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A surprisingly accurate, if somewhat Dutch, analogy for the superiority of Premiere Pro. If iMovie is walking, then Premiere is riding a bike downhill forever. Please use Premiere |
We'll start where any story that I ever put on this blog starts; a patron walks up to the desk and I thought I could help them. You'd think that eventually I'd stop being so cocky, but so is hubris, so into Studio 3 I went. The basic issue was the inability to capture directly to iMovie.
The first thing I did was ask them to show me. So they did. Then I tried it myself. I thought I fixed it when I unchecked the "Hide Imported" box, but that turned out to be a short-lived triumph because as far as I can tell all that box controls is whether or not you want there to be a little white and blue box at the top right of your screen while you use your camera. I'm sure there's more use for it, but for the life of me I don't know what it is. No, the problem was deeper than that.
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Just keep digging, Dillon. The answer's down there somewhere. |
Next, as any good Multimedia Student Employee does, I checked iMovie's preferences. If you've never interacted with iMovie 10's preferences, I'll give you an exhaustive list of everything you could possibly want to sort through while you're there:
"Apply Slow Motion?"
Painfully tedious to sort through it I know. Also this is all sarcasm. Because as much as I like slow motion and would like to be able to use it, when I think "Program Preferences," I'm thinking audio preferences, media inputs, and exporting options, not whether or not I want to have iMovie automatically slow down my sick wheelie from when I was at the dope skate park.
You wish you were this tan and radical. |
Having square one taken out from under me, I moved on to square two. Rapid clicking and muttering.
When that (inconceivably) didn't work, I hopped my scotch over to square three, my always faithful fallback. Adding a weird amount of steps to what should be a super simple operation, like when I helped that guy rebuild the folder hierarchy from Audacity, when I used too many words to describe a camera archive, or any time I'm in Studio 6.
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If you're not confused when I'm done helping you, then I haven't really done my job. |
I tried capturing in Premiere Pro and it ended up working. It also saved the videos to the patron's hard drive as a Quicktime video. Which I knew iMovie would be able to read, as long as it could find it on the hard drive. If you're following me, what I recommended to the student is to capture all their videos in Premiere, saving them as a QuickTime file when the capture was done, then to import them into iMovie and do all their editing that way. I also recommended not having both programs running at the same time, because everything would probably catch on fire. So too many steps, and too much possibility for accidental arson.
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I'm very popular at camp-outs. |
Turns out that the real solution is to hit record on the actual camera, because iMovie 10 needs a timecode to capture from cameras. I found that out because I sent an email detailing my epic journey and fifteen seconds later Nico came out from the back and told me.
No; the real solution is to use premiere pro. But the Macxist revolution will not be stopped; liberty dies, and the devil laughs.
ReplyDeleteAnd you are very popular at camp outs; a category five wild fire is great for making category 5 smores.