Suggestions for sound capture at wedding

[sb]

perhaps it's time for you to move up to Final cut Express.

Anyone spending $75-$150 on iMovie Plug-ins should consider buying FCE. It
won't take you long to learn the slightly different interface and you'll be
amazed at the things you can do easily instead of constantly coming up
against iMovie's limitations.

 sb

On 4/11/03 6:40 AM, "Mark O'Brien" <rmobrien at mac.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 08:30  PM, Fabian Ius wrote:
> 
>>> But iMovie is unsuited to editing 2
>>> video streams, you'll need FCP or FCE.
>> Not really.
>> 
>> If you have GeeThree's plug-ins, as well as others, you can do some
>> neat picture-in-picture, splitscreen, B-roll edits, etc.
>> 
>> Yes, it would be neat if iMovie had more than one video line, but
>> Montage (mentioned in another posting), might be an option as well.
>> Premiere6 (for OS9) is another alternative, but not sure about its OSX
>> capability.
>> 
> 
> My problem with trying to edit two video streams in iMovie is to keep
> the sound in synch. Last year I video-taped my son's band at an event.
> I put one camcorder on a tripod and left it running. I used another for
> closeups and different angles. Using the tripod camcorder for
> continuous sound, I found it excruciatingly difficult to insert cutaway
> shots from the other camcorder in synch with the music.
> 
> I saw a demo of FCP where there seemed to be more than one way to do
> this, e.g. via time code, via slip-edit (IIRC), and maybe a couple of
> others.
> 
> Mark
> 
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