True, especially when it comes to HD video. I had about a 20 minute window with Adobe Premier where it would crash while working with HD video.
I still have yet to have a crash with iMovie. On Nov 23, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Jerry Johnson wrote: > > This is not a religious statement, or a troll, but a practical experience > tip. > > If you have any access to a Mac, iMovie is painless. > > Having worked for 20 years on various video editing systems, I can say that > iMovie is the most powerful AND easiest platform I have used. > > I do miss my Toaster, though. > > I have not yet been able to edit video on a PC with any consumer-grade video > editing software. The closest to usable was Adobe Premier. > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Ian Skinner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I am seeking all help and advice I can get from this diverse group. >> >> I have now spent over three days trying to accomplish what I though >> would be a fairly simple task. Especially since the first part (that I >> thought would be the hardest) went so easy. >> >> I have an one hour mpeg video file that I have converted from a tivo >> vido file that I downloaded from my DVR. All I want to do now is trim >> out a total of approximately 5 minutes from two sections of that one >> hour source file. Then combine the two sections and publish them to my >> web site for family and friends to see. >> >> Having never done any digital video editing in my over a decade of web >> site development this has been quite a weekend of learning. But I have >> failed to successfully edit this video, let alone get it published. >> >> I have Microsoft Movie Maker and HP Media Center bundled on my 8GB 64bit >> Windows Vista Home Premium laptop. Neither seem capable of trimming my >> original file. Movie Maker seems to make a valiant effort but >> constantly fails with an 0x8007000 error which as best as I can guess >> might be indicating an out of memory error. >> >> I spent many hours trying out half a dozen other tools, but with little >> luck. It looks like video editing tools worth using require a purchase >> which I would actually be happy with, if I was sure the tool would be >> well supported, work on my machine and actually do the jobs I need it to >> do. (With a big hurdle being I am so new to this, I am unclear what >> those jobs actually are yet.) >> >> Any suggestions, hints or good sources of information I can tap into? >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308281 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
