We have a new daughter (our first) so we got a sony camera so we coudl make home movies and such...what a nice idea, huh?
I finally finished the DVD of my daughter's first year on this planet for my parents. it only cost me about $1,500 :-)
Get a nice, modern computer they said, so I did...about $500 (P4, 2.5Gz, 528MB RAM) ....Use the free MS Movie Maker,they said, but you'll need XP....so I did...$198....Get a fancy schmancy video card and more RAM, so I did...$250....Then Service pack 2 blew up my computer...I think the error message was something like "Go directly to jail and lose a turn..."
After rebuilding my computer...."get a bigger additional drive to work with your movies", so I did...$180....After weeks of absolute misery using the free MS Movie Maker..."Don't use Microsoft Movie Maker, get Roxio", so I did...$100....(Well THAT was dumb but it beat the Microslop product)), after weeks of misery working with Roxio I heard, "get Sony Movie Studio" they said, so I did...$100 (best $100 I ever spent)...
So I worked for months on 6 videos that will be burned to two DVDs...After I had rendered them all (last wednesday evening) my computer started blowing up, literally...I am about to freakin' lose 6 months worth of blood sweat and tears so I quickly went out and bought a new external drive and started backing up my data...$200....(the pc literally blew up an hour after I backed up all the files).
take the computer to the computer shop...actually i took two computers for repair...$168....and the movie computer is still wanked...Don't panic...I can burn the video to DVD from another computer in the house...no big deal, except I install DVD Architect on that computer, create the DAR file/project go to burn the DVD and the only pc with a DVD burner does not realize it has a DVD burner! that's my wife's work computer and i am not going to start wanking with her means of income for these movies...
so on christmas eve I go out and buy an external DVD recorder (in case it doesn't work with one pc, it should work with another and I don't have to keep ripping pcs apart), so I can have this done by christmas ...$198 (the cheaper external DVD recorders were all gone by then)....
the first burned DVD was unbearably wanked...The audio, the video...and it took 6 hours to complete...panic was setting in.. was it movie studio? the external dvd recorder? the external drive? the usb hub? or the under powered pc that was doing all the processing? I had about 12 hours to figure that out...
i changed a setting or two and tried again...well the final DVD was finished 30 minutes before we left to go to my parents on christmas :-) they were thrilled! I was tired...
I had no idea making home video/DVDs was so expensive :-)
Oh, and you can tell by the amount of questions that I asked here today that I have much more to learn...
Chris
I finally finished the DVD of my daughter's first year on this planet for my parents. it only cost me about $1,500 :-)
Get a nice, modern computer they said, so I did...about $500 (P4, 2.5Gz, 528MB RAM) ....Use the free MS Movie Maker,they said, but you'll need XP....so I did...$198....Get a fancy schmancy video card and more RAM, so I did...$250....Then Service pack 2 blew up my computer...I think the error message was something like "Go directly to jail and lose a turn..."
After rebuilding my computer...."get a bigger additional drive to work with your movies", so I did...$180....After weeks of absolute misery using the free MS Movie Maker..."Don't use Microsoft Movie Maker, get Roxio", so I did...$100....(Well THAT was dumb but it beat the Microslop product)), after weeks of misery working with Roxio I heard, "get Sony Movie Studio" they said, so I did...$100 (best $100 I ever spent)...
So I worked for months on 6 videos that will be burned to two DVDs...After I had rendered them all (last wednesday evening) my computer started blowing up, literally...I am about to freakin' lose 6 months worth of blood sweat and tears so I quickly went out and bought a new external drive and started backing up my data...$200....(the pc literally blew up an hour after I backed up all the files).
take the computer to the computer shop...actually i took two computers for repair...$168....and the movie computer is still wanked...Don't panic...I can burn the video to DVD from another computer in the house...no big deal, except I install DVD Architect on that computer, create the DAR file/project go to burn the DVD and the only pc with a DVD burner does not realize it has a DVD burner! that's my wife's work computer and i am not going to start wanking with her means of income for these movies...
so on christmas eve I go out and buy an external DVD recorder (in case it doesn't work with one pc, it should work with another and I don't have to keep ripping pcs apart), so I can have this done by christmas ...$198 (the cheaper external DVD recorders were all gone by then)....
the first burned DVD was unbearably wanked...The audio, the video...and it took 6 hours to complete...panic was setting in.. was it movie studio? the external dvd recorder? the external drive? the usb hub? or the under powered pc that was doing all the processing? I had about 12 hours to figure that out...
i changed a setting or two and tried again...well the final DVD was finished 30 minutes before we left to go to my parents on christmas :-) they were thrilled! I was tired...
I had no idea making home video/DVDs was so expensive :-)
Oh, and you can tell by the amount of questions that I asked here today that I have much more to learn...
Chris