Comments on: iMovie ’08

By: Skip

Skip — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:04:23 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Jessica. I’ll have to admit that I have softened my stance on iMovie 08 since my original post since I have had more time to work with the program. There are some things that it does very well. It’s amazingly quick at downloading video and creating a movie. It has some very nice clip handling capabilities in terms of lengthening and shortening clips and being able to crop stills and clips. The Ken Burns effect is more more elegant than that in previous versions. I also like the much easier and more intuitive way that iMovie 08 exports projects to a variety of formats.

I still can’t understand the lack of time code, and I don’t like the new timeline nearly as much as the old version. If I had to choose one program over the other, I’d choose iMovie 6. Fortunately, you don’t have to choose. As I mentioned before, owners of iMovie 08 can download and install iMovie HD for free and have them both available. Some projects work better in one version than the other.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:23:54 +0000

I too, was very disappointed with the new iMovie 8. What were they thinking when they removed the visual effects along with other crucial elements for film production?! The “upgrade” fro Windows Movie Maker to iMovie 8 has left me very unimpressed!

By: skipvia

skipvia — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:12:19 +0000

Joe–you can download a copy of iMovie 6 directly from Apple. It will install if you already have iMovie 8 installed. The link is in the original post.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:06:45 +0000

Yeah i got the new iMac with hopes of using all of the new programs, especially iMovie and as soon as i got it I noticed how there were no visual effects or seperate audio tracks and such. So i have been asking around for anyone with iMovie 6 but i have not found it oh well.

By: skipvia

skipvia — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:49:36 +0000

You make a good point about iMovie 8. It actually does some things very well, among them the welcome ability to post video directly to YouTube. I’d like to see this functionality added to iMovie 6, along with the way that iMovie 8 catalogs video from past projects. But to take away the functionality that we have always counted on seems ludicrous. You’re correct–it’s not iMovie anymore. It’s something else, and we need to have iMovie back–perhaps as a separate program.

By: skipvia

skipvia — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:49:16 +0000

Jan makes a good point about iMovie 8. It actually does some things very well, among them the welcome ability to post video directly to YouTube. I’d like to see this functionality added to iMovie 6, along with the way that iMovie 8 catalogs video from past projects. But to take away the functionality that we have always counted on seems ludicrous. You’re correct–it’s not iMovie anymore. It’s something else, and we need to have iMovie back–perhaps as a separate program.

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:54:19 +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.