[macgeek2005]

I've decided to make a trailer for the whole lord of the rings trilogy. I'm using the Requiem for a Dream music that was used in The Two Towers trailer, and making the trailer exactly the length of the music. I'm therefore dividing the length of the music by 3 and giving each movie it's respective time in the trailer.

My question is this. What program should I use? I have iMovie and Final Cut Pro. All I need is to be able to cut up the footage and put music to it, so iMovie is just fine, it's just it takes FOREVER to import videos into it, and then it takes up TONS of hard drive space. Is there something i'm not aware of? I mean, it takes 45GB just to have the fellowship of the ring in an iMovie file.. what's up with that?

Then, i'll need to have the whole movie in the clips pane, and constantly drag down the ENTIRE movie, and clip it down to just one little shot, and then do it again for the next shot I want!

Is there an easier way to do this?

[k_munic]

one hour video = 13GB of data, no way to avoid that...
iM is a consumer product, using a very sepcific way of non-distructive editing.. not my No.1 choice for handling such a project.. you have paid 1400$ for FCP, you have read the 1600pgs handbook - why not using it..?

no need to drag-down the whole clip (you do use iM6? import segmented..), why not pre-editing it in preview.. (?)

every heard the expression "paper editing"?
watch the movies, write down the timecode, which scenes seems useful and essentiell; import just these pieces.. I would NEVER import 20h of raw, to create a 3min piece...

your Q leads me to dare saying:
THAT project is beyond your skills.. sorry for being patronizing...

[macgeek2005]

Oh well. I will do it in iMovie. I have not read the 1600 page handbook of FCP unfortunetaly. I haven't got around to it.

I'm already 2 minutes into the trailer, it'll be 6 and a half minutes long in the end. What I do is I have the entire movie in my clip pane, and I copy it down into the editing place, and cut it down to just one clip. Then I copy that clip, and extend it to the next section I want and cut it there, because in iMovie theres never REALLY cutting a clip. When you "cut" it, it just takes that part of the video away, but it's still there, you can extend the clip outward and theres all the footage you thought you cut.

Would anyone like to see my unfinished work? It's about two minutes long.