My iMovie experience

[coffeelover]

I would like to share my experience as a neophite videographer wanna-be. After spending lots of time reading reviews, I've decided to go with the Panasonic GS-120. I took lots of footages of my daughter on her first stint as a flower girl last Sunday. After making enough space on my ibook, I was able to transfer the footages using iMovie with a firewire cable I bought separately. Editing was a breeze also with iMovie, putting titles, effects, transitions was very simple. It's really great using a Mac!

[Martin]

amen to that! ive tried to make a movie using imovies too, and the movie really turned out great...it really looks professional, and not that much effort was put...imagine if i really put my heart into it cheers!arty:

[Edited on 10-23-2004 by Martin]

[El CaMOTe]

Coffee lover,

Now you have to decide how you want to keep your iMovie material. The raw footage and the edited version.

Suggest you keep both and the edited 'final cut' keep it in its original DV format and store it back into another miniDV master tape so that in future if you have to re-edit or use the unused portions for another iMovie etc., Archiving in VCD or DVD format is not recommended, there are losses and changing it back to DV format includes those losses already.

Good luck and Cheers,

[rbpops]

yup. have to agree it's quite easy. one of the reasons why i got the pb was for this function. i tape surgical operations then edit it down from the one-two hour version to a more presentable 8 minute or less movie. unfortunately, the movies are now cluttering up my space that ive had to delete the raw footage (i figure ill just connect the firewire again and download the digital movie if need be). thats why am in search of an external hard drive to store these films - both the edited version, and future "raw footages".

[coffeelover]

Thanks for the advice Tom. For now, I'm keeping them in my ibook and miniDV. I'll decide what to do with them in the future, I'll probably follow your recommendation, and transfer them to miniDV for long term storage.