iLife 08′s iMovie

There’s a lot of hate-mail on diverse websites from people who have upgraded to iLife ’08 and found that the totally revamped iMovie lacked a lot of features from earlier releases. While that’s totally true (although I really didn’t care for the features people are now whining about), I think what they did with the interface is again something every UI designer should take a look at.

Taking the gesture of selecting a block of text and applying that to video clips sounds weird a first, but oh boy, it works! Skimming is again a first for Apple. A really simple idea which no-one thought of but everyone is bound to imitate. I know I will.

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  Bill Richardson August 21, 2007 at 17:09

  I’m going back to the previous version, iMovie HD. .08 may have some improvements but goes backwards in many regards.

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  sAm August 22, 2007 at 09:54

  Having searched google for iLife 08 UI/GUI etc… I can’t find anything about it, does anyone have access to a movie demonstration of this UI aspect? Or failing that a few screen shots?

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  Tuomas Artman August 22, 2007 at 09:56

  Apple has some videos: http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/

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  NoCanDu September 2, 2007 at 20:35

  Just tried it for the first time and I hate it! It’s so hard to get in there are edit the little tiny things w/o a timeline. The text features and transitions are (IMO) missing a lot of the basics that I used constantly in the last version. Was glad to hear I can get 06 HD. I’m downloading it now!

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