Posted by Specs on 12/23/50 11:26

"Martin Heffels" <biz@thisproductworks.com.> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:17:05 GMT, "Jona Vark" <noemail@all.com> wrote:
>
> >There is a lot of development beginning on beta OS and beta IDE.. I would
> >hope the big guns are working on 64 bit versions of popular NLEs..
>
> The only big multimedia stuff which I know is Softimage 5 and Lightwave.
> Maya for x64 is under development (maybe a 64-bit version for Linux will
> see the light sooner?). Canopus people have said they were not developing
> anything, Avid neither.
> It might be they are all waiting for the release of Windows Vista.
>
> cheers
>
> -martin-
> --
>
> "Beer is life!"

The reason why we are not seeing 64 bit NLEs is that there is very little to
be gained by going 64 bit for editing. Editing is still not a hugely memory
intensive activity in the same way that compositing and 3D animation are.

I agree Martin, Vista's release must be in the minds of developers. Because
we don't need 64 bits why spend resources releasing a 64 bit version now to
a limited audience when the developers can release one 64 bit version for
all when Vista arrives.

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