Al Bergstein
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I don’t know about the recommendation to change your VM to *less* than what W7 64 Bit comes assigned with. My *default* setting for VM is 6143 MB why on earth would I set it to 1024 when I’m getting “low memory” errors?
Alf
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Cancel this. We went through over the phone setting by setting and something must have been missed. This time it worked as expected…
Alf
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My experience with Bootcamp on Mac Book Pro was less than stellar. While the machine runs WIndows fast, the GPU heated up unacceptably, way worse than under Windows 7 on a normal Windows based laptop, (it did not heat up in a similar fashion when I rebooted into Mac OSX) and I had more than my share of blue screens of death, I assumed due to the crashes were BIOS related (meaning BC related) and which I have not had with either W7 on an HP desktop or a Samsung laptop.
My personal experience leads me to believe that Bootcamp is a less than acceptable way of running high end Windows softare, like Vegas. I opted to buy a Samsung R580 for the purpose.
I also have a Mac Pro kitted out with the a vast array of hard disks and a MacBook Pro so I’m not anti-Apple. I run FCP on the MacPro just fine, I use it for collaborative work that requires FCP, and would suggest that you won’t be happy with the performance of FCP on a MBP. I don’t run it on my MBP because of performance. My personal experience is that Vegas is 90% of FCP and unless you (meaning I) need that 10% I’d rather be editing on a native W7 machine with Vegas. Heck, just being able to do cross fades in Vegas is worth my time alone!
Best of luck either way! Maybe if you go the Bootcamp route you would buy Parallels or something like it and run Vegas that way???
If you do go BC, then please let us know how things go. There are many people wanting to do this, and would like to see if the latest and greatest BC actually makes a Mac a W7 machine worth using.
Alf
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The amount of RAM has nothing to do with it, IMHO. 64 bit will take advantage of all the RAM you have.
There is likely a problem with your hardware. I am running 64 bit on two different machines, and there is no problem with lock ups. Check your drivers. Make sure all support 64 bit. These self built machines have often have issues with compatablilty as most people have not idea how much compatability testing HP, Dell, etc. go through on their machines BIOS. I long ago gave up dealing with the problems of self built machines. But as they say, your mileage may vary.
Alf
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I’m using a Samsung R580. 500 GB drive, 8 GB RAM, 1 Quad core i5. 64 bit W7 w/Vegas 9.0e. Works fine. I use a dual quad core for desktop use. My laptop has problems showing HD footage without stuttering, but I don’t really care. If I do, I dump the footage to a eSATA (the laptop supports eSata), and it runs fine from that. I didn’t want to spend the money to get two internal drives (I spent less than $900 total). You can buy the Samsung machines from Best Buy. They compare favorably to all the other similarly priced machines. The eSata, hard drive size, RAM and other features are very competitive. I would have preferred a non glare screen, but most of them have that.
Alf
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I’m sort of interested in this notion of what is the best way to run compression on Vegas audio tracks. I’ve shot a number of videos of live performances, and would like to compress them a bit before going to Youtube. Is using audio bus tracks the best way or should I be sending these out to something like ACID first? I’ve got Protools, but haven’t linked Vegas to it. It’s more complex than I would like to be using for relatively simple recordings. But I’m noticing that acoustic guitar on stage is overpowered by clarinet and hand drums, even when the guitar is properly mic’ed. This problem is showing up in Youtube, so I’m looking to properly compress before shipping to the cloud. This embedded video sounds just fine on my studio system, but the guitar is quite low on Youtube. Also, the mandolin player would like to bring himself down. Given the mix I got off the sound board, I can’t do that, so I need to compres, or? Sounds like a similar problem to the poster above. Maybe one answer for both of us? (shot in HD on Panasonic 150 w/feeds off the board)
Alf
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It should, but you are buying into the low end of an expensive machine, and as such, you might run into problems. I just compared models, was considering Sony but bought Samsung instead. For $899 I got i5 processor, with better graphics card, the eSATA drive slot for external drives, ability to use a variety of card slots for SD and others, 500 GB drive and 4 GBs RAM. Windows 64 should have 4GB RAM as a starting point, 3GB is underpowering the machine which can lead to ‘paging’ to the disk to get enough memory, which is what you need for video editing.
I think you would be better off to start with more RAM now if you can afford it. Do a bit more checking on computers available. Best Buy if you have one locally, is a great resource for a variety of suitable models. Acer, Toshiba, HP and Dell were also sold there, if I remember right. Samsung is making a strong push into this market, and while not the lightest machine, it has the right power configuration. I thought that Toshiba had better speakers, but Samsung’s R580 had decent speakers. HP did not.
The R580 is doing a very reasonable job with Vegas. My desktop is faster, but it’s dual 4 core with 8 GBs RAM.
A desktop is going to be a better deal for editing than a laptop, but for me I needed both for field editing.
Good luck.
Alf
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Ah, that’s really what I was asking. The paid one is QT Pro. The free one is QT. So QT Pro is NOT needed for importing MOV files. Thx. I’ll try out moving some MOVs in today (G).
Alf
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Thanks Mike. Yes, I will need to import MOV files. So I’ll pick it up.
Alf
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I have not had a problem, yet, since trashing the prefs. It’s been some hours now. At least the MOV files were there so I could rebuild relatively quickly. If anyone else has thoughts on best ways to protect against this kind of bug in FCP, which I consider this to be, I’d love it.
Has anyone used Preference Manager, Reinphase’s Final Cut Pro Manager,Cheasepeake Systems FCP Attic or Editgroove’s Usermatic? They all seem recommended by Larry Jordan but wonder why I would use one over the other…
Alf