iMovie for Mac Updated With Minor Feature Upgrades and General Improvements

[unibodydesign]

Why is iMovie for sale? One annoying thing about Apple is that everything is for sale. I just started my product in school and was specifically asked to use iMovie for the project only to find out it's for sale contrary to what my project lecturer said in class. What is the point for me using mac if I can't afford apps for my projects? I am so pissed off right now like I feel like exploding. I always have to buy recommended apps for my project and I find it senseless, maybe its time I join a bunch of my mates who have stopped using apple because every project app is for sale. Now I have to opt out of the project for this block because I can't afford iMovie as a poor little girl struggling to earn my degree oversees. Well, I better advise myself.

I'd buy you it as a gift if I had some money; no agenda, I'd just like to be kind to you, as a Christian - I'm sure someone would do the same for me in a similar situation, and even if they didn't... never mind

I wish I could help you

 

[Ginoviva]

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I'd buy you it as a gift if I had some money; no agenda, I'd just like to be kind to you, as a Christian - I'm sure someone would do the same for me in a similar situation, and even if they didn't... never mind

I wish I could help you

Thank you unibodydesign for your concern and kind heartedness. well the only good thing about me is my head and the grace of God which has brought me this far. I am from a very poor background in Africa but I got scholarship to study abroad and this mac was a gift that came with the scholarship. I am telling you this because I want you to get where am coming from, I know someone will read this and say why buy mac if you can't afford the apps. Well, I have no choice than to opt out of the project. Its fine..it will only delay my graduation

 

[ChrisA]

Why is iMovie for sale? ....

That is a good question. It is included free with every Mac. So who would not already have a copy? Who would need to buy iMovie?

 

[Ginoviva]

That is a good question. It is included free with every Mac. So who would not already have a copy? Who would need to buy iMovie?

So what are you implying? Don't make me more angry with your senseless comment. Will I eat or drink iMovie? Why will I be wasting time on this platform if I have it on my mac? If you don't have any good thing to say just SHUT UP!!!

 

[Swordylove]

So what are you implying? Don't make me more angry with your senseless comment. Will I eat or drink iMovie? Why will I be wasting time on this platform if I had iMovie app on my mac? If you don't have any good thing to say just SHUT UP!!!

Calm down. He's not implying anything. I'm wondering the same thing. Why is iMovie for sale when as far as I know it's included in all Macs. Maybe for Hackintoshes?

Which Mac are you using?

 

[Ginoviva]

Calm down. He's not implying anything. I'm wondering the same thing. Why is iMovie for sale when as far as I know it's included in all Macs. Maybe for Hackintoshes?

Which Mac are you using?

Exactly Swordylove! Why sell iMovie when its already installed on mac? I use macbook pro 13-inch, Mid 2010 with version 10.7.5 Thanks for your concern.

 

[prestonkd]

Obviously, you don't know what you are supposed to like. This is why we have people at Apple like Johnny Ive and whoever that guy is that redesigned FCP and iMovie. If we depended on people like you to guide the development of these products, we would end up with software that people knew how to use and had come to know, love and depend upon. Instead, we have what amounts to completely new programs that only vaguely resemble their prior versions and most importantly have "flat" interfaces, which of course have to be completely relearned. I don't know why you can't see that that is better. Maybe you need to watch a video of someone from Apple explaining it with a British or Australian accent. That will probably clear it up for you.

It's very rare that I say I like an old version of an application better than a new one. I usually understand that computers are all about a fluid change over time. (That's what makes them such interesting tools.... They don't just do a fixed set of tasks. They run whatever code they're fed.)

But iMovie really lost me after version 6 or so.... Between the program itself,and some really good 3rd. party plug-ins made for it, I could comfortably do some really enjoyable video editing. I don't make any money at this stuff or produce anything used professionally -- so FCP will always be "overkill" for my purposes, really. I just wanted to do such things as importing raw footage from friends/family's vacation trips and produce edited, much more watchable versions on DVD.

But with the total re-design of iMovie, I now find I can't do much of anything with it without endless frustration, unless I'm just trying to work with short clips suitable for YouTube or social media websites.

I wanted to like the new versions, especially because they brought the ability to download content from most of the newer devices. iMovie 6 was really made with the assumption you'd be pulling DV content from a firewire camcorder using tape.

Maybe it's just me, but I have a really tough time finding exactly where I want to insert transitions or clip content at precise points with current iMovie versions? The ability to quickly scrub through the clips as they play back in a preview window causes me to overshoot things or skip over a small spot I want to play/replay repeatedly until I figure out exactly where a cut needs to happen, or some audio needs to be inserted/modified.

 

[ChrisA]

So what are you implying? Don't make me more angry with your senseless comment. Will I eat or drink iMovie? Why will I be wasting time on this platform if I have it on my mac? If you don't have any good thing to say just SHUT UP!!!

What am I implying? Just a question about how one can NOT already have iMovie. It's a real question because Apple installs it on EVERY mac they sell. Perhaps it was accidentally deleted? Perhaps this Mac is very old, from before iMove was available. Perhaps it is actually there in the Apps folder and the user does not know it is already there?

I really DO wonder why Apple sells iMovie and who would need to buy it.

Maybe you can call Apple can ak them how you can re-install it if it was accedently deleted. it WAS there at some point. Do you have backups from when the computer was new. Perhaps it is one your Time Machine backup? You should not have to buy it.

Not to be insulting but, I've seen Mac users who did not know where to look for installed software. They figured if it was not on the "dock" it was not there. The "About This Mac" system report will list al installed software and the version numbers

Bottom line is you should never need to buy it.

 

[rols]

What am I implying? Just a question about how one can NOT already have iMovie. It's a real question because Apple installs it on EVERY mac they sell. Perhaps it was accidentally deleted? Perhaps this Mac is very old, from before iMove was available. Perhaps it is actually there in the Apps folder and the user does not know it is already there?

I really DO wonder why Apple sells iMovie and who would need to buy it.

Bottom line is you should never need to buy it.

Every mac has *some* version of iMovie bundled with it, that is true, there should be a version of iMovie on the machine somewhere unless it got deleted and there should be a recovery disk if it was deleted to put it back again.

iMovie 10 (the one which just got updated) was complicated. If you bought a mac since late october 2013, you got it bundled. If you owned iLife '11 either because you had it bundled with your machine (bought after late October 2010) or because you bought it from the store to upgrade an older iLife, you also got to upgrade it for free (via the App Store, but for free, you got a prompt to 'accept' some apps, that's how I got mine).

If however your mac was older than October 2010 and thus came bundled with an older iLife, like iLife '09 *and* you had never paid for an upgrade to iLife '11, then the upgrade to iMove 10 is *not* free and you have to buy it from the store.

I said it was complicated.

The poster who needs iMovie says they have a mid 2010 macbook pro, that should have come with iLife '09 and thus iMovie '09. That at least should be there. If the project he's doing requires the latest iMovie, iMovie 10, then yes that needs to be purchased. However I note also that the machine is running 10.7.5 which is too old for iMovie 10, you need 10.9 Mavericks for that, that's at least free.

... oh and I just found this link http://support.apple.com/downloads/#imovie which has older versions of iMovie on it for download. I suspect if you bought a mac which had iLife '09 and lost iMovie '09, you can download it from there and re-install it.

 

[AlexBerkman]

Exactly Swordylove! Why sell iMovie when its already installed on mac? I use macbook pro 13-inch, Mid 2010 with version 10.7.5 Thanks for your concern.

The new iMovie update it only for Mavericks (OS X 10.92 or above)...For you(lion) and I(ML) there is NO update as long we do not upgrade to Mavericks... We are stuck at iMovie (9.0.9)...

 

[milo]

So have they ever added native AVCHD support?

 

[Intelligent]

It's very rare that I say I like an old version of an application better than a new one. I usually understand that computers are all about a fluid change over time. (That's what makes them such interesting tools.... They don't just do a fixed set of tasks. They run whatever code they're fed.)

But iMovie really lost me after version 6 or so.... Between the program itself,and some really good 3rd. party plug-ins made for it, I could comfortably do some really enjoyable video editing. I don't make any money at this stuff or produce anything used professionally -- so FCP will always be "overkill" for my purposes, really. I just wanted to do such things as importing raw footage from friends/family's vacation trips and produce edited, much more watchable versions on DVD.

But with the total re-design of iMovie, I now find I can't do much of anything with it without endless frustration, unless I'm just trying to work with short clips suitable for YouTube or social media websites.

I wanted to like the new versions, especially because they brought the ability to download content from most of the newer devices. iMovie 6 was really made with the assumption you'd be pulling DV content from a firewire camcorder using tape.

Maybe it's just me, but I have a really tough time finding exactly where I want to insert transitions or clip content at precise points with current iMovie versions? The ability to quickly scrub through the clips as they play back in a preview window causes me to overshoot things or skip over a small spot I want to play/replay repeatedly until I figure out exactly where a cut needs to happen, or some audio needs to be inserted/modified.

Yeah, i agree, my favorite version is still iMovie HD 6.0 I can't do anything with the new version.

 

[Tomacorno]

It was a 267 mb download for me. I pity the people stuck with slow DSL connections these days. For them, updates will take hours.

DSL? Dial-up baby! Keepin' it real!

 

[mrderik]

WooHoo - They fixed it taking FOREVER to start.

 

[talmy]

Why is iMovie for sale?

That is a good question. It is included free with every Mac. So who would not already have a copy? Who would need to buy iMovie?

Why is iMovie for sale when as far as I know it's included in all Macs. Maybe for Hackintoshes?

Why sell iMovie when its already installed on mac?

iMovie (as well as the other iLife and iWorks apps that now come "free" with purchase) is licensed to the purchaser and tied to their Appstore account. This way you can freely install it on any Mac you own that will run the software -- it's great for me since I own 8 Macs and can run the latest software on all of them without paying for additional copies.

HOWEVER, the license is not transferrable. If I were to sell or even give away one of my Macs the software no longer goes with it. Anyone who buys a used Mac (who doesn't have an existing Appstore account with the software licensed) has to buy a new copy. Of course after they buy that one copy, they can use it on all future Macs they buy.

This licensing scheme also has ominous future effects -- if (when) you die, the software license is revoked. This applies to virtually all licensed media (music, video, E-books) as well. I predict lawsuits around the inability to inherit.