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ritsmer wrote on 5/15/2007, 9:27 AM
This is not to be smart - and my question has not so much with Vegas to do - but it would interest me to know why you have changed OS to Vista - where everybody knows that Vista is not an upgrade of good old rock stable Windows 2000 - ah, sorry, Windows XP - but a completely newbuilt OS which even requires that every hardware supplyer must program new drivers etc. - and that this driver programming is done by people with next to nil experience in Vista when they started this mighty effort... (which might let many a device play "not recognized" or worse...)

As one can see in nearly every software-forum on the Net Vista is a good product that everyone will learn to appreciate when that time comes - but for now it is not mature - and the surrounding software, that is more or less "Vista approved" (which Vegas is NOT yet) is even more unmature...

Obviously Vista offers NO great improvements in terms of speed or -to my humble opinion - other things that might make your long hours of editing easyer - so why change??

As I myself am a sworn Microsoft fan I will definitely change to Vista - but probably not before in the early winter (when Intel starts selling its 45nm Quads - and I have to build a new machine any way..) and then N O T as my daily production machine - but -for several weeks at least - as the "machine standing in the corner for playing around and learning".

The right time will probably be when Vista shows "SP1" down in the right corner...
KHolle wrote on 5/15/2007, 5:28 PM
Certainly wasn't by design - I have needed my own computer for years (kids in house etc) and my husband bought me a new one for my bday. Soon after, I was thrown a huge project for my son's graduation (9years - 44 kids pictures, music, video). I had done a family dvd last year on Adobe Photo Elements on my old computer. I didn't like the limitations of Adobe and after trying several programs (trial versions) settled with Sony Vegas. My old computer just wasn't going to do it -so we decided to work out the problems with Vista not being able to install Architect and not recognizing the built-in DVD burner in new laptop.). We are saving the video to an external hard drive - bought a dvd burner for the old computer - hooking all up to old computer - and just doing the rendering and burning on old computer. Not very clean but we think it will work. We have done a small trial already.