I personally use Joyoshare Media Cutter. It is easy-to-use and all-in-one audio and video editing software on Windows and Mac. Not only can it cut and split any audio or video without quality loss but also be provided with various editing effects, like crop, rotate, flip, adjust, customize parameters, subtitle, background, watermark, and more.

I have used Pinnacle Studio for a long time with good results.

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/studio/

You might try video editor from AppGeeker software (http://www.appgeeker.com) . You can download it and try it. From what your post said, it looks like it might fit your needs.

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Another warning.

When video cards start getting long in the tooth, they are often made to look better by doubling the RAM on them. Video cards are also notorious for being the same card "renamed" for next year's series. For instance GTX 550 to 650 to 750. Do lots of research!!

It is usually the last 2 digits of a video cards numbers that are important. The higher the better. Try to always be above 50.

on the rebates - you usually see them on pricier parts ....something that's a great quality but a bit on the high end ...then the rebate makes it more reasonable - they got back to me telling me I missed it ? ....another company sent me some prepaid card that when i tried to register it didn't exist and the telephone was all robots that hung up on you lol. only 1 of the 3 rebates worked. They Ganked me! :crazy:

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My last two systems I've built myself. For the first one, I bought from newegg, which is a good source. For the second one, I got most parts from my local microcenter, as they had a good deal on a motherboard/CPU combination. I have never had any problems with rebates on parts, but I'm sure people's experiences vary. I don't select parts based on rebates, but on what I want based on reviews, etc.

I've recently discovered pcpartpicker as well, and it is very useful. I will use it for my next system, which will be super...:w00t:

The main reason to build myself is quality control. The system I bought before the ones I built was a $1500 HP especially for multimedia. It had an underpowered power supply, inadequate cooling, etc. I tried to improve on it by replacing parts, but it was sort of hopeless.

Building a system yourself is not necessarily cheaper than buying a Dell or HP consumer PC, but is definitely less expensive than a quality boutique workstation. It is also kind of fun...

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2 sites that I focused on to build my system, which i'm still very happy with!!

http://pcpartpicker.com/ this place covers a variety of shops, it's basically a way you can build your custom computer with a variety of parts - It covers Europe and North America with shops. It pretty much functions like a music playlist and gives you an estimated total of what your purchase would be and the different shop prices. Big with gaming community when recommending computer builds - so if you look around, you'll see lists that other people made as well. Fun site.

2nd place is where I actually bought the parts from - http://www.newegg.com don't believe the hype with the rebates. They get you to choose a part based on generous rebates, then them or the company sends you an email like a month later explaining why they can't pay it. What you SHOULD look out for, is bundle deals ...like when they give you a discount for buying a motherboard and cpu combination - I saved a TON getting the most combos I could. Also, always look around for some prebuilt specialty gaming system, sometimes they have some really well made systems for cheap because they are over stocked.

there are other sites that offer you custom builds, but don't believe that hype either, they limit your choices of combos within price brackets ....and you end up paying like 300-500 dollars more than if you just bought individual parts....and the best boards and cpu's fall in the 3,000 starting price bracket. They give everything fancy names and pictures just to jack up the price and assemble it for you. which might be worth it if you don't have much experience building computers - Dont under-estimate the fear of bending a cpu pin when installing it - even experts get nervous on that part! - in that particular case, paying the extra money would be like insurance for having the company assume those kind of risks!

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Thanks Guys for all your input. I will certainly look up this page when I buy new equipment.

For now I will have to see the limits of the minimum and find creative ways to work with it. I STILL LOOOVEEE Iclone and its potential. The good prices, freebies and user community are really a God send. I hope I don't have to buy a new version of Iclone with a switch to a 64 bit operating system!!

Please share where you get systems at a good price. It sounds like a build to order not off the shelf.

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Looks like the "minimum" requirements have not been updated for a while. Let's call it an oversight, that sounds nicer...:P"

Well it's updated to include W8, Job :ermm:

I'll call it "Mis-leading", to be nicer ;)

FWIW - Pinnacle Systems that was, were criticised so much for quoting a Minimum Spec, they eventually only quoted a Recommended (& More) spec.

.....................and - Here's Reallusion's Reply to Roberto Columbo's request re; PC Specs for Running iC5; Not exactly Minimum or Recommended, is it?

Here, as promised, is RL answer about my questions.
I think they offer an interesting point of view.

1. A good graphics card is very important for iClone5. Having a powerful card with plenty of on-board ram will allow you to work with higher resolution textures and handle more objects on screen. However the processor is also very important so I would suggest a 60 -40 share in favour of the graphics card.

2. Having more than 4GB of Ram with a 32Bit operating system will not offer any real benefits. However if you have a 64bit operating system then system Ram becomes very important, especially if you plan to work with larger scale projects. 16GB will be ideal for iClone5.

3. We do recommend Nvidia cards but latest AMD cards are still a good choice too. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 would be perfect for iClone with a GTX 680 or 760 being a close second.

4. SSD drives can improve the loading speed of iClone (and all your software) but the size is often the problem. If the SSD drive is used for the C: drive then along with iClone it will also contain the OS as well as your iClone temp files which can get very large. For this reason a minimum 256GB card is the best option. The small sizes such as 64GB are not really suitable as they will fill up almost immediately which counters any gains you have made by using SSD.

5. At this stage I don't think there is any difference between using Windows 7 or Windows 8. Both work perfectly with iClone offering the same performance levels. Personally I use Windows 8.1 because of the other benefits it brings, but for iClone only there really is no difference.





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Looks like the "minimum" requirements have not been updated for a while. Let's call it an oversight, that sounds nicer...:P

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