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I would like to edit video on my PC (sorry MAC fans I am not ready to switch yet) and burn to DVDs. I currently have Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 but editing my video is painful. It sometimes takes MANY (5-10) minutes just to move from one place in the video to another so I get tired of trying to edit the video and just give up. Also, rendering the video takes forever. What does it take to edit video in real (or close to real) time?

Open to software and hardware suggestions. If a new PC is in order I likely will connect to HDTV so a small footprint would fit my cabinet better.

Any advice would be appreciated but if you have actually "been there and done that" it would make me feel better. Also I don't mind building a PC from scratch if needed.

Currently using Vaio w/2.5GB RAM, XP, Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Radeon 9200 series video card. Don't know video card memory size.

Thanks,
Ed

When dealing with an audio visual project, oftentimes your first instinct is to just go for whoever has the nicest ads, whoever seems most "high end", to put it bluntly, whoever is most expensive. The truth is, price isn't all that important in determining quality.

No matter how much you spend, you might hire an audio visual production crew, and get some results that are quite the opposite of what you had in mind. Sure, the finished presentation looks and sounds great, it has a professional feel to it, in fact, it's an impressive piece of work... it's just not what you wanted.

If you have all the money in the world, then you can afford to keep going back and forth and trying again until the av crew gets it right. However, most of us can't afford to buy up all of a company's time like that.

The solution is, of course, clear communication.

When you are lacking the ability of clear communication, either on the part of the client or on the part of the av people, it becomes simply impossible to get across what must be produced for a given project.

This is why the client needs to be just as involved in any av effort as the crew themselves. All an av provides to an audio visual project is their expertise. They don't provide the vision, the ideas, the technical knowledge of the industry they're doing the presentation for, etcetera. All of that has to come from the client.

Really, how much money you spend on an audio visual project has very little to do with the quality of the results you will be getting. In order to get your money's worth, and then some, out of an audio visual project, you need to make absolutely sure that the av people know exactly what you want, because how can they deliver that to you if they don't know what it is?

The first step to this is actually knowing what you want in the first place. Before even calling an av crew, make sure that you have a clear idea in mind to the point that you can picture your presentation piece by piece in your head. It's hard to communicate ideas when you don't know what they are in the first place, after all.

Secondly, you'll want to talk with your prospective av person on the phone to gauge how interested they are in actually working with you, and not simply for you. By that we simply mean that they seem sincerely interested in the project itself, and not just their rates and the deadline.

When it comes right down to it, the truth is that anybody with the requisite equipment can produce a great looking, great sounding av production. The actual craft to it isn't all that complex. However, when it comes down to the actual ability to clearly and effectively communicate an idea with the medium of audio visual, not all crews are created equal.

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