.

It turned out to be a late 2.66Ghz which had its CPU upgraded. I managed to install Win7 Pro 64bit. When I tried to run the main bootcamp install it said 64bit was not supported on my machine. I got round this by installing the drivers separately and I now have everything working. Not sure why bootcamp complained, very odd.

Done a few days FCP and it nice to have sequences, I know you don’t need them but they are very useful. I also like the Trim Edit (never quite got the Vegas keyboard trimming working).

FCP seems very fidelity. I really miss the ‘Vegas Play and return to cursor’ spacebar functionality, is there an equivalent in FCP? All I can find in FCP is play/pause.

Ben

[John Rofrano]

[Ben Edwards] “It is a very similar spec to my Windows PC except the mac has a much better graphics card.”

Hopefully it’s an nVidia card with CUDA support. That’s really the only video card that matters with Windows applications.

[Ben Edwards] “FCP seems very fidelity. I really miss the ‘Vegas Play and return to cursor’ spacebar functionality, is there an equivalent in FCP? All I can find in FCP is play/pause.”

lol… the first thing I change about Vegas after installing it is to change play/stop to be play/pause just like all my other video apps. I don’t know how to change this in FCP but it is consistent with After Effects and other applications. You might get use to it. 😉

Good luck with it.

~jr

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[Ben Edwards]

Aparently the graphics card was upgraded in the Mac Pro as well as the CPU. Win7 Seems to like it and do the stupid application switching where they are stacked into the distance. Really need to find out how to switch this annoyance off;).

And yes, Vegas does do things its own way. In my opinion this is one of its strength. Rather than copying all the other apps. A lot of the conventions in FCP come from Avid. As a result they are very keyboard constrained. We have a windows interface, lets maximise it for productivity. I understand that keyboard shortcrust are great but sometimes the mouse is the way to go. Examples of this are time stretch and fade handles. The fade handels are a LOT less fiddely than FCP.

My route has been Avid, FCP, Avid, Vegas (and now FCP & Vegas). Ive kind of seen it all. At first I found Vegas very hard work as it did not conform to the Avid/FCP conventions but when I spent more time with it I begun to understand why.

Ben

[Marie-claude Sauvé]

What about a AMD Radeon HD 6970M graphics with 1GB memory

for running vegas in a iMac quad-core i-7 ?

I’m trying to buy a refurbished Mac but Loove Sony Vegas.

Thank you!

Marie-Claude http://www.deve.ca

[John Rofrano]

[Marie-Claude Sauvé] “What about a AMD Radeon HD 6970M graphics with 1GB memory
 for running vegas in a iMac quad-core i-7 ?”

Vegas Pro 10d will use ATI cards via OpenCL so this is now a viable option.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Marie-claude Sauvé]

But not a good option for using with vegas 9.0 that is more stable?

Thanks for your reply, that’s help a lot!
MC

Marie-Claude http://www.deve.ca

[John Rofrano]

[Marie-Claude Sauvé] “But not a good option for using with vegas 9.0 that is more stable?”

Actually, Vegas Pro 9.0 doesn’t have any GPU acceleration so it doesn’t matter what graphics card you use.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Marie-claude Sauvé]

”Hopefully it’s an nVidia card with CUDA support. That’s really the only video card that matters with Windows applications.”

So, why did you say that before, i want to understand please.
Thank you!

MC

Marie-Claude http://www.deve.ca

[John Rofrano]

[Marie-Claude Sauvé] “So, why did you say that before, i want to understand please.”

It’s all about context. If you are talking about Vegas Pro 9.0 which doesn’t use a GPU, it doesn’t matter what graphics card you have. If you are talking about “Windows applications” in general then there is more applications that support NVIDIA’s CUDA than ATI’s Stream. In fact, I don’t know of any that are Stream enabled but lots of applications like the Adobe CS5 suite take advantage of CUDA. Vegas Pro 10 initially only took advantage of CUDA but now they’ve added OpenCL support which also works on ATI. So my remark is still valid. NVIDIA’s CUDA has more support in the industry which is one reason why I always recommend them.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Marie-claude Sauvé]

Thank you for this explanation!

MC

Marie-Claude http://www.deve.ca