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Apple Announces iMovie for iPhone 4
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It looks pretty nice, but my only concern is how the UI is going to be if it is only on a 3.5 inch screen?
Thinking....
I do a lot of driving for my job. I see a lot of weird things and my iPhone has been a good way of documenting strange looking vehicles or odd occurrences.
I have it everywhere. I don't always have a good digital camera with me.
So this is perfect, a better camera with HD 30fps capability. No problems.
Sold.
I do a lot of driving for my job. I see a lot of weird things and my iPhone has been a good way of documenting strange looking vehicles or odd occurrences.
I have it everywhere. I don't always have a good digital camera with me.
So this is perfect, a better camera with HD 30fps capability. No problems.
Sold.
any ideas how much video could fit on a 16 and 32GB iPhone? I didn't see any specs that indicate the bitrate of the HD video. Given our P2 camera can get 45 minutes of 720p o a 32GB card I'm assuming that this is more compressed so it will be several hours on the 32GB iphone.
I'm debating on which to get, this is obviously a big reason to get the 32GB.
I'm debating on which to get, this is obviously a big reason to get the 32GB.
heck, it'd be great to do it in the field with video imported from your digital camera to your ipad. apple sells the SD card adapter allowing those imports, now it needs to give us the tools to do something with it after it's imported. I'm hoping the iphone app will at least work on the iPad at 2x, and will probably be introd in native format for the iPad as well, as have what, 8500 other apps?
I thought it was curious that in the keynote Jobs seemed to say "if it's approved" about the iMove app. A joke? Or...?
I can think of plenty of ways to use it (and use it more often than my HVX200 and Mac Pro/FCS system).
I'm sure plenty of other creative people with interesting lives are looking forward to this as well.
I can think of plenty of ways to use it (and use it more often than my HVX200 and Mac Pro/FCS system).
I'm sure plenty of other creative people with interesting lives are looking forward to this as well.
I'm sure people will turn out some cool stuff with it. I just think it's bizarre to have advanced video editing on a mobile device. I'm not against it. I just think it's odd. If I was going to make a film (which I don't do), I'd much rather edit on a computer than a 3.5 inch screen.
Not really. If the 16GB can hold 10 hours of video, then no. If it is just 30 minutes then yes. Anywhere in between and I need to consider how often I'll be shooting/deleting these videos.
Most of the videos I plan to use this for will be in the 2-3 minute range max. I won't be far from my Macbook Pro so I don't see myself collecting days and weeks of video on the phone.
I've rarely come close to filling my i devices. I am pretty good about keeping them loaded with just what I need vs every song/app/photo etc I own and never needing 80% of them.
That said, it is hard to find a reason not to have 32GB for $100 more. However it would also be nice to upgrade my 2G iPhone to a 3GS for the wife. But then for another $100 more it could be a 16GB iPhone 4. Curse you apple and your easy to rationalize upgrade options.
For many people the ability to easily and quickly capture and publish video is a huge hit. Just look at the success of the Flip cameras. Quality has taken a back seat to speed and ease.
Couple that with the idea that 'the best camera (and in this case editing bay) is the one you have with you' and there you have it. We live in an age of the 2 minute news cycle. Be it news or just facebook updates.
Family vacation videos, funny things you see, random moments of creativity...all possible on your phone. A bit odd, for sure. However it also makes many more moments available for us to share with others. As they say in the video, this device will change how we interact with each other.
I'm excited about the improved video capabilities in the new iPhone, but adding more functionality than simply trimming clips to the desired content, uploading (and perhaps screen shake mitigation), and you're essentially wasting software engineering resources that are desperately needed elsewhere. The latest incarnation of iMovie is worse than iMovie 6, and we've not seen an update to iWork or iLife on OSX.
Sorry, but some tasks make more sense on a desktop. Anything more than very rudimentary video editing falls into this category. Likewise, let's hope Apple isn't pulling people from the iDVD team so that they can make a mobile iDVD software that plugs in to an external DVD burner via the dock connector.
The new iPhone is great, but it's scary that they're diverting needed resources away from important departments in order to produce apps of trivial value such as this one.
Sorry, but some tasks make more sense on a desktop. Anything more than very rudimentary video editing falls into this category. Likewise, let's hope Apple isn't pulling people from the iDVD team so that they can make a mobile iDVD software that plugs in to an external DVD burner via the dock connector.
The new iPhone is great, but it's scary that they're diverting needed resources away from important departments in order to produce apps of trivial value such as this one.
you guys are nuts! this is the app that i always knew should be on here. i'd have tried to develop it myself if i didn't think apple would do exactly this (and it would be very hard). it was obviously coming. and i think it's awesome. you guys are buzzkills.
yeah, FCP isn't falling behind avid. not in jobs. not in people using it, or projects using it.
so i'd calm down on that, honestly.
Shouldn't these kind of apps be included in the iOS4? With iPhone OS 3, the video edit was included in the OS, but why not now? If I buy a new iPhone, I want to use one of the essential features of it (shooting 720p video, editing and posting on the web) without paying extra.
So no-one from the conference has posted a video from the new camera?
I know this isn't possible:
But I'd like to MMS a HD movie.
I know this isn't possible:
But I'd like to MMS a HD movie.
You gotta hope that someone at Apple is thinking this very same thought. Hopefully by the time iOS 4 is available for our iPads....
It still does the same kind of editing that OS 3 did. This is something beyond that that does more than the standard editing tools do.
Save project?
Does anyone have any information about the possibilty to save a "iMovie for iPhone"-Project and work on it on another device, i.e. iPad or Mac (or iPod touch with OS 4)?
It would be awesome. But I guess it's not as easy to implement as it looks at first glance.
Does anyone have any information about the possibilty to save a "iMovie for iPhone"-Project and work on it on another device, i.e. iPad or Mac (or iPod touch with OS 4)?
It would be awesome. But I guess it's not as easy to implement as it looks at first glance.