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On 29/05/10 1:02 PM, John Higdon wrote:
> In article<EoadnUfBFoXVwZzRnZ2dnUVZ_sidnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>   "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88@comcast.net>  wrote:
>
>> Instead of just saying "nonsense", you might try to mention a few of
>> Apple's applications or tools that aid business.
>
> Final Cut Pro.

That's the app that keeps a lot of people buying Macs. Quite a deal 
compared to Avid, especially when you have no need for the level of 
functionality that Avid provides.

About once a year one of my kids has a movie project for school that 
results in chaos trying to combine stuff from iMovie, animated GIFs, 
.wmv files, JPEGs, MPEG2 video, and JPG files. They finish the creative 
part, then I'm generally up all night converting files into formats that 
one movie program can work with (either Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, or 
Sony Vegas Studio) then the next morning they assemble all the files 
into the movie, minutes before they have to take the final product to 
school. They used to love iMovie but Apple did some strange things to 
iMovie a couple of years ago. I.e. in iMovie '08 there is no way to save 
a project so you can work on it on a different computer.

I just could not believe that this was true, but apparently it is, and 
it was explained succinctly by someone like this:

1. iMovie '08 *only* recognizes projects located in the home folder of 
the startup drive.

2. If you copy a project to an external drive, iMovie '08 won't 
recognize it. You will have to move it back into its original folder on 
your startup drive to get iMovie to see it.

3. Project files don't work without the event footage to go with it, 
which is stored in a different folder (on whichever drive you told 
iMovie to put the event). Be very careful moving projects and events 
around manually, because you can break your projects.

4. iMovie '09 will allow you to easily move projects in a way that 
preserves the event footage to go with it.

So the solution to a problem that should never have been a problem is to 
buy the new version of iLife!