Windows Vista kinda sucks, kinda rocks.

If you don’t know by now, Windows Vista is widely known to be the worst operating system ever. At work, i was helping out setting up a game footage capturing station (take video footage of live video game play for game demos, showing clients what their ads look like in xbox games). The key was to get it in HD so that the final video that goes to the client will have a really high quality. Now after the station was all set up, i began capturing footage and once i got what i needed, i began editing.

Now windows movie maker is a simple, clean, easy to use program. I edited footage in it within a few minutes. Very convenient! Only: it doesn’t feature HD capability in the regular version of vista. Now some people might argue to use adobe premiere but unless you have a very very powerful machine, the HD editing in adobe premiere sucks horribly. It runs super super slow and choppy. Back to the drawing table.

After some research i discovered that Windows Vista Ultimate and Home Premium both feature an advanced version of windows movie maker that handles up to 1080pi HD. Great. Now i just needed to get a copy. here is where vista sucks: you have to download special software that will determine whether or not your version of vista can be upgraded to vista ultimate. What the fuck ? I have to get software to tell me if my software can be upgraded to a higher version of itself ? That’s just ridiculous. After some chasing the tech guy though we got a copy of vista ultimate, installed it, and it opened my video project from the old version no problem, and voila, had some added export settings and i was able to publish the movie within 60 seconds in HD quality.

Bottom Line: Vista Ultimate is great for on the fly HD editing, nothing too fancy, but very effective. But getting there sucks. Thus, Windows Vista kinda sucks, kinda rocks.