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[prog]

I am almost surely gonna get myself a copy of Final Cut Pro before I start editing together the first real episode of The Gameshelf. I can get it for about 30 percent of its retail price through my .edu discount, making it still pretty expensive but cheap enough to be tempting... around the same cost as a brand-new just-released game console, maybe.

iMovie is a great piece of software, especially if you have a pile of footage and just need to make it look presentable. The trouble is, everything you make with it looks like it was made with iMovie... it's intentionally not very flexible. Final Cut is nothing but flexible, from what I'm led to believe, and also makes things like cuts between multiple video sources a snap, and apparently even helps with logging. It sounds to me like a much nicer fit for helping me achieve my mental image of what the show should look like. Even given the fact that I'm still a wriggling newbie at all of this, I think I've already hit a level of sophistication that's cumbersome to bear using only iStuff.

You know, I can't tell you what a kick in the pants this TV stuff is for me. it continues to offer just the right mix of novelty, challenge and intrinsic look-what-I-made reward to keep me going, even months after I've started getting seriously involved. In a lot of ways it's just what I needed. I think I'd been long overdue to break into a new creative medium. It's playing the same role that cartooning did for me 10 years ago, or computer programming 7 years ago.

It will be a challenge to continue balancing it with everything else goin' on, but I'm gonna try.

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Heading into work now, which is crazy-early for me. I just happened to get up early this morning... shrug. I was outside to get my coffee and couldn't get over what a weird angle the sunlight was shining in at! Because it's not 11:30! La!

But the sooner I start, the sooner I can finish and start my weekend & Volity mode. I have ants in my pants plenty about getting some stuff done in that sphere, since I've been all talk for weeks now.

What's this "outside to get my coffee" business? Yes, I confess... I ate up my stockpile of coffee beans a while ago, and keep forgetting to get more, so I am back to my old routine until I can remember to pick up a bag next time I'm at Diesel.

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[keimel.livejournal.com]

Check to see if Uni will let you install FCPro on your machine and then use it at home. Often the Uni has a license with a key server, but remote use doesn't regard the key, so you're fine at home, away from keyserver.

This may not be how your Uni does things, but perhaps it is.

Worth looking at, at least to make sure you want to stick with FC Pro. (which you probably will)

[prog.livejournal.com]

I've actually gone ahead and bought my copy. The software policy for me is that everything's free so long as I can justify it. I have my own copies of Photoshop and Illustrator for this reason, and I get each summer's new Mac OS X update, but I'm not creative to come up with any non-reeking reasons why I need Final Cut for work. :)