Video editing

[odanny]

Anyone here do any video editing? I have been teaching myself how to on iMovie and it has not been intuitive, I have struggled, but I watched an online course through Udemy which helps but in no way answers all your questions, however, you watch YouTube tutorials (most of which are 4 years old for iMovie, not many new videos) and you keep playing around with it and if you get past the frustration at the beginning you start making progress and this starts to subside.

What video editor do you use? I've probably heard of DaVinci Resolve the most in online discussions, has anyone used this, or any others? It's really cool once you get the hang of it, and I have just figured out adding music and titles (that part is easy).

 

[buttercup]

I make videos. I was using Final Cut Pro, for years... which I liked. But long story short, I no longer have FCP on my laptop, so I've been using iMovie.

I agree that it can be frustrating... for the reason you stated, but also because of its limitations, when you're used to an editing program that you can do so much more with. But with iMovie there are some workarounds. The more you use it, the more you learn. So it's just a matter of trial and error. And yeah, occasionally doing a search for a specific question or problem.

That probably wasn't much help, lol. But I haven't tried other video editing programs in recent years, so maybe others will have some suggestions. For now I'm just happy to have something to edit with, instead of nothing.... but eventually I might get FCP again.

 

[odanny]

I make videos. I was using Final Cut Pro, for years... which I liked. But long story short, I no longer have FCP on my laptop, so I've been using iMovie.

I agree that it can be frustrating... for the reason you stated, but also because of its limitations, when you're used to an editing program that you can do so much more with. But with iMovie there are some workarounds. The more you use it, the more you learn. So it's just a matter of trial and error. And yeah, occasionally doing a search for a specific question or problem.

That probably wasn't much help, lol. But I haven't tried other video editing programs in recent years, so maybe others will have some suggestions. For now I'm just happy to have something to edit with, instead of nothing.... but eventually I might get FCP again.

iMovie is pretty good, I am starting to really like it now, but damn, there are so many functions that you would not know exist if someone wasn't there to tell you about them or you didn't do some serious digging to find. My only option was the latter.

I paid $50 for the Udemy course and I found the instruction average, at best, and there is nothing on YouTube really that is even current, seems most I found was from 2020, guess the pandemic made it a good year for tutorial videos.

The most frustrating aspect is having to export everything in order to join the clips after editing, it quickly filled my HD, but the 1TB external HD I just bought at least solved that issue.

 

[buttercup]

iMovie is pretty good, I am starting to really like it now, but damn, there are so many functions that you would not know exist if someone wasn't there to tell you about them or you didn't do some serious digging to find. My only option was the latter.

I paid $50 for the Udemy course and I found the instruction average, at best, and there is nothing on YouTube really that is even current, seems most I found was from 2020, guess the pandemic made it a good year for tutorial videos.

The most frustrating aspect is having to export everything in order to join the clips after editing, it quickly filled my HD, but the 1TB external HD I just bought at least solved that issue.

Glad to hear you're liking it now. And yeah, I too noticed that there are a lot of hidden functions you would never know about unless you do serious digging or someone tells you about it.

I recently heard about a workaround for making vertical videos (in iMovie there's no way to select a different aspect ratio when you start a new project.) Instead of clicking on "Create New"..... go to the top bar and click File > New App Preview, click OK, then just make sure that the first clip you drop into the timeline is a vertical clip. That will set the 9:16 aspect ratio for the project.

Anyway.... happy editing! (I absolutely love video editing!)

 

[JGalt]

Anyone here do any video editing? I have been teaching myself how to on iMovie and it has not been intuitive, I have struggled, but I watched an online course through Udemy which helps but in no way answers all your questions, however, you watch YouTube tutorials (most of which are 4 years old for iMovie, not many new videos) and you keep playing around with it and if you get past the frustration at the beginning you start making progress and this starts to subside.

What video editor do you use? I've probably heard of DaVinci Resolve the most in online discussions, has anyone used this, or any others? It's really cool once you get the hang of it, and I have just figured out adding music and titles (that part is easy).

I just use the MS Clipchamp that came with Windows 11.