Sony Vegas ln Mac – full perfomance?

[John Rofrano]

[Morten Slemdal] “I see some debates on this om the forum, but can’t get the whole picture. “

I’m not sure who is debating but running Windows on a Mac is a pretty well established concept.

[Morten Slemdal] “What do I have to do, to run windows program on mac? “

You have two options. You can run Windows via Bootcamp on your Mac. This is a dual-boot configuration supported by Apple. When you are booted into Windows you basically have a Windows computer. You don’t loose anything except that you have to reboot to use Windows so it’s not something you want to switched back and forth all day doing.

The second option is to run Windows in a virtualized environment on top of Mac OS X. I use VMware Fusion for this but Parallels Desktop is also a good option, as is the free VirtualBox. In this configuration, you install Windows into a virtual machine that runs just like any other application on top of OS X. The advantage is that you don’t have to reboot to run windows, you can drag and drop files from your Mac desktop to your Windows desktop, and you can even integrate Windows applications into the Mac dock. What you loose is the GPU support.

Here is a screenshot of Vegas Pro running on my OS X desktop using VMware Fusion:

[Morten Slemdal] “Any chances of a mac version from Sony on the next months.”

Those who know, can’t say. Those who don’t know are free to speculate. Since Sony did release Sound Forge for Mac, one could speculate that they could be working on Vegas Pro for the Mac, but that would be pure speculation.

~jr

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[Morten Slemdal]

Wow, thanks for your answer.
When using fusion or bootcamp I actually install windows, so I have to buy the OS? (Ok, stupid question)

With the fusion, do I have to dedicate some of my harddrive to windows? Or does it just eat space for the program? I have only a 256 ssd, and I’m quite stingy on my GB’s. I have been thinking of some extern storage for the video files, like usb 3.0 hard drive. If that works well. I will have like 2-3 hours of footage, and will cut movies lasting 20-30 minutes. Just want this to be efficient and workable.

[Steve Rhoden]

Pure Speculation…lol

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[John Rofrano]

[Morten Slemdal] “When using fusion or bootcamp I actually install windows, so I have to buy the OS? (Ok, stupid question) “

Not a stupid question at all. Yes, you would have to supply your own copy of Windows and install it using either Fusion or Bootcamp or both. I say both because you can set up Bootcamp for times when you need GPU support and use Fusion to boot the same partition when you just need to make some quick edits and don’t want to reboot. With OS X 10.9 Mavericks you can install up to Windows 8.1 in Bootcamp but yes, you would need to buy Windows if you wanted Windows on your Mac.

[Morten Slemdal] “With the fusion, do I have to dedicate some of my harddrive to windows? Or does it just eat space for the program?”

It’s not dedicated, it’s just a file that can grow dynamically or be allocated all at once. So, for example, you can allocate 20GB to Windows and if it only needs 4GB to install and load Vegas, it will will only take up 4GB of space. As it needs more disk space, the file will grow but it will never grow larger than the 20GB limit that you set. Bootcamp actually makes a new partition and always uses the same amount of space.

[Morten Slemdal] “I have been thinking of some extern storage for the video files, like usb 3.0 hard drive.”

It is highly recommended that you do this. In fact, all modern Mac’s have Thunderbolt connections which are 10Gb/s per channel (x 2 channels) vs USB 3.0 5Gb/s. So you can get faster external drive connections on a Mac than on a PC right now. Having said that, I have a 1TB USB 3.0 drive that I edit with on my MacBook Pro and it’s smooth as silk.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

Well… you never know. 😉

~jr

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[Morten Slemdal]

Ok, good. Thank you for responding to this (-:

By the way, do you fornat your external hard drive as Mac OS extended (journaled)?

[Steve Rhoden]

If the mac version of Soundforge is somewhat a success for Sony,
then its only a matter of time when Vegas will also be available
for Mac.

Steve Rhoden
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Filmex Creative Media.
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[John Rofrano]

[Steve Rhoden] “If the mac version of Soundforge is somewhat a success for Sony, then its only a matter of time when Vegas will also be available for Mac.”

Agreed. One can only hope.

The only reason I need to use Windows is to run Vegas Pro. All of my other software is running on my Mac now.

~jr

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[Morten Slemdal]

So you all agree that vegas is a much stronger tool than fcpx? How about the external disc, if I do the bootcamp and windows? Can I use Mac OS Extended(Journaled) or do I have to do fat 32?

[John Rofrano]

[Morten Slemdal] “So you all agree that vegas is a much stronger tool than fcpx?”

I’ve been editing with Vegas Pro for over 10 years and I’ve only been using FCP X for a few months so I’m much more proficient at Vegas Pro but FCP X is fine too as well. FCP X doesn’t have the audio capabilities that Vegas Pro has and the latest version of FCP X is just getting features that Vegas has had for 10 years so feature wise Vegas Pro is richer, but FCP X comes with more content, tighter integration with tools like Motion, and the magnetic timeline is an outstanding leap forward in editing that I really like it a lot. They both have their strengths. I just prefer Vegas Pro.

[Morten Slemdal] “How about the external disc, if I do the bootcamp and windows? Can I use Mac OS Extended(Journaled) or do I have to do fat 32?”

I’m not sure of what your question is. Are you asking what format external disks need to be if you use both Mac OS X and Windows? You can buy a driver for Windows that allows it to read Mac OS Extended drives. You can also use Extended FAT which I believe Windows 7 and greater can read. Of course FAT 32 will work but it will limit your largest file size to 4GB which can be small for video files. I also think there is a driver for OS X that will allow it to write to NTFS drives but I’ve never tried it.

~jr

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