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by joelpatterson » Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:32 pm
I think i have sussed out the issues-- read a longish post (with screenshots) from a longtime video editor guy, Jan... something.
So, rewinding-- got this cool camera last April that turned out did hi def video-- my son pointed out iMovie (in my Mac G4) would theoretically work. It did! All I had to do was put the SD card in my printer... and with USB 1.0, kinda time-consuming-- and iMovie was kinda clunky... but miraculously, it did work!
Fast forward to beginning of January, I get my long anticipated new laptop, a MacBook Pro, with iMovie 11, leaps and mighty bounds beyond what I was used to... and I wander into an Apple store, and find that Final Cut Pro X is the souped-up-yet-more version of iMovie-- looks the same, works similarly, except the limits are even more unlimited. As usual: God carefully micro-managing my progress along whatever insanely preposterous path He's predestined for me.
So, objectively, "X" is a retreat from Final Cut 7-- there ARE these stupidly automated functions and "idiot proof" features that surely would drive a serious video guy up a tree, up a whole forest-- so many parameters are pre-defined for your own good, it's highly obnoxious. Not that it makes anything impossible, you just need to undo them all the time. Irritating? But can your average helpless soccer mom use it and not help but put together something viewable? Do we pay a price in our society for casting a wide net for software users? Will there ever be an end to the rhetorical questions?
I was remembering back to the EARLIEST days of midi-- what you saw onscreen was a white box-- a white box on a blue field. You played the part, and the computer either captured it or didn't-- but when it did, you could loop it, it was MAGNIFICENT. White box-- not notes on a staff you could change velocities of, pitch shift, surgically jimmy to a "t." A white box.
So, anyway... thanks, Jesus!
