Vegas Pro 9 and Windows 7/8?

[Stephen Mann]

Windows 7, no problem. I don’t know about Win 8 since I have absolutely no plans to upgrade to 8.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[John Rofrano]

[Diane Wilkins] “Will Sony Vegas Pro 9 work on a Windows 7/8 machine?”

It will definitely install and appears to work. I haven’t done extensive testing. Of course it’s not supported but you knew that. 😉

~jr

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[Diane Wilkins]

Thank you!

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Ed*t 6.5 Targa 3K

[Diane Wilkins]

Thanks John. It is a secondary workstation, so I am not up on all news Vegas. I appreciate your help!
Cheers,
Diane

http://www.DianeWilkinsProductions.com
Ed*t 6.5 Targa 3K

[John Rofrano]

You’re welcome.

~jr

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[Jim Lillis]

Quick question on this subject: (even though it’s an old one)

I’ve heard that there may not be much of an increase in anything moving to a WIN7x version.

Was the 9x version installed on a 32 bit or 64 bit version of Windows 7?

Looking at moving onto an HP workstation and not sure about going to 64 bit OS at this time.

And, if it works on 32 bit will there be much of an increase in _anything_ by going to the last 32 bit version of Vegas?

Thanks.

If it moves . . . Shoot it!

[John Rofrano]

[Jim Lillis] “Looking at moving onto an HP workstation and not sure about going to 64 bit OS at this time. “

Seriously, 32-bit is dead and unsupported. It’s way past time to move to 64-bit.

[Jim Lillis] “And, if it works on 32 bit will there be much of an increase in _anything_ by going to the last 32 bit version of Vegas?”

There is no advantage of staying with 32-bit. You are limited to only 2GB of memory total and with HD and a lot of FX this can get eaten up quickly. Forget about 4K on 32-bit. The last version of Vegas Pro to support 32-bit was 11 and I never used 11 in production because it was too buggy. I stayed with 10 until 12 came out. Vegas Pro 10 introduced OFX Plug-in support which was a huge leap over version 9 IMHO.

The whole industry moved to 64-bit several years ago. I would not consider buying a new computer and use a 32-bit OS for video editing. It just doesn’t make any sense. Everything is 64-bit these days… heck m iPhone is even 64-bit!

~jr

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[Jim Lillis]

Thanks for the reply John, and I think you’re on the money with this. This is where my thoughts have been, to just build out the hardware and go to 64bit. Did you use 9x in 64 bit, and was it stable?

From what I’ve been reading in the threads here, it seems that 13x may not be a real good move for me. But rather finding a legal 10x, 11x, or 12x version to upgrade to for now might be the way to go.

I’ve never been unhappy with 9x, and knowing that eventually there will be an upgrade to some newer version of Vegas, I’m thinking that I’ll just stick my money into the hardware to support the 64bit version of 9x (or other version) until there’s a real good reason to move up to the latest / greatest version of the software.

Thanks again.

If it moves . . . Shoot it!

[John Rofrano]

[Jim Lillis] “From what I’ve been reading in the threads here, it seems that 13x may not be a real good move for me. But rather finding a legal 10x, 11x, or 12x version to upgrade to for now might be the way to go.”

If you don’t want to jump to Vegas Pro 13.0, I would go with 12.0 or 10.0. Those were two very stabile releases for me.

~jr

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