Comments on: Experiences with iMovie http://rmaspero.com/2007/12/01/experiences-with-imovie/ it's all about me and technology Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:56:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Leigh http://rmaspero.com/2007/12/01/experiences-with-imovie/#comment-201 Chris Leigh Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:22:08 +0000 http://rmaspero.com/2007/12/01/experiences-with-imovie/#comment-201 You've certainly done plenty of video recently, despite the distractions of school work! I have thoroughly enjoyed using iMovie, finding it so easy to edit and to export video. Much easier to edit than Final Cut which I have also used; and way easier to export the movie in suitable formats - especially for YouTube. Also much better than Adobe Premiere on a PC which I used a lot before the summer. Besides being less friendly to edit, it proved impossible to get decent quality video exported from it except at full quality avi (lots of gigabytes). There are only two things that annoy me in iMovie and the first is not being able to edit the sound track, without going to the fiddle of adding it separately. The second is that Once I've imported video from my JVC hard drive camera into Final Cut, I then can't get it into iMovie. It would be great to be able to share the event libraries between them. iMovie does not recognise the .MOD files from the JVC excpet when they are on the camera. One thing I do love about iMovie is that I can do rough editing, adding the sections of the video that I want from the event library to a project. Then I can continue editing in the event library - either deleting clips, trimming start and end of clips, and even removing bits from the middle of clips without any fuss - couldn't do that in Final Cut without adding a clip twice. And of course, you can scrub across any clip with the mouse, whether in the event library or in the project view. I swap project and event windows for the second stage of editing to give myself more room. Titling is ever so easy too. A great package! Love your videos too! You’ve certainly done plenty of video recently, despite the distractions of school work! I have thoroughly enjoyed using iMovie, finding it so easy to edit and to export video. Much easier to edit than Final Cut which I have also used; and way easier to export the movie in suitable formats – especially for YouTube. Also much better than Adobe Premiere on a PC which I used a lot before the summer. Besides being less friendly to edit, it proved impossible to get decent quality video exported from it except at full quality avi (lots of gigabytes).

There are only two things that annoy me in iMovie and the first is not being able to edit the sound track, without going to the fiddle of adding it separately. The second is that Once I’ve imported video from my JVC hard drive camera into Final Cut, I then can’t get it into iMovie. It would be great to be able to share the event libraries between them. iMovie does not recognise the .MOD files from the JVC excpet when they are on the camera.

One thing I do love about iMovie is that I can do rough editing, adding the sections of the video that I want from the event library to a project. Then I can continue editing in the event library – either deleting clips, trimming start and end of clips, and even removing bits from the middle of clips without any fuss – couldn’t do that in Final Cut without adding a clip twice. And of course, you can scrub across any clip with the mouse, whether in the event library or in the project view. I swap project and event windows for the second stage of editing to give myself more room. Titling is ever so easy too. A great package!

Love your videos too!

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