Boot Camp and Sony Vegas

[mansanas]

Im planning on using Boot Camp and VM fusion, I already know that I'm gonna use Boot Camp for SC2 for maximum performance, but what about for video editing, i.e. Sony Vegas Studios? If I run it via VM fusion, where should I save the video files that ill be editing? OS partition or Windows? should I run it on Boot Camp instead?

BTW how much HDD space should I dedicate for the Windows 7 partition if I want SC2, LOTR BFME (lord of the rings RTS game), Sony Vegas, and Sportsbook Poker ???
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[McMoronic]

Bootcamp

If you want to get the maximum performance for the OS, I'd recommend going the bootcamp way and partitioning the hd 1/3 or 1/2.

As for the storage under VMWare, It'll store it under the windows partition. Now you can make the partitions accessible from either but that isn't recommended for security reasons.

 

[copland007]

I use vegas 64-bit bootcamped under win7, works quite well. I wouldn't recommend using it under any virtualization unless you are a very occasional user and don't use hd sources.

 

[mansanas]

I use vegas 64-bit bootcamped under win7, works quite well. I wouldn't recommend using it under any virtualization unless you are a very occasional user and don't use hd sources.

i use HD sources and i dont mind running it on boot camp, but does that mean that i have to save the videos that ill be editing on the windows partition? i dont really wanna dedicate too much hd space for the windows partition.

 

[copland007]

Not sure, I know you can read/copy files from the mac volumes. I store existing projects on my win7 partition, when I'm done with them I move them to an external drive to free up space.

 

[mansanas]

Not sure, I know you can read/copy files from the mac volumes. I store existing projects on my win7 partition, when I'm done with them I move them to an external drive to free up space.

so how much hdd space did u dedicate to the windows partition?
whats a good amount for, sc2, sony vegas, and a couple more programs?
im still gonna use osx for everything else

 

[JerseyBill]

so how much hdd space did u dedicate to the windows partition?
whats a good amount for, sc2, sony vegas, and a couple more programs?
im still gonna use osx for everything else

I bought a 512 GB SSD and allocated initially 160 GB to the Bootcamp partition. In that I put Windows 7, Adobe Photoshop CS 5, Sony Vegas and a couple other small things. I have yet to load the new Adobe Lightroom 3 there as well - but I have about 100 GB left over (60 GB used).

I was initially thinking "that's too much for Windows" but, while I won't be storing / archiving images there, I recall from past efforts that some of my Photoshop and Vegas projects can get rather large - and I would want the working file in the same partition. Thus, I may go with the 100 GB of free space for now and see whether it really gets wasted....

If I decide to make revisions later, I will be using Paragon CampTune to tweak my partition sizes -

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptune/

 

[copland007]

so how much hdd space did u dedicate to the windows partition?
whats a good amount for, sc2, sony vegas, and a couple more programs?
im still gonna use osx for everything else

I started with 120gb, I've got vegas, LR, Photoshop, Win7 installed and have about 70gb free if I remember correctly.

 

[mansanas]

I bought a 512 GB SSD and allocated initially 160 GB to the Bootcamp partition. In that I put Windows 7, Adobe Photoshop CS 5, Sony Vegas and a couple other small things. I have yet to load the new Adobe Lightroom 3 there as well - but I have about 100 GB left over (60 GB used).

I was initially thinking "that's too much for Windows" but, while I won't be storing / archiving images there, I recall from past efforts that some of my Photoshop and Vegas projects can get rather large - and I would want the working file in the same partition. Thus, I may go with the 100 GB of free space for now and see whether it really gets wasted....

If I decide to make revisions later, I will be using Paragon CampTune to tweak my partition sizes -

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptune/

thanks for the info! i thought there was no way of readjusting the partition sizes after installing windows.