Vegas MS vs. MAC iMovie

ChristerTX wrote on 2/22/2005, 11:15 AM

Has anyone any experience with capabilities as a comparison between Vegas MS vs. MAC iMovie?

Thinking about a iBook for my daughters graduation and she is today editing in Vegas MS.

Will she loose much functionality?

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/23/2005, 11:28 AM

iMovie is very limited -- about on the scale with Windows MovieMaker.(though it looks much cooler!)

Vegas is a full-featured editor that can run rings around iMovie.

But, if all you want is a no-brainer, single video track, drag-and-drop video editor, iMovie is just fine. And so is Windows MovieMaker. iMovie offers some very nice, semi-customizable DVD templates though.

I guess it depends on how serious you are about editing and how much you prefer to control and customize the results.

Chienworks wrote on 2/23/2005, 12:19 PM

I would also say that one of the most limiting factors of iMovie is that it runs on a Mac. That severely restricts your choices of other software and peripherals.