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ZDNet Reviews iMovie

Posted by pudge on from the ismile-for-the-icamera dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Dead simple to use by jeffehobbs · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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

  2. Re:Complexity is a good thing? by foobar104 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    iMovie is movie making for the AOL crowd. FCP is for the, well, Mac crowd.

    I agree and I don't. A division of my company does video integrations for broadcasters and post production companies. Two years ago those places were overflowing with Avids, a few Expresses but mostly Media Composers.

    Now it's G4s with FCP as far as the eye can see.

    Final Cut Pro on a Power Mac (about $6,000 total) is replacing Avid Media Composer systems (around $100,000) in professional settings.

    I don't think anybody saw that coming.