Mac OS X and Sony Vegas / ACID / ?

Randall_Oelerich

Randall_Oelerich

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Anybody here use Mac OS X with Sony Vegas, Adobe After Effects, or Sony ACID Pro software? I am a PC user, MS Windows, but I am intrigued at possibly switching to Apple Mac and OS X. The problem is I am so heavily invested in software for the PC such as Movie Magic Screenwriter (which now I see also installs to Mac so I am good to go for screenwriting software if I switch to Mac), Sony Vegas for video editing, Sony ACID Pro for audio editing and loops, etc.; and Adobe After Effects.

If I were to switch to Mac, using tools software such as Parallels could I use my existing Sony Vegas, Sony ACID Pro, Adobe After Effects on a Mac running OS X, or install Windows XP inside OS X to run such programs? And would such programs run that way, given their heavy use of DirectX and graphics?

I love the fact that Mac OS X is a flavor of the Unix operating system essentially, has a command line interface, and being unix based will be much more stable than Windows. (I am a former Linux user, so I love the stability and command line interface power of a unix/linux operating system).
~randall
 
I think I wrote this before in this forum: never use a heavy app like a video editor, under Parallels, Vmware, WINE, etc. These emulation/simulation software do not offer 100% of the hardware to the app to work comfortably. Sure they are ok for some simple apps, but apps that do video, you might want to install Windows on its own partition on your Mac, and then dual boot cleanly. That would be ideal.
 
Agreed. I have used Wine in Linux to run Windows apps (and oddly enough, Celtx for Windows ran better in linux using wine than the native version of Celtx for linux), vmware to run WinXP in linux-- and let me tell you that stunk, horrible performance and that was on my dual core PC with 4GB RAM.

Eugenia Loli-Queru said:
I think I wrote this before in this forum: never use a heavy app like a video editor, under Parallels, Vmware, WINE, etc. These emulation/simulation software do not offer 100% of the hardware to the app to work comfortably. Sure they are ok for some simple apps, but apps that do video, you might want to install Windows on its own partition on your Mac, and then dual boot cleanly. That would be ideal.
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Even if something like Parallels DID offer 100% hardware support, the processor power it takes to run the emulator would sap the life out of your video editing.

In short, not a good choice.
 
I agree. I am going to forego the notion of running Windows in any sort of emulator or API interceptor. I am still intrigued by Mac OS X, and just came across some info on setting up a Hackintosh =), Mac OS X (Leopard) installed on a PC. I like the idea of giving that a try just for the heck of it, maybe a dual boot Mac and WinXP, I know my Movie Magic software would install to Mac, and if I discovered a good video editor in Mac i might just migrate that way.


David Jimerson said:
Even if something like Parallels DID offer 100% hardware support, the processor power it takes to run the emulator would sap the life out of your video editing.

In short, not a good choice.
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this would totally defeat the purpose of using the stability of the mac/osx platform. Even partitioning and installing windows would be a horrible injustice to technology. If this is your plan, you could save a thousand and stick with a hardware-equivalent pc.
 
Vegas Runs Fine In Parallels

Vegas Runs Fine In Parallels

I am running Vegas Pro on a MacBook in the Parallels environment. Vegas works great in Parallels. I have D90 camera and shoot stills and video. I import the photo's and videos into iPhoto. I can then easily drag video clips from the iPhoto window to Vegas for edit on the Vegas timeline. Rendering is a little slower in Parallels. If I plan to do an intensive Vegas render, I reboot the computer (via Bootcamp) in PC mode.
 
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