Howdy All,
I've been having fun sorting out the whole DLSR video editing process and I'm finally getting things stable and working well 
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T2i with the 70-200mm II on top of Manfrotto 0055XPROB Legs and 498RC2 ballhead
$400 PC: HP p6625f w/AMD 4 core and 4GB memory and just the std. built-in graphics interface. Nothing fancy but is does seem to work for what I'm currently doing with my lightweight video editing (so far.)
Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10
(Free) Prism Video File Converter (Transcode from .mov to .avi so that it can be properly handled in Vegas without crashing.)
Matrox Codec (Install this on PC so that Prism can use it for the Transcoding process.)
Here's a couple of my 1080p videos. Be sure to let it buffer-up (pause the playback until you have a bunch buffered) in the YouTube window if you don't have a fast connection. Otherwise at 1080p, you'll suffer through the start-stop empty buffer speed trap 
. Don't get lazy and leave it at 360p and not full screen .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsv36XLids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdae9NGeC-Y&NR=1
I may have goofed-up processing or uploading this one since it seems to have resolution issues 
. I think I made this one before I found out about Matrox. You can see his face has poor resolution among other things. When I have time, I'll go back and re-process it with Matrox this time before I import it into Vegas.
http://www.youtube.com …THAw9ZpXo&feature=related
These links really helped me get things sorted out:
(Thanks Eugenia!)
http://eugenia.queru.com …-with-vegas-for-vimeo-hd/
(More info about how to use these tools plus links to Prism and Matrox)
http://buildyourown.wordpress.com …iles-using-matrox-codecs/
