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Coming up with the video entry’s a lot tougher than I anticipated. I’m currently assessing the tools I’ll be using in producing the video, and what I have can be summed up in one word: sucky. I have a crappy laptop I’ll be using to edit the video, and I just realized I don’t have a video editor on board this stupid machine (lest I want to work with Windows Movie Maker, which is probably the crap-bottom of all crap-bottoms).

Okay, in summary, this is what I have right now:

1. Lumix FZ28. The little bugger can shoot in HD, and from previous tests, the quality’s very good. So it’ll do. It has a bad microphone, though, but I won’t have to worry about that because I plan to take out the audio anyway and replace it with flowing music all throughout.

2. Dad’s 20+ year old tripod. Truth is, any tripod will do. So this is good enough.

3. Acer Aspire 4710. My crappy laptop can’t even run Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. Stupid piece of junk. One more reason why, at least for me, that Sony VAIO’s one to covet. Oh, did I mention that it’s already loaded with a lot of important files? It only has some 3 gigabytes of space left, and just so you know, a 3-4 minute video in high definition can take somewhere around 600 to 800 megabytes. How many samples can I fit into my laptop’s crappy space? I’ll probably need to buy a lot of blank DVD-Rs. Bah. We’ll see about that.

The old Acer 4710.

4. Windows Movie Maker. What that fuck, I ain’t using this shit for any crap.

Solution: The camera and tripod are okay, and there’s nothing I can do about my laptop. As for the video editor, I’m already downloading the 30-day trial version of Corel VideoStudio Pro X2. If it lives up to the CNET Staff’s review, it should be enough. I’m not really looking for something fancy, just an editor that can handle HD videos.

I haven’t thought about anything else (with regards to the tools I’ll be using to produce the video) after that. Should Corel fail to deliver, that’s when I’ll start thinking about a different plan. For now, while I’m downloading the software, it’s just me and the storyboard.