On 20 Jan 2003 08:40:52 -0800, john@jcltech.com (John Livermore) wrote:

>I use Premier to edit/finalize my home movies shot with my mini DV

>camcorder. I have found it a bit difficult to pick up, but after

>spending several hours with the product I am able to produce a nice

>video with subtitles, transitions between scenes, and background

>music. I was attracted to Premier, b/c I had previously used a

>competing product that was frustrating to use as every little action

>would lock up the program as it rendered the latest edit. This made

>every little thing I did take 5 minutes or so. Premier renders when

>you are ready to do so, and enables you to leave the computer doing

>its job while you do something else (like sleep!).

>

>However, for what I am doing, Premier seems to be a bit overkill as it

>clearly has professional features I don't think I will ever use unless

>I take classes on the subject.

>

>Is there another product that renders similarly to Premier (as in when

>you are ready to)? Does anyone have an opinion of Pinnacle Studio?

>

>Thanks,

>John

As others have said, since you have started with Premiere,

why not continue? There are other good programs, some of

which are simpler, but you may soon outgrow the simplest,

and you do not need to use most of Premiere's features,

if you do not want to... BTW, I do not like the standard

interface for Premiere, and prefer a more "hands-on"

film-like approach - but this is easy to do in Premiere

(see: www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/premiere.htm - though this

is for P-5.1 [which I still use], it applies also to

P-6, since it is similar enough...).