What Apple products can run Sony Vegas??

rafaeltzanis wrote on 2/7/2016, 10:37 AM

I am looking to buy a an apple system and run Sony Vegas 13. Right now I am using an asus and the specs aren't quite good enough to run the videos smoothly.

What model Macbook airs and iMacs are able to run the program and videos smoothly? Going back as far as 2010, would an older model work?

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/7/2016, 2:45 PM

Any Mac can run Vegas in a virtual Windows environment. But in that case you're running Windows inside OSX, which isn't terribly efficient.

You'll get the best performance from your system if you use Boot Camp to boot your Mac into an actual Windows 10 environment.

Virtually any Intel-based Mac can run Boot Camp. But remember that MacBook Airs are built for portability, not power. So they're pretty underpowered when it comes to intensive processes like video editing.

But any iMac or MacBook Pro made in the last five years will run it just fine on Boot Camp Windows.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 2/7/2016, 8:42 PM

I agree with Steve, the MacBook Air is not built for power. It's built to be thin and portable. My son had one because he liked the portability but once we went to college for Graphic Design and started using PhotoShop and Illustrator, he had to upgrade to a MacBook Pro to do the heavy lifting. I also wouldn't buy the new MacBook (not the Pro). It's another low end light weight model.

I have a 15-inch Mid 2012 MacBook Pro with a 4-Core i7 2.3Ghz, 16GB memory, 1TB SSD, and NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M GPU and it runs Vegas Pro just fine.

I have a 2010 Mac Pro 12-Core Xeon X5670, 24GB ECC memory, 512GB SSD, 6TB RAID 5, and AMD Radeon HD 7950 that runs Vegas Po just fine. I paid $2275 on eBay for it.

I also have a 2008 Mac Pro 8-Core Xeon E5462, 16GB ECC Memory, 512GB SSD, and AMD Radeon HD 5870 that runs Vegas Pro great and I only paid $740 for that on eBay.

BTW the 2008 Mac Pro runs the Sony "Red Car" benchmark project at full frame rates all the way through. So you don't have to buy a new Mac. The old Mac Pro hardware still has a lot of life left in them and the prices on eBay are very reasonable.

If you do buy a new Mac, the 27" iMac 5K Retina is an awesome computer!

I run BootCamp with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on the Mac Pro's but I only use VMware Fusion on the MacBook Pro and I'm really happy with the performance of Vegas Pro on all of them.

~jr

craftech wrote on 2/11/2016, 9:08 AM

Since this is your very first post on the forums why don't you call SCS and ask them.

You did buy it from they right?

John