I'm back, and yes it did manage to enter Windows XP. The hard drive even survived being wiped. I'm actually kind of tempted to clean this wreck up and see if I could find a cheap replacement display panel somewhere, along with a battery.
This video was edited with a piece of software known as VideoReDo Plus. Doing so is part of an excellent method demonstrated (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0OTVU3UuAx0.html) by fellow RU-vid user vwestlife.
This approach works really well for many standard definition camcorders that store video in MPEG-2 format on flash or disk memory devices. Not only is this approach fast, it also avoids any further quality loss when outputting your edited video. I felt it more than worthwhile to register a copy of VideoReDo Plus since it worked so well and did a no-nonsense job of simply joining clips together and making simple cut-cut edits. (Many popular modern video editing packages seem to be designed such that everything except simple AND precise cut-cut editing, which I'd dare say is all that 95% of people want to do, is anything from utterly impossible to extremely irritating.)
You might be wondering why I'm telling you all of this. Well, when I set up VideoReDo Plus and provided my registration key to it back in early 2012, I did so under a virtualized installation of Windows that ran on my now-stricken Macbook laptop. Ever since that laptop suffered a broken backlight cable and display hinge, I've had to move my editing activities elsewhere. (The preceding sentence is a test.)
Thus it follows that maybe I'd like to take some of my editing software elsewhere as well. One would think I was well within my rights to read out my license key from the software in question. VideoReDo's developers felt otherwise for whatever reason and it's not possible to recall one's registration key from within the software. To further tease one's hopes of being able to do this, the software's log file makes a truncated mention of the license key in a log file that it keeps. I searched for that license key high and low and never found it. In fact, I'm willing to bet that it is stored within the program itself, in some sort of obfuscated form, despite being unable to 100% prove such. (Copying the installed program from the virtualized installation of Windows didn't work, which would seem to invalidate this theory, unless you consider that the program could be squirreling away other values to determine if it is running on the same computer. I have no idea if it's actually doing such.)
I don't seem to have ever gotten an e-mail from DRD Systems containing my registration information. Rather surprisingly, perhaps because I assumed I'd *be* getting an e-mail from them, I didn't record the registration information in any other way.
Now I *could* contact their customer service department and I'm sure they'd gladly send me the registration information. Yet this is a holiday weekend and I'd really like the software to work right now.
(Yes, they offer trial keys. I already did that a while ago. So, yes, it's my fault that I didn't take care of the matter earlier. And as such, it's probably inappropriate for me to be spouting off in a catty manner that three whole people are likely to read. I just needed to vent my frustrations. This is also a good example of just how dedicated I am to the nice people who watch my videos. I could have said "screw it" and gone off to mow the lawn instead*.)
More videos to come, hopefully soon. If you really did read this far, thank you. I mean it: in this generation of abominable texting abbreviations, I really appreciate your having taken the time to do so.
* Truth be told, the Keykeeper came along and wanted some help mowing at the farm. I did end up saying "screw it" and going off to mow the lawn. A few hours later I came back to this, and tempted fate by using VideoReDo on the stricken Macbook. With care, it lived through the process.
"And now you know...the REST of the story!"
30 май 2016
