Bj”Rn Forsstr”M said to Bob Gearhart at 08-31-03  10:12
 Subject: VHS to DVD

 BF> That might be one way to do it but it seems to shoot bugs with a
 BF> elephant gun.

 Agree.  I think that it is a nice OEM package to ship with hardware.
 I paid $350 for the drive and bought that, the software that came with
 it is just icing on the cake. I don't expect it to be in the same class
 as software packages costing 600-900 dollars stand alone.

 Sony just recently bought the video editing part of the Sonic Foundry's
 line up so I expect to see their DVD burning software added in future
 hardware packages.  And Pinnacle recently bought Dazzle, which had a
 very nice DVD burner, and maybe that will be part of Studio 8.
 

 BF> I never got along with Premiere.

 Like all the other Adobe products it is outrageously expensive when
 most of the same functionality can be obtained in much cheaper and
 easier to use software packages.  It is when you go beyond the basic
 operations that programs like Premier, Photoshop and Illustrator start
 to show what merits the higher price.  The newest Premier 7 will drop
 AB editing and force you to use single line, and I don't like that, so
 am probably using my last upgrade now.

 My setup has a computer monitor on one side of the desk and a VCR with
 a TV set monitor on the other side.  My eyes aren't that great where I
 can catch the fine details when viewed in a little box on the computer
 monitor. I prefer to watch the video roll on a full screen regular TV
 in real time. When I adjust something, say contrast or white balance in
 a clip, what I see corrected in my computer's little box often looks a
 bit different from what ends up in the finished form on a real TV.

 Premier came as a part of my Pinnacle DV500 package, so, that was what
 I learned NLE using. Now I like it and see no reason to use anything
 else, not even the last upgrade.  I have the new Pinnacle Edition 90
 day try out here on my desk, tried it, but will stay with the older
 Premier. My cheap guy factor says I should buy the upgrade though
 because paying 55 dollars for a 600 dollar package is tempting even
 if I will never use it. 

 BF> I have just purchased Pinnacle upgrade to Studio 8 but it haven't
 BF> arrived yet. In the commercial they say it's the easiest way to edit and
 BF> then burn to DVD so I will try this and when I have done I can get back
 BF> to you. 
 BF> //Bj”rn

 Please do. PC magazine likes it, but they said it is not an easy
 program to use for a person new to video editing.



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