I'm a new apple user with a macbk pro 17" very happy with apple and have installed xp pro using parallels also have installed windows programs by sony for their new hd camcorders (avchd) and ulead studio 11 (which supports avchd video) however, I cannot view the hd video from the camcorder (hrs-sr1) using either sony's program or the ulead studio 11 plus. Is this because these programs might require directx which is not yet available with parallels?? thanks for the help
if your dealing with hd video why dont you use final cut. I wouldnt even attempt parallels for that better off with boot camp if you want to use windows.
I thought about the Sony issue and nearly got a Sony Vaio notebook but got the macbook pro too I blue tooth my sony image files onto the mac from the the videophone Once on the mac any file in a a shared folder can be used from WinXP by the relevant software basically keep all your files on the macintosh and if an image goes bad nothing is lost Hugh W
This is because Parallels emulated video card does not support something called a video overlay. I've played with it a bit, and although Parallels has not admitted it, nothing that uses an overlay seems to work. I would use the Sony software in Parallels to get the video out of the camcorder, then use something on the OSX side to edit it. Also, please do not use blue text on white background... it is really hard to read.
It's true, and you've answered your own question. If you need only limited DirectX support, like 8.x, then perhaps VMWare's Fusion product will get you where you need to be. If you need full 3D support then use Boot Camp from Apple. Fusion is an alternative to Parallels. Or you can hold your water waiting for Parallels to bring DirectX on line. I can't imagine that full 3D support will ever be a possibility for OS X vm's unless you have more than 2 cores and they figure out how to dedicate one to emulating hardware acceleration.
