I think the guy who sold me the iMac has left Final Cut of some description installed, as it happens. He didn't give me CDs for anything, but there's a lot of software on there.
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Kevin - Apr 11, 2007 8:12:00 am PDT #1248 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Jon B. - Apr 11, 2007 8:16:58 am PDT #1249 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I only mentioned iMovie because it comes standard with Macs.
Jessica - Apr 11, 2007 8:20:02 am PDT #1250 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I only mentioned iMovie because it comes standard with Macs.
Oh, I know -- I just have, um, strong opinions about video editing/processing software where Macs are concerned.
Jon B. - Apr 11, 2007 8:25:29 am PDT #1251 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
No worries, Jessica. I've done a bit of video editing with iMovie on my Mac Mini, and have seen much room for improvement (to put it mildly). If I get to the point where I'm doing more of it, I'll definitely look into Final Cut.
Daisy Jane - Apr 11, 2007 8:27:48 am PDT #1252 of 25496
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
As long as y'all are talking iMovie...Why can't I get it to add in the music? I choose the music. I put it where I want it, cut it where I want it to stop, then when I play the movie? No music.
Jessica - Apr 11, 2007 8:29:10 am PDT #1253 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Look into Avid Express, too. (Or Avid Xpress DV, or Liquid, or whatever the current prosumer version is.)
It's not as prettily integrated with OSX as FCP is, but just about everything good about FCP was lifted from Avid in the first place -- it's been the industry standard since before Apple even got into the game.
Kevin - Apr 11, 2007 10:34:50 am PDT #1254 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
If I go into Dashboard, I can see GarageBand is eating a lot of CPU -- but I don't have it open. It's not at the bottom, and I can't see if it I try Force Quit. I should really just give up and reboot, but I don't want to.
Gris - Apr 11, 2007 11:09:57 am PDT #1255 of 25496
Hey. New board.
I don't mind iMovie. I agree that FCE/FCP is significantly better, but if you're just making silly little home movie clips, iMovie is fine. It is NOT fine for, say, vidding. Even though I only tried that for like 30 seconds once before I realized I would never, ever be willing to take the time to get good at it.
Kevin - Apr 11, 2007 1:20:43 pm PDT #1256 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Today's discoveries - TVShows (brings up a list of TV shows internationally, select subscribe, it downloads them via torrents as the episodes appear online). And I've discovered that whilst Quicktime on Windows was absolute crap, it's quite good on OSX.
esse - Apr 11, 2007 2:11:18 pm PDT #1257 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
the beauty of quicktime in osx is that it's integrated into the operating system frame so it runs beautifully. I've been using it more on this old powerbook than vlc, because vlc sticks. I like mplayer too, for diversity.
thanks for the tip on streamclip, jessica! what a find.