Introduce yourself to other members in this thread.

[pdxrjt]

Hmmmm, well I have posted before, but not in this forum. To introduce myself, I am over 50 (okay, it is disappearing in the rear view mirror!) I grew up in Philadelphia and after a mind expanding (literally, at a wonderful small liberal arts college called Ursinus) undergrad education, left for sunny Florida to get some graduate degrees. I found myself (mostly) located in the Pacific NW after that, generally near Portland, OR.

Many years ago, I shot 35mm film, but concluded I didn't have much of an eye and moved onto other hobbies. However, point and shoot digitals brought me back. Realizing the pics lacked a bit, I started to mess with "improving" them and got Paint Shop Pro--I think it was 7 or something like that. I have since purchased a digital SLR with far more lenses than I really need....but enjoy it anyway

My other hobbies include playing and composing music (I did a bit of that for money, but decided my home studio was far more satisfying), reading, cooking, travel and watching football (can't take the Philly out, so Go E-A-G-L-E-S!!)

So far this forum has been a big help and I hope I can learn PSP enough to help others. I just got (after about 4-5 years!!) a couple of books on using it and want to increase my knowledge.

[Maxtor]

Hello, my name is Terry and I am from Ontario Canada. I love to learn new things, especially when it comes to graphics, photography and video.

[brianosmi]

My name is Brian Allen and I have been doing digital video editing for at least 8 years now, having started (before the digital age) with a dual deck vcr to do my editing. I had bought a Packard Bell PC with a wopping 6 gig hard drive and 64 mb of ram - it was smoking.

I remember telling a buddy that I thought I could produce our church's television broadcast on my PC if I had a video capture card, so we bought an ATI card that came packaged with a copy of Avid, and that was how it got started.

Still, for the longest time, I continued to output back to VHS, even after upgrading to Video Studio (v5, I think), but over the last couple of years I have transitioned to DVD output... One of these days I hope to make a transition in video cameras and go completely digital, but we can only dream.

Well, there's my post - I've been a member of these boards for several years now but got an email this morning saying that I was a "provisional" member all of a sudden. Go figure...

[sherman39]

Hello my name is Paul, I'm 60 years of age and I live just (a couple of miles) North East of Greater London (England not Ontario)
Several years ago when camcorders were called video-cameras, I found myself on my own (wife at home) in my local High Street with a credit card in my pocket and a recently opened Sony store beckoning me. I purchased a Sony PC3E, never really understood why, although it did look cute.
A few days later armed with my new toy and not much idea how to use it my wife and I went whale watching in the Azores (portugese islands midway between the west coast of Europe and the east coast of America).
On our return to England I discovered I had hours of excellent video of empty ocean with the occasional whale or dolphin making an appearance.
Then whilst wandering around a PC World store I chanced upon a software package that enabled video to be edited and having bought it (cannot now remember what it was called) I discovered that I was artistically challenged. However after flirting with pinnacle studio for a year or so and geting a broadband connection at home I downloaded a few alternatives, discovered Video Studio and then this truly wonderful forum and here I am.
If any body is interested I have posted a few of my attempts at nature movies on youtube under the name sherman39
Regards
Paul

[oldhippie100]

Well I'm Jarrod (Jerry) Tusing I live in las Vegas,Nevada I'm 47 yrs old father of 4 I work as a Assistant Editor for a Magazine,I use both video studio and cool3d production studio

[flauthor]

I received PI (3, I think) with the purchase of a scanner years ago, and have upgraded through the years to 10. I also use Adobe Photoshop. In addition to photo editing, I use the programs to build book covers. I seem to find the layers function in Photoshop a little easier to manage than PI. I'm on the forum to read and decide it I want to upgrade to X3.

[Zclyh3]

Hello everyone.

My Name is Tony. I'm 25 years of and I live in San Leandro, CA.

I started using VS when I got into video editing for short track speedskating races. I primarily record with a Sony HDR-HC7 HDV camcorder and I love the quality. Only problem is that HDV is only 1440 x 1080 and I want to be able to record in 1920 x 1080. Unfortunately, the consumer-based AVCHD camcorders don't compare in quality (YET) against HDV.

It's possible I might have to go prosumer grade to get what I want. Videostudio has been good so far but then menu creation is by far the worse in my experience. Editing the video is fine, but when it came to the menu, it's something I dread.

[Isewake]

Hi. I'm Irwin. Mostly edit videos. Bween using VS11.5 and love it.

[ashmont]

My name is Ashley from London, UK. I got into Ulead VS5 I think when I purchased an ADS Tech capture box and it came free. I had mountains of analogue video footage of my children mounting up and I thought I'd like to move to digital editing and DVD burning. I think I'm now on Ulead Video Studio 10 and I have DVD Workshop 2 (shame they never brought out a DVDWS3). I enjoy video editing and DVD burning but find it hard to grab the time with the demands of 5 children. Still plenty of good stuff to film

[robinadair]

Hello, I am RobinAdair. New to v-editing, always was intrigued by how movies are put together to tell a story. Husband is professional photog after years in law enforcement. We've travelled a good part of the globe with his camera leading us into interesting places/scenery. At home in USA, WA, he records events, friends, family. Needed to present the stories of the images in a better way than just photobook. Images needed logical presentation. I needed to tell the story, artfully. Never thought I could do v-editing. Looked around for info, trials, forums. Just finished my first v-editing project with VS 11.5!! What a thrill. It was so well received!!. During the process I had written to several members of this forum for help and you all responded with such great help and graciousness. Thank you all. This forum is a wonderful thing. Reading the introductions I myself have much in common with many...comm officer, teacher, atty, traveller, musician, desiring to tell the story of things beautiful, unusual, interesting, of family..desire to record the everyday events and to present and preserve these images, moments. I love working with my husband as friend, fellow traveller, discoverer.

[Brent Curtis]

Hi,

My name is Brent Curtis. I am primarily a DVD authorist with extensive experience in Scenarist. Recently I have ventured into Blu-ray authoring. We have Ulead MF 6+ and now NetBlender DoStudio with WinDVD.

My interests are in HTPCs, HD audio in multi-channel, and other kinds of media conversions. I get fairly busy at work and don't have the habit of monitoring message boards yet, so I may seem absent.

Cheers,
BAC

[algen]

Hi, my name is Daniel and I live in Stockholm, Sweden. I am pretty new to this video editing game and I would really like to spend more time on it.

There are some really friendly, helpful people here on this forum always willing to share their knowledge.

Great stuff!

[kfenaughty]

I'm Kevin Fenaughty. I started out wanting to preserve my Sony Camcorder 8mm films on DVD, and used a Dick Smith USB device bundled with VS6 SE. The results were adequate as long as there was no panning action! But what nagged away was that the tapes were still better looking than the DVDs.

Earlier this year I tried an ADS Tech DVDXpress DX2 device, but again I was disappointed with the panning shots. I finally did what I should have done in the first place and bought a Canopus ADVC 55, which made beautiful DV-type 2 files when coupled with WinDV. I chopped them up using VirtualDub.

About this time I acquired a Sony SR5E camcorder with Dolby 5.1 sound. My copy of VS9 SE didn't handle the audio, so once again I lashed out and upgraded to VS11.5+. Now all my camcorder tapes are DV files as well as DVDs.

Our family also has about 60 8 mm cine film reels. A local business (www.dvideo.co.nz) has digitised them by photographing each frame and putting them all together. This has been done in high resolution, so we now have DivX files that have come out very well considering the age and condition of the films. Getting these organised and annotated is a work in progress.

My latest project is scanning my collection of negatives and prints. Alas the negatives have suffered from mould at times, but some of these software packages can do amazing things to hide the worst of it! I tried a Plustek 7200i scanner, but have had a few issues with streaks appearing on certain shots. I'm trying a Microtek i800 next.

So to sum up: some people restore motorbikes in their lounge. I am trying to convince my wife that she's better off with a hobbyist like me!

[marksman000]

I have used this forum to solve several VS11 issues and wish to thank those who contributed. This forum is an excellent source of information. I am 39 and currently reside in Anchorage, Ak. I love to tinker with video and digital photography when time allows.

Thanks for great Forum!

[Sektionschef]

Hi
My name is Peter and I started editing mpeg2 video with Videostudio V9.
Unfortunately I detected a terrible bug with smartrendering and needed to switch to Magix and Sony Vegas sw. I observed all further VS Versions 10,11 and 12 and in my last tests it seems that the bug is finnaly fixed in V12.
I still need to do more tests to confirm this and I still don't know whether I will switch back to VS12 or stay with my other programs.
Regards
Sektionschef