Originally Posted by munki

Video drivers would be first step... camcorder drivers, and firewire card/capture card drivers second step...

You might be having problems with Aero experience on Vista, or perhaps your capture problems if your video card is low on memory... I know Vista prefers 512mb video cards and above for more advanced features.

As for software, I've been doing capture/editing with ACD and Premiere on Vista... had a few hangups running 64bit, but jumping back to 32 OS install everything has been nice and smooth for me.

Tools people... Vista may not be the most stable thing out there... but put some time learning it and solving problems (granted they shouldn't be in a final release version anyways), and its pretty solid.