edius and parallels windows xp

so i am looking into upgrading my hardware and am debating between a dell xps 710 and a macpro.

i want to try and play with video and edius is a high contender (i am playing with the trial version now) as NLE so my question is can i have my cake and eat it too, ie:

does anyone know if edius works/would work/should work in a parallels windows xp session on a mac pro?

thanks for the help :)/paul

Paul

Parallels can run it but it's not as fast as running it on Bootcamp. I tested it on some clips in BootCamp but only color correction and a few other filters. Works faster and less overhead on the OS. I suggest you also check out Final Cut Pro, esp the coming 6.0 with Sony P scan HDV support. Also wait a few more months, Octocore cometh:

Mac Pro OctoCore Unofficial

Paul

Parallels can run it but it's not as fast as running it on Bootcamp. I tested it on some clips in BootCamp but only color correction and a few other filters. Works faster and less overhead on the OS. I suggest you also check out Final Cut Pro, esp the coming 6.0 with Sony P scan HDV support. Also wait a few more months, Octocore cometh:

 

Mac Pro OctoCore Unofficial

Drew,

Thanks for that. I am also looking at FCP, but wags speaks so highly of Edius that i have to give it a chance .

as for octocore well yes it would be great, talk about F1 performance

/paul

Well here is just another reason I like EDIUS Paul.

With just one single mouse click one can save a full res frame as a Photoshop PSD File about 4.5 megs in size, and you don't even have to deinterlace it. Then you can open it up in Photoshop and save as a max Jpeg and here is what you get. (Open it up in your graphics program and see it 1.1)

1.20 megs full size grab

Paul Parallels is good for stuff like Office, internet (quite a few websites will not take Mac OS browsers and either the java or windows media just don't work on the Mac) and also windows only non-processor/ram intensive programs.

It's possible to run 3 systems on the macpro. Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.

I would choose not based on OS but the software you choose. Remember you have to buy 2 OS for the computer and all the other requisite programs for both platforms.

Well here is just another reason I like EDIUS Paul.

 

With just one single mouse click one can save a full res frame as a Photoshop PSD File about 4.5 megs in size, and you don't even have to deinterlace it. Then you can open it up in Photoshop and save as a max Jpeg and here is what you get. (Open it up in your graphics program and see it 1.1)

1.20 megs full size grab

I hope that wasn't a 'right click' ..... Might cause problems on a mac

I hope that wasn't a 'right click' ..... Might cause problems on a mac

Ah... you obviously don't have the mighty mouse.

Paul Parallels is good for stuff like Office, internet (quite a few websites will not take Mac OS browsers and either the java or windows media just don't work on the Mac) and also windows only non-processor/ram intensive programs.

It's possible to run 3 systems on the macpro. Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.

I would choose not based on OS but the software you choose. Remember you have to buy 2 OS for the computer and all the other requisite programs for both platforms.

no worries, i won't be choosing only on the OS, but i wouldn't mind adding mac os to the home computer stable as i have not played with apple stuff since writing assembler code for the 6502 way back when. so i am trying to see what it could mean for me in terms of choices available or not should i add the macpro within the context of trying to play with video.

interesting times ...

/paul