Hello World.
I would like to edit videos on my Mac, i.e.
• cut sections or
• trim from beginning to playhead and trim to end from playhead
• join clips; and, preferably,
• fade from black or white and fade to black or white.
• record a video with my MacBook's FaceTime HD camera.
I am not even too worried about audio editing features as IO do this in Logic Pro anyway.
• Photo Booth is not accessible,
• Quicktime shows considerable audio latency on input-monitoring, even on my 10-core CPU and 16 GB RAM M1 Pro.
• iMovie is just a nightmare for VoiceOver users.
So far, I have cut clips using the third-party app Shotcut and merged them in QuickTime.
However, that is not really satisfactory.
I just want to record a video with my MacBook's built-in camera, cut and edit sections like I do with audio in Garage Band or Logic Pro and add fade-in and fade-out.
Bonus features would be simple effects such as black and white images.
Has anyone come across an app that can do this? I don't ask for much in my video editing ventures but haven't found any solution so far that makes this feasible using VoiceOver.
Regards, Markus
Comments
Final Cut Pro
You can do this in FInal Cut Pro. I have never recorded a video directly into FCP, but I'm sure it's not impossible. I've gotten to the point where I can methodically apply fades by setting my edit points, creating a compound clip, and pasting the transition on my newly created clip. I must confess that it's not an intuitive process,but it gets easier when you get used to it. I'm actually trying to make time to figure out how to do this in Reaper – the idea is to edit videos in my sleep and know that they look good. Good luck!
Final cut Pro
Hi and thank you for your comment. That does sound good. :)
I have meanwhile made some progress in iMovie, though I am far from where I aim to get.
So now?
So, what's the situation now; I'm trying to work with iMovie but it's very challenging
Good progress in iMovie
thanks to an update of iMovie, I have been able to do pretty much all I wished for in my original post now in iMovie.
• move frame by frame using the arrow keys
• skip to the beginning and end by pressing FN + left arrow and FN + right arrow on my MacBook keyboard
• fast forward, rewind and pause/play using the keys j, k and l
• setting start and end points of sections to be copied, pasted or deleted with the keys i and o = in and out
• it also works when pressing i at the start of the clip and o at the intended start of the clip; likewise at the end of the clip
• navigating to transitions in the section above the timeline and then choose the intended kind of transition in the transition section below the timeline
• set fade in/out from black or white in the settings above the timeline
• throw images or video clips into the timeline at the intended position via CMD + c and CMD + v directly from Finder
• press CMD + comma to open settings and set a default duration of which an image should be displayed
• interact with the image in the timeline to determine the exact start and end of the display of the image in the clip
It all works very nicely. The only issue I am facing and for the solution of which I ask a sighted person to check is the following:
When a video has been recorded in portrait orientation on my phone or action camera, the finished clip exported out of iMovie often shows black edges on the left and right. I have not found a way to tell iMovie to keep the orientation of the source clip.
However, iMovie has come a long way in the past couple of years, and I am sure that there will be a way to ensure that the video orientation is kept as in the source file, too.
Best wishes from Germany.
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