I have been looking at Garageband to possubly create my own backgroung music in Coldstone. Do you guys think I should buy this product?
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From what i've seen, sure. It depends on what type of music you want. Garageband is a loop sequencer, among other things. It also comes with some pre-recorded loops you can assemble to make your own track.
I say get it for the updated iPhoto, give GB a shot and see what you and it can make, if not, go with Melody Assistant or even Rax, coupled with MIDIkeys.
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If you have (or are willing to buy) a USB keyboard then garage band should be really good (plus you get iMovie 4 so you can edit movies for your game). If not then Melody Assistant is pretty good
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Thanks I think I will go with Melody Assistant X
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Well I decided to try iMovie 3 out for editing movies. I have found a problem with it, When I import a movie iMovie reduces the quality and shrinks the movie down to an increadabley small size. Is there a way I can ajust this?
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Originally posted by GrahamVH:
**Well I decided to try iMovie 3 out for editing movies. I have found a problem with it, When I import a movie iMovie reduces the quality and shrinks the movie down to an increadabley small size. Is there a way I can ajust this?
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iMovie, if i'm not mistken, requires movies to be in DV format, at a resolution of 720x460 (I think that's the res). Have you tried to export them in a higher quality format?
What are you trying to do with iMovie? I personally prefer QT Pro for editing movies, unless you just want to add some sort of effect, which can probably be done in the 3D app it was created with
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I believe that the standard iMovie res is the same as the television standard: 640x480 with 30 fps standard framerate. iMovie will adjust the size of your clips accordingly, so anything smaller will suffer a loss in quality.
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**I believe that the standard iMovie res is the same as the television standard: 640x480 with 30 fps standard framerate. iMovie will adjust the size of your clips accordingly, so anything smaller will suffer a loss in quality.
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I'm having problems with is resizing the Movie smaller than the origonal. see example. The example is an export for iMovie.
example: (url="http://"http://www.warcraftcentral.net/SnapzProXTest.mov")http://www.warcraftc...apzProXTest.mov(/url)
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(This message has been edited by GrahamVH (edited 01-28-2004).)
Scale it down from Snapz, cut out the middleman.
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**Scale it down from Snapz, cut out the middleman.
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Well I want to add background music while playing a bunch of clips that get bundled into 1 movie
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Check the export settings. Choose custom and then select your own size/quality. If you export using default settings you'll get a movie optimized for internet streaming. I've not known iMovie to actually decrease quality/size, but if you're not careful you can export it that way.
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Originally posted by CI-Ia0s:
**Check the export settings. Choose custom and then select your own size/quality. If you export using default settings you'll get a movie optimized for internet streaming. I've not known iMovie to actually decrease quality/size, but if you're not careful you can export it that way.
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It didn't work it just showed up fuzzy like I just blew up the movie from the small size
Also iMovie seems to do the shrinking on when it imports
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(This message has been edited by GrahamVH (edited 01-28-2004).)
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Originally posted by GrahamVH:
**Well I want to add background music while playing a bunch of clips that get bundled into 1 movie
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QT Pro will do all this, and will be able to work with your movie in it's native format and size. It's $30 though, but well worth it in my opinion.
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QuickTime Pro + iLife is what you need. Saves you a lot of download time as well, plus you get GarageBand. I'd say yeah, go ahead. 
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Originally posted by GrahamVH:
**It didn't work it just showed up fuzzy like I just blew up the movie from the small size
Also iMovie seems to do the shrinking on when it imports**
If you call 640x480 small, yes, it does. If not, again, check your export size..
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Originally posted by GrahamVH:
**It didn't work it just showed up fuzzy like I just blew up the movie from the small size
Also iMovie seems to do the shrinking on when it imports**
If you call 640x480 small, yes, it does. If not, again, check your export size..
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Did you cheak the link? That is accual size. When I tried ajusting the size to 640x480 it was blurry not like the orrigonal.
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What quality was it filmed in? It could be really low quality original footage... 
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