VM - Video Editing

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raptile

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I am new in the Parallels forum, I am a Cameraman by profession and recently bought me a MacBook Pro to cut my videos on, i still have Windows software which i would still like to use.

My question is, is it possible to install Parallels and use the VM ( WinXP ) to run Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid and some of Adobe's products?
My worry is that these programs might not run at all and need some help if anyone knows.

( MacBook Pro, 2.33 GHz, 2GB Ram ) if so which version of Parallels is suitable for this.

Many thanks to all of you reading and willing to help, it's all appreciated, your feedback ofcourse.

Raptile
 
Hi, Adobe PP will run but you might have to reactivate each time you swap from Parallels to Bootcamp (I've only tested this with RC3 working through Bootcamp). Avid media composer will start but there is either a problem with the limited video memory you can assign or the driver/video card in general as you get an error and nothing shows in the viewers. I only use VMs for testing, I would say for production work I'd use Bootcamp directly (although I haven't tested this myself and Bootcamp is beta too of course!)
 
Video Editing

I notice when using Premiere (an older version) in Parallels, it detects one processor. But in Bootcamp natively, it detects two. Obviously, things move slower in Parallels as opposed to native Bootcamp. In fact, the only time I would use Parallels for anything related to video editing would be when I need to read the Mac HFS drive, such as to transfer files from HFS to NTFS, using the Shared Folders feature.

I actually do this quite a bit, using Snapz Pro X2, saving the results to the Mac drive, then using Parallels to read the file off the Mac drive, and either copy it to NTFS entirely, or use my Quicktime Pro for Windows software to save just the parts of the video I actually want. Then using the myriad of video tools I already have in Windows to finish my product.

Any actual editing of the video, and encoding to other formats, once transferred from the HFS drive, is done in native Bootcamp, for obvious performance reasons.
 
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Thank you very much for your positive reply, i could not wait to log in to read the good news and i think it really makes sense that one uses Bootcamp.
Currently Bootcamp is a Beta version and the question is how long will it work until things go wrong? if it will.
Thank you once again for the feedback,

Raptile.
 
Thank you for the suggestion, i really appreciate it much. I think i will go with Bootcamp in the meantime, i was hoping to work with both OS without having to reboot. The resources question is another, it could be that the perfomance drops drastical if some programs only detect a single processor. Perhaps there will be another way around soon.

Thank you once again.

Raptile
 
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