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Easy to use app or device to edit DVD's & add text?

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I'd like some recommendations for an "Extremely EASY/SIMPLE" app or electronic device I can use to take material now on DVD's & edit & add text & burn it to new DVD. I used to use an early OS 10. Apple App called (iMovie HD 5.0.2) that was incredibly simple & obvious to use. It has been replaced with a far more complicated iMovie apps. by Apple without replacing it with a simple app like iMovie HD 5.0.2 for people that simply want to edit & add captions to home movies.

Also, what is the easiest way to get a home movie from a DVD player into editing apps on both the older Macs using 10.6.8... & as well the New Macs running 10.13.6? It's too bad that DVD "non copy-righted"material" cannot be loaded directly from a Apple Super Drive right into an editing application.
 
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Do you still have all the original DVD's with the iLife apps? If so, here is what I would do:

Get/make an external 60gb drive.
Install Snow Leopard onto it.
Install iLife apps needed.
Use that as needed.
 
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Do you still have all the original DVD's with the iLife apps? If so, here is what I would do:

Get/make an external 60gb drive.
Install Snow Leopard onto it.
Install iLife apps needed.
Use that as needed.

I have the discs that came with my old computers (OS 10.6) with the iLife apps. Can I just install iLife apps on that computer that is running 10.6.8 now? I don't remember an iLife app that will do what I want.... but maybe I have forgotten!!! What iLife app could be used to input & edit DVD's?? Getting the data on the DVD's into the Mac is the PROBLEM. I have a Mac program I really like on the computer.... BUT I can't get the data from a DVD player into the Mac into that app. That's the problem! I used to use a "Pass Through" setting on an old video camera to get the DVD data into my old iMovie app.... BUT the camera died!
 
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You said you used to use iMovie HD 5.0.2, so I assumed, that did what you wanted, but it was not compatible with your new OS X version, that was all I was saying. Sorry if I misunderstood your situation.

If the DVD in question, is not DRM, then you should be able to use Handbrake, https://handbrake.fr/to get the movie off the DVD and saved into a file format more app friendly.
 
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I have the discs that came with my old computers (OS 10.6) with the iLife apps.

You said you used to use iMovie HD 5.0.2, so I assumed, that did what you wanted, but it was not compatible with your new OS X version, that was all I was saying. Sorry if I misunderstood your situation.

If the DVD in question, is not DRM, then you should be able to use Handbrake, https://handbrake.fr/to get the movie off the DVD and saved into a file format more app friendly.

Can one not just use a later version of iMovie that just works with the current used OS X version.

My v. 10.x still works with Mavericks and maybe even later. And it's free I believe.





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Can one not just use a later version of iMovie that just works with the current used OS X version.

My v. 10.x still works with Mavericks and maybe even later. And it's free I believe.





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Yes, I could use the current versions of iMovie... BUT they are incredibly complicated just to do simple editing! It's like they are made to create a Hollywood movie while the old iMove 5.0.2 is incredibly obvious & easy doing 90% of what the average Mac User needs. I think Apple is blowing it by putting out only very complicated APPS that require quite a learning curve while forgetting the average user that wants to simply edit & put captions on vacation videos.

Thanx for answering,
 
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Yes, I could use the current versions of iMovie... BUT they are incredibly complicated just to do simple editing!


I wouldn't say the later versions are "incredibly complicated" but they could certainly do more than the first "simple" versions could do, and I wonder if they could even do what you are wanting to do.

I am sure that just like you could fit a super-charger onto a V-8, you could also manage to use the later versions of iMovie and get your project done. :Smirk:





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Yes pm-r.... I guess I just getting too lazy to learn the modern versions of iMovie & give up the old ones! LOL! I need a good course in the modern versions of iMovie because they far less "intuitive" than earlier versions! The current versions of iMovie are not as user friendly (obvious & easy to understand) as the old iMovie versions. I think Apple has made a mistake by not supporting a simple version of iMovie for people that simply want to edit home movies rather than make a movie for Hollywood & having to spend a lot of time learning a complicated App. Apple products became popular because they were "intuitive" & they are loosing that quality by adding more complications where not necessary for average users thereby cutting out some users! I've been a Mac user since their 1st computer... but find Macs less "intuitive" every upgrade in OS. I find confusing issues just in simple use of the Mac today such as in simply moving files to & from the desktop without creating avatars or duplications that file.

I wouldn't say the later versions are "incredibly complicated" but they could certainly do more than the first "simple" versions could do, and I wonder if they could even do what you are wanting to do.

I am sure that just like you could fit a super-charger onto a V-8, you could also manage to use the later versions of iMovie and get your project done. :Smirk:





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