Today I was so frustrated because I couldn't get the Windows ADK to make a catalog of a Windows 8.1 install.wim - it said "Catalog creation failed to complete. This 64-bit version of Windows SIM can only create catalogs for 64-bit Windows images."
The solution was to install the Windows ADK on Windows 8.1 (I'd been trying it on 2012 R2 and 7).