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I was listening in on a webcast presented by Adobe highlighting 64bit workflow using specifically After Effects, Premiere Pro and Media Encoder CS5. Interestingly, they indicated that all 3 of these applications will ONLY be 64bit on both the Windows and Macintosh platforms. To take that one step further, it was announced that Windows XP 64 would not be supported but instead Vista and Win 7 64. This makes perfect sense from my standpoint. Developing to only one codebase, in this case 64bit, makes their development time and cost much lower providing for a more robust application. Also, if the architecture is free to roam across the large and expansive 64bit prairie and not be wrangled in the tight holding pen that is 32bit, this would allow more architectural coding freedom to do what they want to do and not be limited (nice cow metaphor). As to the XP64 issues, it is pretty much the same; XP64 while being 64bit has too many architectural limitations not inherent in Vista and Win 7. I have already heard the diatribes over Vista and Win 7 and how XP64 is so superior, I must only say it’s time to move on. I have been running Win 7 since the early beta, I must say that I am very impressed. Naturally, it’s has a few digs most of which have been ironed out, like XP it will mature well over time. I remember when everybody called XP the spawn of Satan compared to Windows 2000. Anywho, we should be hearing more in the coming month. Adobe has released a beta of Lightroom 3 on their Labs website (http://labs.adobe.com). Talk amongst yourselves…
Mark Kauffman
Technical Lead / PA
Project Visualization TEC
Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc.
Kauffman@pbworld.com
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Isn't CS5 also going to be using nVidia's cuda for acceleration or something like that? That should really help out some specific tasks written for it.
As far as XP64 not supported, I have a feeling 'not supported' and 'won't work' isn't the same thing. I would imagine it will run fine, but Adobe isn't going to come running if you have any troubles. Probably saving more money from a support perspective than a development perspective is what they're thinking is here.
I too have been running Win7 since the first public release candidates came out (and have finally upgraded for real now that that gravy train ran out last month  ). I'm mostly happy with it, but that was only after many hours of pounding the thing into submission to perform the way I wanted it to. Way too much "let us help you do that" for me. I'm much more under-the-hood-behind-the-curtains type of computer person. XP was easy for this, which is probably a bad thing for average joe computer user.
And technically speaking XP64 is built off the WindowsServer2003 kernel, and isn't related to XP beyond name, and is a much more potent animal.
All that being said, Win7 is still super slick and definitely ready for prime time. The real question is Corporate ready to let us upgrade to Win7?; CS5 looks to roxor!
SJ
Steve JohnsonPBProject Visualization Technical Resource CenterE-Mail: johnsonste@pbworld.com...................................................................................................
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