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Final Cut Express 4 - iMovie HD's heir apparent
Authored by: asmeurer on Jul 21, '08 08:52:38PM
When I first installed iMovie 08, the installer didn't remove iMovie HD (this may have been because the "installer" was Pacifist). I almost deleted it (I think I might have even had it in the trash), until I tried using iMovie 08. It's great if you want to cut together some clips and make a movie like the Apple sample movies, but anything beyond that…
I couldn't believe that Apple would actually remove functionality from their program. I would think that they would at least hide some of the more advanced features in an advanced menu, but no, gone. How do you seperate audio from a clip? Is there a menu item for it? Does right-clicking let you do it? No, you have to know the secret command-shift-drag option. Want to delete the video so you can just export the audio? Well, no, you actually didn't need to separate the audio, you just have to know to choose the right options from the export option. And what about all the cool moving titles. There are 12 titles, but 10 of them are more or less identical clones of the music video title from iMovie HD, and only one of them moves (scrolling credits). What happened to Core Video and Core Animation, not to mention Core Image? Why aren't these technologies in the programs Apple charges people for?
Apple was right to make a lossless media library, and the scrubbing is great (this is straight out of Final Cut, if I'm not mistaken), but Apple of all developers should know that making something simple and making something powerful are not mutually exclusive--case in point, Mac OS X. They used to advertise this.

Sorry. I needed to get some of that out of my system.

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Final Cut Express 4 - iMovie HD's heir apparent
Authored by: lsequeir on Jul 22, '08 06:48:26AM
What happened to Core Video and Core Animation, not to mention Core Image? Why aren't these technologies in the programs Apple charges people for?

There are people outside Apple that are putting Apple's technology to good use. In the video editing realm, I think a great example is Norrkross Movie. It does on its own what took several extra plug-ins to do in iMovie HD (and is impossible to do do in iMovie '08).

With multiple video tracks, core image support, non-destructive editing with lots of available filters, a great media browser, it is a great piece of software. All for a lot less money than FCE; in fact, for less than iLife (although, of course, iLife is not just iMovie).

If the complexity and/or the price of FCE is too much, take a look at Norrkross.

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