Movie Maker Vs. iMovie

Just curious about when windows is going to try and overtake apple in the digital production work, I rarely see a movie studio that doesnt have a mac. These production programs are not that complicated, when will microsoft figure out what they need to do to edge mac out of the market?

Hehe.. I don't think iMovie is the reason why people use macs for video editing.. I'm sure there's tons of other professional software that they use to do their thing instead. iMovie and Movie Maker are just for us consumers that want to make our own videos for personal use.. (at least that's what they are geared for imho). People use macs because they are simple, easy, and powerful, both in software AND hardware. Microsoft does not control the hardware, so it makes it much more complicated for a studio to decide what to buy, and to make sure it'll perform good. Also, it's probably due in part that the 'typical' video editor likes a Mac, just because that's the type of person they are. (:

machocomacho wrote:

Just curious about when windows is going to try and overtake apple in the digital production work, I rarely see a movie studio that doesnt have a mac. These production programs are not that complicated, when will microsoft figure out what they need to do to edge mac out of the market?

• Allows me to specify what frames I want to cut out
• Makes it easy to seek to the next scene or keyframe
• Allows me to filter the video and audio (I can use a 2D Spatial Cleaner on my recorded cartoons ^_^)
• Allows me to change the volume of the audio
• Makes it possible to output to any format
• Makes it possible to use a codec's VCM to set settings (I really like the options in the WM9 VCM; seperate download)

It would be nice to see the ability to do that in Windows Movie Maker.

Eto's right. High end video production doesn't go anywhere near iMovie. Sure, AVID's a bit behind the times but it's still essentially the standard. It runs mainly on Macs.

I'm fairly sure it wasn't Apple's goal to muscle out their partners, hence why iMovie really shines in the consumer space.

That said, there are some really fantastic digital editing suites for Windows out there as well. Microsoft just doesn't make them (and in many ways I'm glad because it is such a specialized market space where errors simply arent' tolerated).

For home videos I think Movie Maker 2 really hits the mark. It's easy to learn and use, but you still can produce a decent looking movie.
I've tried a lot of low and high end packages, MM2 has worked out well for my needs.

Jeremy W. wrote:

Eto's right. High end video production doesn't go anywhere near iMovie. Sure, AVID's a bit behind the times but it's still essentially the standard. It runs mainly on Macs.

I'm fairly sure it wasn't Apple's goal to muscle out their partners, hence why iMovie really shines in the consumer space.

That said, there are some really fantastic digital editing suites for Windows out there as well. Microsoft just doesn't make them (and in many ways I'm glad because it is such a specialized market space where errors simply arent' tolerated).

The move to the digital camera revolution actually opened Windows up considerably, since when you're buying packages: 2 cameras, mixer, 2TB of data (external), terminal, OS, software, monitors, TV monitors...

A lot of the better priced packages (20-100K~) are in fact Windows based, because hardware is cheaper.

There is a Windows Live Movie Maker rumored.

intelman said:

There is a Windows Live Movie Maker rumored.

intelman said:

There is a Windows Live Movie Maker rumored.

Sven Groot said:

intelman said:

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And that warranted resurrecting a thread that's more than four years old?

Sven Groot said:

intelman said:

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And that warranted resurrecting a thread that's more than four years old?