Premiere Pro for PC….on a Mac?

[Tim Wilson]

I like Vista. Not that there isn’t a transition…but ask any Mac user who went through the transition to OS X, or the Intel architecture. Vista’s problems are far from unique…and if you do a clean install, you probably won’t have much trouble at all. I haven’t.

Of course, I have it installed on a MacBook Pro. Maybe that makes a difference. 🙂

There are quite a few different ways to run PC software on a Mac. The Bootcamp Assistant is a Mac OS utility that will set you up a Windows partition that you can choose to boot into.

The good news is that it’s easy, and the performance is great — no performance penalty whatsoever.

The bad news is that it creates a hard wall between the two OSes.

I prefer VMWare Fusion. It lets you run Windows as a “virtual machine” inside the Mac OS. You boot into the Mac OS, and Windows is just a Window, like any other Mac app. You can choose to make the Windows window full screen, so it mostly acts like it’s in a Mac too.

Positive: easy interaction between the two OSes (drag and drop, etc.). Hardly any performance penalty at all. Load up with RAM and the difference isn’t even worth talking about.

Negative — you’re stuck with Mac keyboard shortcuts, and some brand new ones because the Win equivalent is being used on Mac for something different. Not a big deal, but you should know going in.

To answer your first question, yeah, I have the Windows version of CS3, in Vista, on a MacBook Pro. Nice.

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[Vince Becquiot]

Hey Tim,

Nice to see you checking in. I did see some major issues with OnLocation and Vista (screen going Green, application shutting down…), and a few minor ones with Premiere and After Effects as well. I have used CS3 and Vista on two Dual Core laptops (Dell and HP) and they both suffered from “quickly put together” video/audio drivers; I won’t even get into the 64 bits issues; anyway that’s what I would watch out for. It’s hard to tell if those issues are related to drivers or not, but either way, it’s a Vista issue.

Unfortunately, because laptop PCs are highly configured by the manufacturers, you depend on those manufacturers to provide updates to those drivers, and they’ve been very much behind. In fact, I don’t think we’ll ever see fully functional Vista drivers for the current generation of many laptops.

I guess that’s one for Apple 🙂

Vince

[Blast1]

What’s happening is that everyone wanted their OS to be more like a Mac’s, now it is, change OS and buy all new software to get it to run right

[Brian Johnson]

So I just got back from the Apple store here and I’m still drooling. I totally want a 20″ iMac. So the question is, how to upgrade my software. I have Video Collection Pro and, from what I understand, the only upgrade option is to Production Studio. So if I wanted to upgrade to CS3, I could upgrade to PS, then again to CS3, and save $200. Anybody know if you can cross platforms when you upgrade? For example, I have Video Collection for PC, but want to upgrade to CS3 for Mac.

Maybe I should just buy it outright! LOL