That would definitely be where Final Cut Pro probably comes in. Which will pretty much level any competition thrown at it from what I understand. Now it runs $999 and is definitely not designed for the extremely cost-concious or open-source requiring... The real-time effects sound amazing and Apple keeps making it better and better. Can't say I can counter any feature requests/comments, but it is worth comparing if interested...
Now, I will say that my comments should not be construed as experienced :) I am just getting interested in firewire and digital video, but from the expert opinions I have read it is hard to find competition at the relative price point anywhere. That doesn't mean broadcast 2000 is bad, far from it. I have seen the app and it is quite good. iMovie is easy, fun, and cheap (if you already have a mac ;) Broadcast 2000 is nice too. I would use iMovie and eventually graduate to FCP myself if I was serious about video editing. I say use what works and fits for you... Bill On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 01:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said the following on the > auspicious date of 02-02-11: > > I disagree. I use Broadcast 2000 on Linux, an open source non-linear > video editor. It aspires to be useful to broadcast industry > professionals so it probably isn't as easy to use as iMovie. On the > good side, it has nifty things like audio and video plugins that will > let you use interesting effects like chromakey. I have hacked together > a few plugins myself. The software will let you use several plugins on > each audio and video track and use many tracks all at once -- you could > build video from 2 or 10+ different sources simultaneously each with 4 > plugins to produce the finished video, although it may take several > hours to render a few minutes of NTSC style video. To make things even > better, you get to enter the numbers you want to use for resolution, > frame rate, and aspect ratio. Small web based video clip? High > Definition TV production? DVD work? No problem. Try that with iMovie!
