Parallels for Mac/Windows SERIOUS MAGIC video software

[pkasin]

Hi All,
Like most, I am thrilled with Parallels, and have had a wonderful experience - allowing me to migrate from PC to a MAC world. However, there is ONE application for WinXP that does not work for me: Serious Magic (now part of Adobe...).

This is a professional video recording (and audio) software.

I have read on their forums (Serious Magic, that is) that it will work under Bootcamp. However, I tried it under Parallels, but it did not work. I would assume the problem has to do with Video card work-arounds. Anyone have any ideas if/how to get this working on Parallels?

I would really prefer not have have another partition on my drive, especially as the only program which I would use with this partition is Serious Magic.

Thanks for any help you may lend....

Paul

 

[luomat]

Hi All,
Like most, I am thrilled with Parallels, and have had a wonderful experience - allowing me to migrate from PC to a MAC world. However, there is ONE application for WinXP that does not work for me: Serious Magic (now part of Adobe...).

This is a professional video recording (and audio) software.

I have read on their forums (Serious Magic, that is) that it will work under Bootcamp. However, I tried it under Parallels, but it did not work. I would assume the problem has to do with Video card work-arounds. Anyone have any ideas if/how to get this working on Parallels?

I would guess (99% sure) that this is due to the fact that there is only limited graphics support in Parallels for video support. Version 3.0 (due out who knows when... we're working on 2.5 betas) is supposed to include it.

BootCamp works because it has fully access to the video card.

However, since you can use a Bootcamp partition with Parallels, I see no reason not to use that now and just boot into Windows when you need to use Serious Magic.

If that's not an option you might checkout VMWare Fusion.

http://www.vmware.com/whatsnew/macsignupform.html

which is currently in beta. WARNING: NO pricing has been announced, but other VMWare offerings seem much more expensive than Parallels.