Anyone using Movie Studio on a Mac?

Eugenia wrote on 5/23/2011, 11:35 PM

Less cool and pretty, and with more learning curve, but much more powerful than iMovie. If all you do is simple projects, use iMovie. If you want more flexibility and features, use Vegas. Obviously, through a full Windows installation on a separate Mac partition, NOT via virtualization/emulation. It's a mistake to run a heavy app, like any video editor, non-natively.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 5/24/2011, 6:08 AM

You're not talking about running it on Mac OSX, right?

Running it on Mac hardware with Windows Boot Camp works, of course, identically to using it on a regular Windows computer because, well, it essentially IS a Windows computer when you boot it into Windows.

xberk wrote on 5/24/2011, 4:25 PM

You're not talking about running it on Mac OSX, right?

No. I realize Vegas doesn't come in a Mac version. I was inquiring for someone who runs a Mac .. not sure if he has Boot Camp .. If he does, I imagine he could try the Trial Version of Movie Studio and see how it goes .. Thanks for the help.

pwppch wrote on 5/24/2011, 6:02 PM

When a Mac is set up with Bootcamp, it is a Windows PC. Our products run fine under bootcamp with any supported version of Windows. I have 2 Mac Pros, a Mac Book Pro, Mac MINI, Mac Airbook all with a Boot camp partition with various versions of Windows installed. All will run our products.

Make sure you follow Apple's instructions exactly when setting up Boot camp. Make sure you install the driver set from Apple and apply all updates.

Peter

ritsmer wrote on 5/28/2011, 1:04 AM

I run Vegas (both VMS and Pro) on a Mac Pro under Windows 7 Ultimate. Works very well.
Only one problem, however: You lose the support possibility - here is a response I got from Sony Cereative Software:

Quote: I'm sorry, but no technical support can be provided when running the software on a Mac.

radman2020 wrote on 2/21/2014, 11:12 AM

I use it on my mac with Parallels. It works perfectly. Can't tell a difference from under native windows.

I can't stand imovie... just can't figure it out!

I think vegas is unnecessarily complicated with the disorganized windows across the top.. must be a better way... Having said that, once you get used to it.. it is the best out there!

JohnnyRoy wrote on 2/21/2014, 4:58 PM

I run Vegas Pro on my Mac with VMware Fusion and it works fine and can be fully integrated with your desktop. Here is a screen shot:

~jr

kburch wrote on 3/13/2014, 11:37 AM

Is this hard to do? Anyone willing to walk me through it briefly? I REALLY want to use this program on my iMac.

kburch wrote on 3/13/2014, 11:38 AM

Can anyone walk me through this? I really want to use Movie Studio on my iMac.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/14/2014, 11:55 PM

> "Can anyone walk me through this? I really want to use Movie Studio on my iMac. "

You can start with free software if you want. Download and install VirtualBox for OS X. Then you'll need a Windows 7 install DVD. VirtualBox will guide you through creating a Windows virtual machine using the install DVD. When you're done you will be able to start a Windows Desktop that displays in a window on your iMac desktop. Then just install Movie Studio (or any other Windows program) into that Windows desktop just like you would on a real Windows computer. That's all there is to it.

Here is a good tutorial: Running Windows on Your Mac With VirtualBox

~jr

reh wrote on 9/15/2016, 8:02 AM

Hi,

I am trying to install Movie Studio Paltinum 12 on a Windows 10 VM. The installation is failing. Before moving the VM to my MBP it did work on a Dell PC running windows. I have MACOS 10.10.5, Windows 10.0.14393, and Movie Studio Platinum V10.0 build 179. It fails with Error 1603. My Mac says I have 92G of freespace. Not sure why but Windows 10 thinks I have 341G of freespace (someones wrong). Pretty sure I am having a permisions problem?