For Roger

[Kat Kanning]

Have you seen the movie, The Final Cut?  Made me think about you and the film editing

[Tom Sawyer]

Have you seen the movie, The Final Cut?  Made me think about you and the film editing

Just saw this post.

Yeah, I have that on DVD per a suggestion from another friend. Kind of interesting.

Final Cut is also the name of the editing software I use.

I've been looking at the monitor too much lately. From first thing in the morning till last thing at night for a couple of weeks now. Been in a funk... it's hard to do this kind of work when my heart hasn't really been in it. But, the people I'm working for are up against a deadline and I can use the money.

The shows I've been doing are long form, up to two hours long. And the camera work has not been very good. Kind of like having to build a house when someone else picked out the lumber and most of it is crooked. All I can do is cut it and try to put it together in some sort of interesting way.

I still get some satisfaction knowing that people will want to watch the stuff twenty years from now.

I was really starting to get excited by the FSP video project... but, that is in limbo until Canon fixes the camera and I see if the footage is usable.

Finally got away from editing today and William and I went exploring on our bikes. Beautiful day in the mountains.

Hope ya'lls preparations for your relocation are going ok.

[KBCraig]

Final Cut is also the name of the editing software I use.

Have you seen the huge flap over iMovie '08? They took what was a powerful consumer level tool --approaching "prosumer"-- and completely neutered it. They left iMovie '06 as a free download, probably to head off accusations that they were trying to force people to upgrade to Final Cut Express at $299 (or Pro/Studio at $1,300), just to regain what they had as part of the $79 iLife suite.

I'm still using OS X 10.2.8, so I can't use iMovie. But I went ahead and snagged the free download, just in case they yank it before I upgrade my system.

[Tom Sawyer]

Final Cut is also the name of the editing software I use.

Have you seen the huge flap over iMovie '08? They took what was a powerful consumer level tool --approaching "prosumer"-- and completely neutered it. They left iMovie '06 as a free download, probably to head off accusations that they were trying to force people to upgrade to Final Cut Express at $299 (or Pro/Studio at $1,300), just to regain what they had as part of the $79 iLife suite.

I'm still using OS X 10.2.8, so I can't use iMovie. But I went ahead and snagged the free download, just in case they yank it before I upgrade my system.

No I hadn't heard about the "flap". I have iLife 06 which is a great package. GarageBand being one that I got alot of use out of.

I worked for a good while using a free version of Final Cut Express that a friend got me. But, Final Cut Pro has been a real joy to use. I am still amazed with the capabilities that my desktop system has. 15 years ago it would have taken 100 grand to do the same things.

I was drooling over the lastest iMacs, I want the 24 inch screen. Wow, it's like the future is here. All that power in a machine the size of the screen.

I think I'd rather have a couple of iMacs than one top end system. Doing video on one, graphics etc. on the other. Nice to be able to tell one to render and still have another system to use. When I'm loading footage I can't do anything else, sometimes for days.

[KBCraig]

Have you seen the huge flap over iMovie '08? They took what was a powerful consumer level tool --approaching "prosumer"-- and completely neutered it.

No I hadn't heard about the "flap". I have iLife 06 which is a great package. GarageBand being one that I got alot of use out of.

http://www.macworld.com/2007/08/firstlooks/flimovie/index.php

Read the comments. Lots of PO'd users.

GarageBand is improved, and is a workaround for some of the inexplicable changes in iMovie (multiple audio tracks, DVD chapter markers, etc.)