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Biotech / Medical : The thread of life -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (1039)	7/13/2006 10:57:48 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1336

The Dell E510 is a decent machine, I like it! Very quiet. Mine cost a little less than $500 off the Dell Outlet, has a gigabyte of system memory, a 160 gig HDD, and a DVD burner. The video card is an entry level ATI x300 or somethin' (see other post) Making movies... My Studio AV software is giving me some trouble. I've not yet burned a DVD sucessfully, but I did generate an 90 minute MPEG-2 that looks very good, the audio is in sync and the software I have does a good job of finding scenes where can be easily chopped down or dropped all together. Someday I will go through all my video and splice together the fifty times my wife has said "don't film me" geeze! <g> The Pinnacle software, I am running Studio 8.12.7.0 might be worth upgrading to version 9 or better. Maybe I will be able to render and burn finally if I do that. I shouldn't have to, mostly it works, just seems to fail at the very end of rendering the product. You can imagine how frustrating it is for the PC to work for an hour generating the DVD compatible stuff, only to fail when it mirrors it to the HDD or tries to finally burn it. Render again...fail again. Sheesh! Simply generating a mpeg2 for the PC with no DVD authoring works flawlessly.