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Hey, everybody!
I was a happy Ulead Video Studio 7 user up until about two weeks ago. I had
purchased the Ulead DVD Factory 4 so I could do things like put a whole
season of Monk on a single DVD (well, half season, but you know what I
mean) to view on my laptop on the go. Well, loading it messed up my .dll
files, apparently. Now, VS7 is leaving a very short but very noticable
sound gap when I make video clips. As I am also an amateur filmmaker, this
is not good. This happened once before when I installed the DVD Factory 2,
but reinstalling fixed the problem. Now, I've done reinstalls and used my
System Restore, and nothing works.
I figure, if I'm going to finish this project, I need new video editing
software. I will be going out this Saturday with the intention of
purchasing it. But there are several choices, and I don't know which is
best. So I'm turning to you guys. My questions are as follows:
1) What is good to use? Should I go with Ulead 9 (since the DVD software
is current, I'm hoping they'll work and play well together)? I also
noticed Sony has one called Vegas. I'm leery of Sony since I have had
quite a few problems with their products (video tapes, had to replace my
PS2 twice now), but software isn't the same as hardware, how is their
stuff? I've also heard that Pinnacle is crash happy, and I have been
disappointed in Magix products because they strike me as user hostile.
This isn't to say I won't give them a chance, I just want an idea before I
drop a ton of cash on something that I'm going to hate and can't return.
I'm looking in the $100-150 range, but I could be persuaded to go higher if
I know I'll get value for the money. I capture through a seperate program,
so if the software doesn't include it's own capture option, just import
video, I'm cool with that. I also would like decent documentation or
access to a help community if I'm learning a new editor, since everyone
does things a bit differently. I'm running WinXP on a 3Ghz HP computer
with an Intel CPU and 512M of memory.
2) For future reference: does anyone here run Main Actor on a Linux box?
I have a Linux computer and am thinking of moving my editing there if the
situation with editing on the Winbox doesn't get any better. How is Main
Actor from a stability, feature, and documentation point of view?
Dobre utka,
Pete Holland Jr.
Hey, everybody!
I was a happy Ulead Video Studio 7 user up until about two weeks ago. I had
purchased the Ulead DVD Factory 4 so I could do things like put a whole
season of Monk on a single DVD (well, half season, but you know what I
mean) to view on my laptop on the go. Well, loading it messed up my .dll
files, apparently. Now, VS7 is leaving a very short but very noticable
sound gap when I make video clips. As I am also an amateur filmmaker, this
is not good. This happened once before when I installed the DVD Factory 2,
but reinstalling fixed the problem. Now, I've done reinstalls and used my
System Restore, and nothing works.
I figure, if I'm going to finish this project, I need new video editing
software. I will be going out this Saturday with the intention of
purchasing it. But there are several choices, and I don't know which is
best. So I'm turning to you guys. My questions are as follows:
1) What is good to use? Should I go with Ulead 9 (since the DVD software
is current, I'm hoping they'll work and play well together)? I also
noticed Sony has one called Vegas. I'm leery of Sony since I have had
quite a few problems with their products (video tapes, had to replace my
PS2 twice now), but software isn't the same as hardware, how is their
stuff? I've also heard that Pinnacle is crash happy, and I have been
disappointed in Magix products because they strike me as user hostile.
This isn't to say I won't give them a chance, I just want an idea before I
drop a ton of cash on something that I'm going to hate and can't return.
I'm looking in the $100-150 range, but I could be persuaded to go higher if
I know I'll get value for the money. I capture through a seperate program,
so if the software doesn't include it's own capture option, just import
video, I'm cool with that. I also would like decent documentation or
access to a help community if I'm learning a new editor, since everyone
does things a bit differently. I'm running WinXP on a 3Ghz HP computer
with an Intel CPU and 512M of memory.
2) For future reference: does anyone here run Main Actor on a Linux box?
I have a Linux computer and am thinking of moving my editing there if the
situation with editing on the Winbox doesn't get any better. How is Main
Actor from a stability, feature, and documentation point of view?
Dobre utka,
Pete Holland Jr.