I set my laptop up to dual-boot with Ubuntu, which is free, and now use Kdenlive, which is also free, and simple to use but powerful enough to deal with everything I throw at it so far.
Still waiting on PArchives volume four
Premier is good, bit more complicated to use but if you have used ps, ai or indes it's quite intuitive. Colour correction is sooo much better, however, I guess if you were serious about colour correction you would use divinci resolve.
oh - if your machine is a bit inadequate
Thanks for advice Lagers think I might need chest freezer to keep this bad boy cool.
I always found Sony Vegas to be fairly intuitive
If you use Vegas you also get the pleasure of using the tutorials made by this amazing guy.
I looked at this a while ago (think I asked Cowboyhat) and downloaded Shotcut, though I haven't actually used it yet.Although Lightworks now seems like a more obvious choice.http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/the-best-free-video-editor-1330136
so that they should sync seamlessly when passing files between the two.
Quote from: jfdm on April 27, 2017, 01:57:13 pmso that they should sync seamlessly when passing files between the two.Be a first.
Creative Cloud for teacher £16 a month, use photoshop loads at work so might be a good way to go, although supposed to quite slow on mac.
you can do proxy editing with Premier Pro, so might be OK (apart from rendering, but you can leave the machine overnight to do that)
Thanks though lagers have proxys in mind when editing large files.You seem to know a lot about video, dabbler or pro?
(yeah IBM, remember them?I did get IDed last Sunday by some bloke called Ben from down south
You can't go wrong with the Violent Femmes either.... good feeling.
the things most important to me that would struggle in iMovie are setting resolution, retiming clips and colour correction.
Dan thanks for your reply, when i watch your films, how are you getting that grainy old feel to your film? (Like the one below, really liked this one).Maybe playing around with the resolution of the film and colour correction? Plus some kind of filter for the scratchy effect?
Quote from: Dan Cheetham on April 27, 2017, 11:29:18 pm the things most important to me that would struggle in iMovie are setting resolution, retiming clips and colour correction.Dan thanks for your reply, when i watch your films, how are you getting that grainy old feel to your film? (Like the one below, really liked this one).Maybe playing around with the resolution of the film and colour correction? Plus some kind of filter for the scratchy effect?Will look into your suggestions about the technical bits and pieces.Looking at things online and having used iMovie briefly, I can to see the possible limitations already. Largers - have iphone so cant help you out with this.
I also used some various functions on the camera intentionally badly
Yeah, if you buy a cheap old camera on eBay and stick a cartridge in you'll most likely get similar effects like scratchy grainy looking footage depending on which film stock you use. You can actually get some pretty decent cameras cheaply if you're lucky and with modern film and scanning techniques they should give you a quality close to 16mm. I also used some various functions on the camera intentionally badly to over expose or give light traces etc. I recently picked up a couple of new cameras I'm going to experiment with over the next few months - one is the Agfa Movezoom
Last summer went on a teachers course at Tate to do with video and we created some work on old 16mm cine with b/w film.....Blacks came out really black and lovely scratches/artifacts created during the developing stage.
Quote from: jfdm on April 28, 2017, 04:22:42 pmLast summer went on a teachers course at Tate to do with video and we created some work on old 16mm cine with b/w film.....Blacks came out really black and lovely scratches/artifacts created during the developing stage.Bring back nitrate film! Okay, it may have been highly unstable, prone to igniting, and virtually impossible to extinguish (keeps burning under water or without air) but it produced gorgeous results that seem never to have been matched. Luminous white skin contrasting with lustrous black; the actresses from that period almost glow with an inner pale fire - surely that's worth a few incinerated cinemas!?
Maybe back in the day, but not with the film of today.Kodak frequently asked questions discusses combustion. http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/Support/Technical_Information/Frequently_Asked_Questions/default.htmI think there is a greater chance of laptop frying under strain than the film going up in smoke. Samsung/Dreamliner batteries frying seem a lot more problematic.great weekend everybody and thanks for all your help over the last few days.