Editing system

Am using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 10 silver Demo version, which came on a CD included with a magazine. At the moment I find it excellent, and much more flexible than Windows movie maker.

The Demo version is missing some of the functions of the "full"version, but is quite adequate for the experiments that am making. The ''full"version costs 30 or so English pounds (roughly $85 AUD) so haven't gone to that expense just yet. Will also search around to see if there is a better system somewhere.

[UPDATE; 14 Oct 2006] Have purchased the "full" version. One mistake was purchasing in English pounds. Found later that USDollars was cheaper, oh well. Have also purchased the "Music Maker" program for creating "background music" but the technicalities of that one are far too complex at the moment. Will just concentrate on figuring out how to best use the Video Edit system.]

Am finding the editing process very time consuming. Have almost an hour and a half of raw footage depicting the fishing trip on the Ord river, and am gradually whittling it down to some sort of comprehensive version that should give the 'flavour' of the trip, without making it too long to upload. This is difficult.

The 'first'version ended up at 29 minutes. The next version came out at 12 minutes, and am now working on a 3 minute version.