[Josh Mellicker]

iMovie ’08 indeed started out as an experiment by Randy he called “First Cut”. He originally set out to create a professional feeder app for FCP, one specifically designed to make it easy to plow through hundreds of hours of footage, organize, label and tag, and do a rough cut. After this, the editor would export XML, import into FCP and do the final cut there.

When Jobs saw it he decided it should be released as the new iMovie. The early demos of iMovie all stressed the “Export to FCP” feature… but few used iMovie ’08 in conjunction with FCP, even though this was what it was designed to do.

There may be articles very similar to this in June (search and replace “iMovie” with “FCP”):
https://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/08/14/apple_stirs_controversy_with_imovies_08_overhaul.html

However, the proof is in the pudding, and while Apple will lose some high end editors (back) to Avid, and there will be a crowd sticking with FCP7, or even asking to buy FCP7 after the release of FCPX, the world will eventually come around, the advantages of FCPX are big enough that they will unmistakably outweigh the drawbacks. Nothing perfect, but one step back, two steps forward works for me.

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[Josh Mellicker]

John,

The plan is to release a “Pro” version at a low price… I already have SMPTE working and am compiling other feature requests.

Once you have made your selects would you want to import those times directly into Flash for cue points? Or just markers into your editing software?

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[Josh Mellicker]

Hi, Walter, thanks for your reply.

Just to clarify, I am not suggesting switching, my app is not competition to SyncVue, it has no real-time collaboration, no Skype, etc.

QT Movie NoteTaker is for people who want to avoid hours of rendering and encoding window burned DVDs for clients and collaborators to take notes of footage or edits. It has a nice large area for notes, is resizable, and plays H.264 smoothly.

To recap:

– QT Movie NoteTaker takes less than 8 seconds to download (broadband)

– no installation (unzip only)

– free, no registration

So anyone who wants to test it, you would be testing within 20 seconds or so, no hassles, I was hoping you’d give it a minute or two because I respect your opinion.

I have over a thousand users, many are seasoned pros, their rave reviews are on this page.

Would love to get some feedback from Cow readers!

These direct download links will make it more convenient:

download QT Movie NoteTaker .5 for OS X

download QT Movie NoteTaker .5 for WinXP

Thanks,

Josh

[Josh Mellicker]

Walter,

SyncVUE looks really great.

I would like to get your (and other Cow readers’) feedback on a piece of software I just wrote called “QT Movie Notetaker“.

Currently, it is meant for reviewing an edit or footage and taking notes, and handing those notes off to another person. I made it for our internal use, then decided to make it available to others as well.

I could make it a real-time tool to review a clip in sync, just haven’t done that yet. I would be very appreciative if you all could try it out and comment on what you and other readers feel would be the most useful next features to add.

Here is the feature list now:

* loads anything that can be played in Quicktime Player(PJPEG, H.264, MPEG/MPEG2, AVI, Windows Media)
* automatically enters movie name and length in notes
* automatically enters movie time in notes when stop button is clicked
* Click on any note to jump directly to that point in the movie
* Movie time display
* keyboard shortcuts – shuttle transport control – Cmd/Cntrl left, down and right arrow work like J, K, L in your editing software, Shift shuttles rapidly
* recurring notes feature- if you need to enter a certain note multiple times, rather than typing it over and over, or copying and pasting, you can just enter the note in the recurring notes field, and add it with one click to your notes along with the current time of the movie
* save notes with one click
* email notes with one click
* fits in 1280 X 854 PowerBook screen (this is minumum screen resolution)
* will load any movie size – resizes movie automatically to fit your screen (or window)- log HD footage on a laptop!
* Mac OS X / WinXP
* free!

You can download it here for free:

https://dvcreators.net/qt-movie-notetaker

I am working on a Pro version (pricing not set yet), already have SMPTE working, am adding a bunch of other stuff.

Would love to hear what you guys would ideally want!

Thanks,

Josh

[Josh Mellicker]

Sorry, that link was not clickable, try this one:

https://dvcreators.net/qt-movie-notetaker

[Josh Mellicker]

You can also check out “QT Movie NoteTaker”- the new version (.5) has these features:

* loads anything that can be played in Quicktime
* automatically enters movie name and length in notes
* automatically enters movie time in notes when stop button is clicked
* NEW! Click on any note to jump directly to that point in the movie!
* NEW! Movie time display
* NEW! cool keyboard shortcuts – shuttle transport control – Cmd/Cntrl left, down and right arrow work like J, K, L in your editing software, Shift shuttles rapidly
* recurring notes feature- if you need to enter a certain note multiple times, rather than typing it over and over, or copying and pasting, you can just enter the note in the recurring notes field, and add it with one click to your notes along with the current time of the movie
* save notes with one click
* email notes with one click
* fits in 1280 X 854 PowerBook screen (this is minumum screen resolution)
* will load any movie size – resizes movie automatically to fit your screen (or window)- log HD footage on a laptop!
* Mac OS X / WinXP
* free!

Read more and download here:

https://dvcreators.net/qt-movie-notetaker/

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