I'm thinking about building a new PC (or getting a Mac) and I'm pondering using something like VMWare or Parallels to make virtual OS sandboxes.
I have to use my PC both for video editing and other work, and I think that it eventually gets mucked up with too many things installed on it. So, I was thinking I would create a virtual machine just for video editing - just the bare bones OS, Vegas, video drivers, maybe Photoshop. And maybe a separate virtual machine for my programming work.
Then, when there's a new update to Vegas, I can clone my current Vegas environment, and upgrade in the new one, so I still have the previous one to fall back on in case of problems.
I'm also thinking I may want to install Premiere in a sandbox, too, as I've become frustrated with Vega's problems dealing with organizing media. Then I can learn to work with it, without worrying it might be corrupting my Vegas install.
Is anyone doing something like this?
I have to use my PC both for video editing and other work, and I think that it eventually gets mucked up with too many things installed on it. So, I was thinking I would create a virtual machine just for video editing - just the bare bones OS, Vegas, video drivers, maybe Photoshop. And maybe a separate virtual machine for my programming work.
Then, when there's a new update to Vegas, I can clone my current Vegas environment, and upgrade in the new one, so I still have the previous one to fall back on in case of problems.
I'm also thinking I may want to install Premiere in a sandbox, too, as I've become frustrated with Vega's problems dealing with organizing media. Then I can learn to work with it, without worrying it might be corrupting my Vegas install.
Is anyone doing something like this?