Tonight was my first experience playing around with iMovie ’09. Here are a few thoughts…
First, the new iMovie is staggeringly difficult to wrap your brain around if you’re used to the old one. I’ve used iMovie since version 1.0 (which, for those of you keeping score at home, was in 1999… about 10 years ago). There were 6 versions of that original iMovie, each better than the last. iMovie ’09 is really the second version of a whole new program going by the name iMovie. It has pretty much nothing in common with the original iMovie.
That said, the first impressions of this new iMovie were not favorable. The original iMovie was extremely intuitive the very first time I ever used it. I remember there being approximately zero learning curve. I was already familiar with non-linear digital video editing, having worked with Adobe Premier and a couple of other apps that I have forgotten so iMovie basically just took that stuff and made it easier. The new iMovie is attempting to pretty much totally reinvent the way video editing is done and I brought too much baggage to the app to easily make the jump without wanting to jump ship multiple times.
The video tutorials didn’t help either. They only really told me how to do the really obvious stuff I had already figured out.
After a bit of cussing and fussing I did eventually begin to grok the new iMovie way and I put together a sharp looking little 3 minute vid of the trip Es and I took to Jun Bo for dim sum tonight. I’m happy with the result and I think that maybe I’ll grow to like this new iMovie. I don’t know. We’ll see. For slapping together little memory videos like this I think it’ll to well. I haven’t edited anything really serious with iMovie in years, I like to use Final Cut Pro, but I’m hoping that this new iMovie will encourage me to do more video blogging types of things. We shall see…
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