I made my first movie with Final Cut Express! Yay! It’s about our family’s Christmas dinner and is just under 3 minutes. I tried uploading it in full HD quality to YouTube but APPARENTLY my video breaks copyright because it has the song “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” in it. I would think that would be a good thing for the studio, as it promotes the song and reminds people of how awesome it is, who would then go on to buy it.
But whatever. I uploaded it myself in non-HD Quicktime until I figure out a better way to do it. Just click the image below to view/download the file.
In case you’re not familiar with these sort of things, Final Cut Express is the prosumer video editing software for mac. It is far above iMovie, which is bundled with every Mac, and is almost identical to Final Cut Pro, which costs much more as a part of a suite. That suite, Final Cut Studio, is what many big independent filmmakers use, and even larger films like The Ring, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. So, yeah, it’s pretty cool.
And I got it for Christmas! And I am finally free from the limitations of Windows Movie Maker and then iMovie! Don’t get me wrong, they’re both pretty good ways to edit videos – that is – if you actually have not interest in editing videos and just want to put footage together. Final Cut Express is awesome, and it just gives you so much control to be creative in whatever way you want. I already know how to use it pretty well but there are still lots features that I haven’t even explored yet. I can’t wait to find out what all of these different buttons do!
And of course A HUGE THANKS TO MY PARENTS FOR GETTING IT FOR ME! I made a movie about Christmas already and I’ll post it tomorrow once it’s uploaded to YouTube.
Happy Birthday to my Uncle Bob, who turns…. uh, something today. (Just a little older than me, as can be seen in the picture) And yes, today is Christmas Eve. Well at least his birthday wasn’t exactly Christmas. He links to me frequently and I think that I should do the same for him more often. He also is a little bit more modest than I am with his blog…
For his blog’s christmas decoration he inserts a subtle santa hat into his profile picture while I create a new logo and an entire weather system just for the occasion. For his birthday, he posts… nothing, while I may go a little bit overboard occasionally (but only every year).
… is Final Cut Express.
Plus this tiny portable external hard drive to hold the GBs of files that would naturally come with it.
That little thing holds 320 GB!!!! Which is sort of incredibly amazing. It’s almost as small as a flash drive, but with 100 times the space.
