For an experiment I got Xpress Pro going under Vista RC1, and it worked surprisingly well, sans sound. Mite give it another crack with the final release at some point.

Don't be sad. Mockery is not the way. I've been using Xpress Pro on Windows NT 4 and it hasn't changed much since in terms of software architecture.

Sound is sort of important for most :) Also, better graphics is also imporant for a lot of people. I hate it that whenver I switch from Avid to another application it freezes the video. I understand that with Final Cut you can switch all you like while capturing and even while playing without a hitch.

me thinks it is a lot more fun to do some nice editing than installing a new buggy fist release operating system and trying to use an avid version that is not build for that operating system.

Just saw some great edited films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam And yeah... one piece on Murch :)

Editing is fun

I heard from a friend who's brother has lunch with a guy who talked to Marianne cousin once at a high school dance...

 

And AVID WILL ANNOUNCE SUPPORT FOR VISTA AT NAB....

 

 

 

 

 

2009

personally i hope that avid will take years from now to go vista... i will hate the day i will be forced to buy that drm and problem loaded piece of making-a-slave-of-the-customer that micro is putting out...

just consider this:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

thomas

tom_e:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt 

Thanks for the link. A very interesting read!!

@ Andrew Action

and quite shocking also!

tom_e:

and quite shocking also!

True. Who needs these modern, bloated and intrusive OS's?
Interesting how much faster (comparative to the processor power) simple tape or floppy loaded OS's were. How you added the functionality you needed by purchasing just those self contained programs.
The cost of progress.

Interesting article. Avid support of Linux might be something

jknikman:

 Avid support of Linux might be something

 

i would go for it!

 

i understand osx is unix-based, so perhaps the step is not too far...

I believe a lot of these protections are hardware based. (For example built in to the latest video cards etc) As such many of the "protections" are already implimented (in some form) under OSX and presumably Linux as well via the hardwares driver.

What concerns me is whether content creators (you and me) will be able to use Vista at all for HD content creation.  A close reading of that article suggests not.  Or putting it another way, we'll be able to bring it in, we'll probably be able to edit it, but we won't be able to output it.

Oh, what a brave new world, that has such people in't!

AndrewAction:

I believe a lot of these protections are hardware based. (For example built in to the latest video cards etc) As such many of the "protections" are already implimented (in some form) under OSX and presumably Linux as well via the hardwares driver.

Well, true... the hardware has meen modified to meet Vistas drm-specs. Still I don´t think under Linux this will be the case, just there will be no drm-playback at all... It´s like what Apple did with iTunes and aac: building a nice little monopoly based on their content-protection.Only MS has it on bigger scale with Hollywood.

jwrl:

...we won't be able to output it

I don´t quite think so, because the content has to be drm-protected to make Vista go crazy.

On the other hand, as the article said, there are two modules to playback content and eleven to "protect" it, so this may be true this is the same with everything else, too. My point is, much more computing power will be needed. We can all go and buy the latest hardware to arrive where we are just now...

jwrl:

What concerns me is whether content creators (you and me) will be able to use Vista at all for HD content creation

Why should we in the first place? I may even go for OSX on a Intel G5 (which drives me nuts, but let´s not start this discussion... )

OS X will have the same restrictions on HD content.  Read all the posts above (or read tech news).  If you decide to go with OS X, you will have exactly the same problems, and spend lots of extra money in the process.