[Craig Seeman]

This would have been very easy if you were on a Mac.
Edit in iMovie and then FCPX can import the project with original media and finished.

I don’t think Windows Movie Maker projects are portable to any professional NLE.
Anything you export is likely to have been heavily compressed short of using a Windows Media “archival” setting.
Anything you export may not have the “handles” needed to fix things.
If you’re inexperienced, the best thing to do is ask the technical questions before you start editing.
A professional editor, in this situation, will likely ask for your source files, use your cut as a visual guide and start the whole thing from scratch in their NLE… probably costing you more money then had you ask questions first.
There’s no reason to use Windows Movie Maker with so many low cost NLEs, some of which can export a project or decision list that can be used in a higher end version.

[Craig Seeman]

Perhaps you’re exporting a file with codec settings that are difficult for the computer to playback.
You’d have to include export settings and computer specs for someone to evaluate that.

[Craig Seeman]

I guess it depends on where your coming from but for me, those features are precisely my point. There’s always new features to add but fewer and fewer users need them.

There was a strong reason why Adobe was faced with people skipping upgrades. Those reasons still exist IMHO although that doesn’t save one any money these days.

There’s a point in an app’s development where it matures and the additions are mostly refinements. Features come in areas where some specialists need them but generalists don’t. At some point, some of the generalists begin to weigh other factors as they consider moving to the competition.

[Craig Seeman]

[Dominic Deacon] “It would just come packaged with every single PC sold anywhere.”

I think it was almost like that with the original Adobe Premiere. It came free with any video card and all sorts of other things that might be even remotely video related. It was amazing how many things that program would crash on regardless of hardware. I switched to EditDV and never looked back.

[Dominic Deacon] “I think the difference between making people pay a large amount for AE and premiere and Photoshop is that there’s an awful lot of people using photoshop as a hobby or making very minimal amounts of money with it.”

I think that might be the case with editing as well.

One possible reason for the price difference is that Photoshop is very mature and Adobe had to do lots of work to come up with at least one whiz bang feature to get people to pay for the upgrade. For many, they simply didn’t bother to upgrade because they had no need for the new cheese whiz. So with the low budget subscription the pressure is of but the income is steady. It may be low per person but I’m sure it’s steep in number of subscribers.

On the other hand Premiere Pro needed lots of development to mature as fast as possible to fill the FCP legacy hole and wanted (wants) to have a steady stream of income to cover that with no possibility of people ducking out of upgrades. Even with that I know people who are hanging on the PPro CS6 as badly as some hung on to FCP7.

Affinity does continue to make moves as both Photo and Designer are now cross platform and next up will be their competitor to Adobe InDesign. Affinity’s prices are so low that even Adobe’s $10/mo can start to look expensive.

[Craig Seeman]

B&H lists this Wide Angle Adaptor for the X70
I see this wide angle convertor on Amazon
Also this on Amazon

[Craig Seeman]

[Bill Davis] “I currently have access to 4 paid content subscription services. Some shows show up on all of them – some on one or two – some are exclusive to only one – and some shows I hear about and would love to watch show up on NONE of them – only via Pay Per View. “

At least regarding finding all this, Apple is probably hoping that the Apple TV app will be the “Mall” where you can find it. They’ve got a ways to go and I’m not sure it’ll get where we’d want it to be. You’ll have to have all the separate subscriptions, rentals, purchases, etc. but, in theory, you’d know where you need to go to get what.

My own guess is when Apple adds Original Video Content to Music, it’ll appear on the Apple TV app as well… and they’ll start to think about a unified system. Otherwise they’ll deepen their own fragmentation in which Original Content is in Music on iTunes but NOT on the Apple TV app. Personally I think they’ll have no choice but to sort this out if they want to maximize reach.

[Craig Seeman]

[Charlie Austin] “You really want everything in one place? “

That’s I mention the Mall concept. I need to get from one place to another or at least know that a complimentary item is in the next store.

They’re starting to do that to some extent between iOS and tvOS. If you download an app on one that has a complimentary app in the other, you’ll see that when you go that “store.” I think it can be done better because, currently, you may not know such complimentary exists until you happen to go into the other store. I think you should be alerted in tvOS that the complimentary iOS exists. When you get to iOS store you see it (I think that happens now).

So I download FCPX in Mac App Store there should be “passage” to iBooks to get the Manual.
When i buy Telemprompt+ for my iPad in io Store I should know they have a complimentary version in Mac App Store.

The challenge with music/video content is that I should look for Movie X and know whether I can get it as Buy, Rent or, Subscription and I should be able to watch on the device of my choice, iOS, tvOS, macOS. The problem in executing that gracefully may involve how they’re licensing. Buying and Renting Music is in a different place than Subscription and that complicates it in my opinion.

[Craig Seeman]

[Andrew Kimery] “If Apple ever offers a skinny bundle cable subscription it will get even more layered”

Of course you can now buy a DirecTV subscription with 100 channels and view on their AppleTV app
https://directvnow.com/appletv#

BTW I watch Green Arrow on Netflix App on AppleTV

[Craig Seeman]

Here’s what the craziness looks like.

I buy FCPX, Compressor, Motion from the Mac App Store. Great I’m done right?

Nope, I’d never know from the Mac App Store that I then need to go over to iBooks to download the Manuals.

So I buy Teleprompt+ for my iPad teleprompter from the iTunes App Store. But heck it might be nice to know they have a MacBookPro version. Once I find that out it’s off to the Mac App Store for that. Hmm now it’s off to the iBooks to download the Manuals that I’d never know about in ITunes or the Mac App Store.

So I buy Serif Affinity Photo from the Mac App Store. Hmm no mention of any Manual or Tutorial. Maybe time for a hunt. Ah Ha, in the AppleTV App Store they have an App with all their Video Tutorials (great way to learn while watching on the TV while running the app on my MBP to work along).

What a hot mess!

Back to Apple’s Entertainment Content which is just as messy, spread out amongst devices and services. Rental and purchase TV Shows and Movies and Music spread all around.

I want Apple Mall. A unified App on all devices which allows me to go into the appropriate place to make the right purchase or rental or subscription (and how do I know which movie, show, song is in what store?

[Craig Seeman]

[Shawn Miller] “You have to forgive my ignorance, I’ve never used the Apple App Store… there are different ones?
“

There’s the Mac App Store for Mac Apps. There’s the one on AppleTV, There’s the iTunes App Store which is on both Mac and iOS. AppleTV apps seem somehow connected to the iTunes App Store since some have versions for both iOS and AppleTV. Additionally the GUI is not consistent between them.