Rants, MACs and PCs

The Windows Movie Maker program is highly underestimated, but it is limited, yet it still does the job. When I customized my PC I wanted to make sure I had something that can handle massive amounts of rendering. I only realized that dual processors are only good if the program is optimized to take advantage of that feature. Here are the specs of my computer: SEAGATE 200GIG HDD Pentium D Processor 3.00Ghz All-In-Wonder X800 Graphics Card Sound Audigy 2 Sound Card 4 GIG DDR2 RAM (Not used to full capacity for some reason) CD/DVD Drive To tell you the truth, when I first used the PC I played games with it only such as The Movies and World of Warcraft. Then when I finally started to make some video I noticed that Windows Movie Maker doesn't take advantage of the processing power of the Pentium D. This past semester I used G4 MACs to edit the Secret Asian Man - UWD (click to view) video. Man, do I respect MAC users and their patience with that kind of computer. The one thing I hated about those MAC computers is that it crashed many times during editing. Final Cut Pro pissed me off a lot, because movie video scenes sometimes moved already set video on the sequence.. Ahh so hard to explain, but I think MAC computers are really good for multimedia productions, because their optimized to take the most out of your creations. If anything I'd love to get a new MAC computer just for editing. One other program that I have heard only good things about is Adobe Premier. I have not used that editing program, but I think since i have a PC it'll work well together with my processor and RAM. Rendering would probably take half the time it would normally take with Windows Movie Maker. The one thing I hate about Windows Movie Maker is that you can only save files in .wmv file format. I had to convert my video files to Mpeg1 and Mepeg2 to make sure Google Video's player would sync the video with music. It's sort of frustrating when your video doesn't sync.