Thanks, I have dabbled in DaVincy, but it was very different to Vegas, which i've used for years and love. Final cut looks great, but is £300, and money I dont have right now after paying for this little MacBook Air (it literally just arrived in the last hour)
I'd also thought of going for Adobe Premier, as I have a subscription for Lightroom, and Photoshop. Think i'll give DaVincy another go first though.
Have to say, typing on this keyboard is fantastic, its one of the best i've typed on, very positive feedback. The mouse pad is odd too, my brain tells me I pressed it, yet its just haptic feedback!!!
So fast and the screen is to die for!
Thanks for your help so far.
Happy to hear you're liking the MacBook. The haptic trackpads initially irritated me a little when they were first introduced, but I don't know if maybe they've gotten better since then or I've just grown more accustomed to it, because now it feels super natural to me and I can't really tell it's not mechanical. It is pretty neat
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Anyway, I have very very very little experience with Vegas, having lived exclusively on macOS (barring some time on Linux and Windows for individual tasks here and there) for about a decade now.
But the working experience between DaVinci and Premiere is fairly similar I'd say, with my preference being with DaVinci.
Depending on your needs you could of course also try to just use iMovie, but that didn't even cross my mind in the initial post because when professional programs like DaVinci Resolve exist with a so capable free version, well, it feels weird to stick to iMove, unless one's needs are more in the "home video" category, where the simplicity of iMovie is more important than the capability of Resolve.
Personally I dislike Premiere with a burning passion, but in part that's because I hate the CC subscription model, though I do also think Premiere as a piece of software is inferior to Resolve and Final Cut. Though After Effects kicks the ever-living snot out of Motion, hehe. Not really direct competitors though since Motion doesn't aim as high. Anyway that's a tangent.
Another program I forgot to mention in my last post is Avid's Media Composer. The software is called Media Composer, but people usually just refers to it as Avid.
It used to cost a bajillion dollars and only really be available to big Hollywood productions (where Avid is king), but they made a "Media Composer First" which is free. The thought pattern was that if so many editors are capable of learning with and practising on Premiere, Final Cut, Resolve, etc. then that could eventually drive Avid out of the ultra high end since those editors would prefer just using tools they're familiar with, even if Avid is still the standard in Hollywood and huge TV productions (though TV uses Premiere and others a lot these days too, and Final Cut 7 used to have a big spot there too). So Media Composer First was a free tool so editors could be familiar with it and use it on their own time.
But I wouldn't necessarily recommend it. It's quality software, but it's sort of slow since it's aimed at big production workstations not home computers, it's kinda clunky to use because it's aimed at productions with several editors and not just one person, and in some ways has a semi-esoteric workflow that's a bit of a leftover from the days of working with physical film.
