audio effects in new iMovie '08 - what's to become of Logic Pro ? what about a truly integrated media authoring environment?

[Kevin Callahan]

On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:47 PM, j o a r wrote:

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> On 15 aug 2007, at 21.25, Kevin Callahan wrote:
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>> After spending a few hours experimenting with capturing high- 
>> quality audio in iMovie (iMovie 08, as iMovie 6 - doesn't allow  
>> you to capture independent audio and video sources do disk) , we  
>> ended up pushing audio directly into the camcorder and passing it  
>> through to iMovie.  The result was mediocre to bad.  Lot's of  
>> hiss, less than desirable sampling.  But, because there appears no  
>> solution at the moment, I thought I could fix the audio to some  
>> degree using the built-in EQ and Reverb in iMovie -- except that I  
>> can't find the AU plugins in iMovie '08.  Are they no longer  
>> supported?  I have LogicPro installed .. along with other AU  
>> plugins that should be available to me as audio effects in  
>> iMovie!  We're going backwards!
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> Sounds like you're trying to do professional work on consumer  
> software? Why aren't you using FCP and / or Logic? They are  
> designed to interface with multiple high end devices in a way that  
> I never expect the consumer versions will be. Or are they also broken?

Logic Pro 7.2.3  is broken (can't export audio to movie).  ( I  
explained that in my email on this).

QTPro 7.2 is broken (doesn't recognize MOTU 896HD firewire interface  
and other audio interfaces).  ( I explained that in my email on this).

iMovie is all I need to do what I do ... and iMovie USED to have EQ  
and REVERB.  (that was stated as well -- we USED to have access to  
Apple's audio units in iMovie 6).

I would buy Final Cut Studio 2 "yesterday" if I knew it to solve the  
problem, but when I attended the recent FCStudio seminar here in  
Seattle (the one Apple has been taking around the country), I was  
told by 3 Apple reps at the seminar that they didn't *know* if you  
could capture directly to disk using an HDV camera and a firewire  
audio interface. ie: bring in separate sources to disk in real time.

A friend of mine with FCStudio 2 tested this for me when FCStudio was  
released, before QTPro 7.2 came out, and he said he could not capture  
and define separate sources.  He's going to check again today --  
however, he has a USB audio interface.

Again, I couldn't get an Apple rep to confirm one way or another.  If  
anyone on this list using FCStudio 2 can confirm that you can indeed  
capture to disk and define independent audio sources (firewire) and  
video sources (in particular, an HDV camcorder), I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
K


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