Average Person wrote:
On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 13:44:10 -0700, "Bill in Co"
surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote:

Chances are, this is so old, it won't support MP4. The main
reason for showing this to you, is so you can see "what started
it all". The pane design of this movie editor, is what
everyone else aspires to copy. So this is what started the mania.

You're going to start him off by showing him Adobe Premiere Pro? :-)
I think you would have been better off mentioning the freebie to him.
The Adobe Premiere one is (IMO) only for some seasoned, video editing,
professionals, of which I am not. :-) (I could say the same thing about
Adobe Photoshop too, for that matter. :-)

But if you want a full featured albatross, I'd say go for either one.
:-)


I can relate to that. I have photoshop 7. Got it free, so I installed
it. I rarely use it. I prefer my old Paint shop pro, from when that was
still shareware. I dont want or need all the bloat in Photoshop, or even
the newer versions of PSP. The older PSP does all I need, and I do a lot
of detailed graphic editing. Simple is often better than bloated. And
when I find software that works, I dont want to have to keep re-learning
it, when there is no real advantage.

Thats also why I keep using XP. I dont want or need all the bloated crap
in windows 10. or even 8.x, or 7. The software companies keep adding
crap so they can sell updates. NOT because we need or even want it.

Yup. I still use an old version of PSP. Photoshop is too heavy for me.
Even Adobe Audition is a bit heavy, except for the good old version (1.5),
which started out as CoolEditPro, and was later resold to Adobe to become
bloatware.

I''ll be on XP until it isn't possible anymore, most likely due to the
browser limitations. But so far the latest XP versions of Firefox and
Chrome are working pretty well. But it's probably just a matter of time
before we're forced into Windows 7, at a minimum. I find Win7 to be a bit
of a PIA, due to all the permissions and ownership junk occasionally getting
in my way when I'm using Windows Explorer.