imovie for pc?

[ApltnHkyMutt]

Is there any way you can run imovie on a pc, or is there an imovie version for pc?

[ribitch]

windows movie maker is the closest thing you can find. I have never used it but all the reviews I have read, iMovie blows it away from ease of use to actual content creation capabilities.

Yet another reason to use mac :D

If you are looking to make movies, you can always get a CRT based iMac for pretty cheap off of eBay. Just make sure it has a firewire port (IEE 1394 aka iLink aka SB1394)

Hope this helps some

[Cantacuzene]

Just get Adobe Premiere. Its not that expensive and better than all.

[ribitch]

Originally posted by Cantacuzene
Just get Adobe Premiere. Its not that expensive and better than all.

i disagree. premiere has a higher learning curve than imovie. you dont have a drag and drop type interface or anything like the basic apps have. you can buy a cheap imac for the price of premiere and can be making movies within a few minutes of setup unlike premiere.

If you were looking for something premiere like, final cut pro is the choice of the pros. it has a higher price tag, but i would bet some students on this board wouldnt mind making 50 bucks or so and hoocking someone up with a 300 dollar copy instead of the MSRP price od 999.

just my 2 cents

[hapoo]

I'm pretty good with computers and have never had problems using any program but I've (tried to) used premier many times before but i can't do crap with it. Its also really slow in rendering for some reason.
So i use a handful of other apps to do everything i need.

[spigidygak]

Premiere 6.0 and back pretty much blow. . . not sure about the new 6.5 just released. As for pc movie editing programs well . . . if you want pro-level check out avid xpress dv or media studio pro 6.5. For easier use editors take a gander at what ulead has I believe its called video studio or something like that, supposed to be fairly simple. But yeah. . . iMovie. . . one good reason to do the switch. But hell we don't all have money and time to make the switch.

[ribitch]

Originally posted by spigidygak
Premiere 6.0 and back pretty much blow. . . not sure about the new 6.5 just released. As for pc movie editing programs well . . . if you want pro-level check out avid xpress dv or media studio pro 6.5. For easier use editors take a gander at what ulead has I believe its called video studio or something like that, supposed to be fairly simple. But yeah. . . iMovie. . . one good reason to do the switch. But hell we don't all have money and time to make the switch.

i'm glad somebody was able to back me up on premiere. I once tried using premiere 5 on a PIII 733 to encode a 2 hour video. It told me it required over 24 hours to do it. I did it on a mac in way less time than that.

If you are going to spend some cash, pick up a used iMac with firewire.

[Cantacuzene]

Ive encoded lots of movies on premier and its worked fine on my p3 700e. It does have drag and drop interface, thats the whole point of the program. A halfway cpmputer savvy person should be able to figure out in like 20 minutes how to do transitions and effects, not hard at all.

[spigidygak]

Its not about being computer savy or what not the program just isn't the best is all. Most of the industry if they're not using final cut pro are using avid xpress or media studio pro with pc's. If I could get premiere to just work I'd be happy with it, but the fact that my luck with it sucks is the problem. I don't hate the interface of premiere I actually like it, just the thing was I had soooo many horrid problems with all of the version 5 iterations with video capture cards and then 6 was so flukie with firewire cards of different kinds. Just give me a program that works damnit. I am very interested in checking out 6.5 when I have some time though.

[seqiro]

Don't get me wrong I think iMovie is pretty awesome but I can't imagine doing movie editing with ANYTHING on the old CRT iMac. I would have to get an external monitor (defeating the point of the iMac) because those screens just sucked. They were 15" bubbles.

Now the new 17" eMac or the flat panel iMacs are a different story. You can get a new eMac for $1099 and you get a 700MHz G4. CRT iMacs go for a ridiculously high price on eBay. For $600 you might get a 400MHz G3 with no warranty. Spend the extra money, it'd be well worth it.

[ribitch]

a few points:

i said go crt based imac because they are cheaper than a new system, and not everyone can afford buying a new system.

premiere is an ok app, and might have drag and drop abilities, but iMovie is designed so you do everything by drag and drop. The menus in the app are basically unneeded. Premiere also has a much higher learning curve. iMovie is used in many classrooms including kindergarten. I highly doubt a young child like that can use premiere.

if you want to get serious with nonlinear editting, look into final cut. a education version is very affordable compared to the MSRP.

i personally use fcp, but i have done some work in both premiere and iMovie. I know many more iMovie users than anything. The only premiere users i have heard of are from this board.