[TriLUG] Mac OS X is UNIX? (cheapest way to make a movie)

[jeffj at ro.com]

John Turner <jdturner at myhome.nc.rr.com> said the following on the auspicious date of 02-02-11:

>I am a long time NeXTSTEP user and I think the development tools under NS
>and now Mac OS X are the best every! It is a shame that Apple decided to
>stop shipping/supporting the Windows/Intel runtime (aka YellowBox).

>I recently started using Mac OS X on a first generation Mac G3. It is
>only a G3 266MHz so it is a little slow. Built in you get:
> - command line (csh, zsh [zsh is the best shell])
> - nice mail client
> - Internet Explorer (I replace with OmniWeb [original NeXTSTEP app])
> - iTunes (MP3 player)
> - iPhoto (photo manager, minor editing)
> - iMovie (cheapest way to make movies)

I disagree. I use Broadcast 2000 on Linux, an open source non-linear video editor. It aspires to be useful to broadcast industry professionals so it probably isn't as easy to use as iMovie. On the good side, it has nifty things like audio and video plugins that will let you use interesting effects like chromakey. I have hacked together a few plugins myself. The software will let you use several plugins on each audio and video track and use many tracks all at once -- you could build video from 2 or 10+ different sources simultaneously each with 4 plugins to produce the finished video, although it may take several hours to render a few minutes of NTSC style video. To make things even better, you get to enter the numbers you want to use for resolution, frame rate, and aspect ratio. Small web based video clip? High Definition TV production? DVD work? No problem. Try that with iMovie!

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