Making movie clips for E-Prime?

[David McFarlane]

Telephoning and Googling around trying to answer my own question #1...

First general-purpose answer I got was Windows Movie Maker, which 
already comes with recent versions of MS Windows.  Have any of you 
found success with that?

A more serious source recommends Final Cut Pro (or perhaps the less 
expensive Final Cut Express).  Anyone have any experience with 
that?  It will render in a host of codecs, so it should do a good job 
of rendering clips for E-Prime.  But it is a Mac-only product.

So I looked for Windows alternatives to FCP, and came up with Adobe 
Premiere, or Sony Vegas.  Can anybody tell me something about these products?

Thanks again,
-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 7/11/2011 03:36 PM Monday, David McFarlane wrote:
>Well fellow E-Prime mavens, now I could use your experience & 
>advice.  I first checked in the New Features Guide, and did a 
>cursory search through the PST Knowledge Base, the PST Forum, and 
>the E-Prime Google Group, and did not find this addressed anywhere, 
>so I hope I have done my homework at least as well as I expect others to :).
>
>Two related questions:
>
>1) Suppose we want to make some short clips from a larger, existing 
>movie file for use in E-Prime.  What software would you recommend for this?
>
>2) Suppose we want to record our own movie clips from scratch for 
>use in E-Prime.  What systems would you recommend for that?
>
>I might also reframe those questions as, "What did *you* use?" or, 
>"What worked for *you*?"
>
>Note that the KB and online discussions have addressed at length how 
>to get *existing* clips to work with E-Prime (installing codec 
>libraries, etc.).  I instead want to avoid those problems by 
>preparing our clips in the first place in a way that plays well with 
>E-Prime "out-of-the-box".  Any advice?
>
>Thanks,
>-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder

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