Video Editing on a PC
I purchased a Mac Pro and Final Cut Studio to do my video editing, simply because I felt that PC solutions were just not there.
Adobe Encore is a joke, the only thing it was good for was crashing (and thinning out your wallet).
Sony Vegas was a descent application (and solid), but difficult to use and didn’t seem to expose as much control as I wanted over DVD production.
Times change; and now I’m not as concerned with DVD production as I am with just video editing, and two of my friends have shown interest in video editing and really don’t want to invest in a Mac (there is only one real choice for video editing from Apple, and that’s a Mac Pro, and the combination of the hardware and software is a little scary).
One of my other friends has used Vegas for quite awhile, and he’s been happy with it (of course he’s never done video editing on a Mac).
I’ve decided my project for the next several days will be to evaluate Sony Vega Pro 9. I’ll try it out on Windows 7 and write a BLOG post that tries to detail the strengths and weaknesses without directly comparing it to Final Cut Studio; though I may use Final Cut Studio as the “standard” for what a high end video editing suite should do.
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