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Wired News: iMovie used for Sundance entry

Yeah, that's pretty amazing what Caouette accomplished.

It showed the persistence/urges of a poor, non-professional filmmaker who utilized the software that
probably gets our constant whining about its "faults-and-could-be-better".

Hey, but since we're in the mo' money, higher edu stratosphere,
plus some may be earning a professional living with their Macs,
we always be bitchin'

"Unable to afford to scan the photos, Caouette tacked the images to a white wall and filmed them.

It's not the typical method of digitizing photos, but editing a feature on iMovie is unusual, too.
Caouette was just doing what he could with the tools he had on hand."

Someday I hope to hear about the dirt-poor kid who utilized a
12 year old Mac IIsi (which has sound-in)
a Video Spigot Frame Capture card
some kind of "Pict to Clip" software
to make an award-winning film.

...mainly because it is possible on a Mac, even a very old one.

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reply to mgilliland
Nice, I'll be honest I used iMovie for the first time just the other day. I had used it before but now I really went all out & did a full fletched project & it came out so good.

I am hooked on it, iMovie wasn't as appealing to be in the past but I'm in love now & I it is no wonder to me that Mr. Caouette would use it to do a whole film. iMovie really is Apple at it's best.
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iMovie is great for beginners, but I really messed up a project I was working on when I though that things would happen like they do in Premiere, which I had been working with up to that point.

Nothing anywhere else happens like it does in Premiere!

Dave

Well, I just added a title with a fade to the first shot of the reel, and it moved everything around. I knew how to fix it with Premiere, which has it's own weird way of doing things, but the same things didn't work with iMovie. At that point, I dismissed it as a serious video editor. I am considering dealing up the scratch for FCE2, though. It looks pretty good. I should have gotten it last year during the Premiere upgrade promo, though.

I was lucky.

I duped the Premiere 5 install cd and sent the original off to Apple. 3 weeks later I was the proud owner of FCE and I haven't looked back.

It is so much easier than Premiere.

I was not surprised that Adobe quit developing Premiere for Mac when we have much superior tools available that they will not be able to match.

Lucky us!!

Dave
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I "inherited" a project that was built with Premiere 4, and all the video was digitized with a miro card. So I'm still running that setup to make changes to the video, using my 7500/G3/400MHz Franken Mac running 9.0 or something. But I have to go through all kinds of gyrations to add DV video to the piece, so I'm getting ready to move it over to something newer.

reply to Livebeat56
"Someday I hope to hear about the dirt-poor kid who utilized a
12 year old Mac IIsi (which has sound-in)
a Video Spigot Frame Capture card
some kind of "Pict to Clip" software
to make an award-winning film."

I am working with a colleague on writing a grant for underpriveldege at-risk kids and movie making as a means of intervention for latch-key kids. I am sick of grants written for basketball cubs.

Kids NEED a creative outlet...especially poor kids who may never expirience screen writing, video editing, and acting. I plan to use each concentration in teaching social skills, dedication in small and long term goals, writing, how a certain character should act in emotion, feeling, role, and action.

The workshop will go on for ONE year, resulting in a 1 hours movie in which grant funders will have the honor of wathcing and listening to what the kids have learned.

Its a dream of mine, and hopfully will become a reality in the next year...
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