Soundbooth and Leopard
Yesterday Apple released OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard. There's a lot of great stuff in there for the Mac-toting crowd (personally, I'm most looking forward to one of the small things: "stacks" in the dock) but unfortunately late builds of Leopard also introduced an incompatibility with some of our applications, including Soundbooth.
For the most part, Soundbooth seems to work fine in Leopard but there are two things that might get you into trouble.
First, Soundbooth will likely crash if you select "System Default Input/Output" in either the Soundbooth preferences dialog or in the recording dialog. This is not selected by default, and if you select any other choice for your audio hardware Soundbooth still works fine.
Second, Soundbooth may crash when you quit the application if the video window open and undocked. This crash doesn't appear to hurt Soundbooth or your system (since it only happens when you're quitting the app) but it can be annoying.
Our team is working on a patch right now and we expect to have it out and available in December. Until then, if you avoid the two scenarios above you shouldn't have any problem with Soundbooth in Leopard. You can check out the Adobe Leopard FAQ for more information about all of our products.
Comments
Thanks for posting this in a Google-findable place Hart... This was much more helpful than the official FAQ... Actually knowing what will work or will not is important when you are going to test out the software using a trial and have only a few days to make a decision on upgrading Creative Suite or buying Final Cut Suite.
I won't lie. I am definitely leaning towards FC, but was given a tight budget to make a purchase, and buying FC would force me to forego an upgrade to Photoshop CS3, which I would like to have, but can live without if it came down to it.
Posted by: Eric | November 28, 2007 5:34 PM
I have got my hands on Leopard today. It awesome, I am planning to write a great review about it. The single thing that really bothers me, that annoying thing you talked about, when the video window is open and undocked.
Posted by: Dugu Miko | November 7, 2007 7:27 AM
Your Adobe Leopard FAQ link gets a 404.
Whoops! Thanks for the heads-up. It should be fixed now. --Hart
Posted by: B.J. Ahlen | October 28, 2007 9:18 PM