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I have Premier Pro and it is not an easy bit of software to use! It also takes a veeeeeeery long time to do the final rendering.
Photoshop isn't easy either but it's worth learning.
Video rendering is one of the toughest computing tasks out there Chris, that is one reason why these 'simplistic' video editing tools are popular, the likes of iMovie priority is to de-complex the editing, make it more predictably easy to render, therefore less demanding on processing power. Keep it simple.
As I mentioned above, my PowerMac liquid cooled, dual processor, with a stack of RAM took all night to render a few minutes of video. I believe it's the main reason the new MacPros have been developed apparently regardless of cost, to cope with such heavy lifting in the TV and video industry. It certainly wasn't to play WoW (World of Warcraft to our more senior members! LOL).
As a matter of interest, I have just realised Adobe do an iMovie 'lookalike', called Adobe Premier Rush. It seems very similar to iMovie, interestingly it's free to subscribers of the Photography package, Lightroom and Photoshop. I have been aware of it but not what it did, Adobe have a plethora of little apps, some of which I have tried, none of which I could find a use for... It may be a suitable replacement for iMovie. It synchronises files between devices, desktop and hand held, although that can be turned off, it can be handy to pull video data from an iPhone into a desktop for editing. I have a couple of clips of Dave's rescue from Oakdale on my iPhone, which I may share soon. I think I will download Rush and try it on a short video of the Oakdale rescue. I don't think Rush is a dumbed down Premiere, but coming from the same stable I think it may well share principles and some features, we will see...
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