9 ms·

As a longtime user of various pro apps in these categories - AE, Premiere, Final Cut, DVR, as well as ProTools, Digital Performer, Logic, etc, all of which sha

As a longtime user of various pro apps in these categories - AE, Premiere, Final Cut, DVR, as well as ProTools, Digital Performer, Logic, etc, all of which share a lot of UX paradigms that make it relatively easy to switch between them, I find the type of simplification at work in iMovie and Garage Band makes them almost unrecognizable, stymieing my ability to use them at all almost every time I try.

scarecrowbob 5y ago
I started in Sony Vegas back around the turn of the century and share your enjoyment of the standardized UI paradigms of professional software. It's great to be able to pick ups something like Davinci Resolve and just know what I can do and find the 10 keyboard shortcuts I want and then get to work, just because I learned Ae and Premiere a decade and a half ago. I also share your frustration with iMovie and garageband... I can't get a damn thing done in GB and I've tried several times. It's like the CLI: I already know exactly what I want to do, and I have an understanding of how the computer is going to deal with it. These apps feel like trying to drive a car with an iPhone app. However, I work with a lot of non-professionals and they love these tools. So more power to them. I remember using logic back when I started 20-something years ago and had no idea baout how MIDI worked. I remember being able to actually have fun getting things done in fruity loops or rebirth. I'm glad there are tools out there which are nerf'd up for the beginners.
npunt 5y ago
It's hard to go back to Duplo once you know Lego. Curse of knowledge.
Groxx 5y ago
I have had nothing but endless struggles trying to get iMovie to produce what I want (often extremely simple) and not a Ken Burns slideshow. Honestly, after fighting with it for several hours, I almost always end up googling some ffmpeg incantations and get close enough to be happy.
- smcnally 5y ago
  It’s interesting how many iMovie defaults you have to un-check — Ken Burns, Stretch to Fit, Fit length to Soundtrack, e.g. — to produce what you want because the defaults were selected by people who know what they’re doing. VLC logs its ffmpeg incantations which is handy for cribbing, extending
smcnally 5y ago
100% re ProTools, Logic and other DAWs that share core UX paradigms with analog tape recorders like Tascam. When GarageBand moved away from this core, I dug into Live. Amazing, powerful and complicated. “Plug in, arm track, record” is still very appealing and I sometimes miss gBand’s familiar simplicity. I used Final Cut steadily through v7.x but still used iMovie for quick slideshows and rough edits. Final Cut X felt unrecognizable and stymieing, so I moved to Blender VSE. It’s incredibly powerful and configurable and complicated. iMovie is simple for working w mobile screencaps and I like the Storyboard concept in this new release. I’ll see where it fits in my workflows so long as I don’t completely blank the next time I’m in Blender.

scarecrowbob 5y ago

I started in Sony Vegas back around the turn of the century and share your enjoyment of the standardized UI paradigms of professional software. It's great to be able to pick ups something like Davinci Resolve and just know what I can do and find the 10 keyboard shortcuts I want and then get to work, just because I learned Ae and Premiere a decade and a half ago. I also share your frustration with iMovie and garageband... I can't get a damn thing done in GB and I've tried several times. It's like the CLI: I already know exactly what I want to do, and I have an understanding of how the computer is going to deal with it. These apps feel like trying to drive a car with an iPhone app. However, I work with a lot of non-professionals and they love these tools. So more power to them. I remember using logic back when I started 20-something years ago and had no idea baout how MIDI worked. I remember being able to actually have fun getting things done in fruity loops or rebirth. I'm glad there are tools out there which are nerf'd up for the beginners.

npunt 5y ago

It's hard to go back to Duplo once you know Lego. Curse of knowledge.

Groxx 5y ago

I have had nothing but endless struggles trying to get iMovie to produce what I want (often extremely simple) and not a Ken Burns slideshow. Honestly, after fighting with it for several hours, I almost always end up googling some ffmpeg incantations and get close enough to be happy.

smcnally 5y ago
It’s interesting how many iMovie defaults you have to un-check — Ken Burns, Stretch to Fit, Fit length to Soundtrack, e.g. — to produce what you want because the defaults were selected by people who know what they’re doing. VLC logs its ffmpeg incantations which is handy for cribbing, extending

smcnally 5y ago

100% re ProTools, Logic and other DAWs that share core UX paradigms with analog tape recorders like Tascam. When GarageBand moved away from this core, I dug into Live. Amazing, powerful and complicated. “Plug in, arm track, record” is still very appealing and I sometimes miss gBand’s familiar simplicity. I used Final Cut steadily through v7.x but still used iMovie for quick slideshows and rough edits. Final Cut X felt unrecognizable and stymieing, so I moved to Blender VSE. It’s incredibly powerful and configurable and complicated. iMovie is simple for working w mobile screencaps and I like the Storyboard concept in this new release. I’ll see where it fits in my workflows so long as I don’t completely blank the next time I’m in Blender.