Decisions...Decisions...

Kobajo84 started this discussion · 9/16/2010

Ok, I'm about to geek out here... 🤓 I've been playing around with my fiances new macbook Pro. (I currently operate a windows pc). I really like the idea of converting my life to a Macbook. It's got a lot of features I could benefit from. My biggest concern is the imovie software. So far I've made two movies with imovie and have found the only thing I use on a regular basis can't be done- or I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Thats taking pictures from video clips. I can easily do this on my windows movie maker by going to the tool bar and clicking "Tools" and highlighting the option "Take picture from preview". Windows movie maker then creates a picture that I can edit. On imovie, the only way we were to figure out how to do this was to enlarge the movie still frame and then do a "screen shot" with the built in apple picture screen taker capability. To me, this seemed like a tedious task. Is there an easier way of doing this? Also, when I uploaded my imovie to studioveena, I found I had similiar audio issues everyone else has had in the past. (Webmaster was fixing this last night), however when I go to watch my video, the audio drops off after the first 15 seconds. My friend, Megs982 said she was able to watch the movie without a problem. So I updated my flash thinking the system clean up my fiance did on my pc cleaned up my browser but after doing so, I still have the same problem. 🤔 My concerns are if I make this commitment to apple, I just don't want to be limited to what I've been able to do. I am hoping that by upgrading, I will indeed be "upgrading" and not putting myself out from features I was able to do with a pc that when an apple is supposed to be "better" is restricted on. What are all your thoughts as mac vs pc users? I have a feeling Santa is coming early this year... 🎅

10 replies

amy · 9/16/2010
how are you taking screenshots? i do it by hitting apple+shift+4, which to me, is super easy and you get a cursor that will highlight however much of the screen you want-- so i would play the movie in quicktime and make the screen bigger so the screencaps are bigger.
Kobajo84 · 9/16/2010
how are you taking screenshots? i do it by hitting apple+shift+4quote] Thats how we did it...it seemed a little tedious to me when I'm used to just clicking an option. I guess I could get used to this.
LameDel · 9/16/2010
I take still shots from my movies in imovie all the time. i cant remember if it is in the "event" or if its in the clips in the "project" you're working in, but if you right click on the frame you want to take the picture of, there is an option close to the bottom of the drop down menu something like "add still frame to project", and that will add the image to the project you're building. if you right click on the image in the project, you can go "reveal in finder" and it will show you where the jpeg is saved on the computer. Hope this helps! any questions feel free to ask 🙂
Kobajo84 · 9/16/2010
I take still shots from my movies in imovie all the time. i cant remember if it is in the "event" or if its in the clips in the "project" you're working in, but if you right click on the frame you want to take the picture of, there is an option close to the bottom of the drop down menu something like "add still frame to project", and that will add the image to the project you're building. if you right click on the image in the project, you can go "reveal in finder" and it will show you where the jpeg is saved on the computer. Hope this helps! any questions feel free to ask 🙂 What version of imovie are you using? I did some research and imovie 08 changed dramatically from the 06 version. I am wondering if 09 this capability was fixed then?
LameDel · 9/16/2010
I take still shots from my movies in imovie all the time. i cant remember if it is in the "event" or if its in the clips in the "project" you're working in, but if you right click on the frame you want to take the picture of, there is an option close to the bottom of the drop down menu something like "add still frame to project", and that will add the image to the project you're building. if you right click on the image in the project, you can go "reveal in finder" and it will show you where the jpeg is saved on the computer. Hope this helps! any questions feel free to ask 🙂 What version of imovie are you using? I did some research and imovie 08 changed dramatically from the 06 version. I am wondering if 09 this capability was fixed then? I think it have 08 - i bought my mac about 2 years ago and never upgraded to 09 (pretty sure i still get the "upgrade to 09" pop up when i start up imovie 😛
Kobajo84 · 9/16/2010
oh ok! Thanks! ☀️
LameDel · 9/16/2010
hope it helps! in my opinion, mac is the way to go. i love mine. everything is so simple. takes a while to get used to the switch but once you're used to everything, its so easy. especially for creative tasks like movies and photos lol windows = 🤮 hahaha
amy · 9/16/2010
how are you taking screenshots? i do it by hitting apple+shift+4quote] Thats how we did it...it seemed a little tedious to me when I'm used to just clicking an option. I guess I could get used to this. im a big big fan of keyboard shortcuts adding productivity over using mouseclicks 😀
LameDel · 9/22/2010
This article just popped on on MacWorld...might be of some help too http://www.macworld.com/article/154212/2010/09/pullingstills.html
Kobajo84 · 9/23/2010
This article just popped on on MacWorld...might be of some help too http://www.macworld.com/article/154212/2010/09/pullingstills.html Thanks! I did it and got myself a Macbook Pro last weekend. 🙂