windows 7 64bit or vista 64bit for AVCHD editing?
 

Hey Everyone,

Was just wondering what OS you would recommend for editing files off my Panasonic ag-hmc150 (AVCHD) in Vegas or premiere, on a new i7 920 quad core, 12gig DDR3 ram PC. Will probably also be using cineform or some other type of transcoder when importing, incase compatibility with those programs is an issue. Look forward to hearing your opinions. Thanks!

- Shawn W.

Windows 7 RC gets my vote. I love it.

I'm typing this on Windows 7 RC on my laptop. Running Windows Vista 64-bit for my editing desktop, and it's flawless. But I vastly prefer Windows 7. So I'm curious - anyone running Vegas on Windows 7 who wants to chime in?

Oh, BTW, have been running Vegas 8.0c, 8.1, 9.0 32 and 64bit on the Windows 7 laptop with no problems. Just been hesitant to change to 7 on the main edit computer.

No one can predict how it will work on computer, you have to install it to find out.

Oh and I plan to partition one part of my drive for booting to editing, and another for booting to gaming PC. So the windows 7 vs vista problem was for deciding on the editing side.

On the gaming side, XP 64bit (so i can use all 12gb ram), vista64, windows7 64?

I have just converted the last of my 4 computers to Windows 7 32-bit. I am more concerned about running 64-bit than about running Windows 7, which appears to be simply Vista-done-right. That is, all the hardware drivers and software (except Quickbooks) that ran on Vista, runs for me on Win7. It really is a great OS.

I have a dual boot to Win7-64 on my editing puter, but I worry about too many plugins and other software not working.

Quickbooks PDF/email output appears to be crippled. Intuit did this when Vista came out too, just to get people to upgrade. I hate Intuit.

Win 7 has the most minor assortment of bugs, barely noticeable. The internet connectivity issue some of us had was eliminated with Marc's suggestion of eliminating the Bonjour folder in Adobe.

I have already pre-ordered based on the strong performance of this RC. It is, as Paul says, Vista done right.

For an editing machine, I don't know that I'd partition one HD into multiple partitions. I'd keep a smaller OS drive, 320GB maybe, a 2nd drive for "extra" stuff, including changing the OS cache to the 2nd drive so that the main drive and caching can happen at the same time. Then use either a Raid 0 for editing with 2 1TB HDs, or at least a single drive on it's own SATAII channel. Raid 0 for editing is fine.. if one craps out it's your editing drive, not where you would store your originals or finals. It's primarily to help speed up editing when the NLE's store stuff to the HD while rendering and such. I'd opt for USB2/Firewire backup outside the computer with some sort of 2-drive bay hot-swap setup.

I've been hesitant to use Win 7 until it's released just in case, and more so because I am worried some of my software and hardware may not work with it yet. Give Adobe and crew more time to make sure all their stuff runs flawless (as much as they can).