Video Explosion Deluxe lloks remarkably like Serif MoviePlus (http://www.serif.com/MoviePlus/MoviePlus5/screenshots.asp)

I've tried it, but it didn't work like Vegas.

John Cline,
I live just a day's drive due north of Albuquerque and wait anxiously this time of year for the fresh crop of Hatch and Pueblo chiles to start arriving at the hundreds of roasters that pop up on street corners here every August.

I've been using the same roaster for at least ten years now, a fruit and vegetable guy who drives his big truck all over northern NM and southern CO weekly in search of the perfect chile, and he usually succeeds. My personal favs run from hot hatch and pueblo cone, to some scorching fresnos and mirasol from western CO, but in a good year I can find a dozen or more varieties available to fill my freezer, and still have plenty to give away to friends and neighbors. Aaahh the aroma!

Did anyone else ever use Video Explosion Deluxe

Yes, I did. I was impressed with the way it previewed all of the effects. I bought it when I was frustrated with one of the versions of Pinnacle Studio. I've also bought many, many others. Currently, Vegas is my favorite.

On my video777.com web site I wrote this in 2003: "Video Explosion Deluxe is kind of like a Vegas Video Light. It has a number of features not found in other packages at this price."

Buster, it's habañero, not habnero, nor haberno. Want to try again? I hear third time's the charm.

it's habañero

Not true. The pepper gets its name from the city English speakers call Havana (Habana in Spanish). No tilde either way.

I was going to point that out too, and also that the criticism of Spot/DSE's spelling is unwarranted.

"Habanjero" is a perfectly acceptable alternate spelling that is seen in the SW US and Mexico. I see it on signs at outdoor produce markets quite often. And I just saw hundreds of examples when I typed that spelling into Google.

The similarities in pronunciation between "n tilde" and "nj" at least on this continent would probably be hard to distinguish.

Thanks for all the fun replies to this ( HOT ) ;-) thread.
Since it has gone a little ha,ha of topic may I ask 1 simple question that is also OT but not so spicy, I need a good preferably FREE java script editor any ideas?

now on with the spicy comments..
and some other Sony Vegas history please :-)

I kind of like Wendy's chile as you can almost chug a lug it. I had some "Texas Chile" in Iceland once and I needed an ice cold swig of beer after every bite.
JJK

Wendy's chili (note the "i" at the end) is Tex-Mex, which has absolutely no relationship to the chile (note the "e") cuisine here in New Mexico. Wendy's chili is pretty good though.

LOL.

Touche'. That looked a little wierd when I typed it, but was too tired. As for the tilde, here's what Wikipedia says:

"The habanero chile (Capsicum chinense Jacquin) (sometimes incorrectly spelled "habañero"[1])"

I didn't know there was regional variation on the spelling.

John's right about the food in New Mexico, it's fantastic and unlike other styles of Mexican food that I've had.

The article was mostly about Santa Fe and Taos and various places nearby including Sugar's in Embudo which is a barbecue shack at the bottom of the Rio Grande Gorge. They make a barbecue brisket with green chile burrito that's awesome. We only had one meal in Alberqueque at Sadie's right after we got off the plane. Yum that was good.

Wikipedia as the ultimate authority?

I grew up in Argentina, a Spanish-speaking country [well, Castilian variant of the tongue] for those not in the know. Habañero, with the tilde, is the accepted term used to refer to something or someone related to La Habana [male gender, habañera for female]. Although there are enough geographical variations in Spanish, so that there may be instances where the tilde isn't used, Cuban Spanish is probably the closest to the Argentine version that I'm aware of.

Can we hear from a Cuban native on this?

BTW, the "h" is also silent, so the proper pronunciation isn't jabahnero or jabahniero, but ahbahnero or ahbahniero.

Vegas Pro was the originator. It was an audio editor that had video importing capabilities. The next software if I recall was Vegas Video 2.0 and Vegas Audio 2.0.

I just opened the nice heavy box it came in with the genuine print manual and there was nothing mentioned in there about the origin of the term "Vegas" despite the opening statement:

"Sonic Foundry introduces Vegas, an innovative and advanced multitrack media-editing system".

There is also nothing on the box that would suggest a "gambling" theme either, just the Sonic Foundry logo and a couple of empty film reels.

Interesting question though.

John

Javascript is a plain text language. Notepad can edit it perfectly fine. So can wordpad or Microsoft Word or emacs or vim (my preference).

I'm guessing what you might be after is a development environment with debugging, rather than just an editor. Seamonkey's internet application suite has a limited javascripting environment that might suit your needs. http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ It's currently my browser of choice, being based on Mozilla and containing the email module as an integral part of the software rather than an external add-on.

Buster,

If you only had one meal here, Sadie's was a very good choice. It's perhaps my favorite, although there are a lot of great "hole in the wall" places which each have their variations on the theme. Heck, it's all good!

Thanks Kelly
I am brand new to this script thing and had a couple of them in java, so I was not aware that it was a plain text thing I will check out the seamonkey site you mentioned. If i have more questions on scripting I will make sure post it on that forum.

also man all this talk about chili peppers makes me hungry for some mexican food... ;)

Java? Or Javascript? Be careful; they're completely and radically different things that have just about no relation to each other at all.

Java is also a plain text language, but it needs to be compiled into byte-code before it can be run. Sun has a selection of free Java development and debugging tools. Take a look at http://developers.sun.com/, but only if you're looking for Java. You won't find much about Javascript there.

Oh, and if you're talking about Vegas scripting, that has just about nothing to do with either Java or Javascript.

Sadie's, yes. Also had some very good stuff from vendors at the NM State Fair.
But one of my happiest moments here in Colorado was discovering that Little Anita's had opened a location here. Great lunch, but oh those breakfast burritos!