re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

Yeah, that's a good one once you get past the steep learning curve. Admittedly, I haven't, but I found Sony Vegas a little easier. The important thing is that the software you use is actually programmed to take advantage of your hardware most effectively. Those non-professional home/consumer programs (like Cyberlink/Windows Movie Maker/Pinaccle/iMovie/etc) are designed to work with low-end machines and in fact get no benefits from workstation rigs, because they don't really need or use high-end GPUs for rendering, don't use more than 4 threads/cores for rendering or encoding, nor do they cache entire projects to RAM and instead rely on the speed of your hard drive/SSD.