Thoughts on iMovie

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I have lately been warming up to the rebooted version of iMovie.
When Apple discontinued iMovie HD for a new app called iMovie in 2007 I, as a user, was a bit shell shocked. To so completely revamp an application and introducing so many new UI metaphors requires the user to do a lot of relearning. My snappy judgement of the app: It had too much suckage going on.
Apple have done some improvements and it seems to be more capable and usable than in it’s initial configuration. Hence my warming up.

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Digital media is fragile. Importing iMovie 6 HD projects to iMovie 11 is brittle and files are left behind. Apple, I expect more.
iMovie is a basic video editing application. It does not do a lot of things and there are much more capable tools available. For my usual video editing needs, it’s enough. I like things that are just right. Akin to why I prefer text editors to word processors when editing text.
The iMovie user interface borrows from the iOS platform. I would not be surprised if a future iPad also happens to be a MacBook.