Some test info...

- on the front end, partial success with the CaptureWizard.exe importing
video clips from my mini-DV camcorder (firewire connection)... of the 3
options for format, the Windows Media Video and the Video Device Format
(AVI) work fine.... the Windows Media Video File Collection process for a
whole tape stalled the first time after about 35 minutes, and 45 minutes the
second time. I've filed a report on it, and have 2 great residual test sets
of temporary files created and not cleaned up as they would have been if the
process finished successfully.

- in the middle... Movie Maker rendering a movie project.... fantastic!!!! I
tried a package that a customer couldn't render a few weeks ago, and I
couldn't render on my laptop with 2 GB of RAM without dividing the 25 minute
project into 4 minute segments and building it back up. Vista rendered it
complete and my test system has only 512 MB of RAM.... Vista uses more than
that to just wake up, before opening Movie Maker..... the rendering used one
of the CPUs at 100% and the other at 50%, leaving room to do other stuff
smoothly as it went.

- on the back end, making a DVD..... success after a few failures which
occurred during rendering of the MPEG-2 files.... the failures happened
before the actual burn started, so it was the first blank disc that ended up
coming out OK.... no coasters.