X-Message-Number: 28939
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:58:53 -0800 (PST)
From: un person <>
Subject: imovie on mac computers

Kennita Watson wrote:
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Hi Un Person --

Would you mind posting information about how you
put together your cryonics video?  I might not be
able to do the same things, since I have a Macintosh,
but knowing what kinds of hardware and software you
were working with, the formats of the input and
output files, etc., could help boost those of us whose
creative juices are simmering to come to a boil.

Thanks,
Kennita

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the first thing is that you need  a video editor. I
use video vegas on my PC. Zoom and sound and titles
and timeline drop and drag are the essence of video
editing. I am editing a clip of boiling liquid
nitrogen right now for insertion into my video. 

Fair use license on this one! Ten seconds of video is
generally allowable.

Also, I use photoshop a lot to prep still images for
use in my video. There are a couple of free
alternatives to Photoshop, but I have not tried them.

Back to your problem....

I understand that imovie comes with mac computers, and
it is, from what I hear, a quite capable tool. 

Do you have imovie on your computer? It comes free
with a new mac, but if you buy it, it costs about 80
bucks. Or there are one or two free video editors you
can download, but I have not tried them. And there are
websites that will let you upload video and edit it
via your browser. Have not tried that yet.

Do you have imovie?

Also, you need a fair amount of ram. Less on mac than
PC. What is your RAM allotment? I have one gig, and I
have about 1.8 Ghz processor (AMD?).

If RAM is a problem, you could try the online editors.
I suppose they could even render the video, which is
the process of creating the final binary file. THat is
the ram-hungry process.

-unperson


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