[drloomis]

I'm starting to go totally nuts... maybe it's my low budget filmmaking mind taking over... but I'm not thinking aobut the 10,000 dollar feature film or the 5,000, but the 500 dollar feature film.

Then it hit me. In a weird way, iMovie is better than Final Cut Pro because it frees you creatively.

You can't do as much, so it limits your choices, but at the same time, that makes you have to think or cooler way to make your film exciting.

It's also a challenge.

I'm a big fan of Final Cut Pro just so you know and wow can it do things that iMovie cannot. And soundtrack kicks ass.

But I still believe that a talent filmmaker with a one chip dv and imovie can make a great feature film and that all the bells and whistles sometimes get in the way.

I've done it. You read the side of the box and say, well if I only had 1000 dollars for FCP i could be a fillmmaker, where the truth is iMovie or whatever you can get your hands on will do the trick.

Espically if you have e a low budget film, without special effects, iMovie might be perfect for the project. Simple, easy, fun.

Not to mention, it's a good marketing tool. I made a film for 500 dollars using my ibook and imovie.

[Eug]

Film is better than iMovie because it frees you creatively.

[Mallrat]

Originally posted by Eug:
Film is better than iMovie because it frees you creatively.

Did you mean film is better than video?

[sanity assassin]

drloomis has a point though. iMovie does present video editing in a slightly new, and flexible approach. Sometimes when using basic software, the task at hand can stretch you when using limited means, and that creates the environment for creativity in the project, and much later when using more advanced software, which will be needed when editing on larger scale.

FCP is one great bit of software, but I've hated its interface, unintuitive for me, I prefer GUIs to be labeled, and for little icons to be used to minimum. I'm lucky though, cause I use Avid DS for work, which is another world from FCP

[Powaqqatsi]

Try to go out with a camera and only a 50 mm lens. You'll come back with "upgraded" skills . It's the same thing.

PS: maybe more a lounge-subject this.

[sanity assassin]

Originally posted by Powaqqatsi:
Try to go out with a camera and only a 50 mm lens. You'll come back with "upgraded" skills . It's the same thing.

PS: maybe more a lounge-subject this.

You will, limit the tools at hand, and adversity breeds ingenuity. Helped me all these years. Comes to the crunch though, all the power I can get, I'll grab on to. heh.