iMovie vs. Final Cut Pro

gisikw said:
I LURVE me some Screenflow. It can't do everything I need, but it's unrivaled for its use cases :)
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:) Your videos are more vloggish type , my are tutorials (& some youtube network videos) , ScreenFlow does everything i need it to do & for me & in my opinion, MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH better than Final Cut or an advanced editing program :)
 
When I started my YT channel it was for fun and I posted RAW out of the camera. Last year YT introduced some editing options on YT directly which I used and the videos got a bit better with more flow. In November I moved to iMovie when I did the move from freaking Windows to MAC and I got many more options. But shortly after that I already came into the limitations of iMovie (I do car shootings and driving scenes for luxury super cars) and I feel I need to upgrade to FCPX soon as iMovie is limiting me in what I want to do with my video footage and it's just not possible with iMovie. But the price tag of $ 299.99 it's not cheap for software.

Another thing is as Tylor already mentioned, I am not sure how my MBA/13"/8GB RAM/1.8 GHz i5/128GB SSD will handle FCPX and I rather would like to get the fully specced 27'iMac/32GB RAM/3.4 GHz i7/NVIDIA GeForce 2GB graphics card/3TB Fusion Drive. The iMac would blast down with full speed any rendering, even with FCPX, but my MBA (as great as this machine is) takes already 15 min. for a 2-3 min. 1080p Video to render.

Not sure.

Question though, if I get FCPX for my current MBA and if I can get the iMac a few months or up to max. 12 months down the line, can i download FCPX for the iMac again for free as I already bought it once?

Thanks.
 
Patrick3331 said:
When I started my YT channel it was for fun and I posted RAW out of the camera. Last year YT introduced some editing options on YT directly which I used and the videos got a bit better with more flow. In November I moved to iMovie when I did the move from freaking Windows to MAC and I got many more options. But shortly after that I already came into the limitations of iMovie (I do car shootings and driving scenes for luxury super cars) and I feel I need to upgrade to FCPX soon as iMovie is limiting me in what I want to do with my video footage and it's just not possible with iMovie. But the price tag of $ 299.99 it's not cheap for software.

Another thing is as Tylor already mentioned, I am not sure how my MBA/13"/8GB RAM/1.8 GHz i5/128GB SSD will handle FCPX and I rather would like to get the fully specced 27'iMac/32GB RAM/3.4 GHz i7/NVIDIA GeForce 2GB graphics card/3TB Fusion Drive. The iMac would blast down with full speed any rendering, even with FCPX, but my MBA (as great as this machine is) takes already 15 min. for a 2-3 min. 1080p Video to render.

Not sure.

Question though, if I get FCPX for my current MBA and if I can get the iMac a few months or up to max. 12 months down the line, can i download FCPX for the iMac again for free as I already bought it once?

Thanks.
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Just so you know, I run Final Cut from my 13" Macbook Air/4GB RAM/1.7 Ghz i5/128 SSD and it surprisingly works perfectly fine as long as I don't have too many layer of videos running at once (more specifically transparent layers). But if I'm doing a normal sketch however, I have absolutely no problems at all editing. It's when I start doing things like adding multiple green screen layers, that it slows down a lot and sometimes has a hard time rendering.

As much as I love my Air, it definetly isn't meant for editing. I think I'm going to be upgrading to the 13" Retina Macbook at some point just so that I can do anything I want without running into issues. I considered the iMac but since I travel, I need to be able to bring it with me to edit videos on the go.
 
TylorSkory said:
Just so you know, I run Final Cut from my 13" Macbook Air/4GB RAM/1.7 Ghz i5/128 SSD and it surprisingly works perfectly fine as long as I don't have too many layer of videos running at once (more specifically transparent layers). But if I'm doing a normal sketch however, I have absolutely no problems at all editing. It's when I start doing things like adding multiple green screen layers, that it slows down a lot and sometimes has a hard time rendering.

As much as I love my Air, it definetly isn't meant for editing. I think I'm going to be upgrading to the 13" Retina Macbook at some point just so that I can do anything I want without running into issues. I considered the iMac but since I travel, I need to be able to bring it with me to edit videos on the go.
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Thanks for the info, that's good to know.

Would you know the answer to my question about if I can install FCPX for free on the iMac or any other devise that I would own within 12 month after purchasing it?

thx
 
Patrick3331 said:
Thanks for the info, that's good to know.

Would you know the answer to my question about if I can install FCPX for free on the iMac or any other devise that I would own within 12 month after purchasing it?

thx
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Yes you can. As long as you use the same Apple ID in the App Store, you can download it again from another computer and use both of them. My brother used my login to download and install it on his computer without any problems.
 
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