Re: Macsimum News - iMovie ‘08

[Kevin Callahan]

On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:14 PM, R.L. Grigg wrote:

> On Aug 21, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 21, 2007, at 12:03 PM, j o a r wrote:
>>>
>>> On 21 aug 2007, at 20.50, David P. Henderson wrote:
>>>
>>>>> <http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/ 
>>>>> imovie_08_more_of_a_downgrade_than_an_improvement/>
>>>>
>>>> Don't remember if this post has been posted in Talk yet <http:// 
>>>> pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/apple-takes-a-step-back-with- 
>>>> imovie-08/>, but Pogue has similar criticisms.
>>>
>>>
>>> And  in response:
>>>
>>> <http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2007/08/ 
>>> imovie_08_maybe.html>
>>> 	->	<http://danslagle.com/blog/?p=259>
>>> 		<http://danslagle.com/blog/?p=260>
>>> 		<http://danslagle.com/blog/?p=261>
>>>
>>> j o a r
>>
>> yeah  .. I *much* prefer the direction iMovie 08 is taking us ..  
>> beyond the scrubbing/skimming feature, a killer feature is the  
>> ease of which you can  share your movie (in numerous formats) to  
>> your Media Browser (to be picked up by other iLife apps) .. such  
>> as GarageBand - where you can add more audio tracks or do some  
>> sweetening.
>>
>
> You don't miss scoring in GarageBand'08? From the article:


nope!  because the article is wrong.  Just drag a movie into GB and  
it will create a video track and you're good to go.  That's what I  
ended up doing when I needed to fix the audio from the camcorder (as  
iMovie won't let us capture video and audio from different sources, I  
have to send audio into the camcorder, let the camcorder do the  
sampling == which really sucks ==).

I first dropped the movie into Logic Pro, so I could use my plethora  
of plugins and high-end effects.  After fixing the audio the best I  
could, I discovered a bug in Logic Pro that prevents you from  
actually "Exporting Audio to Movie".   So I then dragged the movie  
into the new GB, muted the existing audio track that was contained in  
the movie, then dragged the audio track I'd exported from Logic Pro  
into GB.  And now, in GB, I could share the movie out to iWeb, iDVD  
or save to disk.

At this point, I'll just EXPORT from iMovie to the MEDIA BROWSER and  
select the various formats ...  then fix the audio in GB (instead of  
LPro - not optimal, but a time saver given my workflow for these  
types of projects).

A better scenario would be to actually just fix the audio in LP or  
GB, then bring that audio back into iMovie as a track (hope it syncs  
- haven't tried it yet) .. mute the original audio ..
and THEN export to the various targets.

Even better: if iMovie supported all the audio plugins I have in my  
system, then I wouldn't have to export just to fix the audio.

But ..  nothing is perfect.

K


>
> "Even GarageBand has lost the ability of Movie Scoring introduced  
> in the ‘06 version. If we cannot do in iMovie’08 audio-dub with  
> mixes, lower the sound on small parts of the movie to more clearly  
> hear the voices, adjust the audio at the beginning and end of the  
> songs and other stuff like this, we could use GarageBand but…
> If GarageBand’08 had the Movie Scoring we could jump our project  
> and do it there but even this Apple removed."
>
> Russ


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