Posted by Smarty on 01/01/06 23:57

Bill,

You are correct. I use both. And iMovie is not only free, but is a
remarkably competent program, both on my dual G5 as well as on my wife's
MacMini. The fact that I can do HDV editing with free software on a MacMini
is still astonishing to me, given it's tiny price and size. For those who
own Macs, it is indeed the lowest cost option available for HDV editing.

On the other hand.........the HDV rendering on the Mac (regardless of
hardware and software) is horrendously slow. In particular, rendering on the
top of the line Final Cut Studio Pro HD on a dual 2.5 GHz G5 is pitiful.
iMovie is also slow beyond belief when it comes to rendering.

Ulead Video Studio 9 on a cheap single 3.2 GHz Dell (a $400 computer)
renders HDV at (at least) 10 times the speed of the dual processor G5 Mac.
It also (remarkably) renders HDV much faster than Sony Vegas 6.0, Power
Director 5, or any other PC-based HDV solution I am aware of.

Thus.....the bottom line in my view in price and performance in Ulead Video
Studio 9 on a PC. I love the Mac to pieces, but it just doesn't cut it in
getting the rendered results done. I still routinely use the dual G5 with
FCP Studio, Motion, DVD Studio Pro, etc. for some jobs since the quality is
truly outstanding. I just walk away from the Mac and come back 16-20 hours
later (literally) when the rendering is done.

Smarty


"William Davis" <davisbill@mac.com> wrote in message
news:davisbill-EC74A4.13561701012006@news.west.cox.net...
> In article <bJOdnbo5jYasLCveRVn-hQ@adelphia.com>,
> "Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote:
>
>> Ulead's Video Studio 9 does HDV editing and is the lowest cost option I
>> am
>> aware of. It works extremely well.
>>
>> Smarty
>>
>>
>
> Well, it might be the cheapest PC solution.
>
> On the Mac side, iMovie HD does HDV with aplomb and it comes FREE with
> every Mac.

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