The handful of people that read this know I was distraught, as a video camera newbie, that my video camera didn’t save in a commonly used Internet formats I was familiar with: avi, wmv, or/and divx. I’d like to say I’ve learned more and know there is a good reason for MP2 to be the standard…but I haven’t, I’ve just accepted it and really have no idea the reasoning behind it

Enter Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8.0, the trial version… After a week (plus) into the trial, many hours of trial and error learning & playing, and several YouTube video instructions I’ve learned that anyone, even beginners, can learn video editing with a little bit of tenacity. Although I consider myself pretty tech savvy, I knew nothing about video editing and ahhh’ed over friends’ video tributes. I’m more than happy to share my meager knowledge and experience and get tips from others. Below is a project video which I took with the intent of editing it when I still thought my camera’s software could do all that (Ha!).

I’m no videophile, but I don’t think it’s too bad for a second attempt (the first attempt was re-vamping this video). The “magic trick”…well, it’s kind of embarassing, I’m not much for theatrics.

Add this to my Christmas list! I’m pretty sure it’s on sale at Costco!