Anybody with VMS9 Platinum on Windows XP?

michaelt wrote on 2/19/2009, 11:30 AM

I noticed there have been too many postings where people complain about VMS9 Plat crashes. With the latest processors, huge HD space and RAM - yet it seems pretty much everybody runs it on Windows Vista.

VMS9 does not require Windows Vista, its specification mentions Windows XP, too.

Does anyone have VMS Platinum 9b on Windows XP? If yes - do you see any crashes?

Thanks in advance,

Michael.

P.S. Unless you have never had a Windows XP, the first thing I would do with a brand new computer is to format its C drive and install WIndows XP from the CD that came with an older computer.

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Byron K wrote on 2/19/2009, 11:55 AM

Running Plat 9 for a few months and have done a couple projects very stable for what I'm using it for. Usually work in 10-15 minutes segments. Very rarely crashes or need to reboot application.. (*knock on wood*) (;

Here's my setup:

DAW-audio and video editing ONLY.
-XPPro SP2
-Cubase SX 3.1.0 Build 944 | C4.5.2 |
-Sony Vegas Movie Studio 7 | Platinum 9
-ASUS P4P800DLX Mobo, P4HT (2.8/OC3.1GHz, HT Enabled)
-2G RAM | RAID0+1 4x40Gig HDs
-ATI Radion 9550 (fanless) | Dual 22" Westinghouse monitors

Doing research now to upgrade to the new i7 Quad P4 w/ HT processor in a few months.

mike_in_ky wrote on 2/19/2009, 1:37 PM

Michaelt...

I have been running VMS 9.0 Platinum Pro since it came out last August (now on 9.0b). I upgraded from a previous version. I have Windows XP with SP2 and SP3 running on a system that uses an AMD Duron processor at 2.0 GHz and 1 GB of Ram. I've never experienced a VMS 9 crash on my system even when rendering large videos of more than 1-hr in length. Rendering of videos of that length can take 4 - 8 hours on my system. I shoot SD (720 x 480) video using my Samsung SC-D365 Mini-DV Camcorder.

mike_in_nc

michaelt wrote on 2/19/2009, 2:36 PM

Well, you don't really need Platinum for SD videos.

I meant editing AVCHD, Blu-ray burning - stuff like that, where you really need Platinum 9. Are there any issues on Windows XP?

Tomsde wrote on 2/20/2009, 4:54 AM

I am running VMS 9 Platinum Pro on an XP system with Service Pack 3. I have a Quad Core 2.4 meg system, with 3 gigs of ram and n'videa 9800 graphics card. I have been editing Hi Def video shot at the highest resolution with my Canon Vixia and have found MS to be highly stable. I have noticed it slow down a bit if I zoom way in on the time line and try to play the video and also it gags a llittle when applying certain transitioins in preview. The only crashes I've had is when trying to render out to a MP4 format; but tweaking render settings has resolved that issue--I think I had a conflicting setting or something.

AVCHD requires massive processing power, if your computer doesn't have a large amount of horse power transcoding the video to another format may definitely help. I did a little test, I transcoded on video clip using AVCHD upshift to a high quality .m2t file and placed it in Vegas and observed system resorces when playing it, then I did the same thing with the original untranscoded file. I could see no degradation of video quality or sound, but the .m2t file used 1/2 of the processing power of the original AVCHD file. The only down side to this is that the file ballooned into a 3x larger video file. So I'd rather take a preview performance hit than use up all of my hard disk--but if I were working on a larger project I wouldn't hesitate to transcode.

Similarly I found that transcoding is the only way I can work with HI Def files on my underpowered laptop.

All in all I have found that Vegas is lot more stable and a lot less prone to crashes than Pinnacle Studio 12, which is the other editor I use.

retdon wrote on 2/20/2009, 1:54 PM

Interesting to hear that VMS9 is more stable than Pinnacle 12. I have not found that to be the case in fact I am seriously considering changing from VMS9 to Pinaccle 12 Ultimate Version because of all the crashes, etc.

I downloaded a trial of Pinnacle 12 and it is running great, VMS9 is not. I still think there is a problem between Vista and VMS9. I never had any problems with V8 running XP.

JohnAsh wrote on 2/21/2009, 1:24 PM

Am happily editing HDV video on a pretty modest Windows XP PC with the latest updates.

No problems whatsoever, touch wood!

Falco wrote on 2/24/2009, 11:28 PM

I run VMS 9.0b on both XP and VISTA. Works ok. I create AVCHD DVD's. The creation of an AVCHD DVD requires a long run of about 6 hours. No crashed. I moved from Pinnacle 10 platinum to Vegas. Pinnacle is a real problem.