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Hi ya,

OK, I want to hire a digital camcorder (which I can) and connect it to my Mac 
or PC and add music to the film.  Sounds simple but I know it isn't.  But I 
can do it.

Does any one know of a software that is very good.  I have heard of Final Cut 
Pro (expensive but is it worth it)?

Debbie :-)


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Debbie wrote:

>OK, I want to hire a digital camcorder (which I can) and connect it to my Mac
>or PC and add music to the film.  Sounds simple but I know it isn't.  But I
>can do it.
Yes you can do it.
Depends on what you use.


>Does any one know of a software that is very good.
Sonic Foundry's Vegas Video.
Simple as drag and drop. (As long as you've got the right hardware).
There's also Adobe's Premiere. Used both and prefer Vegas. Premiere was way 
more fussy to use.

>I have heard of Final Cut
>Pro (expensive but is it worth it)?
Don't know.
Not used that one.

Kool Musick
Keep Musick Kool

> Debbie wrote:
>
> >OK, I want to hire a digital camcorder (which I can) and connect it to my
Mac
> >or PC and add music to the film.
> >I have heard of Final Cut
> >Pro (expensive but is it worth it)?

iMovie is a good cheap alternative ( or is it free??)

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/02/15/index4a.html?tw=multimedia

this link might help. If the link is split across two lines then cut and
paste the URL together in the address bar of the browser

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I am getting Final Cut Pro next week.

Does any one use this software and can give me some reviews on it please.

Sonic Foundry's Vegas Video- Not heard of this one.  What does it offer 
please?  Or do you know the web address for it please?

Adobe's Premiere.  Also heard to do as well that this one is abit harder to 
learn as I want to do this project in 8 weeks.


Debbie :-))


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Debbie wrote:

>Sonic Foundry's Vegas Video- Not heard of this one.  What does it offer
>please?
Pretty much everything you would want!

>  Or do you know the web address for it please?
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/PRODUCTS/NewShowProduct.asp?PID=612

>Adobe's Premiere.  Also heard to do as well that this one is abit harder to
>learn as I want to do this project in 8 weeks.
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/main.html

Both products have free download trials available. There are also, on each 
site, some free tutorials to help people get up to speed and see what they 
are like. You could try those.

Have fun.

Kool Musick
Keep Musick Kool

Hi ya

I checked the sites out below but it is only for PC.  I should of explained.  
I am now deciding to get FIREWIRE for my G4.  But I can download to my PC and 
have a trial on it any way.  Thank you.

Kool






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Adobe's Premiere. 
 Downloading and realised it is for Mac as well.  WEE

Thank you


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on Thursday, 23 May 2002 13:07:46 EDT, DbbBrook@... wrote:
 
> I am getting Final Cut Pro next week.
> 
> Does any one use this software and can give me some reviews on it please.
> 

I use FCP in a professional context every day. What do you want to know?
If you just need to capture edited footage from DV into your MAC and sync it
up in Logic you could capture over firewire at DV resolution and recompress
from within FCP to a size that Logic can handle. You could also use Media
Cleaner to recompress the video. This would give you more options and
presets.
After that the options of what you might want to to get very big, no matter
what software or platform you're using.

Anything else?

-- 
slick
Mac 1GHz DP/MPC2000/DX11/SunSyn/K5m/Logic 5.01/


P.S.
Is anyone actually using Final Cut Pro do capture footage for Logic? What
have you discovered regarding sizes and data rates?

>Does any one know of a software that is very good.  I have heard of Final Cut
>Pro (expensive but is it worth it)?

um - if you have a Mac why not try iMovie?

I have done basic editing in this and it is quite acceptable - just 
don't try anything too fancy.

If your editing needs are more sophisticated final cut is the answer.

>  >Adobe's Premiere.  Also heard to do as well that this one is abit harder to
>  >learn as I want to do this project in 8 weeks.
>http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/main.html
>
>Both products have free download trials available. There are also, on each
>site, some free tutorials to help people get up to speed and see what they
>are like. You could try those.

done stuff in Premiere - FCP is much better.

>Is anyone actually using Final Cut Pro do capture footage for Logic? What
>have you discovered regarding sizes and data rates?

I capture clips in FCP for scoring  within Logic - afaik it is 
straight DV - no recompress or data limiting.

works better than iMovie - FCP puts the clip in a QT wrapper which 
iMovie does not - this takes less cpu load when using the clip in 
Logic.