Vidding is such a pain in the ass. I really don't know why I do it. Either you download the episodes, or you rip them. Ripping them takes forever. Downloading them is okay, but then you're probably going to end up with a set of episodes that have mismatching aspect ratios, frames per second, bitrates, codecs, and all the other shit that needs to match to make the vid look good. So you end up having to convert them all to one matching set of details. You need endless HD space to store all the episodes, you need some more HD space to be able to render in high quality, you either need a computer with an assload of memory, or a lot of patience while you render your vid every ten seconds to preview it (because without sufficient memory, the preview in the program lags, and it's impossible to see if it looks good or not)--and in the end, you're going to end up with something that looks maybe one tenth as good as it did when you saw it in your head.

I want one of those Power Macs they've got sitting in the editing suite at uni. Except I don't want to have to edit in Final Cut Pro, so I'd need a Mac version of Sony Vegas. Which doesn't exist. What pisses me off most is that the Macs in the editing suite won't write on my external HD, because it's formatted for Windows. Seriously? I mean, seriously? Wtf, Apple and Microsoft. You couldn't at least match up your HD formats? Macs can obviously read NTFS; how hard can it be to program them to write it? Compatibility is a good thing, believe it or not.

*throws hands in the air* TECHNOLOGY, PEOPLE. LET ME TELL YOU.

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