[senit] using digital video with students

hello, have been asked to give series of lessons on digital

 I can see Mark's point. 
I had Pinnacle DV500Plus / Impression / Commotion, and the
machine fell over frequently within 10-15 minutes, and also had
Adobe Premiere 6.0.  Graphics card overheated with both, despite
being (at the time ?4 years ago)on cutting edge PC machines
costing an arm and both legs. Evesham Micros then fitted a
further fan, and it was much better, though both still fell over
quite regularly. My experience of Pinnacle is much the same as
Mark's - I hope they have improved. Buggy and anything but
user-friendly.  It put me off video editing except for essential
use. 3 years ago I found I could use my new Mac, which worked,
felt stable, was far easier to use, and now use a Mac for almost
all my video editing. I have recently tried again on a new
2007-vintage PC and it handles video editing very much better,
though still not as intuitive as the Mac. 

Now, if I had total choice, I would unhesitatingly go for the Mac
both for my use and for student use. 

Best wishes

Rik Ludlow

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Sent: 23 April 2007 16:50
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: Re: [senit] using digital video with students

Mark,
I think you are being unfair on Pinnacle. I have Pinnacle Studio
Plus v 10.5 and it runs very smoothly on my machine. Did you use
an earlier version?

 Norma
.....................
Norma Price

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Subject: Re: [senit] using digital video with students

Shame you don't have Macs as iMovie is great for SEN.

As you're using PCs you need to avoid Pinnacle as it is very
buggy. My students have found it incredibly frustrating (lost
work, crashes, etc. Even on a high specced machine) Use anything
but!

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: david fettes <davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: [senit] using digital video with students
Date: 19-Apr-2007 23:27:58 +0100

> hello, have been asked to give series of lessons on digital
video (on 
> windows)to more able students with SLD with little experience
of 
> digital video. probably as group lesson with lots of support.
> (BTW thanks for the info on dig still cams with video clip
facility.)
> 
>  a *first thoughts list for the lessons was
> 
> 1. using dig still cams with video clip facility.
> 2. downloading & viewing these clips
> 3. possibly simple editing (eg joining clips?)of these in
windows 
> movie maker 4. using digital video camcorder 5. viewing live
output on 
> TV monitor 6. downloading to pc with pinnacle or windows movie
maker 
> 7. simple transitions or editing?
> 8. output as file or dvd
> 
> how does this compare what you have done with students with
SLD? Any 
> suggestions? what kind of editing would you suggest? what about
the 
> digital blue/Tag digital movie creator- where does it fit in?
> thanks
> David
> 
> 
> 
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