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I know i can get FCP but i don't see spending $300 on video editing software. I don't make allot of money being a disabled veteran and i wanna finish my 240sx. Anything else thats pretty good that i can get for my macbook pro?
thanks
 
For $20 monthly you can get Premiere. Final Cut X is good for most anything though and is worth the money.
 
there is some learning curve to adobe premiere. I just used it tonight for the first time.....after getting past the learning curve, this program is fn awesome
 
Yeah, there is some learning. It's an industry standard editing suite.

I have used it professionally for years, so if you have questions I may be able to help. I'm not a power user, but I've got the main functions down and am happy to help where I can.
 
MattW said:
Yeah, there is some learning. It's an industry standard editing suite.

I have used it professionally for years, so if you have questions I may be able to help. I'm not a power user, but I've got the main functions down and am happy to help where I can.
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thank you.
 
Note that you can use the FCPX trial for 30 days and see if you like the workflow. It is really the only game in town for professional editing that is in any way affordable.

If you want to go for a subscription model, there's Premiere as mentioned (which I dislike, but it works) or Avid Media Composer, which is much better but considerably more expensive-- although the monthly subscription makes it workable for most.

Another option to consider is Lightworks-- I'm not a huge fan of the workflow and there's no where near the third party support that exists for FCPX, but it is cheap (Premiere money) and much better than most other editors in that market segment.
 
Leon Loco said:
Note that you can use the FCPX trial for 30 days and see if you like the workflow. It is really the only game in town for professional editing that is in any way affordable.

If you want to go for a subscription model, there's Premiere as mentioned (which I dislike, but it works) or Avid Media Composer, which is much better but considerably more expensive-- although the monthly subscription makes it workable for most.

Another option to consider is Lightworks-- I'm not a huge fan of the workflow and there's no where near the third party support that exists for FCPX, but it is cheap (Premiere money) and much better than most other editors in that market segment.
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Thanks. I'm gonna check out FCPX after my free trial of premiere is up.
 
MattW said:
Yeah, there is some learning. It's an industry standard editing suite.

I have used it professionally for years, so if you have questions I may be able to help. I'm not a power user, but I've got the main functions down and am happy to help where I can.
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MattW said:
Yeah, there is some learning. It's an industry standard editing suite.

I have used it professionally for years, so if you have questions I may be able to help. I'm not a power user, but I've got the main functions down and am happy to help where I can.
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I ran into a problem already. I marked in and out the clip i wanted to use. I then pressed the insert button and nothing happened. I tried also using the overwrite button as well as , and . but nothing happened. Not sure where to go from here. Is there some setting i have to adjust to get it to go to the timeline? If anyone could help i would really appreciate it. thank you
 
BurntRuber said:
I ran into a problem already. I marked in and out the clip i wanted to use. I then pressed the insert button and nothing happened. I tried also using the overwrite button as well as , and . but nothing happened. Not sure where to go from here. Is there some setting i have to adjust to get it to go to the timeline? If anyone could help i would really appreciate it. thank you
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I just figured it out and feel pretty dumb. If anyone has the same problem just grab the picture of the clip in the source window and drag it to the timeline
 
Also man just under the video in the source menu is a video clip icon and audio icon. If you grab either of those and put it into the timeline it will only drag video without audio (video clip) or just the audio (audio icon) if you want to do that as well! dont worry it took my 7 hours to do a 7 minute video yesterday but i started learning a lot of the effects and stuff you can add!
 
MotoDynsty said:
Also man just under the video in the source menu is a video clip icon and audio icon. If you grab either of those and put it into the timeline it will only drag video without audio (video clip) or just the audio (audio icon) if you want to do that as well! dont worry it took my 7 hours to do a 7 minute video yesterday but i started learning a lot of the effects and stuff you can add!
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Thanks I'm getting the hang of it. the only problem I'm having is i can only play a couple seconds of the video at a time before the picture freezes up.
 
something i realized pretty quick......video card and decent amount of ram is a must for hd video editing. i did two vlogs and went and bought a new computer.
 
how much are you using now? with premier pro ive seen some tutorial where you can prerender rough cuts so it plays better but not at high def then when you render your finished product you can render it at whatever you want. maybe render wasnt the right word for the playback issue, forgot what he said but theres a couple tutorials on youtube to help with that
 
MotoDynsty said:
how much are you using now? with premier pro ive seen some tutorial where you can prerender rough cuts so it plays better but not at high def then when you render your finished product you can render it at whatever you want. maybe render wasnt the right word for the playback issue, forgot what he said but theres a couple tutorials on youtube to help with that
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ram i have 4gb i can get 8gm. if your talking about playback resolution i have it at 1/4 which is the lowest it will allow me to go.
 
Sorry I missed your question!

On the playback, look at the bottom of the program window where your time line plays. There is a pull down with a fraction displayed. It's probably at 1/2. Change it to get more playback.

That's the real time preview quality setting. Set it to like 1/4 and it will look a little grainy when playing but will play longer.
 
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