>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: >> > I am not sure which version of Wine to install from Macports (there >> > are three), or if this is even the right approach for what I want to >> > do. >> > >> > The goal: Edit a "movie" (screen recording), from the view that 80-90% >> > of what I recorded will be tossed. >> > iMovie is a failure (as far as I can tell) as selecting sections and >> > removing them. >> >> Pretty sure you can cut frames with iMovie.
I am completely unable to manage selecting frames and deleting them with iMovie. Maybe there's a trick that I don't know. Things/commands/keystrokes behave differently when there is a selection inside the current clip and when there is not. Things behave differently when you are working with a clip in a project vs an event clip. I cannot find a way to adjust the left/right ends of a selection without simply moving the selection -- the length of the selection does not change when I try to adjust the start or end point of a selection. I want to be able to say "This selection is what I want to toss", and at other times "This selection is what I want to keep". The whole "Nudge your mouse and lose your place" is a pain. Again, my goal here: Work with a screen grab is that several hours long, find the good stuff, clip and keep the good stuff, toss the bad stuff. Figure that I'll be tossing 80% of what I recorded. (It would be so nice if iMovie could pause/resume while recording, but it cannot, and resizing to only the interior contents of a window -- without the title bar -- is a pain.) QuickTime player can play at 2x speed and keep the sound good. iMovie playing at double speed -- *IF* I can get it to work (most of the time that command is greyed out) plays with distorted sound. I found this nice option for "Keep a clip on a single horizontal line that scrolls", and I thought it would be an improvement. But it only seems to work in the project window, and for me it just kept a bunch of clips on one line, rather than each clip on a separate line. (Each clip came from the same event.) I can get plenty of information from the help system for "How to use the commands in the menus". I cannot find any information on "How to use the tools provided in the menus to actually edit a movie". All I can find is basically "How to put a bunch of clips together with some preset transitions to impress your grandmother". The whole idea in iMovie of "You have to click to make a selection, you cannot turn the playhead position into the start/end of a selection" means that no matter what I do to find the point I want to start my selection at, I cannot actually start my selection there -- my click will not be at the frame I'm looking at. Etc. If you've got a "Here's how to actually EDIT in iMovie" document, please share it. Assembling clips with transitions is not the goal. Clipping and tossing is. >> > This means I'm going to use VirtualDub (only program I've found so far >> > that is good at selecting lots of specific frame ranges and tossing >> > them). >> >> There are going to be better options for video editing on the Mac then >> running a Windows program. I hope so. >> Quicktime Pro Player has been able to cut video many years. The pro version >> used to cost $35. Quicktime player has the ability to clip and cut now. But once you've done clipping/cutting you cannot export it (if there are three or more clips in the final). >> Have you looked at the MacPorts ports for Avidemux and Kdenlive. No, I haven't heard of them. I'll look at them next. > Or the free app MPEG Streamclip? "You can use MPEG Streamclip to: open > most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; play them > at full screen; edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim; set In/Out > points and convert them into muxed or demuxed files, or export them to > QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 files" > > http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html That sounds good. Thank you. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
