I've been able to install CT5 and CT6 using Parallels Desktop on my imac...Having just bought CT Animator Standard, unfortunately I've found out you cannot install CT Animator as it doesn't support Virtual Machine installations...just letting people know.
I'll have to go find a PC !!

Yes, Reallusion is going to lose thousands of current Mac people who have been using CrazyTalk!
I have been a CrazyTalk customer & member for MANY years. I have always run CrayTalk on Parallels for Mac. When I just downloaded the trial for the new CrazyTalk Animator, the installer said the trial version "does not support Virtual Systems", and then it quit.

I use Windows XP via Parallels to run my current version of Crazy Talk, and would like to upgrade to Crazy Talk Animator.

Will anyone official from Reallusion please respond?

Crazytalk and iClone are Windows products and while they have run on Macs previously using virtual software to a certain degree, they are not supported on those systems.

Because of the design of CTA I do believe it will no longer be possible to run the software in this manner. I will try to get a definitive answer to this to be certain and get back to you.

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

We're a video production house that has enjoyed using CrazyTalk. We were ready to install Animator on our 8-core Mac that runs our PC software flawlessly (well, as flawlessly as Windows software runs...) in a Quad-core virtual Parallels environment, when the demo told us that's impossible.

What an unfortunate situation. For every other program we run, "Windows is Windows."

Please keep us updated about this situation. We'll be exploring other options, but would like to continue to upgrade.

From RL Tech Support

You can use Boot Camp in Mac with the up-to-date driver of Boot Camp to run CrazyTalk Animator.

So this is some hope for Mac users. :)

 

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

True; we can use Boot Camp. Unfortunately, that takes all of our Mac capability off-line (including all our other animation, photo editing video editing and audio editing), and requires us to block off an additional partition on the main drive. Not a very elegant solution, when simply running in Parallels was a working solution.

I do appreciate the response, though. Please pass on to the engineers that Parallels operation is a minimum requirement; and that a Mac version could outsell the PC version of your "Pro" software.

I will pass your views to the CTA team. Thanks for the feedback. :)

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

I'm sure glad I saw this forum as it has saved me from making the mistake of purchasing CT Animator and bundle because I use a Macbook Pro running Parallels and have no plans to use Bootcamp. RealIllusion would definitely increase their revenue and dominate this area since they have little competition in this area and my college and many other graphics professionals use Macs. Sorry RealIllusion I think you're missing the boat!

Same problem here all my software is Mac and rebooting into Windows and back just to tweak something is not a viable use of time. I haven't found anything that doesn't run sweetly in Parallels...

I'm thinking that, as you cannot even install it and from an earlier statement that It hadn't been tested on Parallels plus the reports of problems activating, this is to do with licensing and activation rather than technical issues.

Shame, although with the lack of flexibility, various issues being reported and the update so soon after release maybe this isn't going to be the software I had hoped it would be.

Indeed a missed opportunity.

INdeed. I was able to load and install CTA on to bootcamp, use bootcamp as the place were Parallels accesses Windows xp sp3, then run CTA on the Mac. The problem, however is that, though you can run the program, the animation of a face from a photo produces a nasty hole where the mouth should be. The face doesn't animate properly, although it seems that all the other options for animation do work. Sigh. I was told it was a DirectX issue with parallels, but I have a feeling its a graphics card thing because Paralells does have Directx9.0c support. I am suspicious of the graphics card. Parallels does not use (and doesnt allow) the native graphics card on the Mac. It creates a Virtual Vid card (Parallels, Video Adapter). I therefore could not use the Nividea card installed on the Mac. Could that be the glitch?