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Steve Mann wrote on 10/6/2010, 3:56 PM
No sane person runs iTunes on an editing PC.

Do what I did - buy a cheap dual-core PC or laptop and make it the iTunes-only computer. Maybe an old Mac?

It may cost you $100-150, but that is cheap, real cheap compared to the potential grief that iTunes may cause when it does an update.
rs170a wrote on 10/6/2010, 4:37 PM
Steve, I'm fortunate in that this is my home computer and I have Vegas on it for the times that I want to do some work stuff at home.
If iTunes did mess it up, it wouldn't be the end of the world to me.
Frustrating but not the end of the world.
I'm certain that someone has already done this so I'm just curious as to what their experience was.

Mike
newhope wrote on 10/6/2010, 4:45 PM
I have run iTunes with Vegas for my SFX Library and I'm able to drag and drop from it to the timeline.
I haven't upgraded to iTunes 10 so can't offer any operational advice to it's compatibility.
BTW I'm still on Vegas Pro 8 as well.
ushere wrote on 10/6/2010, 4:47 PM
oh dear mike, what have you done!!! opened a can of worms i suspect!

i've only twice (yes, i didn't learn) installed itunes on an editing pc. both times i experienced 'problems' that weren't there before (thank goodness for acronis). they weren't major problems btw, just strangle little things like searching for audio tracks within vegas sometimes froze it, other times not. and nothing to do with .mov's - a problem i learnt very early on with qt!

i'd be very tempted to get another pc to. for the cost of a beige box nowadays you'll not only sleep easier at night but probably get to yours when you want to (amazing how often my daughter can say 'just a minute' within the space of an hour when working on my laptop), and if they (the family that is) inadvertently dl a virus, screw-up a sys file, erase the disk, spill coffee on the keyboard, etc., you can simply smile and not lose any hair over it.

warming up down here ;-p

John_Cline wrote on 10/6/2010, 7:27 PM
Don't ever assume that installing any Apple software on a PC will be trouble free.
Coursedesign wrote on 10/6/2010, 7:28 PM
A lot of pros are doing what newhope is doing.

There is nothing special about iTunes, just the same precautions as with any media player or codec package:

Do not install a new version until other people have used it with Vegas (Avid/PP/FCP/Liquid/etc.) for a month.

Then you know.
Coursedesign wrote on 10/6/2010, 7:34 PM
Don't ever assume that installing any Apple software on a PC will be trouble free.

You meant to write Microsoft, right?

:O]
newhope wrote on 10/6/2010, 7:39 PM
A quick word of warning following my previous post.
Don't upgrade qt BEYOND QT 7.6.4 unless you are running the very latest version of Vegas because of the 'B;ackScreen of Death' problem...no video in QT movies.
This of course means you can't use iTunes 10 at all unless you have Vegas Pro 9.0e and I'm still on 8.0c so can't test it.
John_Cline wrote on 10/6/2010, 7:57 PM
"You meant to write Microsoft, right?"

No, I did not.
Coursedesign wrote on 10/6/2010, 10:13 PM
"You meant to write Microsoft, right?"

:O)

Did you mean Adobe Acrobat Reader?

That is arguably the biggest software disaster in history, ahead of even Windows 98ME because it has had a much longer-lasting impact on users everywhere (except those who use other PDF readers).
rs170a wrote on 10/7/2010, 2:15 PM
I just installed it and can confirm that Pro 9.0e (on XP Pro) does work with the newest iTunes and QT 7.6.8
I loaded in a wide variety of QuickTime-type files and had no problems.
Thanks to John Rofrano for telling me that it would work.

Mike
Vidmar wrote on 10/8/2010, 3:04 PM
FYI: Since QuickTime is required for Vegas, I *Strongly* recommend that you use QT Lite instead of the full bloated version.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QT_Lite.htm

I've used this for many years without issue on my editing machine.
jetdv wrote on 10/9/2010, 7:47 AM
vidmar, Quicktime is not required for Vegas. I'm running Vegas just fine on this laptop with NO versions of Quicktime installed. The only reason it would be required is if you try to open files that require Quicktime. I don't on this machine and, therefore, Vegas runs just fine without it.
Tinle wrote on 10/9/2010, 8:07 AM
Eugenia points out that Vegas Pro 10 does not use Quick Time for decoding H.264. One less need for QT.

"In the past, Vegas was using Quicktime or MainConcept to decode the various h.264 streams. However, especially when Quicktime was used, there was a major stability and speed problem. Add more than a handful of h.264 MOV files on your timeline, and you will be most likely looking into a crashed application. And when it would not crash, you’d probably had to deal with low frame rate performance. A very common problem for dSLR users.

Thankfully for all of us, Vegas Pro 10 has dealt with the problem by optimizing their own h.264 Sony AVC decoder, named “compoundplug.dll”.
jabloomf1230 wrote on 10/9/2010, 11:55 AM
I also have no problems with Vegas Pro 9e 64 bit and iTunes 10. BTW, I agree that installing iTunes on a production PC is probably not the greatest idea, but it's hard to avoid, if you have an iPhone