the Dxdiag; a few dilemmas?
Computers & (in this case) editing software are tools.
These days it seems like most people do computers and cameras. All shapes and sizes.
Can’t be easy for the manufactures of software, can’t be easy for the people who sell the stuff, and it’s certainly often not a walk in the park for customers, who think they (just) spent money on equipment suitable for their needs.
“Their needs”……a key?
Of course people should investigate before buying, and I do think a lot of people do.
But investigating also often result in contradicting statements, leaving the customer to
either have someone they trust or having to take a chance. Honesty is probably not the most obvious priority of a salesman.
The carousel of consumption is a very fast one. We are pushed (or deceived?) to believe that if we only get the newest, fastest biggest stuff, we will not only be more happy, but we will create amazing things. In a way we are told we can buy creativity; more money spent = more creative work. More templates, more transitions, 3D, faster rendering……because ?
On a few occations, the question of whether CL should have a pro-edition + a consumer-edition has been raised. The understanding, so far, I guess has been that CL does not want to go there. That leaves the intent that PD is meant to be, and will be, a consumer software.
What does “the consumer” want, exactly? What does “the consumer” need ? Who is “the consumer” ? Is he/she the dedicated hobby-editor, who spends most of the free-time by the computer and cameras? Is he/she the retired person, who has editing like a hobby- as others might have fishing, reading as a hobby? Is he/she the familyperson, who now in a small way does digital photoing instead of paper-albums? Is he/she a company-person, a person who has clients and gets paid for the editing? An educator? Broadcaster?
Is the consumer of PD interested in quick and easy canned options, or more interested in spending hours on a minor task to learn how it’s done?
The other day, I told one of my neighbours that I spent several hours a day for 3 weeks making frames for my recent slideshow. He was no less than shocked. (He is a familyman with small children). He said: “How hard can it be to edit? You cut out what you don’t want and you leave the rest!” He is an educated man, and he knows a lot about computers. (He is responsible for all computers at his work)
To me, this illustrates the difference in “needs” between an average “consumer” – and, let’s say me. If he was to edit video-clips, he would want a software that could do the job in a few clicks. No 3D, no heavy effects, maybe not even a menu. At home, he’s got an avarage good Ac….computer. If he was having to leave the Dxdiag somwhere to get a consumer software to work, I’m sure he would snarl – and just leave it.
He would have read the System Requirements and expected his computer to fully meet them.
Browsing the net these days, I’m dazzeled and delighted to see the many, many really amazingly good, creative videos made by younger people. They do not use PD, I’m afraid.
They do not turn to the “fastest consumer editing software”. That, in some ways, leaves us with the average computer user. And that – leaves us with the frequently asked question on this forum: the Dxdiag.
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