I've been using iMovie for almost 10 years and, for the most part have been very happy with it. It's been a very useful, easy and intuitive way for me to express myself in movie making.
What I don't like about it is that whenever I've been working on an 11th-hour project, iMovie invariably crashes and I have to stay up all night to figure out how to fix it. I'm not sure why this happens but I think it's because my projects are full of a lot of effects: imported audio, changes in video quality and clip speed, etc, and this tends to overload the program.
The other thing I don't like is when I tell professionals about the good movies I've made, and they're impressed, but when I tell them I made them in iMovie, they start to laugh. They explain that iMovie is "a consumer-level product" and if I really wanted to get into filmmaking, I'd need to learn a professional system such as Final Cut.
So I'd like to know what some of the differences are between iMovie and Final Cut. Seems to me that movie making is movie making, and if it looks good, who cares what you used to get there. But educate me, please. Thanks.
What I don't like about it is that whenever I've been working on an 11th-hour project, iMovie invariably crashes and I have to stay up all night to figure out how to fix it. I'm not sure why this happens but I think it's because my projects are full of a lot of effects: imported audio, changes in video quality and clip speed, etc, and this tends to overload the program.
The other thing I don't like is when I tell professionals about the good movies I've made, and they're impressed, but when I tell them I made them in iMovie, they start to laugh. They explain that iMovie is "a consumer-level product" and if I really wanted to get into filmmaking, I'd need to learn a professional system such as Final Cut.
So I'd like to know what some of the differences are between iMovie and Final Cut. Seems to me that movie making is movie making, and if it looks good, who cares what you used to get there. But educate me, please. Thanks.