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By ty on Aug 8, 2007

Feldman you seem like a rather in tune person, so I gotta ask, why are you still smoking? Feel free to tell me to fuck off..

By vaXzine on Aug 8, 2007

I liked the captions

By Tyler on Aug 8, 2007

Dammit and my friend ALMOST has me talked into buying a Mac, too. Figures they’d go and screw everything up now.

By jvon on Aug 9, 2007

I wouldn’t move up into it… you’re right. It blows. No effects, completely fucked UI. It sucks. Its a downgrade. Wow, I can scrub through cips. Joy. Too bad it freezes my Mac fucking Pro! Lame upgrade… I’ll stick with iMovie HD.

By Dav on Aug 10, 2007

I completely agree. I just went through this entire experience of buying it and being disappointed. I’m just glad apple had the decency not to overwrite the old iMovie (it still appears as “iMovie previous version” in your apps folder). No moving titles, no effects, no speed up/slow down, no fun themes…everything that was good about the old version is gone. Skimming is a cool idea, and I like that they have audio meters and normalization now, but other than that, I can’t see a use for the program. Plus they market it towards people with HD cameras…none of this makes any fucking sense. Who would have an HD camera and just want to throw the clips together quickly and stuipdly?

Anyway whatever. Good thing I started using final cut, motion, and other amazing programs lately. This is the first time I’ve seriously been disappointed by apple (though the rest of iLife is a fine upgrade).

By David on Aug 10, 2007

Some comments on your review… I think Video Editors familiar with Non Linear Editing software are most likley using Final Cut Pro. If they arn’t then they should be familiar enough to have realised these major changes during the Special Announcement keynote. If they didn’t read the keynote or watch it then how much of an Apple Fan Boy are they? There is still a timeline but it wraps like (word wrap in a text editor) instead of continuous scrolling. If you find this difficult i’m sure there is one of those explain it for dummy’s books to tell you how to move to the next line etc. Apple made it so that you keep the old version of iMovie when you upgrade to this version because it is such a radical change. So you haven’t lost anything only gained! This is a whole different approach to give non video editors a tool to combine clips and enhance them with titles, songs, transitions and publish them. You are entitled to your opinion however I found your disdain in the presentation of it, self indulgent. I found myself disappointed with a few things myself. The lack of themes with drop zones. The limited amount of title templates and visual effects etc. But I can still use the software without problems and find the fresh approach to ‘quick’ editing a welcome addition to my mac. Thanks for your time. Brett Watson http://www.brettwatson.com

By Brett Watson on Aug 11, 2007

ha ha i just re watched it… “there’s no linear timeline” would you like me to explain the Non-Linear part of Non-Linear editing!

Brett.

By Brett Watson on Aug 11, 2007

I love the video ! I hate iMovie 08. I am still laughing at the candoor, and the spot on review. WTF ? I am still baffled at the geniod behind iMovie 08 - can someone from Apple please explain - no timeline, it blows up on larger 20 minute long projects from iMovie HD, it doesn’t show the assembled work even, only the clips, I absolutely hate it. I am still laughing at the review from Loren Feldman - outstanding !

By SC on Aug 11, 2007

Great to read these reviews and see I am not alone. iMOVIE is a backward step. Total rubbish. I used to be able to make some quality videos on imovie 06. Thank God the old version is still available. Biggest mistake apple has made in years

By Gareth WALES UK on Aug 11, 2007

One can only hope that Apple will get the blowback from this bizarro approach, which looks like it was designed to reside on an Iphone, and do some major upgrade in a more practical direction. It doesn’t even have the requisite goofball effects, which is what I expect and demand!… nor any centrally located play button, etc. One gets the impression that they’re trying to retrain you into a new order of things but it’s not the kind of software that’s worth reinventing the wheel over. I’m relieved to find my original ImovieHD still intact.

At least they did some intelligent things with Garageband, even though “magic garageband” is fairly rediculous.

By HenpeckedMonkey on Aug 12, 2007

This version looks nuts. I get the distinct impression that if I have to go back in to a segment, change a couple of frames, and keep an exact timeline to synch with music or dancing tracks, I’ll either shoot myself or my mac. Why did they screw with something that ran pretty well and just needed a tune up??

This is “Let’s design a really weird and cool interface” instead of “let’s make a product that is simple and works well” “K.I.S.S.” my shorts.

By Smeggy on Aug 13, 2007

OK, am I missing something?. I’ve still got questions about ‘08. One thing I depend on is seeing the audio “rubberbands” underneath the video lined up so I can fine tune the volume levels in spots in the middle of a clip, for example, to take the volume down to zero for a split second to hide a bad word someone uttered. Am I just being too stupid, or is this ability something that diappeared with 08? Do you have to cut clips on either side of a split second just to do this? This may not be a big deal to many of you, but this is something I frequently have to do (hang out at a soccer or basketball game sometime if you’ve forgotten).

Also the waveforms are helpful to see where distortion is happening.

By Anne on Aug 25, 2007

Yea, what everyone above has said….I’ll go with that. Went right out and bought it, came home and became immediately frustrated with much of the same litany of complaints your can read above. The good new: it has finally gotten me to push forward and give final cut ex a push toward mastery in order to do the educational vids I need for my business. But imovie 08, which is the reason I really went down the the apple store and bought this, is all but useless….a real waste. And the inability to control audio and lack of a time line….what the HELL could they have been thinking????

By William Ridenour on Aug 26, 2007

Everyone needs to just sit back and relax!!
Imoive ‘08 is really awesome….I have been waiting for them to strip out all of the crap that made imovie HD such a hog, and finally make a app that can make a simple movie FAST! Apple should have done this from the start.
If you need an app with more advanced video editing features…..Apple makes 2 options for you: Final Cut Pro, and Final Cut Express.

By charko on Aug 30, 2007

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot OVER. I should have checked this blog FIRST. I was so thoroughly disappointed that I had to search on reviews to see if I was the only one. It’s good to know that I am not alone.
And just to think, they asked if I wanted the $20 multi-installation version…YEAH RIGHT.

Still love the stock though. Sounds like Wall Street placation.

By Fish on Aug 30, 2007

If Apple’s goal was to make it simpler to make a movie, fine, call it something else, but why screw with something as good as iMovie WAS? Why didn’t they try to work out the frustrating kinks of iMovie instead? charko, you’ve got to be kidding with that reply. Final cut is an entirely different concept that I have been unable to learn on my own like I did Imovie. Apple is both amazing, smart, state of the art and incredibly dumb all at the same time.

By Roy on Aug 31, 2007

Don’t use Imovie myself, but always keen to see what’s new. If you look at what Apple have aligned themself with - you can see where Imovie 08 fits in….any guesses? that’s it, the YouTube generation. So, for your sub 5 minute movie, or cheap pop video, or just that video you shot of yourself counting to 1000, or the one of your mate punching the school dweeb, I’m sure you’ll go nuts for Imovie 08. I had a tinker in an Apple store earlier today, and well, that was enough for me. Nice to see the app is better integrated for more hard drives and FCP export…you might have mentioned that, Loren me ol’ mucker, in your review…or was it just a rant, before you had recovered from the night before?

By Adam Loretz on Sep 1, 2007

iMovie 08 is GREAT, well except for:

* No Chapter Markers for iDVD
* No Share to iDVD
* No timeline
* No ‘Save Frame’ (Great for making DVD art)
* No granularity–only global audio changes allowed
* Loss of multiple audio tracks
* No sound on import
* Loss of plugin support
* Cannot change transition speed after inserting a transition without making global changes
* No audio waveforms
* Cannot vary clip speed
* No pause control for titles
* Cannot play audio over black (when the clip is over, so is your audio. Apple knows best!)
* Cannot select a sequence of clips to move elsewhere within the movie
* Cannot overlap audio tracks (again…no multiple tracks)
* No themes (they WERE amazing)
* Cannot extract audio (of course, you can’t do much of ANYTHING with audio in this thing)
* Cannot import projects from older versions without losing, well…everything important.

By Mac User on Sep 3, 2007

Typo: The above is from Mac Fan not Mac User.

By Mac Fan on Sep 3, 2007

Wow it’s almost like using software from Microsoft, except with them you’d have to call and talk to a guy in India every time you reinstalled it.

Too bad Apple did this. I’d guess they are trying to push higher end users towards their more expensive video editing packages.

By jvon on Sep 3, 2007

I’m an imovie fiend. I use FCP most days but imovie old style is a down and dirty and surprisingly effective means to crank out really passable video projects…. until this heap of shit.

Clever plan - take away everything that made imovie great and call it imovie.

I was excited and everything too… what the fezus are you doing apple?

By Raffo on Sep 25, 2007

And I just bought the wohle unit - 2.8GHz, 24″ Screen, 4GB Ram, 1TB drive - all for iMovie to process my recent trip to Europe and Israel.

I am a previous Mac user - I have a 20″ G5 sitting here right alongside my Intel iMac.

Yet my jaw was on the ground about all that you cannot do with iMovie08. I thought it must be me - Apple always move forward.

Well it seems, not this time around…. This is a lot to pay when one expects a “complete package”

I guess this will help the MS team skyte now. (Media release will be - “Apple screws over their dedicated champions”!!! Microsoft picks up many new converts!!!

By Alastair Murray on Dec 15, 2007