Sorry .VISTA again.

[m rixon]

I have read all the links to MSP8 and Vista and I understand fully Ulead,' position that they created a programme to work on XP and that there is no financial reason why they should create a patch to make MSP8 work in Vista.
However my wife kindly bought me a new computer as a suprise birthday present as my old one had died.Guess what operating system the new compter has installed.Now I don't have the heart to tell her that I can no longer use my favorite video editing programme so why doesn't Ulead create a patch and charge us fot it if they cannot do it for free?
The alternative? Adobe Premiere elements.
By the way Vista is great.

[G-Davies]

I had the same problem so I have a dual boot system now.

I agree that vista is good and going to be a force to a reckoned with. Video and music play so much better even the colours look richer and I like the facility of seeing your video preview files in explorer, it also seems a lot faster and certainly better multitasking and file searching like on the Mac.

God those Mac's are good!

One worth waiting for if Ulead don¡¦t do anything with Vista is Sony Vegas been realised as a 64bit version to work on Vista.

[richardnau]

Before you jump to Premiere Elements, take a look at VideoStudio 11. Fully Vista-fied and, IMHO, nicer to use than PremEl.

Note especially that there is NO SmartSounds/AutoMusic in PremEl. You can download a free plug-in, but the result is not integrated - you can't drag the end of the music clip back and forth and get an automatically adjusted tune.

Note also that the keyframe editor in PremEl is a major pain to use.

(Pity abt MSP8 and Vista, by the way. I'm in a similar boat to you...)

[m rixon]

I had an earlier version of Video studio but it just did not compare to all the extra Pro. type features in MSP8.

[richardnau]

Later versions have closed the gap between MSP and VS. Why not download the trial?

Good luck.

[m rixon]

Tried VS 11 still prefer MSP8.Thanks for the suggestion though.