In Memoriam

This is another experiment. Am becoming more familiar with MAGIX movie edit pro-10. It gives me 12 'tracks' to play with.

Can 'record' or 'transfer' everything from the video recorder, and it generally 'recognises' each 'take' as separate, depending on when the camera is turned on or off. (needs choice). One of the things that am finding difficult and time consuming, is figuring out how the whole thing works.

OK, given 12 tracks, i generally 'drag and drop' the 'takes' into track 1, have a squizz, and see what happened. After that it is a question of figuring out the timings. Very easy to 'snip' takes at whatever point one chooses, as well as 'delete' the beginning and endings of takes without altering the originals. “Timing” takes time.

After that, it is very easy to 'drag and drop' any other “object' into the other tracks.

“Objects” are anything that you can find on the hard drive – still photos, music tracks, Special Effects .. Magix has many useful 'scene changes' and Video FX. Just 'drag and drop' onto the top of the Object.

One of the most difficult (and time consuming) things, have found, is trying to “find” them amid the plethora of 'drop down' menus.

So, as I said, this is an experiment using the various facilities within the Magix movie edit program.

It also gives me the choice as to how to 'render' the edited video. There are 20 or so options ranging from straight .wmv to choices regarding 'dialup' and broadband.

For this one i chose broadband save, even though the 'screen size' is smallish, as the 'dialup' option created a very crappy version, the technical quality of which, was not prepared to allow. If, however, there are interested 'dialup' people, can create a version just for them (gee, am i considerate, or not? Heh)

And yer, underneath all this cynical crap, am a soppy sentimental .. heh.