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 17, 2007, at 1:37 AM, j o a r wrote:

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> On 17 aug 2007, at 08.05, LuKreme wrote:
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>>> This (separate audio and video sources for live capture) is a pro- 
>>> level feature, so I don't think that you should set your  
>>> expectations on having it available in the iLife apps.
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>> He didn't.
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> Did too.

well, to clarify ..

I *was* using QTPro 7.1 (a $29 app) to CAPTURE to disk in real-time  
TWO independent sources for audio and video.

QTPro 7.2 broke that workflow.

I've said numerous times that if Apple fixes this, I'll return to  
that workflow.  However, I don't see why this feature can't be  
implemented in iMovie.

After all, there IS a preference to set your *voiceover* to an audio  
source -- and my MOTU does show up.  You'd think this would only work  
for overdubbing audio onto an existing movie, but it actually works  
when capturing under certain configurations:

If I choose to capture video via the built-in iSight camera, I can  
capture audio from the MOTU.

However, as soon as I hook up a camcorder, iMovie dishonors my  
preferred audio source: the MOTU .. and grabs audio from the  
Camcorder - OUCH!

I think it's a *reasonable* thing to REQUEST (which I've done  
numerous times via RADAR)  especially given the above  -  that iMovie  
allow us to capture video from a DV camera (preferably HDV) and audio  
from an audio interface.

Also, don't forget: iChat (not a PRO app by any stretch of the  
imagination), allows me to take video in on my Canon DV and audio in  
on my MOTU -
I use it all the time for giving online lessons.  So I really don't  
think we can argue this is a PRO feature request.  The technology is  
already in place.

iChat is taking the two independent streams from EXTERNAL firewire  
sources and compressing them in real time - sending them over the wire.

And I repeat:  I will put up with resorting to QTPro if/when Apple  
fixes what they broke.
That said, I think it's reasonable to ask, given the above, for  
iMovie to support this.

Why have to capture to disk, then drop the file into iMovie ?  It's a  
waste of time.  It's not the simplicity and ease of use we've come to  
expect from Apple.

Additionally, I would like iMovie to return support for Audio Units -  
or make it easy to "SEND" video to Garageband if that's what they  
intend us to do for audio work.


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>> he expected it to still be present in QT *PRO* 7.2 as it was in QT  
>> *PRO* 7.1
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> I agree with that, but it's probably just a simple regression. Hold  
> off being really angry

this has been broken since July 11th  ...
I was using it daily for work ...
I'm trying to be patient :-)

> until you've checked if there is a fix in next update to QT.

yeah - that's what I'm waiting for -  I've asked dev relations for  
escalation on this

> Until that time you can always "simply" revert to the earlier,  
> working, version.

can you ?  does iLife 08 work with QT7.1 ?

I thought all the new apps require 7.2 ?

Today, I'm looking at installing Tiger on a new hard drive .. just so  
I can capture using QT 7.1

K

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