Video Editing Programs

[JJtheunicycle]

final cut pro, but i used imovie at first

[captainkrunk61]

@smcmorrow

I’ve found that the quality of the video is much better on imovie too, but that might have been because I have to import to wmm with usb rather than firewire, I don’t know.

Yeah, USB is the worst way to do it. I use a a video input/TV tuner PCI card. You connect the AV cables to it and it’s connected to your computer. Firewire on the other hand is the best.

[monkeyman]

Why is there a difference? I don’t really understand what those different things are/mean.

[captainkrunk61]

USB cable can’t trasfer data (ex: the video) in as high of quality as FireWire can. USB is good for smaller files though, thats why it is widely used. FireWire though, because of its high quality transfer is ideal for video.

[Jerrick]

@smcmorrow

I’ve found that I like imovie MUCH better than Windows Movie Maker. I’ve used imovie more, but there are a lot of things I’ve found you can’t do with the windows program, like extracting audio, and adding music from itunes, which is really annoying.

I’ve found that the quality of the video is much better on imovie too, but that might have been because I have to import to wmm with usb rather than firewire, I don’t know.

Overall I like the mac program better.

You can extract audio with WMM. As for the Itunes thing. I hate it, make it seem like when I put my music on my comp, it controls it, not me.

Luckily, I use windows, so All my music files are easily used on WMM. No hassle what-so-ever. My comp also never freezes when im using WMM.

Of course the firewire video is gonna be higher quality than the USB. Thats the uploading fault, no mac/pc fault. I use usb when im taking pictures off a camera, but when its video, is always gonna be a Firewire.

[leo]

@Job

I wanna know what kind of programs you guys use for
editing you video’s…

Sony Vegas 7
sometimes with Audicity for seperate sound-editing.

[onewheelinwierdo]

Adobe Premiere Elements! (Oh Yeah!)

[maximus_unius]

@smcmorrow

and adding music from itunes, which is really annoying.

You actually can add music from iTunes to your WMM project. Just go to My Documents (your on windows) and find My Music. Then open your iTunes directory, and find the song you want. Drag it out to the desktop and right click it. Select “convert to…” and then you can change it into a file type that WMM will read. You can also upload songs from CD’s and those are usually in a format that WMM can use. You can just upload them directly into your WMM project.

Also, whenever I’m uploading stills or video to my computer, I do it through the SD memory card port in my computer. I think that only comes with my Windows XP media edition though…

[johnfoss]

@monkeyman

Why is there a difference? I don’t really understand what those different things are/mean.

Oh brother. You guys need to read some actual product reviews, written by people who know how to compare two pieces of software. They’re all over the Web. A good review will tell you what features one has that the other doesn’t, which are easier to use, and which ones are faster. Between Mac and Windows there are limitations on what all you can compare, but these are getting less and less now that both OSes can run on the same hardware.

Someday I will start playing with video editing, but I haven’t really done any yet. I know I’ll start with iMovie because I already have it, and I’ve read it is much easier to work with than WMM (which I will also have by then). If I find I need more features, I’ll work my way up from there.