Comments on: Et tu, iMovie?

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:51:07 +0000

Now that Steve Jobs is done “borrowing” programmers from all over Apple to finish the iPhone, he should “borrow” them over to iMovie and fix this mess. Upgrade iMovie 6 into a REAL iMovie 8 and rename iMovie 8 to iWebVideo.

By: Darwin Stephenson

Darwin Stephenson — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:06:58 +0000

Gedeon:

I feel compelled to add that you did a really nice job with the promotional video. Nice work!

darwin

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:01:36 +0000

p.s. note i did say “implicitly” NOT “explicitly,” allowing apple to eek out minor patches if absolutely necessary.

i especially feel bad for geethree and other imovie plug-in makers. i’m not sure i’ve seen such a major pull-out of a plug-in-able software app like this in a long time, if ever.

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:53:45 +0000

shane, we mone (um, moan) because, while we do have imovie6 hd NOW, apple has implicitly stated that there will be no more SUPPORT for it beyond this. os update breaks imovie hd 6 on you? apple will say you should be using imovie ‘08 or higher, or upgrade to something like final cut. basically, it smacks of calling ajax an sdk for iphone. no it’s not, but you just don’t have an easy way to tell us “tough luck.” so apple wanted a completely different way for consumers to make movies on their brand new imacs, so great, but don’t call it friggin’ imovie and expect us to just turn a blind eye to the obvious.

as far as the new imovie “finishing” projects before final cut or the old imovie could, it really depends on your concept of what “finished” is supposed to be. i suspect that, if you are 100% happy with the pre-fab looks of many apple items in imovie ‘08, then yes, you’d be right.

but if there’s anything outside the lines you want to do, even incredibly basic stuff (audio track editing? hello?), then to upgrade to final cut express, which has the same learning curve as final cut pro, just to do so is insane, and like i said, if you’re working with imovie6 hd, you’re working with an EOL app that just hasn’t gotten the memo about its own demise yet.

By: shane blyth

shane blyth — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:05:06 +0000

I like the new Imovie I get to keep the old version and put more complicated projects together at 1/1oth of the speed.
As for finalcut it serves a different process really and the new imovie will have it’s project finished before finalcut (or the imove06 version) is anywhere near finished. It is a great new app and to stop all the bleating we here about it should have been called something else.
BUT as I said we have the best of both world so why people mone I dont know.. we now have access to 2 programs at the same price as the old one is a free download and is left on your system for you to use if you already had it there anyway.. the new imovie is lightening fast at getting something out and frankly most people buying ilife will in the end be alot happier.. i found the older version too laborious for doing my home movies and yes my name is not Peter Jackson