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Originally Posted by Hain
All I can do is agree with you: the raw video data in iMovie (or whatever iFuckYourProjectUp product Macs come with) looks great. Converting it made it looks like absolute shit, even burning it to DVD was a waste of DVDs--it still looked like shit. I was doing the editing and a "professional" walked me through the numerous crashes I experienced. He was baffled why I needed to convert the video to anything but the raw video, as he just saved the raw data and played it fine in his iBook.
My recommendation: use Avid. A team of students at my university put together a great video using it. I don't know if it was the free or "bought" version. They had a lot of problems importing various video clips into the program, but once they figured out some magic process that let them import the videos, they said they had no problems. And their video looked fairly clean once exported to DVD.
Personally, I used a combination of Windows Movie Maker, DVD Flick, DVD Shrink, Windows Media Encoder, Paint.NET and Audacity to make all my movies. The look just as clean but with a bit more time spent converting things with WME.
I am currently running Kubuntu OS, and haven't had the need to make movies.
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This is disheartening, but good information nonetheless.
If the editing has been done and is available in raw format, could it be accessed by other programs, or would everything have to be re-done/edited again with the new software?
Perhaps it would even have to be "ripped" again from the camera with the new software, so that it is recognized and able to be manipulated?
Thanks for the reply. I gather quite a bit of time/effort went into the editing process, and thus it's been a bit of a disappointment to come across this issue, but ultimately it should become a learning experience for future films if nothing else.
Thanks again, and if you have any further thoughts or answers to the questions above, I'd appreciate it.