technology
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It began already in the morning. Mac computer vs. NTFS formatted external hard drive.
That was quickly fixed with the SD card reader at the laptop.
I also installed the whole Adobe software suite before, besides the 64-bit programs, which are not available for my cheap-ass laptop with Win 7 32 bit. These were for sure the programs I needed right now.
Tried to circumvent that with Premiere Essentials...on a DVD. Perfect, without a DVD drive.
Went to get an external DVD drive, and also asked for an university laptop.
Got the DVD drive, but the university laptop failed at installing Premiere Pro while the head technician was in a 1 hour long meeting.
Okay, then back, without the laptop.
Got Premiere Essentials installed, but for sure, it doesn't play the video of the mp4 files.
Not sure if that's better or worse then for my course mate: Her laptop didn't recognize the external DVD drive.
Wasted some time and finding out what the problem could be. The not installed quicktime was sure an issue, but apparently not the only one. And Premiere Essentials begins to crash now.
To do something, I've installed Avidemux, which for sure also doesn't play the mp4s.
Okay, said to myself, then I'll install Premiere Essentials on my Desktop (there at least the audio/video environment is already properly configured), and work in the night.
turns out that it needs SSE2, and my desktop is surely *that* old.
Great.
Now I'll need to see if the combination of VirtualDub + Avidemux will work on this computer, else I'll need to steal a desktop from the university, and install a Win7 64 bit trial on it.
...*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGHHHH*
EDIT: Found some other interesting programs, but as it turns out, I forgot that I had a hardrive failure in January...so...no properly configured video environment.
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EDIT2: I've wasted now 4 hours to find out that my desktop is too old and my netbook is too weak to run anything related to video editing. Wonderfull.