Hey everyone,
Sorry if this comes off as a bit newbish, but that's what it kind of is. My iMac is from 2008 and it has become kind of a dinosaur and is pretty much no good for anything more than managing iTunes and surfing the web. Editing and creating video projects, etc. has become a big no-no on my system and severely lags it out and sometimes even causes my system to crash. First of all, I am wondering what one would recommend me to purchase for a new iMac, primarily with the need to process and handle lots of video editing projects and such. I'd imagine I'd need something with a considerable amount of storage space. Just wondering what would be recommended.
Secondly, I am looking into how I may get into editing Blu-ray projects on Mac. I've done some work with the old iMovie HD software and iDVD back in the day (like 2008) but I found the newer versions of iMovie to be a bit frustrating and I also bought Final Cut Express and found that too confusing for me to operate. I loved the simplicity of the old iMovie HD. I am wondering what people would recommend as a good video editing program (Apple created or otherwise) that is both powerful, yet simple to operate. As far as I can imagine, there is probably no Blu-ray burners in an iMac yet, so are there any external Blu-ray burners that I could purchase to burn projects to Blu-ray discs? I am also looking for an application similar to iDVD where you could create menus with music and buttons, etc. that had the simplicity that iDVD had, but for Blu-ray. I'm hoping that these all could be applications that are compatible with one another and work hand-in-hand the way iMovie HD and iDVD did. I'm just really at a loss for where to begin with this!
Thanks for any information anybody can provide!
Sorry if this comes off as a bit newbish, but that's what it kind of is. My iMac is from 2008 and it has become kind of a dinosaur and is pretty much no good for anything more than managing iTunes and surfing the web. Editing and creating video projects, etc. has become a big no-no on my system and severely lags it out and sometimes even causes my system to crash. First of all, I am wondering what one would recommend me to purchase for a new iMac, primarily with the need to process and handle lots of video editing projects and such. I'd imagine I'd need something with a considerable amount of storage space. Just wondering what would be recommended.
Secondly, I am looking into how I may get into editing Blu-ray projects on Mac. I've done some work with the old iMovie HD software and iDVD back in the day (like 2008) but I found the newer versions of iMovie to be a bit frustrating and I also bought Final Cut Express and found that too confusing for me to operate. I loved the simplicity of the old iMovie HD. I am wondering what people would recommend as a good video editing program (Apple created or otherwise) that is both powerful, yet simple to operate. As far as I can imagine, there is probably no Blu-ray burners in an iMac yet, so are there any external Blu-ray burners that I could purchase to burn projects to Blu-ray discs? I am also looking for an application similar to iDVD where you could create menus with music and buttons, etc. that had the simplicity that iDVD had, but for Blu-ray. I'm hoping that these all could be applications that are compatible with one another and work hand-in-hand the way iMovie HD and iDVD did. I'm just really at a loss for where to begin with this!
Thanks for any information anybody can provide!
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