This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Making the 32-64bit Leap

Friday, January 28, 2011

[Avid-L2] Re: Making the 32-64bit Leap

Running Symphony on Vista 64 and Windows 7 here also.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Pitbladdo <avid@...> wrote:
>
> Afternoon everyone,
>
> So, I upgraded to V5 Symphony a few months back, at the start of a new
> project. In the early stages of the edit, I was making simple cuts, and
> V5 Symphony was looking swell. Then, as I started getting more involved
> with the application, doing more intricate things, my HPXW8600 running
> Vista Business 32bit started crashing an awful lot... Whenever I was
> doing anything complex, or zipping around the timeline.
>
> I wondered if everyone else was experiencing this, and kinda dismissed
> it as the price you pay for being at the cutting edge of the industry.
> That, and just being so damn busy, trying to work with the footage with
> my director led me not to question the crashing.
>
> Today though, with a bit of time on my hands, I decided to look a little
> closer at the situation... It was getting silly, with me saving my work
> after virtually every single edit.
>
> So I started searching the Internet to see if others were experiencing
> my 'Std: bad allocation', 'Fatal Error' and 'Core Unable To Do' errors,
> that would let me save my work, but then have to restart the
> application... nine or ten times a day.
>
> Imagine my surprise when I learned that Symphony V5 isn't qualified on a
> 32bit Vista!
>
> So, before I take the plunge and install Windows 7 Professional, I'd
> just like to ask anyone with a similar setup, are you crash-free? Is
> everyone else going through this too? Will Windows 7 Pro eliminate all
> my woes?
>
> Job? Think you've got a similar setup, don't you?
>
> Thanks everyone,
> CP
>
>
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