6th January 2024.
I have something of a confession, there.
I’ve used
iMovie to make videos, over the past few years.And generally been happy with it.
Unfortunately?
My use of the app took something of a nosedive, recently: with the collapse of my old iMac.
My only alternative?
Was to use the free version of
ClipChamp: on my aging Lenovo ThinkPad.It wasn’t necessarily the easiest experience: video editing isn’t on a machine that age.
The best work to describe the whole experience?
Is clunky.
Spoon-bendingly, chest-pain-inducingly, gear-grindingly, clunky!
Thankfully, and with thanks to all who helped, it was only a temporary measure: an updated version of
iMovie — and a new Mac mini— helped.Today, though? I felt using
ClipChamp’s online version of the Mac seemed in order.At least to do the intro video for today.
ClipChamp seems to have exported the eighteen seconds worth of video slightly faster than iMovie.But we’re talking about a matter of seconds, there: and I suspect that the online version I used, leveraged some of Microsoft’s cloud servers to do that.
I don’t think I’d make the change permanently: but
ClipChamp seems OK.There’s a wider choice of transitions, and filters, to it over
iMovie.But, counting against it?
iMovie has better integration with macOS: and can access my various media libraries, far more directly than ClipChamp.And the current version —
iMovie 10.4, on a Mac mini using macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 — seems to able to queue projects for export: hand, as far as I’m concerned.I suspect neither would be of interest to pro users who use things like Avid, the various Adobe editors, and Apple’s own Final Cut Pro.
But?
Both seem equally viable options for me and other home users.
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Oh, JUST as a thought … ?
My nephew, Jude, was over, yesterday.
As a result of him turn thirteen, recently?
I’ve been able to add him as a manager* to two of the YouTube channels I run for him on YouTube.
If you’d like to subscribe to @MikeytheRabbit or @BobbytheCat, you’d be welcome to!
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