Here we’ll focus on the more powerful QuickTime editing features we found in GoLive.īefore setting out to explore GoLive 5.0’s movie-editing features, make sure you’re correctly set up that you have some footage at the ready: What I discovered was a feature-rich module that gives some of the dedicated QuickTime editing tools a run for their money while providing a simple interface to perform key editing functions tailored for Web publishing. With the release of GoLive 5.0, however, and Adobe’s decision to further develop the GoLive QuickTime editor, I decided to give it a second look. Programs such as Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects or Premiere, or even Apple’s iMovie seem like the obvious choice for movie-editing of this nature. GoLive has included this capability since version 4, but it made no sense to me that I would opt to edit my QuickTime movies in a Web-page editor rather than a program designed specifically for this task. This is why, until recently, I have chosen to overlook the QuickTime editing ability found in GoLive. My theory is that if I need to cut something, I’m going to reach for my scissors before I go looking for my Swiss Army knife. Bottom line, the actions of Adobe with CS2 (principally GoLive, since I rely on it so much) have robbed me of much of the joy that is my right as a Mac user.I’m always a bit leery of programs trying to be too many things at once. My distaste for Adobe is so great because of their crap with CS2 - from the activation problems to not recognizing an upgrade of Photoshop (stand alone) when coming from the full suite set - that I would willingly jump ship to just about any other product - but opps! There are almost no other products anymore, since no company can stand against Photoshop, Illustrator, and so on (not even Macromedia). Sadly, the only thing to do is go to Dreamweaver.but that's not an option for me since its interface is not something I'm willing to use. Bottom line, Adobe does not deserve your money for this application, which they clearly dislike within the company (when you make a bug report, it's interesting to note that it's called GoLive, not Adobe GoLive). GoLive CS2 crashes regularly for me several times a day, and has even managed to crash WHILE SAVING A VERY IMPORTANT FILE, which wiped out an entire day's work for me, causing me to redo it all. I want to warn you about GoLive - it is the most frustrating, least reliable, most crash-prone app I have used since switching to OS X. at the end of the day real web designers hand-code anyway! i'm sure both do what they do equally as well and you should use whichever one you feel most comfortable with. Whatever the differences between the latest iterations of these two old war-horses, it hardly matters. it just happens to be slightly less spaghetti-like than the code generated by golive! dreamweaver still generates horrible code spaghetti and takes about a hundred lines of said electronic pasta to do what you can hand-code in one. Then when using CSS for layout became the 'next big thing' golive was left behind, as macromedia started really pushing the fact that dreamweaver wrote 'clean, standards compliant code' and thus dreamweaver gained the reputation as being the professional's choice. that was back when both apps created their layouts using clunky, hacky, nested tables, built with horrible code spaghetti - when no-one really cared about concepts like standards compliance, as long as it worked on exploder and netscrape. I used to use golive way back in the days when it was called 'golive cyberstudio' and it was streets ahead of the similarly youthful dreamweaver at the time - at least in terms of ease of use. but it seems like adobe thinks there's life in the old dog yet. i'd thought golive was destined to be taken out the back and put out of its misery with adobe's gobbling up of macromedia.
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