Final Cut or iLife?

I need some advice. I currently have FCE and iLife 5 and wish to upgrade one of them. I'm interested in iLife 6 becase the Apple site says I can now burn directly to a third party DVD with iLife O6. Is it worth it for me to upgrade to FCE HD (which means upgrading to 10.4) or should I stick with iLife 06?

"..copy it quickly to DVD as an archive.."
Er, there's a difference between copying video footage to a DVD in its original form, as an 'archive', ready for importing & editing afterwards (..but why would you do that, instead of keeping the tape as an 'archive'?..) and burning the video footage as a playable DVD ..which converts it to MPEG-2 format, thereby reducing the quality a bit when you want to later convert it back into editable DV format.
iDVD 6 can automatically make a "Magic DVD" (..just copying the footage to a DVD and automatically adding a menu, etc..) and "..has built-in support for a wide variety of DVD media formats — including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD+R DL.." so you can also burn higher-capacity dual-layer discs using a suitable burner. And it lets you make 16:9 'widescreen' DVDs, too.
Sounds like you just want to dump footage to a DVD to be able to hand some video around the family: iDVD is ideal for that. FCE HD is really for editing. You seem to want easy distribution. So you probably need iLife '06.

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2. Open and close iPhoto then relaunch FCP
3. Close and reopen FCP
4. Trash FCP preferences then relaunch FCP
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http://salsunproductions.com/misc/fcsinstallproblem.jpg
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As for the registration problem:
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You can play it back at 1920x1080 on your Mac, if your screen is large enough.
You can play it back on a Sony Playstation 3.
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Oh by the way how can i remove the static feedback from the recordings I don't care which application i need tell me which one.
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Since you have both, you should run both and see if you see a difference.
I would expect that a $1,400 product would outperform a $20 product (= 1/4 of iLife).
But the question is, How much better? and is it worth the extra effort to you? Only you can decide that.
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Well, to repsond to Ian, I don't have FCE4. I have FCE3. I'll upgrade eventually, though.
And I have a Cannon FS20. I did what you said in the quicktime player. Here's the format:
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Stefaan,
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Firstly don't shoot me if this has been posted into the wrong place.
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Ziatron wrote:
.... But I find the iMovie 06 interface superior to my mind. I also like the 'Final Cut' like Timeline of iMovie 06.  
you probably know, Adobe Premiere, iMovie a + b + i and FinalCut come from the same master-mind (Randy U.)
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Final Cut Studio Pro 2 Install - Skip Final Cut Pro itself - TT_NEWALREADYI

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I hope you can help. I have just bought a new Macbook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM, with OS X 10.4.10 running. It came with iLife 08.
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Can anybody help?
Kind Regards,
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