Window 8 Vs Sony Vegas Pro 12

[John Rofrano]

[Dave Haynie] “It’s kind of the typical Microsoft thing. When they see someone else being successful at something in computing, they tend to over-react.”

Yea, I hear ya. The other day I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was at the mall and a new Microsoft Store had opened up down from the existing Apple Store. All of the Microsoft Sales people had blue shirts with khaki jeans just like Apple, they also had those white rectangle names tags around their neck exactly like Apple but with the MS logo, and the computers were laid out on tables exactly like in the Apple store. In fact, I almost thought the Apple store had moved to a bigger location before I saw the MS logo. They ripped off Apple on every detail of their store. The only thing that was different was that they had about 3 customers in this huge store and Apple had over 40 customers in their small store. I had to wait 15 minutes just to buy a DVI adapter at the Apple store; they were swamped. I don’t think Microsoft has had an original thought in 20 years.

~jr

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[Dave Haynie]

Ha! Yeah, they put one of those stores in at the Christiana Mall in Delaware. There was a crowd there on opening day.. mostly because they shipped in the band “Weezer” to play. And yeah, a total clone of the Apple store, or as much as they can get away with.

I’m not going to say that Microsoft’s been all that innovative, ever… they did have a habit of ripping off (or, if you’re a Microsoft fan, you could say “popularizing”) other folks good ideas. MS-DOS was a CP/M-like OS, Windows was trying to deliver the Mac experience to the PC. But it’s all evolution… CP/M was trying to give a taste of a minicomputer OS to micros. Everyone was doing GUI back in the early to mid 80s, Apple just got there first, at least on a big scale, but plenty of workstations came first. Every touch interface, even Microsoft’s original Surface tabletop UI (which was pretty innovative, unlike anything else real) came out five years after “Minority Report” showed of that really cool hand-gesture UI.

But Microsoft goes the extra mile, with their “all-in” approach. That’s a sign that they’re only thinking in terms of responding to changes without really understanding them so well. Which kind of follows the stories you hear out of Microsoft, of the many layers of management, one group basically getting to call the shots for everything they ever touch, stack ranking pitting people and groups against each other, etc. They have much of the big company disease that, ages ago, let a much more athletic Microsoft take over mainstream computing. But it’s been a long time since they did something important, well designed, and original.

-Dave

[Dave Haynie]

[Nigel O'Neill] “Personally, I am holding off going to Windows 8 for at least 1 year.”

That’s fundamentally a good idea for any serious use of a PC. Early releases have often had stability problems. There are rarely applications that require the new OS right away… and in this case, developers are more likely to be pushing into WinRT applications, which aren’t for serious desktop use anyway.

My general rule for upgrades is that the OS needs to be stable, and it needs to offer ME some good reason to update. There’s no fundamental need to update your existing computer with a new version of Windows. The OS isn’t even really a tool, it’s more like a toolbox. You only need to update the toolbox when the tools no longer fit, or when someone come out with a new toolbox that makes your life much easier. Windows 8 right now looks like a toolbox that’s kind of a weird shape compared to my Windows 7 toolbox, and it has this whole extra section for cooking equipment, which I don’t need. At least not in my workshop (eg, desktop PC).

-Dave

[John Rofrano]

[Dave Haynie] “MS-DOS was a CP/M-like OS”

Actually that turned out very well for me. I use to run Microsoft CP/M on my 64K Apple ][+ which has a Z80 card in it. When MS-DOS came out a few years later, I was hired at IBM as “PC Guru” because I already knew most of the commands from CP/M because they were identical. The rest, as they say, is history. 😉

~jr

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[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Good Morning,

I have try the window 8 in my new working station because the motherboard (ASUS) i use support window 8 but some of the plugins for Svp 12 not working and also i try to render some footage but its not working……error message comes out.So i change back to window 7 64bit.Now Svp 12 working very well in my new working station.Thank You….. Mr.John Rofrano,Mr.Steve,Mr.Dave and others, help me out on this section.

Thank You
Thayalan Paramasawam

[John Rofrano]

It would be interesting to know what plug-ins didn’t work. Sony claims that Vegas Pro 12.0 supports Windows 8 so everything should have worked (in “theory”).

~jr

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[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Good Morning Sir,

Heroglyph and Pixelan Plugins.

Thank You
Thayalan Paramasawam

[John Rofrano]

[Thayalan Paramasawam] “Heroglyph and Pixelan Plugins.”

Which Pixelan plug-ins didn’t work? Some of them are 32-bit and won’t work with Vegas Pro 64-bit even in Windows 7 64-bit.

~jr

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[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Good morning sir,

3D Six-Pack includes the following 3D video transitions not working in window 8 64 bit for Svp 12 but its work on window 7 64 bit for Svp 11.

Thank You
Thayalan Paramasawam