Vegas for OSX?

[Gilles Gagnon]

what do you mean “a big dump on their pro users” Johnathan?

Gilles

[Jonathan Capra]

1) No tape capture support
2) Discontinuing DVD authoring support
3) No 3rd-Party Hardware Support
4) NO BACKWARD PROJECT COMPATIBILITY???

If they want to turn GUI and workflow on its head, I’m all down for learning anew. But don’t just discard capability.

Their new app is obviously more aimed at the high-end homebrew Youtube producer. They are obviously looking to shed their pro user market. So I just think it would be a great time for a company like Sony (who still has a big marketshare in pro video gear) to fill in the coming vaccuum in the software end of things.

[Gilles Gagnon]

interesting. I wasn’t aware of this.

thanks for sharing.

Gilles

[Stephen Mann]

Look here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/2983#2983

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Al Bergstein]

It’s a beta 1 of a totally new product. 64 bit rewrites often can have this problem. Unfortunately, they didn’t market it that way. I think there will be a lot of people like me, who use both platforms, that simply freeze their Apple systems until this sorts itself out, or jump to Adobe on Apple. As for me, I ordered my Dell XPS 15z today, as I assume that I will be migrating to Windows in it’s entirety after this, either to a total Vegas world, or a mix of Vegas and Adobe. It’s a good time to sell my MacBook Pro (older version with hard drive upgrade, but still 32 bit). But I see no benefit other than Thunderbolt (which I can achieve a close proximity in USB 3) in me continuing to pay Apple for high end product, when Vegas has worked very well for much of what I do, and Adobe has the 3rd party add ons that the Pros tell me I need, such as Boris Red, and other high end hardware and software add ons. I bought my state of the art Dell laptop today for hundreds of dollars less than a comparable Apple laptop. I was waiting on FCPX to see which way to go. Now it’s clear. Over, and out.

Alf