The videos from SOLO 09 are online at Vimeo. The quality is not exactly HD, but easily watchable.
On that note, I edited these videos using iMovie and it seemed OK to me, but nothing like as easy to use as Camtasia which I used to have on my work PC. Bearing in mind I know very little about video editing, does anyone have any recommendations for good, free software? Or is iMovie the best and I just haven’t learnt how to use it yet?
A second problem: I had to convert from .mov to DV format for editing and each 100MB film suddenly took up 10-20GB! Is that normal?
iMovie is pretty good for a free app, but it took a big step backwards in iMovie ‘08. That was somewhat remedied in the current version (iMovie 09). Spend some time playing with it and you’ll grow to love it.
DV files are a native (uncompressed) format, so they will be much bigger than .mov files. In this case, however, since you’re starting with .mov files, you may be better off just using QuickTime Pro if you’re only doing basic edits (cropping, deleting segments, adding soundtrack etc.). That costs around $30 from Apple.
Ah, I have QuickTime Pro already, but I originally bought it for converting files for streaming, didn’t realise it could be used for basic editing as well. Will go away and play with it a bit – thanks.