Good Basic Mac Editing Software

[AAAron]

You could try the free Hyperengine, http://www.arboretum.com/ have yet to try it but I think it beats Imovie. It´s totaly free so you got nothing to loose.

[bobzilla]

Thanks! I will check it out.

[tharrell]

iMovie is perfect for your needs, and it comes free on every Mac these days.

Once you get comfy enough with that to find it constraining, you can move up to either the Express for full version of Final Cut Pro.

iMovie is, quite honestly, the best thing on the market for what it does -- make editing movies and slideshows dead simple.

Edit: You can bring in any video format (Quicktime compatible, DiVX, XVID, AVI -- TIFF sequences, whatever) you like via Quicktime, although for some you might have to use the swiss army knife features of Quicktime Pro to get the footage into a 'scrubbable' format to make timing previews easier.

Best of luck,

--T

[bobzilla]

Trey...

I have iMovie (a few versions old), but I figured I couldn't get my TIFF sequences in there. Or, are you saying to bring them into QTPro and export them as something that iMovie could read?

[tharrell]

Robert,

Both Quicktime 6 and Quicktime 7 pro can open image sequences and save them as DV streams, which older versions of iMovie will read properly.

I generally use the fCheck software that comes with Maya to do my conversions, personally -- mostly because Quicktime still has issues with Maya IFF files generated by playblasts.

What software are you using? C4D? Lightwave? Hash?

You've probably got the option to render directly into Quicktime, saving the step of conversion completely.

Most people use TIFF sequences when they're rendering passes for composites -- if you don't need to render as multipass, I'd render as Quicktime animation codec 640x480 at 100% quality to bring in.

Take care,

--T

[bobzilla]

Thanks for the info, Trey.

I'm using C4D. I usually render to TIFFs in case there's a problem in the middle of the render I don't have to re-render the whole thing.

I guess you always have to convert tom get your renders into iMovie or FCE because they only acept DV. Or, at least the older versions do.

[AAAron]

Did you try, Hyperengine, was it useble? As I said earlier I never tried it , but it looks like some kind of "iMovie Pro".

[bobzilla]

I've downloaded it, but haven't had a chance to play with it. I downloaded their HTML manual, but I keep getting an empty folder.

It does look like it has more features, like compositing. Has a weird interface. It looks like everyhitng just kind of floating in a main window, or as they put it, like you have everything layed out on your dining room table.

I'd like to go through a tut, but I didn't see one on their site, unless it's one that's built in to the app.

[tharrell]

For the empty folder thing, if you're running Tiger, it's a bug.

Duplicate the empty folder in the Finder (command-D) and presto... a full folder.

Let us know how you like it... :)

--T

[bobzilla]

Nope. Still at 10.3.8. But, I'll try again tonight when I get home.

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