
Instead of a collection of tools combined into an integrated suite, Sony has a small family of professional products that run on Windows, featuring Vegas Pro for video, plus two powerful audio tools that are suites in their own right: Sound Forge Pro for audio editing and mastering, and ACID Pro for music creation. And Apple, with its Final Cut Studio expanding from professional editing to digital cinema.Īnd then there’s Sony Creative Software, with a legacy based in audio from the acquisition of Sonic Foundry back in 2003. Or Adobe, with its ever-more-tightly integrated Creative Suite, from imaging to video to the web. More talking to those nice Indian techs at Dell I guess.What family of video editing tools are you most comfortable with? There’s Avid, with its extensive legacy in broadcast and film. There are some applications that, when I try to open some elements (like older word files), causes the screen to black out requiring a reboot before I'm back to the applications that don't seem to trigger such a response. It is possible that issues outside the application are driving the problem. To possibly anticipate your next question, here are the options I see when I right click (// means a new text line): Open//Shred//Open File Location//Run as Administrator//Troubleshoot Compatibility//Pin to Start//Scan//Pin to taskbar//Restore Previous Version//Send to://Cut//Copy//Delete//Rename//Properties.Īll suggestions present and future much appreciated. There is a separate option for "Run as Administrator" but that allows only for a yes or no response. The only option that comes close to the one you indicated is called "Troubleshoot Compatibility." Clicking on it brings me to choosing between two automated troubleshoot scans. Well, I've learned to right click on the SF 11 icon, aka Forge 110.exe.
