For Steve – Vegas 8.1

[Jeremy Rasnic]

Not Steve 🙂

However, 8.1 will be of no advantage to you (and most likely will not even install) on a 32 bit machine. You will want to go the 8.0c route.

j razz

[Steve Rhoden]

Hey Allen,
No it is not really an advantage, Solely because most third party
support is not yet 64 bit compatible.

Although yes, the architecture and speed is a lot more robust
and faster, you would be at a disadvantage if you were to
completely migrate over to this workflow, because of what i
stated earlier….because when you start some serious work
you will definitely find yourself needing third party
support(plug-ins, codecs,etc) which when you suddenly
realize damn they aren’t 64 bit compatible as yet.

So my advice would be to continue investing and serious
edits in the trusted 32 bit architecture and have your
64 bit architecture on another workstation beside you,
and as time goes by when more and more tools become
compatible you add them.

I see from your posts you have a love for MAC.
(nothing wrong) but I on the other hand is strictly a
windows (intel) person.

Steve Rhoden
Creative Director
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.
sample bits at
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Steve Rhoden]

ADDED:

I maybe wrong, but installing XP + 64 bit Vegas on a MAC Pro
using BootCamp (if you choose this route) may reveal some
underlining hiccups.

Steve Rhoden
Creative Director
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.
sample bits at
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Rob Mack]

If you can install XP64 or Vista 64 on a Mac and you can run that Mac up to 8GB you might still see a bit better performance out of 8.c just because most or all of the memory it uses could actually really be RAM rather than a mix of RAM and page file. And you’d be in a good position to also run 8.1 if you wanted to.

In fact, maybe installing 8.1 first would get all the other needed components like dot net and the MS sql server installed right. Then, hopefully, installing 8c would be a breeze.

8.1 shouldn’t install on 32-bit windows. If it installs by some accident I doubt it’d run.

I read recently that MS would like to migrate everyone to a 64-bit windows within 2 more version upgrades. So figure it’s 4 versions away :-). Given that, you could probably expect 64-bit Vegas to get some real flesh on its bones by version 10.1, and version 9.1 ought to be pretty usable. This is total conjecture, though.

At the moment, I’m guessing we’ll see one or two more bug fixes of Vegas 8 and then a Vegas 9 ought to appear at NAB. Again, total conjecture.

Rob Mack

[Allen Zagel]

Hi All
That’s what I sort of figured.

Well, I never had a MAC before. Always PC’s and I even built a few myself over the years for editing. However when OSX 10.5 Leopard came out and the new Intel MAC’s, my interest was really perked. I had been hearing many times how much better the MAC computers were over the PC’s. Lot less problems and breakdowns. So when I decided to replace my Toshiba laptop because I had nothing but problems with it from day 1, I “bit-the-bullet” and got a new MacBook Pro. Of course I can’t run my DV-Rack on it for now. My intent was to use Bootcamp and install XP for Vegas and DV-Rack.

It’s mainly because of the Intel based computer now that I’m even considering a MAC and probably the MAC Pro for my new editing machine. I won’t give up my Vegas though. It’s been part of my life ever since I first started with Vegas 3 I think it was and even before that when I got my first DVD recorder that came with a slimed down version of Movie Studio. Either it came with it or I downloaded a freebie version from Sonic Foundry.

I just really like the MAC os and the software. iWorks, the $79 version of Apple’s answer to MS Office is just great. I did things in Pages in 5 minutes that I could never figure how to do in Word. Plus I can import and export to DOC, XLS, PP and whatever. Also I now have Final Cut Express because I’m collaborating on a project with a fellow who uses FCP.

My Lord! FCE doesn’t even have a stop button! No way to play the timeline and instead of pausing it, to stop it and return the playhead to it’s original position like I can in Vegas. No, I’m not getting rid of MY Vegas. ha ha

I could go on and on but it’s getting way too long. Thanks for the answer about 8.1 Vegas.

Allen

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[Jay Allen]

Allen,
I too use DV Rack a lot. I just read that “On Location” ( Adobes name for DV Rack)in Version CS4 now can run on a mac.