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Most users haven’t experienced problems with Leopard. You’ll find multiple strings in the AE forum to this effect. Adobe themselves note that you might have trouble….but also notes that you probably won’t.
As to the original question, Shane Ross has an outstanding article on the right steps to take when you’re ready to upgrade your FCP installation to Leopard. It’s absolutely essential reading.
Print it out, read it to your children. Have them read it to their children.
Seriously. Essential. Read it.
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I suggest swinging by the Boris FX forum here at the Cow. Boris is often there answering questions himself, as are product managers and support folks. They’ll definitely know what’s up.
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The perfect opportunity to post your work questions here and get them answered.
Bessie never sleeps on the job.
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BTW, I recorded this on the HD DVR, and just got to catch up with it. An AMAZING story. Great footage, too.
The reason why it took so long for us to watch it is that we kept trying to watch in the background while we were working. (One of THOSE weeks.) Not happening — we couldn’t take our eyes off it. So we saved it until we could give it our full attention, which we did. More than once. 🙂
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[Rob Ikenberry] “I’d be happy to give you more info on our experience with the HVX (all positive). Send me an email at rikenberry at cecmain.com and we can corespond directly.”
No way, man. This is something for the whole class to hear.
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Got tutorials? Drop me a line! My email’s linked from my name, below.
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Again, sorry about any problems you had. Entirely unintended. I’m glad it’s working now.
Thanks for the offer to do tutorials! This is how it happens – folks like you step forward.
Drop me an email offline, let’s chat. My email’s linked from my name, below.
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I like Vista. Not that there isn’t a transition…but ask any Mac user who went through the transition to OS X, or the Intel architecture. Vista’s problems are far from unique…and if you do a clean install, you probably won’t have much trouble at all. I haven’t.
Of course, I have it installed on a MacBook Pro. Maybe that makes a difference. 🙂
There are quite a few different ways to run PC software on a Mac. The Bootcamp Assistant is a Mac OS utility that will set you up a Windows partition that you can choose to boot into.
The good news is that it’s easy, and the performance is great — no performance penalty whatsoever.
The bad news is that it creates a hard wall between the two OSes.
I prefer VMWare Fusion. It lets you run Windows as a “virtual machine” inside the Mac OS. You boot into the Mac OS, and Windows is just a Window, like any other Mac app. You can choose to make the Windows window full screen, so it mostly acts like it’s in a Mac too.
Positive: easy interaction between the two OSes (drag and drop, etc.). Hardly any performance penalty at all. Load up with RAM and the difference isn’t even worth talking about.
Negative — you’re stuck with Mac keyboard shortcuts, and some brand new ones because the Win equivalent is being used on Mac for something different. Not a big deal, but you should know going in.
To answer your first question, yeah, I have the Windows version of CS3, in Vista, on a MacBook Pro. Nice.
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This is the thread ANNOUNCING potential conflicts. If you want to solve those problems, please repost this in the “real” AE forum below. You may also want to swing by the Trapcode forum.
Good luck!
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Or you could do what I do, and run your PC CS3 under Bootcamp, if all you’re looking for is to run it on a Mac box.
That said, you really, truly can run your PEE CEE apps as MAC apps with VMware Fusion and Parallels. The PC apps live in the doc, drag and drop between things like Mac TextEdit and your PC version of Word, etc. It’s EXACTLY like running a Mac app. You don’t even see the Windows desktop. You see the Mac desktop behind your application windows.
It’s astonishing. Go to the company websites to see demos and screenshots that will blow your mind.
This way, you can transition to the “true” Mac apps over time, as your budget — and your willingness to wrestle with Adobe on the phone — will allow.
Your cross-platform buddy running it all on a MacBook Pro,
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