video editing
i’ve been doing a bit of video editing lately, since i won’t have access to the dvd burner on my desktop pc soon. i had a bunch of camcorder footage that i wanted to turn into DVDs that i could give to my relatives - my sister’s wedding and grandma’s 90th birthday party. it’s SUCH a pain in the ass to do, though. first ya gotta transfer the video from camcorder to PC, which requires the right firewire connection/cable and about 20GB of hard drive space for an hour of footage. then ya edit the scenes, create titles, transitions, etc. i used Pinnacle Studio 8, which is pretty easy to use. but then when you’re done, ya gotta render the whole DVD, which is about a 6 hour process, and then you burn it to disc (another hour on my old-school 1X burner). Studio 8 was driving me crazy cuz it kept erroring out AFTER rendering for several hours. really annoying.
i used imovie on an apple ibook last year and it was just totally unusable. i can’t believe apple promotes video editing as a feature on it - it’s way too underpowered to do anything.