May 15, 2003
Digital Camcorders are the future!
Finally got around to playing with some old footage on the digital camcorder -- now that I got a Firewire CardBus card for the laptop. The laptop is a little too slow for complete video editing, but good enough for gub'ment work. Here is a little clip that I downloaded last night (my apologies, it's in WMV format, so you'll have to d/l and play or use Internet Exploder):
Microsoft Movie Maker has a minor learning curve, but isn't too bad at first glance, fairly intuitive. I've heard good stuff about Adobe Premiere and iMovie on the Mac -- haven't used either software, so I can't comment on how Movie Maker compares. Major downside with Movie Maker is that video is compressed as a WMV file which is next to impossible to convert to other formats for web publishing (from what I've read) -- but perhaps I'm wrong, can anyone prove me otherwise?