Road Trippin' Part 2

It's the quickest video that I've made of this kind.

On the computer that I've had for years (indeed, the very computer that I've used to compose this blog post), using the video-editing software that DW gave me, years ago, an 11-minute video would have taken me at least 20 hours to put together from bits of MP4 clips.

A couple of weeks ago, DW bought herself a powerful new laptop, with a fast processor and video card, and downloaded new video editing software. She talked about upgrading our computer a few weeks back, and she had an old work computer that was similar but not as powerful, upon which she let me try a test video to see how fast it would be.

You can see that test video here.

On her brand-new MacBook, I produced my latest YouTube video. As I said, producing this video on our old system would have taken me at least 20 hours. Mind you, I did have to watch a couple of tutorials to understand the new software, but even including that time, I produced my latest video in less than 10 hours.

Why so much faster? First, I didn't have to wait forever for each clip to be rendered after dragging it into my timeline. Some clips could take about 15 to 20 minutes to load, and I would exhaust myself simply by waiting.

In the new software, Final Cut Pro, I can leave the video files in their folder and import them by proxy, which, as I understand it, brings them into my timeline as a compressed, much smaller size. There's no waiting for pulling them into the timeline. I can just add and edit.

I'm not a fan of Apple and there are growing pains with using a Mac, after being a Windows user for decades. But I do like the ease of use of Final Cut Pro. In the future, I'll use DW's MacBook for video editing, but my Windows laptop for everything else.

Here's the second part of our Road Trippin' adventure, which saw us with friends in Stratford and St. Marys, in southern Ontario. Have a look.

I have one more video idea for this month and if everything goes well, that video will be out on December 31. If you like my videos, please subscribe to my YouTube channel and hit the notification button so that you'll be the first to learn of my videos when they drop.

Happy Monday!