Vegas 8 on Intel iMac?

buckaroo wrote on 9/13/2007, 3:34 AM

Anyone use Vegas 7/8 on a new Intel Apple imac?

Am looking at a new pc to go with my mac, but thought that the new imacs llok good and can run windows under bootcamp especially with the new Leopard OSX thats coming with it built in!

i take it this would be the same as running it on a good spec PC?

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CDM wrote on 9/13/2007, 8:06 AM

I'll let you know after the 28th, when mine arrives...

Nat wrote on 9/13/2007, 10:32 AM

It runs great on my MacBook so I guess it'll run even better on the Imac...

Spot|DSE wrote on 9/13/2007, 10:38 AM

It runs well on my MacBook too.

SimonW wrote on 9/13/2007, 1:47 PM

Good to hear.

I'm moving to the Mac but don't want to lose Vegas. Does Vista run on Bootcamp? Or should I just avoid that one like the plague?

RNLVideo wrote on 9/13/2007, 3:42 PM

I'm running Vista without any problems via Bootcamp on a MacBook Pro. Love it.... V7 of Vegas.

JoeMess wrote on 9/13/2007, 4:29 PM

Brother, hold back on getting a new IMac. We just picked up the new 20" model last week. The first day plugged in, it required 120 megs of patches from Apple. Bluntly, performance-wise, its a pig. We have a last generation Mac-Mini that blows the doors off of the IMac. There is clearly something not right in the optimization of these new models.

Joe

Cheno wrote on 9/13/2007, 7:07 PM

running Vegas on MacBook Pro / Mac Pro via Bootcamp - runs awesome.

[r]Evolution wrote on 9/13/2007, 9:30 PM

JoeMess... did you just say 'Mac-Mini'?

There's No Way you can compare a Mac-Mini to any other Mac. Maybe you can compare it to an iPod... but that's about it. I saw a Demo at MicroCenter w/ the New iMac running Bootcamp, the FC Suite, & the Adobe Production Bundle. They were running 3 and they all seemed to work seamlessly on the projects that were being demoed & rendered. Granted, this was not a Production Environment but this is after the machines had been on all day everyday for the last few weeks with many people on them constantly.

If you were serious when you said 'Mac-Mini'... I would say put that thing on eBay or give it to your kid cause it definitely wasn't made to handle video editing as a workstation.

My Mac Dually grabs Apple updates @ every 4-5 days or so. This is normal. You've got to think of the date that your machine was built... then bought... then hooked up. How much time do you think elapsed during all of that? Naturally you are gonna have to do updates almost immediately. Same goes for windows.

- Performance wise it's a Pig?
Nothing should be running on your iMac that isn't running on your Mac-Mini unless you've installed more. It would take a lot of convincing for me to buy in to a Mac-Mini being better than any other Mac. Mac-Mini's are $500 toys.

Cheno wrote on 9/13/2007, 10:08 PM

Performance-wise, even if the iMac is a hog over the Mac-mini (which I don't believe), it makes no difference on the Bootcamp / Windows side - the only thing that matters is proc, RAM, bus speeds and such. And I would consider MS's updates "patches" moreso than I'd consider Apple's updates "patches".

To each his own - on the Intel side, if you're interested in the iMac for dual OS support, you'll be very happy.

-cheno

4eyes wrote on 9/13/2007, 10:38 PM

The new Mac-Mini's now come with Core2-Duo's in them, 2 choices of a configuration.
Can't beat em for everyday computing.

bigcreek wrote on 9/14/2007, 5:43 AM

Vegas Runs great on Macbook Pro (Version 8 with windows xp and bootcamp) - staying far away from Vista.

vitalforce wrote on 9/14/2007, 3:23 PM

Runs good on my Intel Mac Pro quad. Turned Vegas 7 from a Corvette into a Ferrari.

Even has that beautiful high overtone above 7000 rpm....

Nat wrote on 9/14/2007, 7:25 PM

If it runs well on my MacBook it'll run well on the MacMini, it's the same chipset/processor combo. Put 2 gigs of ram in the mini and you're in business.

OdieInAz wrote on 9/14/2007, 9:21 PM

I run V7.0e on a mac mini, works just fine. Core Duo, not Core2 Duo. I did poped the lid and put 2 gb memory under the covers. That is a very delicate operation, and I don't recommend it for anyone. When I had 1gb, seemd to overflow the RAM when rendering HDV.

The disk drive is basically a 4200 rpm laptop drive, so that's kind of slow. But I mostly fileshare with a WinXP machine via 1 Gbps ethernet.

After partitioning the HDD into OSX and WinXP, I use MacDrive so the Win side can use disk space on the OSX side. Only problem with that situation is that DVDA doesn't like to have the prepared burn images on the mac side.

It runs fine for me, edits HDV ok. Renders aren't the fasted, but no surprises here. If one is doing this for a living, then for sure a dual quad-core (or something that fast) will pay for itself.