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blakefire

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So I recently tried After Effects and it was to complicated and was slow. I was wondering if there is a program out there for video editing? I like Imovie but it have some limitions that get in my way. I've tried finalcut pro but it didn't work for me, these video are of games IE Mac, Xbox, etc. A bonus would be it's free. :p
 
blakefire said:
So I recently tried After Effects and it was to complicated and was slow. I was wondering if there is a program out there for video editing? I like Imovie but it have some limitions that get in my way. I've tried finalcut pro but it didn't work for me, these video are of games IE Mac, Xbox, etc. A bonus would be it's free. :p
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the videos you are editing are of game play? and how did final cut or Imovie not do what you needed?
 
The easiest video editing software I have ever found was free from microsoft... MovieMaker!!! So easy... and it has all the coolest transitions and special effects...

/sarcasm

Seriously though... how could Final Cut Pro not do what you need? Most likely op illegally dl'd and has absolutely no idea how to use it...
 
imovie can be leveraged very nicely.

look up 'set up imovie like final cut pro' on youtube and that may change your mind.
 
I'm not a fan of iMovie either. I've used Final Cut Express a lot and don't like how it always has to render. I tried Adobe Premier Elements and thought it was great. Had a good amount of features and was easy to use but probably not for pros. There is a free trial at their site so nothing lost if you don't like it no big deal.
 
After Effects is not an editing suite. Premiere is. If you got a copy of AE, I assume you have Premiere. AE is a compositing program, but "can" do editing as well. Premiere is a video editor.

However, if it seems too much to learn, iMovie can do pretty much do ANY basic video editing task, plus it is very easy to learn. If you say it "got in your way", what exactly was your issue? There may be a solution you haven't found yet.
 
I know how to use FC. The issue was it rendered poorly or I did something wrong.... Anyway, I like Imovie but I wanted something a little more suitable for editing, Imovie was missing somethings, or I just dont know how to use it lol, like add a video onto a picture and re-size the video to a smaller size, stuff like that.
 
If you know how to use FC, you'd be able to do anything you want. You just need to take the time to buckle down and learn it.

iMovie may be too basic for you and there isn't really anything in between that and FC.

To say it gets in your way, it sounds more like you don't know how to use it.
 
I know how to use it. It's just lacking some features. Like adding a photo and stuff like I mentioned before.
 
sunnybet said:
Mac video editng software:
iMovie, Final Cut Express, Premiere pro, After Effects pro, Final Cut Pro, Avid Express pro etc.
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There is no "After Effects Pro" and "Avid Xpress Pro", as the latter has been discontinued and the former never existed.

OP, the videos you have are probably in the wrong format, thus the problems you have in FCP.
Do you know about proper editing formats and codecs? And which version of FCP are you talking about?
 
simsaladimbamba said:
There is no "After Effects Pro" and "Avid Xpress Pro", as the latter has been discontinued and the former never existed.

OP, the videos you have are probably in the wrong format, thus the problems you have in FCP.
Do you know about proper editing formats and codecs? And which version of FCP are you talking about?
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Sorta never went in depth with it. As for the version not sure I havent opened it for a while.
 
I think your real problem is you can't be bothered to learn the software but expect pro results. Google for some FCP basic tuts and learn to use it, you won't be disappointed. Same goes for any software you want to use that does more then iMovie.

blakefire said:
Sorta never went in depth with it. As for the version not sure I havent opened it for a while.
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nerdo said:
I think your real problem is you can't be bothered to learn the software but expect pro results. Google for some FCP basic tuts and learn to use it, you won't be disappointed. Same goes for any software you want to use that does more then iMovie.
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That's exactly what I am thinking.
 
For a rather nontraditional video editing program, try Photoshop Extended. I've actually used it for a couple of things rather than iMovie because I couldn't figure out how to get iMovie to do the cropping and compositing that I wanted. I wasn't editing normal video but rather screencasts and trying to crop to the piece I was doing.
 
I like the latest version of Premier Pro, it's fast with multiprocessors compared with Final Cut Pro 7 and simple to use and does what the OP wants to do.

Also plays well with After Effects.
 
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.
 
benlinus121 said:
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.
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You go around resurrecting old threads and answer in Windows-only mode, then upon being called, you come back without an answer, but post a Mac OS X solution.

What is the matter with you? Is this some kind of advanced spamming?
 
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