Well as most of you know I finally got my Canon HV 20 High Definition Video Camera, and now I just have to learn all about this video business. Well here is my first attempt at recording something with my new Camcorder.

I did this late afternoon and I edited it with both iMovie 08 and Garage Band (for the music background) . I also played with Final Cut Studio, but that was way beyond my abilities for right now.

George Starcher and I were on a video iChatAV and we both observed what one potential work flow might be for me using iMovie 08 and Garage Band to put videos in the .Mac web Gallery as well as YouTube. I will report on that in a future show as there is much to learn and experiment with. I commented to George that I feel that iMovie 08 is going to be the “gateway software” for me to get the concepts, ideas and creativity to really learn video editing and producing. Well that’s a wonderful way to use this product, despite some of the negative reviews it has been getting.

I don’t agree with the reviews in that it is a very powerful tool and I think we just all need to learn how to exploit it. I do agree that the audio production capabilities within iMovie 08 are very poor, however once you add Garage Band to the work flow, you can get what you want, if you are willing to jump through a couple of hoops to get it back into iMovie 08 to publish. This workflow should improve as Apple gets feedback in later versions of iMovie 08 .

Enjoy the first video , and look for a video of my un-boxing and setting up of my Drobo very early next week.

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