I know this game...
It's called the waiting game. I'm a pro.
We have unistalled the software I was to use to capture and edit French Toast. It stinks, it sucks, it doesn't work. As my previous blog accounts, we tried everything. Our mistake was not doing a bit more research before purchasing. The other half is phenomenal @ research, but we didn't take into account that quality on updated versions may not be the same as on the early software. So when he read about this product and the kudos it received; he was reading about version 7, 8 or 9, not the apparent bug-ridden version 10. I guess it's okay to tell the world what we got suckered into. I saw plenty of blogs online this morning as I was trying to figure out what was wrong; the product, or me. Pinnacle's Studio Movie Box Version 10. All of the complaints I read online are in sync w/ my experience over the past day. They say when it works, it works well and when it sucks, it sucks big time. Big problems? It takes eons to actually load up. As for the capturing; my record yesterday was a total of 17 minutes captured; but I was unable to view it after I captured it. The system crashed about 5 times; while it was capturing. We fixed everything we possibly could, but we couldn't fix the crappy system itself. Lesson learned. Now we have to determine what would be a better software to use (w/in the same price range). Thus far, we have the possibilities of Adobe (shit I can't remember. I'd know it when I saw it) and Sony Vegas Movie. We also need to find out if we are able to return the junk we purchased. I don't know yet. So, receiving our software on Friday was a bigger tease than a...I don't know, insert cliched Catholic school girl anecdote here. I am now, once again, up against time. I can't begin to edit yet; well, cuz I can't begin to capture yet; well, cuz I don't have software that works. However, the camera I purchased works great. So, that makes me happy. Another week before I can start work on my movie. Patience. The waiting game continues.
1 comment:
Hey Michael. For what it's worth, I just started using Adobe Premiere Elements at the Guthrie to edit video that we'll be using on our Web site. So far it's been pretty easy to use and fairly feature-packed. I haven't used anything else, so I can't really compare it to other programs. We attempted to try Avid Free DV, but we never got it to work on my computer. As the name suggests, it's free, but if you want something more powerful, you'll have to pay a lot of money (some professional studios use the full verison). And many people recommended Final Cut Pro, but it's only for the Mac and a lot more money than you probably want to spend. Like I said, Premiere Elements has worked well so far. And if you can find a CompUSA that's going out of business (like they are in Minnesota), you can get a good deal. That's my two cents.
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