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Final Cut Express 4 - iMovie HD's heir apparent
Authored by: spotkat on Jul 21, '08 07:21:46AM

I too was rather frustrated when iMovie 08 came out until I really got the idea behind it. With all previous versions of iMovie, the intent was to make a video editor and that's all, but that strategy didn't go along with the rest of (what became) the iLife suite. The new version of iMovie is not longer an editor, but a video "digital shoebox", similar to iPhoto. It's not for editing, it's for storing, but it happens to have editing features.

Although at first I was pissed off, now that I have a new family and a young daughter, I'm actually happy Apple did this. It's nice to share little clips and montages of movies to post on the web for family and friends, but I also want a place to go to see ALL of my clips without having to fish through a bunch of tapes or DVDs. Once iMovie 08 came around, there wasn't any other solution.

And yes, Apple did it to boost FC Express sales too!



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Final Cut Express 4 - iMovie HD's heir apparent
Authored by: JimMueller on Jul 21, '08 01:54:58PM

I would not have been so ticked if the name had been significantly changed, so that I would know that I was getting a ViewMaster instead of Photoshop. An obvious disclaimer that "this is no longer the application you expect it to be - it has been refocused and simplified so users have minimal editing capability other than putting existing clips together in different ways."



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Final Cut Express 4 - iMovie HD's heir apparent
Authored by: Zaphod42 on Jul 21, '08 08:00:30PM

I like iMovie '08. It works as it is supposed to. It makes it really simple to store video, and makes really nice looking clips that are easy to post to the internet. It is perfect for family movies, and quick clip posts to youtube. Now that i've said that, I think I'll go get a copy of final cut express :)

thanks for posting this as a pick of the week, I had forgotten about it's existence...



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