Apple software on Windows: oy, my aching PC...

I've been using more Apple software lately to setup our media files populating our vidcasts. Geez, the resource demands on those things is intense. Makes me almost want to buy a Mac (which I guess is the hook-line-sinker point). Alas, I have but yet 768MB of RAM on my 1.5GHz Windows XP Pro box at home. And that's a tad faster than the machines I use here at Camp Happy (work). And I still can't get Apple apps to fly.

I'm testing the time spent exporting a night's newscast in Quicktime 7 Pro for Windows, which I bought for $29.95, which takes insanely long on my Win2K Pro box in my office. I played with a 30-second commercial and 85 minutes later, I had an MP4. That won't work with hour-long shows. I've also used ImTOO's MPEG Encoder, which works great in Win32 environments and is a helluva lot faster with comparable quality. And unlike QT7, imports WMVs.

That might, as Jon Lovitz would say, be the ticket.