Down With iMovie!

Okay, I will never again use iMovie again.

Now, I'm in love with my Mac, and I'm all happy with the fact that it comes with the iLife package, which does have some genuinely useful stuff in it, by why the hell do people keep releasing editing software that actually makes the process of video editing harder?

You see, iMovie is not (NOT!) an A-B roll editor, in short you can only use one video source track and then just splice things into it.  This works mostly well I suppose if you only have video from one camera.  As soon as you have been using two cameras to record the same event, this becomes nothing but annoying.  Ideally, what you'd like to be able to do is just sync the two videos and then cut back and forth, but this is not possible with only the one source track.  It becomes an arduous process of making the entire show out of my B roll (which has the cleanest audio and a broad view of the lecture) and then splicing in the talking-head and slides from the A roll.  The problem is, now I have to manually sync every single insert (this workload will probably be lowered with some math and one good initial sync).

...on to the hunt for a new piece of editing software...