I'm looking for up-to-date how-to guides for vidding on a Mac. Everything I'm finding is very old, at least for fan vid-specific instructions. I'm planning to learn Adobe Premiere. I've been using Final Cut Express, but it isn't compatible with the newest Mac OS. I'm not tech savvy, so the more detailed and specific, the better ( Read more... )

My clips in iMovie sometimes stutter a bit when I play them back. The needle (for lack of a better word) will come to a standstill for a second or even two before resuming play. This will make my clips lag behind the music ( Read more... )

Man on a Mission
Merlin's got a Mission, that Mission is Arthur.
Music: Man on a Mission, written by C. Jay Cox, performed by Bobby Joyner (Latter Days soundtrack)
Fandom: Merlin, Merlin/Arthur
Length: 2.28

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So, this has been my weekend. On Friday, I finished the vid I've been working on for the past couple of months. I exported it out of iMovie in DV format and then transferred it to MPEG Streamclip and exported it from there in MP4 and MOV formats. Problem was, the smallest file size I could get while still keeping the quality high was 97 MB. (Erk!) ( Read more... )

I have searched the comm's memories and came up empty ( Read more... )

A tutorial created by a new vidder for other new vidders.

I can't import a clip into IMovieHD. My previous vids (not many - I'm a newbie) were done on IMovie6, which always imported clips, eventually. Normally I import .mov files with DV/DVCPRO compression from MPEG Streamclip. This clip, I've changed into different compressions, into .avi and .dv, and it won't import any of them. IMovie6 WILL import ( Read more... )

Hey all! I am a fairly new vidder (started last December) and have a few vids under my belt. I work off of a mac and use iMovie. I have purchased a few Slick plug ins that gave me some more transitions and titles and such, but I am curious if anyone has experience with iMovie who could tell me how one might zoom in on a scene or crop a scene ( Read more... )

Hi, this might be the wrong place for this question, but I was wondering how to make fanvids with clips from TV episodes that are not out on DVD yet. Can you use clips from episodes bought on iTunes? I don't think so, 'cause those are in a protected format, right?

I'm pretty new at this, I'm on a Mac OS X, and I use iMovie. Thanks for any help.

I taught myself to vid with iMovie (hey, it came free with my computer), but iMovie, as far as I've been able to figure (by mucking around at random), is rather limiting and frustrating. I need a new program, and possibly some tutorials that explain not only what various features do, but also what those words they've just used to describe them ( Read more... )