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Yesterday, I settled in, and told myself that I was going to calmly work through the edit again. The video is 15 minutes long, and all I want to do is cut out the sections that have extreme camera shake, and a few sections that run longer than they should. I should be able to get the video down to around 8 minutes. Should be a simple task, right?So I’m going along, adding bookmarks and splitting the video clip at playhead, removing sections just fine, until around the 7 minute mark, a section I had just edited about 2 minutes ago shows up again not in sequence. I haven’t done ANY pasting, yet this clip is showing up? Why? Google offered no love as to troubleshooting this, and no one else seems to be having this issue I decided as I trolled the Mac forums. So I must be doing something wrong, right? Or not, maybe iMove is just a piece of shite. I wish I could afford Final Cut. I found a free editing program, AvidFree DV. I haven’t played with it yet, but will in coming days. All told, I wasted about 5 hours on a task that should be simple. Anyone else have any similar problems with iMovie? Let me know in comments. Tags: iMovie, troubleshooting maciMovie, troubleshooting mac
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5 Comments posted on "I hate iMovie"
eljefe on May 12th, 2007 at 6:52 am #
dude, that sux. Sorry about your luck. Obviously I know 2 things about iMovie.. Jack and Shit. I don’t know how iMovie handles your actions.. like does it cache to a scratch disk or RAM or whatever but if you have any control over that you might check into those. Depending on what it does.. do you have enough? (Ram or HDD?) sorry I can’t be much more help on this. Looking forward to the finished product tho!
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Kristy on June 7th, 2007 at 5:17 pm #
Oh my god, I’m losing my mind with iMovie. There seems to be no logic to how things become clips or don’t, to the way they’ll either settle in sequence in the timeline or won’t, or when you make a ‘cut’ whether the part you want is what’s defined or whether you cut away exactly what you want. My problems are more basic than yours but yeah, I really think it’s not nearly as ’simple’ and ‘nerf-ball-of-appliances’ as Apple pretends.
Amayos on June 7th, 2007 at 7:39 pm #
I love Apple’s OPERATING SYSTEM, but I have NEVER liked their production software, outside of their latest application for photos, Aperture. Outside of having a very strange sense of logic regarding locations and names of buttons and functions, Apple has a tendency to “hide” things in their software, so you have to go and take a class to find out the hidden sleight of hand needed to discern the logic of how much of their stuff actually works. This is coming from someone who has been using Apple’s OS since 1996. If I need to get anything done, I usually use a third party application. As Kristy mentioned, much of Apple’s “iLife” software isn’t nearly as versatile or easy to use as they make it out to be.
Marc Moss on June 10th, 2007 at 8:28 pm #
@Kristy, “nerf-ball” of applications. I love it. @Amayos, You’re right, Apple has a great OS, and I’ll agree that most of their production software is crap. iPhoto is good for an average user who doesn’t need the features of an app like Photoshop, but why would anyone BUY iLife for $79 when it’s included for free as part of the app bundle? Like you, I tend to use 3rd party software when I need to get anything accomplished. In this case, though, I don’t have $1,300 for Final Cut Studio, and from what I understand, even though FCS is an Apple product, it is THE video editing software to use. Post a comment
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Hope you’ve found a little bit of luck with it since you last posted.