My Apple iMove '11 Experiment

Sometimes I get these wild ideas about trying something new. In this case it was to abandon Final Cut Express in favour of iMovie '11 to edit one of my episodes. Oh dear.

To be honest, there are lots of features in iMove '11 that are great. Generally, for just cutting video together it does a great job and has some cool features that Final Cut Express doesn't. However, there are two major downfalls.

I record audio and video separately and sync them back up in editing. iMovie will do this but not as nicely as my usual software. Also, I only record audio on the left channel using my sound recorder and iMovie wasn't able to pan that into the middle for me.

Lastly, the quality just wasnapos;t there in the finished video. Because I record screen captures I rely on the quality of the finished video being good enough to read text on the screen. iMove '11 just didnapos;t want to do that. Iapos;m not sure why or at which stage of the process it lost resolution, but it did and enough to annoy me.

This video shows a little about how I went about editing a Desktop Video Guy Episode in iMove '11.

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[HappyZentraedi]

I've had a similar issue with stereo audio, and I've had to resort to other programs to fix it. Right-clicking on a clip in your timeline will allow you to separate the audio from the video.

Regarding the image quality issue, I think that you can fix that. You can choose the quality of the import (by default it reduces import quality to 540p), and adjust the parameters of the output when you export the video. That should allow you to to at least fix the video quality.