I found a copy of Video Studio X3 for $15 so I plan to be a great cinematographer when I get time. Between that, Gimp, flash media, and Inkscape, I should be able to make some neat stuff. The guy at our church who does the AV work is a professional at that sort of thing so I plan on picking his brain. I plan to make a series of youtube vids on rat care. Then I plan on making some other stuff. After a life if still photography this is a whole new field.

Congrats on your find and good luck with your new hobby GMS!
Be sure and send me a YouTube link to your channel when you are ready to show off your skills!

Although it seems like fun, learning new things, I'm not sure if i could call it a hobby yet. Right now it's more of a necessity. I'm sick of the misconceptions about rats so I'm planning on doing something about it. I thought about making some gimp or inkscape tuts but it looks to me like every topic in those two areas has been done a thousand times already.

There are a ton of them out there!
I think i am subscribed to about 50
But good luck with your channel.Sounds like an interesting topic to throw out there.

Yes, I have a bunch of them too. I'd bet we have pretty much the same ones. We should do a youtube subscription comparison someday. I had over 100 but somehow Youtube messed up that account so i had to start over from memory. The best ones i could remember are:. There were a lot of inkscape ones that i can't quite remember and more than a few Gimp ones. I removed a lot of the ones that weren't active. i wish i had my other list back.