Thanks for the review. I’m a recent convert to Mac, but also a Sony Vegas user for the past 10-plus years. I used Final Cut about a decade ago when I worked in a Mac shop doing some television work. Based on my good experience back then, I was getting ready to bite the bullet and buy FCPX.

Thanks for saving me the money. Instead, I’ll be installing Virtual Box and Windows XP SP3 on my Mac and running my faithful copy of Movie Studio 10, which has consistently been making me money and NOT giving me headaches for some time now.

You rock!

What you guys think?

The other service that is cheaper is Panda Stream, but I have read that is slow. I also find this benchmark test that seems to show that Zencoder is the fastest of the Encoding services.
http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2011/10/encoding-performance-comparing-zencoder.html

I don’t see this as an example of a child not having access to other forms of information, rather a preference of that child wanting to interact with the world around them in a different way than ‘traditional’ forms of communication. This is simply another step in the natural progression of humanity. Our forefathers are probably lamenting our lack of skills in many areas (building a house of our own, growing/hunting/slaughtering our own food, passing along oral traditions instead of relying on written records, etc…). The times, they are a-changing. This child will most likely grow up knowing how to read, how to turn pages on a magazine, and how to write with hands and writing implements. However, this child will also demand more interaction with the information consumed and will get it. Text, graphics, sound, video, animation, and more will be part of the sensory input experience for an entire lifetime and this child will have a head start over others. I welcome these children to our school and district. I encourage them.

Critical thinking and problem solving begin here and we see it happening live in the video. Experiencing and learning the difference between the types of media. Why do we insist on holding onto antiquated ideas and concepts? For the nostalgia? I was reprimanded in school repeatedly for my handwriting and now I can honestly state that I hand write perhaps one single page of text in a year (if you combine all my notes together). I type as my main form of written communication now. I only wish I had been exposed to it earlier. There are many other examples of how we’re stuck in the 1950 model of education and need to change.