Will Vegas 9.0 run on Mac with VMWare?

Videonerd wrote on 8/10/2009, 1:07 AM
Since I still have Vegas 7.0, I can not ask customer service my question, so hopefully I will get an answer from forum members. Do you have experience with Intel based Mac and VMWare as Win emulator? Windows gave me too many headaches, so I am considering the switch, but would hate to lose Soundforge 9.0 and Vegas (to be upgraded to 9.0). Please share your experience with me.

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farss wrote on 8/10/2009, 4:21 AM
As far as I know running VMWare is the same as running Windows, all you are doing is running it inside a shell, so any problems you had with Windows are going to basically remain the same.

I'd really like to know what headaches Windows gave you though. Personally I've had plenty of problems with systems running Windows but none of them were because of Windows itself.

Probably worth a mention that Windows 7 will run on Intel Macs natively.

Bob.
fausseplanete wrote on 8/10/2009, 4:32 AM
This has been discussed before, at the following link. My providing the link makes no implicit assertion of the truth or otherwise of what is discussed there. The link is:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=630617

I have sucessfully run Vegas 8.0c on Parallels, which I found 7 months or so ago to be generally better than VMWare (ran more of my apps, e.g. due to DirectX integration, benchmarks ran quicker, less clunky generally). However in practice I don't use it, because on-the-fly grading and pan/crop/resize of HD to SD and Web takes muchas CPU power, I need all I can get, therefore I use BootCamp. Doesn't take long to reboot to/from PC/Mac. For me at least, the virtual machines run about 4 times more slowly. Details at http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=637832

gwailo wrote on 8/10/2009, 7:46 AM
Are you sure you want to upgrade to Vegas 9?

I used to recommend Vegas to anyone that would listen ever since version 3 came out, but I can not recommend Vegas 9.

If Vegas 7 works, I'd highly recommend sticking with that.
Cheno wrote on 8/10/2009, 9:36 AM
In a nutshell, I wouldn't run any professional graphics / editing software through a virtual machine / emulation program. You're not going to get 100% of the processing power you need. Not only that, there are still a number of limitations of that route, such as drive access and multiple displays.

Bootcamp is by far the best way to do it if you're planning on running Vegas on a Mac. As much as I love the emulation idea for this type of work, it's just not where it needs to be yet.

cheno