Thinking about upgrading to Vista... advice needed!

Kindredmachine

Kindredmachine

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We just got the Adobe CS4 Production Premium and I’m thinking about upgrading to Vista before we install the new Adobe package but I’m worried I’m going to have problems. Has anyone had any problems with incompatible CODECS (like MpegPro2) or DVD burners that stop working or anything that could throw a wrench into our production efforts by upgrading to Vista?!! Any input or experiences from anyone would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

FYI
My worst fear is that I upgrade to Vista and CS4, plug in the DVX100 and Vista doesn’t recognize it… LOL…. But seriously :/
 
Where dose it end? I just upgraded to Vista and now I have to buy the new Photoshop CS4...
 
same ol cat and mouse game,
i have vista 32 bit and matrox rtx 2, works the same vista uses a little more ram for procesess than xp ,but you rely on more on dma than ram in adobe,unless you are a compositer artist.

64 bit vista is more $ for editors if you want good compatible hardwares,capture cards ect.
cs4 is suppossed to be the "trump" in 64 bit! cs3 will work in 64bit os.............

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Running Vista Ultimate 64 on my new system here. It recognized everything I threw at it including 4 different cameras, 2 of em HD. (and my dvx100b) All my old Adobe software runs great, and sony Vegas 8.1 . But again I just built a new system, so as far as putting vista on an older computer.... I don't know. But I wouldn't recommend it. You should have at least 4 gigs of ram. Although my son only had two with an AMD dualcore processor and it ran fine on that. You can customize vista to free a little more ram. First thing I would turn of is that stupid security advisor or whatever you call it. So everytime you open something or run an install it doesn't ask you "are you sure you want to do this"...
 
Kdawg said:
Running Vista Ultimate 64 on my new system here. It recognized everything I threw at it including 4 different cameras, 2 of em HD. (and my dvx100b) All my old Adobe software runs great, and sony Vegas 8.1 . But again I just built a new system, so as far as putting vista on an older computer.... I don't know. But I wouldn't recommend it. You should have at least 4 gigs of ram. Although my son only had two with an AMD dualcore processor and it ran fine on that. You can customize vista to free a little more ram. First thing I would turn of is that stupid security advisor or whatever you call it. So everytime you open something or run an install it doesn't ask you "are you sure you want to do this"...
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With RAM as cheap as it is these days, that's not a whole lot to ask.

I'll admit I've been incredibly wary of Vista ever since it was released, but damn if I haven't fantasied about 8 cores/8 gigs and Vista 64 with CS4.

But then we're talking mucho dinero.

A boy can dream though, can't he?
 
I've recently migrated to vista ultimate x64 (using Adobe CS3)
I was previously dead set against it, but after service pack 1 came out, a lot of compatibility problems and bugs were ironed out enough for me to be comfortable with giving it a go (and only because it offered more RAM capacity)

I've gotta say, I won't be going back to a 32-bit OS (except on my notebook)
A quad core with 8GB of RAM is amazing with AE and premiere, renders are faster, even the applications load much faster!

I'd recommend that if you are only looking at Vista 32-bit, hang fire and stick with XP as long as you can - it's lighter, more mature and easier to customize - but if you want 64-bit, go for Vista

The main things I'd urge you to check before buying are that all of your hardware devices have vista drivers available: printers are a biggie as well as soundcard, any RAID controllers and specific capture cards that you have - it'll be fine with your video camera though :)
 
Kdawg said:
Running Vista Ultimate 64 on my new system here. It recognized everything I threw at it including 4 different cameras, 2 of em HD. (and my dvx100b) All my old Adobe software runs great, and sony Vegas 8.1 . But again I just built a new system, so as far as putting vista on an older computer.... I don't know. But I wouldn't recommend it. You should have at least 4 gigs of ram. Although my son only had two with an AMD dualcore processor and it ran fine on that. You can customize vista to free a little more ram. First thing I would turn of is that stupid security advisor or whatever you call it. So everytime you open something or run an install it doesn't ask you "are you sure you want to do this"...
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KDawg, can you please post the parts you used to build your new system? I was looking at a FC Express editing set up and then I read all about Vegas.

I'm going with Vegas, have a DVX100B and need to get a system together.

Thanks!
 
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