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We are kitting out a room which will be partly used for A level Media Studies. Likely hardware will be iMacs. Question is: what software for video editing? Choice seems to be between: Adobe Premiere Pro Final Cut Pro X or maybe DaVinci Resolve or Lightworks or ? or maybe iMovie is sufficient? In the past I might have argued a case for Serif MoviePlus, but this is discontinued and the choice of iMacs is partly to add extra flexibility for rooming the teaching of photography/music tech. Looked around web - many comparisons found but primarily aimed at enthusiastic amateurs or [semi-]professional film-makers. Example - interesting and educational but not really aimed at school level implementation given our parameters appear to be: a) complexity/depth for learning about Media at A level b) smaller projects than most/many productions c) students have other stuff to learn, and other subjects (and hopefully a life as well) and thus limited time to learn software and implement a project (alongside other media projects) Complication is that with the move to Computing at KS4, there is no formal IT teaching after age 14 (at least here) where some video manipulation skills could be taught. Situation not helped by the exam board - although the spec has not been finally approved (at time of writing) it is possible/likely they may 'expect' software capable of delivering complexity beyond needs of most students (or the time they have available) - even if not explicitly. We already have site licence for Adobe CS4 (excl Premiere). Upgrading to AdobeCC would benefit Photography and the school publications team (not least as sooner/later CS4 will not be supported). However, the feeling from my research and comments from Media teachers is that Final Cut is more accessible. From financial/whole school point of view Adobe would be the better way forward but is Premiere Pro going to be a bridge too far* for students/staff to assimilate in the time available? (thus making the extra investment in Final Cut worthwhile) We would welcome views/experience from other schools delivering A level Media Studies. - thanks in advance. (have seen similar questions here from a few years ago, but things have moved on and/or were not aimed at A level specifically) *apologies for over-used cliche

I'm running 10.6.8 on our MacBook and have two app store downloads that have failed and are now essentially stuck. The App store will show them as being paused, once I resume them they tend to redownload then get stuck on this screen This is as far as they get. I've tried removing any local content by deleting com.apple.appstore amongst other similar folders, draggging the 'ghost' icons on the dock to the bin, terminating the storeagent and appstore processes manually... I've done several (20+) installs and only reached this issue with the final device (thankfully), even having apparently deleted the apps locally to start again the issue persists... Anyone else had this sort of experience?