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User Name Lavrik
Member Since 2000-04-06
Total number of Feedback Posts: 5
Total number of comments: 4
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Apple iMovie 7.1 (Mac OS X)
I find iMovie '08 unusable. If I had perfectly set little clips, that were ready to be dropped into a project with nothing more needed than minor edits and adding in a transition (and where did all of those go?) here and there, it'd be fine. However, the lack of a time line, no split at playhead, no fade out, no fade in, chapters being thrown into iDVD (and NOT in an intuitive manner at that), etc. makes it entirely frustrating to use. I do a lot of format conversions. I have to take one long piece of DV, that contains various scenes within it, I need to split them where necessary, move the clips around, transition etc., and with pieces like this, it's just painful, and near impossible to use. I do love the skimming feature, but for me, this should be a toggle, that once you hit the frame you want, you can turn it off, easily select, and edit. Instead, when you move the mouse, it keeps skimming, and you've lost your selected frame. I was told "Of all the things I have struggled to unlearn from iMovie6HD... Everytime I think I want to split-at-playhead, I'm just thinking about the editing process in the wrong way. iMovie08 wants you to select the excerpts you want the Event Library and drop them into the project where you want them. You can grab a new selection and drop it in the middle of an existing project clip, or select part of a project clip and delete it or cut-n-paste it to elsewhere." For me, that's part of the problem. I never had to "learn" iMovie. It was just intuitive, and every new version (previously) added to what I already used in a positive way. My very first time with iMovie, I just sat down, and started producing videos. With '08, I just look at it, and after the initial, "Wow, this looks awesome!", I scratch my head and can't figure out how to DO anything with it. If split-at-playhead was my only issue, I could work around it, but film is a linear media. To not have an accessible, and editable, time line, doesn't make a lot of sense. For now, it's too overwhelming in the change department, and general theory, as well as lacking the tools that I use, for me to be immediately productive. I'm sure they're not rolling back to the '06 model, so I'll have to keep trying. For better, or worse, I'll be going back to iMovie HD, for the time being. At least with that, I can be productive and get my work done. And really, isn't that what Apple products are supposed to be about? Oh, and the importing of an old '06 project, is painfully slow. [alert admin]
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Thursday, September 27 2007 @ 12:09 PM PDT
JES Deinterlacer 3.1 (Mac OS X)
I discovered this about a year ago when searching for something to convert between PAL and NTSC video, and this totally saved me. There are other methods, but they're WAY too cumbersome (check out Apple's directions for using iMovie to do it). This is great. You just select "Standards conversion" and it chugs away, producing a perfect conversion on the other end. If you create chapters in iMovie, it even preserves those in the new conversion. Drop it into iDVD, and you can now burn DVDs in both standards. AND... it's FREE!!! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 18 2006 @ 12:12 PM PDT
PC-Mac-Net FileShare Lite 6.1.4 (Mac OS X)
Easy setup, and now moving data back and forth between my Mac and my PC, which until now has been impossible on ANY of my machines using Apple's built-in SAMBA "support". [alert admin]
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Wednesday, August 23 2006 @ 12:32 PM PDT
Discus X 4.0G (Mac OS X)
I've always loved this product, and looking forward to trying out version 4, BUT, it's very unfortunate that the UNICODE implementation didn't work and it's still 8-bit. Once that happens, I won't even consider any other product but this. :) [alert admin]
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Tuesday, April 04 2006 @ 01:15 PM PDT
Nisus Writer Express 2.1.3 (Mac OS X)
This program is invaluable for foreign language word-processing, and handles non-Roman text like no other. It's the only program with "Unicode support" that really does have support, and works with the text like any other text. [alert admin]
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Friday, July 22 2005 @ 07:56 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Lavrik [ Search for All ]
It has to be pretty telling that Apple is offering to do this. I've found '08 to be entirely unusable. It's GORGEOUS, but totally worthless. This is just NOT Apple software. It's NOT intuitive, or user-friendly, in the least. When tech people can't figure it out either, it's not Apple entry-level software. Steve Jobs once said, the Apple designs all of their products to do sophisticated work, but at…
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Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Actually, "Prices start at € 1.295 (plus tax)", so it could be even more pricey. At +/- $1,755, it really would only be an "affordable, powerful and user-friendly application(s)" to their target audience, which is "the broadcasting industry", and NOT the general public. My first reaction was, "Are they crazy?", but we have to consider that VersionTracker posts ALL levels of software, even high-end, limited-market, ones. Oh, and no, I won't be…
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Tuesday, April 17 2007 @ 10:54 AM PDT
What are you talking about? It works great! OK, yes, it is an additional app, but using Apple's built-in SAMBA sharing, I have yet to get my PC and Mac to share well. Actually, before this program, I couldn't get them to share AT ALL! This is a quick launch, and then just WORKS. Setup is beyond easy, and now I effortlessly move data back and forth.
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Wednesday, August 23 2006 @ 12:27 PM PDT
"Donate"? I'd gladly PAY for a decent app that supported the T608!!! ARE there any apps that work with the T608?
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Tuesday, May 25 2004 @ 11:33 PM PDT
