What software for home video editing on OSX Mountain Lion

[owen\lars]

Just so you know it is impossible to burn a HD video to DVD. DVD although might have enough size cannot be authored to play 1920x1080 (to my knowledge anyway let me know if you can i will be very happy) You can only burn HD to bluray which Macs don't support. When you author to DVD i believe the resolution drops to something like 480p

Just to clarify, you can author a DVD with HD (1920x1080) video that will play in many Blu-Ray players. It is called "AVC-HD DVD". As far as i know you cant create these with FCP X, but you can export your movie out of FCP X and drop it into Roxio Toast Titanium 10 (or newer) to make an AVC-HD DVD. Under the Blu-Ray Video burning tab you just have to change the disc type from BD to DVD, then drop your HD video files in.

Obviously the capacity of a DVD is restrictive, so you only get about 20 mins of HD footage on a single layer DVD. (I haven't tried double layer DVDs but it will probably also work, and give you 40 mins) Your Blu-Ray Player has to support AVC-HD DVD Playback. My 3 year old Sony BDP-S363 plays them perfectly!

 

[acearchie]

Sorry but i'm not having a dig at SOME of the work you have made. You advertise, your work on the Vimeo Channel and that was the one i clicked on.
It appears you have your views and i have mine.
Your work looks fine to me. But many subject matters shown on Vimeo and YouTube, are most reworked videos on old themes. Like reshooting old films.
Reading most posts on this forum hits me with one message, :What software for editing".
Sorry if i have offended you in any way. NOT MY INTENTION

Sorry probably my fault as I was probably running on a tight straw already that day!

I think in many ways idea creation is even harder and harder now as a lot of concepts have been done to death and it's difficult to innovate. This is of course a general exception as there are many stand out films but I can't always help thinking that it would have been really fun to be at the birth of cinema and literally have a clean palette with every genre untouched!

I agree with the abundance of "what software editing should I use" posts but when I started I managed to get FCE and then upgrade to FCS through school. My theory then was that if Oscar nominated films can be made on this then it's good enough for me. Whilst it is possible to edit in iMovie and FCPx everyone has a different preference and personally I still find FCP7 the most straightforward NLE and easiest to work with on a long project!

 

[cavgirl]

I'm probably being cheeky chipping in here as my video experience is limited to fanvids - and that was on Windows. However, if the OP is looking for an editor that is more flexible than iMovie, they could do worse than to check out Screenflow. I know it's intended for screen casting, but it offers multiple tracks and layers, and the output can be imported back into iMovie. It's not hugely cheap, but it's offered on the bundles regularly. That's how I got mine - Screenflow plus lots of other goodies for £20-odd quid.