What is best for video editing?

[leirbag28]

@Tigger

I know that what you just finished saying is for the most part accurate.  And I wasnt implying you were condoning anything illegal.I was just saying, it Costs money to buy the software............though there is cool stuff free for download if one knows where.


But seriously........show me an easier way to make DVD's than my DVD recorder, And I will gladly throw mine in the trash.


I totally disagree with WIndows being able to multitask better than an AMiga. Never!

because I have yet to see anything with the elegance of the way Amiga uses Public screens............Show me.I wanna see!

Im looking for reasons to Finally leave the Amiga for Good.

Although the OS is outdated in technical terms.nothing is more correctly done than AmigaOS

If you dont know what I mean....here is what I mean:

SCALA MM300 is old (1993?)   Powerpoint is New (PowerPointXP)

Show me a Multimedia application as easy to use as SCALA and with the elegance.......and the fact that this interface uses a logical GUI, and I will show you me abandoning SCALA.

So Workbench (Multitasking/Public screens)  is to Windows Mutlitasking......................What SCALAs interface is to PowerPoints.

Thats the truth!

Yes.Powerpoint is much more advanced now and all..............But SCALA is done right! unbeatable!

Same with Workbench integrated with the Amiga...............still unbeatable till now in my eyes.

You might say "I need to ghet my eyes checked"  but I think alot of Hardcore Amiga users will agree with me.


That does not mean I dont like MAC OSX for instance......I totally Do!  thats my next permanent computer and OS (INTEL MAC)

But I will take a New Generation Amiga with the same concept as the old ones any day!


My point is........the DVD recorder is straight foward and easy! and Good quality for backing up a tape.


PC's are no fun!   Hassle Hassle Hassle, like WHite Castle, when one graduates with a Tassle.

:-)

[leirbag28]

@Tigger

I know that what you just finished saying is for the most part accurate.  And I wasnt implying you were condoning anything illegal.I was just saying, it Costs money to buy the software............though there is cool stuff free for download if one knows where.


But seriously........show me an easier way to make DVD's than my DVD recorder, And I will gladly throw mine in the trash.


I totally disagree with WIndows being able to multitask better than an AMiga. Never!

because I have yet to see anything with the elegance of the way Amiga uses Public screens............Show me.I wanna see!

Im looking for reasons to Finally leave the Amiga for Good.

Although the OS is outdated in technical terms.nothing is more correctly done than AmigaOS

If you dont know what I mean....here is what I mean:

SCALA MM300 is old (1993?)   Powerpoint is New (PowerPointXP)

Show me a Multimedia application as easy to use as SCALA and with the elegance.......and the fact that this interface uses a logical GUI, and I will show you me abandoning SCALA.

So Workbench (Multitasking/Public screens)  is to Windows Mutlitasking......................What SCALAs interface is to PowerPoints.

Thats the truth!

Yes.Powerpoint is much more advanced now and all..............But SCALA is done right! unbeatable!

Same with Workbench integrated with the Amiga...............still unbeatable till now in my eyes.

You might say "I need to ghet my eyes checked"  but I think alot of Hardcore Amiga users will agree with me.


That does not mean I dont like MAC OSX for instance......I totally Do!  thats my next permanent computer and OS (INTEL MAC)

But I will take a New Generation Amiga with the same concept as the old ones any day!


My point is........the DVD recorder is straight foward and easy! and Good quality for backing up a tape.


PC's are no fun!   Hassle Hassle Hassle, like WHite Castle, when one graduates with a Tassle.

:-)

[iamaboringperson]

Okay, at the moment I've pretty much narrowed my choices down to two options:

- Canopus
- Pinnacle

I can get either well below half-price.

The Pinnacle comes with V9 of its software. And I understand that it might be bugged. But at the price that I can buy it, it might be possible to upgrade to V10.

The Canopus, as far as I can tell. Doesn't come with software.

[adz]

Canopus by far, I've used several with my mac and I've yet to have any dramas, yet I've heard heaps of complaints about Pinnacle. Pinnacle does however have one advantage and that is that the software, albeit buggy, comes with it. You could use Windows Movie Maker with the Canopus ;-) :-D

[orange]

Can VLab Motion and Toccata grab totaly RAW, uncompressed video? What would be max. video resolution on '060?

[iamaboringperson]

adz wrote:
Canopus by far, I've used several with my mac and I've yet to have any dramas, yet I've heard heaps of complaints about Pinnacle. Pinnacle does however have one advantage and that is that the software, albeit buggy, comes with it. You could use Windows Movie Maker with the Canopus ;-) :-D

Dude, who has Windows Movie Maker?

If I do get Canopus, I'll have to get some decent software.

[adz]

iamaboringperson wrote:

Dude, who has Windows Movie Maker?

If I do get Canopus, I'll have to get some decent software.

Was only messing with ya :-P As for software, I don't really know much about the x86 side of things, I've used both iMovie and Final Cut Express on my Macs.

[bloodline]

leirbag28 wrote:
@Tigger



Have you heard the News!  Apple finally got Public Screens HAHAHAHAHA!   ridiculously late. although Linux has had it for a while in the form of workspaces.

Apple is calling theirs: MultiDesktops............tsk tsk tsk..........these companies are getting the credit for evertything Amiga invented first.

Actually they are calling it "Spaces"... and it's vastly superior to anything the Amiga currently has. All the spaces can be seen at once, and windows can be dragged between them... there are other configurational features too... all in all a very elegant solution... though one that is long overdue.

Anyway, I will rejoice in the fact that I still think Amigas Multitask the most properly.

I'm not even sure "Amigas Multitask the most properly" is even correct grammar... anyway, what the hell are you taking about? Single CPU based Amiga, PC and Mac systems all use the same technique to multitask... except Windows and MacOS X have much newer and more advanced scheduling algorithms which make better use of the CPU time and can be tuned to suit the users needs better (one requires executive for AmigaOS to come close to this).

MultiCore/Processor based PCs and Macs obviously actually multitask for real, something that only Dave Haynie's "Gemini" based Amiga 3000 has ever done (though he never said if it actually worked).

[iamaboringperson]

Are you guys trying to turn my video capture thread into an pro-/anti- Amiga thread?? ;_)

[leirbag28]

@bloodline


I probably dont mean specifically Multitasking.............as in: Performing Multiple tasks at once.  What I mean is the way the Amiga does it and the way the Amiga uses Public screens......it Just Feels right!

It never feels right on a Mac or PC..I feel like its gonna break.


Of course the MAc will now have a more interewsting way to do it....The technology today allows it..........imaginbe how the Amiga would have been seen today had it advanced alongside PC and Mac............I've had visions in the past of Amigas doing See through screens and floating 3 Dimensional Public screens............Had I been in charge of Amiga back then.....Amiga would have been in a much higher position God willing.


I must say that I am going permanently to the Mac sooner or later, as its elegance is closest to the Amiga in performance partly because of its close integration of the OS and the Hardware, just like the Amiga.

But if a New Amiga were released.I would abandon the Mac immediately if I thought it was a REAL Amiga in everyway, and much more powerful for less money.