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...group that is nowhere near its highs at a time when most stocks have recovered nicely. In this market, nothing stays out of favor for long. When the world's growth recovers, these stocks will surge back to much higher valuations. I'm betting we will look back and marvel that we got this second chance to buy high-quality financials at a discount...
...KANE and I had a friendly competition going for decades. Whenever he'd talk about the longevity of Batman, I'd ask what he's done lately. Whenever I'd mention a Marvel character, he'd remind me that Batman had been the biggest screen superhero. He was the best kind of friend--always provocative, always fun. He certainly didn't always live by the usual rules. Meeting the ever tardy Kanes for dinner was an adventure. If we were to meet at 8, my wife and I would arrive at 8:30. He'd beat us by arriving...
...need at least a Pentium-level PC running at 166 megahertz, plus a sound card, a CD-ROM drive and 2 gigabytes of free space. Storage is especially critical because the Marvel chews up 90 megabytes for each minute of video. Another hurdle: to install the Marvel card, you have to open the computer case, an experience I relish as much as home brain surgery. Truthfully, though, setup was pretty painless. I was in and out in less than 10 minutes...
...this opening-up-your-PC hurdle seems insurmountable, I recommend Dazzle Multimedia's Digital Video Creator ($249), a Walkman-size device that attaches externally. It doesn't have the extras of the Marvel (graphics card, TV tuner), and it uses the MPEG standard of compression, which delivers half the resolution of the MJPEG. Still, some people may prefer MPEG, since it consumes far less storage space...
Anyway, after installing my Marvel card, I connected a small purple box to my PC. This is what you plug your VCR, video camera or TV into. The device comes with Avid Cinema for Windows, software made by Avid Technology, a company renowned for the high-end video-editing stuff the pros use. It's exceptional, with a great tutorial that showed me how to make a movie in 10 minutes. An editing screen lets you drag and drop color-coded video, music and voice-over clips onto a storyboard, where you assemble them. Avid also provides dozens of dissolves...