Sam Rosenthal
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Vegas runs in Bootcamp. I have Vegas 9 running in Bootcamp with Window XP home. As an experiment, I tested Parallels, and got problems. I just upgraded to a brand new iMac, and have Vegas 12 running in Bootcamp with Window 7 64-bit. I am still hammering out all the crashy-bugs. But who isn’t? : )
As far as Brad’s comments about Drivers. When you are creating the Bootcamp disc, Boot Camp Assistant has you download Drivers (and burn them to a CD). You use them later as part of the Window install process. My trackpad and mighty mouse both work in Bootcamp now.
S
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Cathal — No. I cannot say that I “tested it fully.” I created my video, and used the bits of Vegas I need to make the video (see link above).
I would suspect that using Vegas on a PC (vs. a MAC) means less possibilities for difficulties getting it set up and running. However, I would add that I had no problems getting it to run on my Mac. It was all quite easy.
I use Vegas for Audio on a PC and Vegas for Video on a Mac.
They both work. All my best,Sam
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Hi Andy — sure, here’s the info. I got Windows XP Home edition.
The Mac is a 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB memory. Running OS 10.5.8.I resolved the rendering problems.
You see, I was shooting in Normal Def, but I planned to bump it up to “widescreen” to look High Def on Youtube (IE: I shot in 640×480, but wanted to upload as 1280×720). When shooting, I taped off the monitor covering the top and bottom of the frame, and concentrated on a Wide-screen aspect-ratioed band in the middle….
1) I set up the session to match my camera format (Canon 5d Mark 2)
Template Custom (640×480, 29.970 fps)
Width: 640 Field Order: None (Progressive Scan)
Height: 480 Pixel Aspect: 1.000000 (Square)
Frame Rate: 30.00000
Pixel Format: 8-bit
Composite
Full-res quality: good
Motion blur: Gausian
Deinterlace: None2) I outputted the session above in normal aspect ratio. Then I brought that rendered file back into Vegas . . . created a session at 1280×720 . . . and zoomed in so the part I had taped off previously was out of the frame.
I rendered it a second time as a 1280×720 .wmv file. I found that using the 4.8 Mbps HD format worked fine. If you lose lower Mbps formats, it kicks it down to 640×480 (for some reason)……
The resulting file looks REALLY good, you cannot tell I zoomed in.
You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ijM94H340
(though not necessarily totally “work safe.”)
: )S
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Just to follow-up on this. I got the new top-end iMac, installed Boot Camp and Windows and Vegas 9.0, and it is all working. I am having some rendering issues (aren’t we all) that I don’t think are related to it being on a Mac, but related to me still learning what format to render to. Really just wanted to report that Vegas in Boot Camp on the Mac was much LESS of a nitemare than I imagined it would be.
Sam
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Hi Steve.
I am also a Mac User, running Vegas via Bootcamp.
> I recommend that you do not let Windows manage the dynamic space – set the min and max values to the same. (In my case, 12Gb. Probably overkill, but I have 1TB of hard-disk).
This suggestion sounds great, and might be clear to a PC user. But as a mac user, I have no idea where I go in and change these settings. Are they Vegas settings? Windows settings? Etc. Etc.
More info on how to do that would be really valuable. Thanks. Sam
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Larry. I have been editing 5DM2 files in Vegas 9. It seems to be working. There is considerable bog-down, when I start adding effects (like color correction) to the tracks. Not sure if I should render them all to MPEG-2 as John suggests, or just render the ones that have the heavy processing on them. Still trying to figure it all out. Sam
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John — The two things in your example that are trouble are the illegality of child porn, and the illegality of selling videos containing music to which you don’t hold the rights. The OP didn’t mention either of those two illegal activities, thus my feeling that his use was not a big deal.
There is the letter of the law, and reality of the usage…..
; )Sam
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John! This is absolutely amazing.
I cannot wait to get it in my camera and try it out!
Thanks! Sam -
I am a musician and I run a record label. What John is telling you is technically correct. You don’t have the rights to make a duplicate of the songs, without the permission of whomever holds the rights. However, as a musician and a guy who runs a record label, would I *care* if somebody made a video of their cat playing with a piece of string, and put my song on as the soundtrack, and then gave it to their buddy? No, I wouldn’t. Would your buddy have bought my album, if it weren’t for the fact that you gave him my song? Probably not. Is there some small chance that he’ll like the song enough to go out and buy my album? Maybe. Will the earth grind to a halt if you illegally dupe this song? No! Us record label guys are concerned about the jokers who upload entire albums to torrents, so that anyone can download the whole album for free.
I am not a lawyer,
Sam
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We have similar thoughts. I got Vegas 9.0, then realized my PC isn’t up to snuff on processor speed. Rather than buying a new PC, I have been thinking of buying a new Mac and running Vegas via Bootcamp. I would love to hear a response from anyone running Vegas on a Mac. Does it work well? Problems? Advice. Thanks! Sam