Informal Poll-Post time/video length

It varies a lot for me, depending on the project. I certainly have done some projects that have taken as long as yours, while others go much, much faster. Right now I'm assembling a project with source material from 7 camcorders, with about 500 individual clips. That's going really slow, trying to locate the best angles for each shot (lots of duplication of the same scene from different angles), splicing the clips together in the right order (no useful timecodes or anything), and most important, trimming it all down to a reasonable length. Worse, some footage has noticeable audio sync issues, so I had to fix all that first.

Video editing just takes a lot of time!

As the previous poster stated it varies quite a bit, an approximate average might be like this.

Using iMovie 08: 6 minutes to produce one minute of finished video.



Using iMovie 06: 2 minutes to produce one minute of finished video.

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my fastest project was a recording of a 'Punch-and-Judy show' at my son's kindergarten - 30min show, 10min hurry to home, 30min import, 5min edit+titleing, 30min for a few DVDs, 10min back to kindergarten... people were surprised..

my longest project was my Starwars fan-movie, about 6months for ~14min.. (and the audio isn't still finished... lots of soundFX missing...)

hey there tilman,
are you really doing a 7-cam shoot in iMovie?! the most i ever did was 3-cam as an excercise just to see how it would go, it took about 10 hours for a 3:30 song by a band i worked w/ then. i did the same thing in FCE 1 & it only took 1/3 as much time. i upgraded to FCE 3>3.5 & now i have FCS 2. you might want to consider FCE 3.5-up to 99 audio & video tracks, better color correction & then some. just a thought.

you go tilman, good luck.

+are you really doing a 7-cam shoot in iMovie?!+

I'm doing most of the work in Final Cut Express. It has better clip management, both for your source clips and on the timeline. And it has two viewer windows, which comes in very handy when you need to find the proper in and out points of two clips shot with different camcorders so that they line up exactly when you cut over.

For more basic projects, I still prefer iMovie '06.