Don, now it's obvious that you're just posting a straw man argument:
Well that is a real difficult problem to overcome, like buying a firewire card for your PC??
I think most of us know that there is quite a bit more involved in editing your first video beyond just "buying a firewire card." You then have to install the card, then figure out why your machine won't reboot, and run the driver installation wizard which will promptly crash your machine when trying to restart so you restart anyway, hoping it didn't crash while trying to install something important, then having to reboot in Safe DOS mode to edit your CONFIG.SYS file as per the manual's trouble-shooting appendix, and when you finally get your machine back to where it was before (except that now your external hard drive mysteriously doesn't automount after every reboot, probably some sort of IRQ conflict or resource allocation problem, but who knows?), you can run your ULead Studio that you also had to install separately and that was a bitch but that's another story.
Of course ULead Studio is incompatible with your Windows Media Player, so you buy DeBabelizer Pro to convert between the file formats. And you can never quite figure out how to to a simple cut/paste edit in ULead because the manual was apparently written in Swahili and translated to Chinese and then translated to English.
Or hell you could just buy a Mac, plug your camcorder in, and click on iMovie in your Dock, and press the little button that transfers a tape into iMovie and automatically breaks it into scenes for you.
If you had tried this on both a Mac and a Wintel box, you wouldn't suggest that editing video requires simply "buying a firewire card for your PC."
Dave |
