The new iMovie in iLife ‘08

:: Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 @ 11:21:27 am

:: Tags: Video

the new iMovie

I saw the prototype of this app last year while on a dive trip with the “video engineer” at Apple that Steve Jobs referred to in the announcement (signed a NDA). I was really excited about it back then, and am glad to see that it made a major product!

I frequently whip up short videos using iMovie, and hope that the new version doesn’t have a generic “H.264″ project setting that automatically crappifies all incoming video from small compact still cameras. There is no way to get good video quality in the prior versions because the video gets transcoded so poorly on the way in.

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1. posted by Randy on Wed, August 08, 2007 @ 10:29 pm

   Eric, no worries, iMovie 08 leaves imported files in their original format and plays them directly. As long as your camera records in a supported format, you’re set. Transcoding is only done during export. (Video imported from an HDV or AVCHD camera is converted during import to iCodec for editing).

2. posted by Rogier on Thu, August 09, 2007 @ 9:05 am

   Will give it a spinn today at work on the new iMac ;-) Take a copy home and start working with it to get to know it inside out.

3. posted by Rogier on Sat, August 11, 2007 @ 10:36 am

   The diving footage shows divers with bad buoyancy skils…. Arm flopping all over, kick cycling to hang still etc

   Ah well its aimed at the amatueure movie maker…

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