...and when the universe is overrun with space elk, who's going to hunt them if not Ted Nugent?

Just some food for thought.

For those of you clinging to your seat wondering about the outcome to the editing software sweepstakes, we have a winner. Through process of elimination, Adobe Premiere seems to have come out on top. The clincher came when it loaded MXF files with no problem and played them back with no performance issues. If the internet (Thanks Creative Cow. Check out creativecow.com if you're interested in the technical side of movie production. It's a great resource and so far more helpful than Adobe's documentation) hadn't informed me that it can edit at audio sample levels it probably still would have lost to Sony Vegas. It almost did anyway. Premiere's attempts to go 'pro' by mimicking Avid have led to regressions in usability rather than progress. I'll try and save that rant for a separate discussion on the People Who Care blog.

I will say that I was unable to update the program. After reading the official technical advice which informed users they should install and reinstall the program and along the way completely reformat their entire system, I finally found a half-understood nugget of info in a forum which indicated the fix to the problem was an incorrect version number in the update xml. Talk about criminally ridiculous. Once I got past though and it's not easy to get past something like that, things were a little better.

The subtext here is that I've begun officially editing the movie.