----- Original Message ----- From: "George Sinos" Subject: Re: OT: Videography Software
> William - > > I'm far from an expert, but I can relate my personal experience. I've > tried an earlier version of the Pinnacle product, Adobe's Premier > Elements and Sony's Vegas Movie Studio. The latter two are the > consumer versions of the more expensive pro products. All three are > around $100 US and can usually be found on discount. > > After a lot of experimentation I've settled on the Movie Studio > product. Functionally, it works the best for me, and it performs the > best on my hardware. As an added bonus, at work, our Corporate > Communications dept. uses it for all of their work so I have a > convenient local resource. > > Now, here's the thing. All of these video programs I've tried seem to > be very sensitive to your hardware configuration. So my > recommendation is download trial copies from the vendor's web sites > and give them a good shaking out on your specific hardware. > > Oh yeah, buy a couple of great big hard drives. Video eats up space > in a way that dwarfs the needs of still images. Hi George, thanks for the suggestions. I just bought a 700 gig drive, and I expect there will be another one, or perhaps 2 in my near future The camera carries a 60 gig HD on board, which is good for about 7 hours of recording. I'm downloading Premier Elements at the moment, and hope that it will do what I want, as I am most familiar with Adobe's general product interface, and will likely find it easiest to learn. Be Well William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
