Posted by Pat Horridge on 11/06/07 16:04

"Martin Heffels" <goofie@flikken.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:39:03 -0000, "Pat Horridge"
> <pat@remove-spam.vet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>You have a similar system Martin but you mention Avid and Vista together.
>>I didn't think Avid worked on Vista yet?
>
> Sorry, I missed the Vista bit. Mea culpa!
>
> It could be that it works under Vista 32, with in XP emulation mode? Don't
> know if anyone ever tried that. You might need to disable the UAC etc, to
> make it write in it's folders.
>
>>Personally I keep an XP system for my Avid software and it works great
>>without all that Visat junk in the way.
>>I have Vista for everything else as all that junk makes it a joy to use!
>
> Yeah, for internetuse, Vista is nice, due to the added security features,
> but all the extra bits make it a hassle for video-editing, in slowing the
> system down too much.
>
> cheers
>
> -martin-
> --
> Official website "Jonah's Quid" http://www.jonahsquids.co.uk

Itried to get Avid to run under Vista 32 bit and actually got the
application running fine.
The problem was the display drivers. Realtime playback on the computer
screen was a dead loss ad Vistas new display setup is unlikely to make that
easy.
So XP it stays for now.

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