I am frequently asked what Mac video editing I would recommend, iMovie or Final Cut Express. Although I primarily teach students to use Final Cut I use both FCE and iMovie in roughly equal amounts but for different tasks so I decided I would write a post to outline how I use each application and the benefits and drawbacks of each. If you are hoping for a winner well it really depends on how you want to work and be creative with video. Read more
3-4 days after I spend my hard earned money on the bleeding edge of technology I always enter a time verging on ‘buyers regret’. It isn’t so much that I regret the upgrade more that new hardware brings with it new problems. Read more
Elgato have pretty covered most of our video needs with TV encoders (and EyeTV) for our TV capturing and editing needs. The Turbo.264 HD allows us to encode footage directly from AVCHD camcorders and virtually any other video format. Now the company tackles our analogue video needs in the form of “Video Capture” Read more
This year we invested in a number of Flip Ultra Video cameras to be used in the classroom environment. These reasonably low cost video cameras have revolutionised how we work with video in education.
A couple of years ago we were involved with a large scale video project that involved training teachers on how to use a camcorder (tape), how to import footage, how to edit footage and how to export it to a portable format that would work on the networked computers. Read more
