My Brain Hurts

A lot has been said about iMovie ‘08 since it’s release, mostly condemning. Being likewise unimpressed with iMovie ‘08, when it came to running an iMovie session at ITSC I intended using iMovie HD. However, as it was said to me, we need to move forward so ‘08 became the number of the counting. The session began with a round table gripe about “where is this feature?” and “why doesn’t it do that any more?” This was going nowhere but downhill so during the break I asked all to purge their minds of iMovie and look on this as a completely new app.

Once we started to focus on 08’s strengths we started to appreciate it. One person in our group who had never seen iMovie at all summed it up with “I don’t know what you people are complaining about, this program is great.” Talking to Apple reps and other learned folk we came to the following conclusions.

1. This program should probably not have been called iMovie since it really isn’t a replacement for iMovie HD, so stop thinking of it as that.

2. iMovie ‘08 is for making simple quick movies, which it does really well, if you want to do heavy editing or something more serious then iMovie HD is still alive and kicking.

3. What it does really well: total control of Ken Burns effect, cropping (zooming) of clips, ducking, audio files snap to fit length of video and still clips.

4. What’s really lacking: no export to GarageBand or iDVD – very strange to have a iLife app that doesn’t integrate with the other apps. Prediction – watch for an update on this feature.

So, “no negative vibes Moriarty”. Look at iMovie’08 for what it is and you will enjoy using it a lot more. It really is great app for throwing together a movie very quickly.

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