Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users Summary Updates and addendum for the new version of FCPX (10.0.3) are available on the companion website, fcpxbook.com. Are you an iMovie or Final Cut Express user ready to make the jump to Final Cut Pro? Final Cut Express vs. Final Cut Pro January 30, 2009 04:27PM Admin Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 6,738.
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I too was rather frustrated when iMovie 08 came out until I really got the idea behind it. With all previous versions of iMovie, the intent was to make a video editor and that's all, but that strategy didn't go along with the rest of (what became) the iLife suite. The new version of iMovie is not longer an editor, but a video 'digital shoebox', similar to iPhoto. It's not for editing, it's for storing, but it happens to have editing features.
Although at first I was pissed off, now that I have a new family and a young daughter, I'm actually happy Apple did this. It's nice to share little clips and montages of movies to post on the web for family and friends, but I also want a place to go to see ALL of my clips without having to fish through a bunch of tapes or DVDs. Once iMovie 08 came around, there wasn't any other solution.
And yes, Apple did it to boost FC Express sales too!
Final Cut Express Vs Imovie Capture
I would not have been so ticked if the name had been significantly changed, so that I would know that I was getting a ViewMaster instead of Photoshop. An obvious disclaimer that 'this is no longer the application you expect it to be - it has been refocused and simplified so users have minimal editing capability other than putting existing clips together in different ways.'
I like iMovie '08. It works as it is supposed to. It makes it really simple to store video, and makes really nice looking clips that are easy to post to the internet. It is perfect for family movies, and quick clip posts to youtube. Now that i've said that, I think I'll go get a copy of final cut express :)
thanks for posting this as a pick of the week, I had forgotten about it's existence..
I like both FCE and iMovie. However, I find myself rarely using either because I so much dread the import of AVCHD to AIC. It takes just as long as the video is long. Logic pro x add ons. And it is 10x bigger of a file size.
Hopefully they'll support AVCHD soon in it's original format.
iMovie '08 imports at native AVCHD resolution. I have a Canon HF10 AVCHD camcorder that records 1920x1080, and I import at full resolution.
But can you export to the 1080 format, isnt it set to a 900*?? format??
Interesting -- it was my understanding that iMovie's import resolution was limited, but perhaps it's the output resolution instead. I'll ask our reviewer, as he's the person I first heard this from.
-rob.
Final Cut Express Vs Imovie
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.
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. Create dvd from imovie.
Final Cut Express Vs Imovie Editor
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