Production studio on new intel macs…

[Aanarav Sareen]

[edr] ”
Has anyone seen or used the Production studio on the new macs via boot camp?”

Yes, I have used it on a MacBook Pro via bootcamp and it works fine.

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com

[Trey Eckles]

I am thinking of getting a MacPro and using the production studio for all of my video production jobs. I already have Final cut studio but I like AE and the dynamic link feature.

Would you recommend a Macpro Bootcamp setup or should I get a PC. Thanks

[Aanarav Sareen]

[edr] “Would you recommend a Macpro Bootcamp setup or should I get a PC.”

The Mac really doesn’t offer any enhancements, hardware wise. If you are looking to purchase a new PC, take a look at the newer Intel chips that were released in June. They are supposed to be the best around.

[Jason Jenkins]

I’ve got a Mac Pro with Final Cut Studio on the Mac side and Adobe Production Studio Premium on the Windows side. It’s the best PC I’ve ever had! After Effects screams; I love it.

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Ummmm, excuse me, but isn’t it true that Boot Camp/APPLE still has no drivers for XP controllers, i.e. that all hard drives will be run via PIO not DMA when using boot camp to run XP???

There is just NO WAY that PIO is fast enough for transferring video data.
Thus a MAC running XP via Boot Camp would never be able to keep up even with the cheapest of current PCs.

Or have the APPLE people got a fix for this now?

regards,
n.m.

[Vince Becquiot]

There are issues with the SATA drives. I think that was a beta version issue. There was a fix/workaround for that so I assume that it was included in the newest version.

Vince

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Nope, the new version of BootCamp still hasn’t resolved the problem with SATA drivers.

My original statement still holds. XP on Apple is still not perfect and probably never will be, since Apple’s strategy has always been monopolize its hardware with its own software.

There were some people who used a rather complicated workaround slip-streaming the SATA drivers from an XP-install disk, but it didn’t work for all:

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=223679&page=9

regards, n.m.