ZDNet Reviews iMovie

ajw1976 writes "David Coursey of ZDNet reviews iMovie in his 'Month on Mac' series. It's a pretty a good article that tells how easy it is to create a movie and burn a DVD." A lot of people seem to think home movies/photos/music (the Apple "Digital Hub") is the killer app for consumer Macs these days. iPhoto has a long way to go, but iTunes works great, and I've heard little but good about iMovie.

Comments

Re:Dead simple to use

[Morganic]

I guess it depends what you want really - professional quality Vs ameteur and easy.

iMovie is targeted at home users and non-professionals, and for that niche it has proved extremely powerful.

No professional would likely find iMovie sufficient, of course -- but that's why Apple also has Final Cut Pro, which has received equally high praise within the professional community.

Morgan

Re:Dead simple to use

[jeffehobbs]

However, ease-of-use almost always requires a sacrifice of power and complexity.

Wrong. Ease-of-use has nothing whatsoever to do with power, and complexity by itself is hardly a virtue. Some of the most fastest and powerful race cars in the world have a control panel simpler than your average low-end Toyota.

What Apple has done with iMovie is remove elements of video editing that are unnecessary for the average user, yet keep the ability to do 90% of what complicated high-end packages are able to do; and finally wrap the whole thing in an intuitive, graphically oriented interface. It's brilliant, high quality software.

~jeff

Re:In defense of iPhoto

[HomeGroove]

I'll have to agree with daviddennis. I may not be using iPhoto to touch up photos, but I do use it to organize my photos. And the combo with iDisk is just great. The export to homepage does come in handy when you need to just display some photos on the web quickly. (And there's BetterHTML export for those that want, well, a better HTML export).

And everyone developing plug-ins for iPhoto, it will just add to the functionality.

And here's a good article on digital photo goodies for Mac OS X.