WE HAVE A WINNER
Three words to describe the new iMovie application in iLife '08 from Apple, announced last week: "Powerpoint for video".
At least, that's the way this Powerpoint geek sees it.
I was under some pressure today from my mom, to deliver some passable video culled from some casual shooting at a family event some time ago. It's something I'd been putting off for a while now, because editing video even on a Mac has been a laborious task for non-professionals.
Having sprung for iLife at the Apple store last week, I decided to fire it up earlier today, fully expecting to give up on the project again in a few minutes.
Instead, about 60 minutes later, I had a passable video made from the bits and pieces of video clips, interspersed with some still photos floating around with the "Ken Burns effect", all set to a bunch of music tracks that I know would put a smile on my mom's face. And the sixty minutes felt like fifteen.
Coincidentally Walt Mossberg also came to the same conclusion on the application, as part of a fuller review of iLife '08, in his Wall Street Journal application.
Do check it out.
And give iMovie a shot if you have mounds of digital video lying about in various drives, with various loved ones repeatedly asking for some sort of deliverable. You can convert iMovies into DVDs or share them online via Apple's new and improved .mac (aka dot mac) service.
Now about that Powerpoint...wonder what the new Keynote (presentation application in the new iWork '08), can really do.
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