Vista support?!?!?

dathay wrote on 12/8/2006, 3:22 PM
OK, so I had a harddrive go south on me recently and so I was faced with reinstalling an OS. Because I am a software developer I have access to the finalized version of Vista, I decided this would be a good chance for me to make the move to a true x64 bit OS. So I installed Vista x64 Ultimate version (RTM) and proceeded to install the rest of my software. I ran into some issue but most I was able to work around. Then I got to installing my recently purchased MovieStudio + DVD Platinum version 7. Imagine my suprise when it wouldn't even install! Why won't it install?? The message that is presented to the user is that "Windows 2000 SP 4 or greater is required" I guess they don't consider Vista "greater" :(

Has anyone else experienced this? Do you have a way around it?? I love MovieStudio and have no desire to revert back to my old copy of Adobe Premiere but at least that installed. I guess if worse comes to worse I will have to do that but that seems really stupid to have to do for a product that just came out!!

--David

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bansl wrote on 12/11/2006, 11:00 PM
I am hoping that someone will be replying to this in due course...

I for another will be upgrading my PC, and O/S to Vista in a month or two, and am expecting that there will be an upgrade (non-chargable) which will allow my latest version of VMS (Platimum 7) to run correctly.

And I am guessing that we will not be the only ones that will be wanting an answer to the Vista question in the next few months.

Of course, being another Software Developer, I understand that it may be as simple as adding a code for Vista to a table of supported Operating Systems - but sometimes it is not.

Hopefully....

Bryan.
mlines wrote on 2/8/2007, 12:25 PM
I had the same problem.

To get around it I browsed the CD and right-clicked on "setup.exe" - this brings up a properties sheet for the executable.

Click on the compatibility tab and then in the drop-down box select "Windows XP Service Pack 2)

Hey presto - it works

Martin

jcjacob wrote on 2/9/2007, 9:06 AM
I installed with the compatibility box check, Movie Studio and DVD Architect worked, however Media Center would no longer start up. There was a conflict with the Sony and Microsoft MPEG-2 decoder, and media center would not load until Movie Studio was removed from the PC.

If anyone has any further suggestions, I'd be intereste in hearing/and trying them
mlines wrote on 2/10/2007, 11:45 AM
Well it appears to work on mine. The mpeg-2 codec on mine is the one that comes with PowerDvD. Sony VMS was loaded first, then PowerDVD. Windows Media player works fine. Sony VMS gives a RunDLL error message as it loads and then it appears to be fine as well

Martin
ShawnLaraSteele wrote on 2/11/2007, 11:16 AM
cfhd.dll seems to be broken. Rename %windir%\system32\cfhd.dll to something like cfhd.old and reboot. It should then work.

cfhd.dll says its the CineForm VFW CODEC. I'm not sure how important it is, however I was able to edit my projects without any problems.