Q: I'm getting into video editing but iMovie is pretty limited
A: i have a hard personal rule that my software has to be openly scriptable. that's just the only way i'm going to get the kind of access that i need. but unfortunately there's almost no scriptable software for video editing, and the ones i thought had it are actually very incomplete in their scriptability. at this point i'm considering using a scriptable program even if it's not quite meant for video editing