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iMovie to Receive Update and Move Online?

I believe Steve Jobs is dying and this other dude is taking his place because EVERYTHING in Apple is torning into sucking money and NONE progress.

Apple is creating the ****iest computers ever and is not updating anything while is sucking money from every where and getting cheap on features, that is not Steve Jobs work.

Apple is going down, sooner than later is going to commit a big mistake, you will see.
 
Maybe Apple is going to start selling 3,000m firewire extensions to connect direct to your local exchange.
 
Clearly iMovie on the web would not require you to upload your video in order to edit it. My first reaction was to unilaterally reject the story as well because of this. But when I stop and think about it you may not have to upload your video files in order to edit them.

With new web technologies I imagine it is possible to create a web application that works with video files stored on your local system. You wouldn't have to upload anything unless you want to share it publicly ala YouTube. Whether or not having a web application for editing video is very useful is a whole different discussion but I think it is doable...

iJed said:
This is total nonsense. If you think about this in any rational way there is simply no way this is even possible on the current broadband technology. We'd be looking at upstream speeds in the hundreds of megabits per second in order to upload DV content to the server.

I'm sure iMovie will get more online features such as an easier way to publish movies to a Mobile Me account as well as much greater hosting capacity but there will not be an online version of it any time soon.

This is so ridiculous that it shouldn't even be on the MacRumors site let alone moved to page 2.
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thedarkhorse said:
As someone who does editing for a living I like the idea. Not that I'd be doing work on it, or that I do any work on any version of imovie, but I could see what the target of something like this would be.

With online movie sharing only getting more popular, it would make sense to make it more simple to do it through an application available to mac or pc through the browser. Something easily accessible that is simple to put your videos together, and the final "render" could just be sending your final movie to youtube, it would connect to your account and upload your finished video.
All your footage would be local on your computer, the only uploading would be the final h264 video when you finish your project.

I could see how it would make a lot more sense for people with little to no knowledge about editing for things to work this way.
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Yup.

flottenheimer said:
I agree. Online/cloud video editing makes no sense at the moment.
Maybe one day when all of us have 100/100 mbit net access.
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I thought it was funny to see this post right below thedarkhorse's. What makes no sense is why so many are assuming you would have to upload your videos to edit them. There are so many people saying this with disregard of other posts that have pointed that it is not needed, it makes me wonder if anyone is reading the thread before posting. As a matter of fact, it so obviously wouldn't be feasible to upload all the video content for editing, isn't it rather obvious that such an app (if it were ever made) would keep the processing and video files stored locally?

kimble3 said:
Clearly iMovie on the web would not require you to upload your video in order to edit it. My first reaction was to unilaterally reject the story as well because of this. But when I stop and think about it you may not have to upload your video files in order to edit them.

With new web technologies I imagine it is possible to create a web application that works with video files stored on your local system. You wouldn't have to upload anything unless you want to share it publicly ala YouTube. Whether or not having a web application for editing video is very useful is a whole different discussion but I think it is doable...
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Exactly.
 
kimble3 said:
Clearly iMovie on the web would not require you to upload your video in order to edit it. My first reaction was to unilaterally reject the story as well because of this. But when I stop and think about it you may not have to upload your video files in order to edit them.

With new web technologies I imagine it is possible to create a web application that works with video files stored on your local system. You wouldn't have to upload anything unless you want to share it publicly ala YouTube. Whether or not having a web application for editing video is very useful is a whole different discussion but I think it is doable...
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Web technologies such as Javascript are totally unsuited to processing video files. This is one area where you most definitely want to be running native code. For example a Javascript H.264 encoder would be magnitudes slower and use many times the memory of a native one (if it is actually possible to write one.)

The only way of doing this with a web app would be to upload the video to the server and have it perform any actions on the video. Then you could download the result. The other possibility would be to allow native code to be run by the browser but, as Microsoft has seen with ActiveX, this would be an act of lunacy. Plus it wouldn't really be a web app.
 
It's funny how fast some of you get excited. Just relax and stop hyperventilating.

Just because a version of iWork is moving into the cloud doesn't mean Apple isn't also working on the retail version.

Working in the cloud has several advantages and I believe Microsoft is also working on this or at the very least experimenting with it. Cloud applications will be part of the future of computing but they won't replace how we currently use computers. I believe that Cloud applications will mostly be a convenience to mobile professionals or simply those who are constantly on the move. The a majority of us will stick to the standard disk installed applications.

I believe even Adobe has a cloud version of Photoshop now. I believe it's a pretty stripped down version but it's still in the cloud.

It's not only Apple who is reaching into this market.
 
yg17 said:
They can barely get web-based e-mail and calendars right....I can see a web based iMovie sucking really, really hard.
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I completely agree. Maybe what will really happen is much better MobileMe integration with iLife. Maybe this is what apple meant when they said they would make mobile me into something they could be proud of. Either way macworld is very soon so well find out.
 
the vj said:
I believe Steve Jobs is dying and this other dude is taking his place because EVERYTHING in Apple is torning into sucking money and NONE progress.

Apple is creating the ****iest computers ever and is not updating anything while is sucking money from every where and getting cheap on features, that is not Steve Jobs work.

Apple is going down, sooner than later is going to commit a big mistake, you will see.
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Yes, and the whole world is coming to an end as well :p
 
kimble3 said:
Clearly iMovie on the web would not require you to upload your video in order to edit it. My first reaction was to unilaterally reject the story as well because of this. But when I stop and think about it you may not have to upload your video files in order to edit them.

With new web technologies I imagine it is possible to create a web application that works with video files stored on your local system. You wouldn't have to upload anything unless you want to share it publicly ala YouTube. Whether or not having a web application for editing video is very useful is a whole different discussion but I think it is doable...
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Agreed. I think this is the direction that Apple is heading. Done right, the end user might not even notice the difference between a webapp and an application running locally.
 
czachorski said:
That's what I was thinking too. There could be something very neat brewing.
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Perish the thought. Apple must be in the process of doing something really, really stupid -- because, as we know, they're a really, really stupid company that only makes products we hate. Or so according this thread.

And so it goes.
 
I don't think Apple will be moving towards the Google Docs style "cloud-based" document editing.
But, I can imagine our iDisk being more easily, seemingly, accessible for apps in the iLife / iWork suite documents than it is now.

Maybe something like a sync-to-iDisk (MobleMe) extra for iWork '09 and/or iLife '09 docs inside the app, or something even easier to use... i.e. "offline" (thus on your HD) editing, but online storage for the iAccessAnywhere™...

Of course a with an HD camera shot 15 mins of holiday movie won't be synced to your iDisk, or any other place in the cloud for that matter. But I wouldn't mind being able to access my docs on my Mac Pro @ home, MacBook Pro @ home and work, iPhone, and hopefully MacBook Air abroad.

I just hope it will be an extra, an option.... not the default.
 
Editing movies from a web site would be completely stupid. Having the ability to place edited movies into the cloud may be useful.
 
Not going to happen. This makes no more sense than putting iDVD in the cloud. I think many people are overestimating what the internet can do at this time. It's pretty darn powerful, but not that powerful.
 
ltldrummerboy said:
I think many people are overestimating what the internet can do at this time. It's pretty darn powerful, but not that powerful.
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QFT. Look at YouTube's HD viewing option. My full 8Meg broadband speeds can't even load their HD videos without stalling.
 
This whole "cloud computing" is nothing but a bunch of smoke. Too many issues to consider hardware, network bandwith, privacy, monthly fees, etc.. Just to name a few. Back in the day Mainframes + Dummy Terminals then came Desktop Computing and now with this Cloud Computing lets jump on the bandwagon mumbo jumbo is a throwback to the Mainframe Dummy Terminal era.

Can't wait till it all goes up in smoke. The brightside it'll put a nice dent in Microsofts pocket trying to move every app into the cloud as for Apple I'm hoping they steer clear of this mess.
 
LOL...

Just imagine, someone takes home a new Mini, tries to launch "iMovie" - says it cannot connect to the Internet (user doesn't have a connection).

Then, tries to hook up DV camcorder to the computer - can't - no Firewire... :eek:

:D
 
So does this mean I'd have to shell out $100/month for Mobile Me if all I want to do it use iMovie? Um, thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick with iMovie 06, if you don't mind. I also don't want to have to have a connection to edit; I do some editing on the road anyways. And why would I want to watch videos on my iPod Touch? Maybe once they're done I would, but they'll be exported by then anyways, so it won't really matter....
 
IPhone support would be nice if Safari would get fixed. Still crashes to much!

IJ Reilly said:
Best comment yet. ;)

This thread is yet another example of induced mass hysteria. The rumor does not imply that Apple will be abandoning the Mac-based version of iMovie or any other application.
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Well that is how I took it! Granted I use none of the "I" apps so I'm not to concerned one way or the other. I do however like iPhone & Mobile me sync of iCal and the address book. In fact the link between me and the iPhone is one of the better features of the device.
These rumors do add up to something potentially big, like a Grande iPod touch with advanced support for applications via the net.
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I prefer iPod Touch Maxi myself. A Grande is to much like a burrito. In any event I'm not a big fan of net connected apps, there are just to many times I find myself with out Internet access even with iPhone. Even somthing like evernote becomes a problem if files aren't stored locally.

Let's face this reality too, iPhone isn't all that fast over 3G or WiFi! A new device isn't going to do much for 3G speeds either. If Apple is smart what they are working on is hopefully local apps with smart web sync. That would indeed be a nice feature.
If this happens, everybody will be falling all over themselves to tell us how cool it is. So why the massive freak out now?
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Hey I'd be the last guy to call web apps cool. As to an iPod Touch/iPhone Maxi well that might happen for nothing more than the larger screen. Seriously though Safari on iPhone right now is no place to run apps. That doesn't even include the transient connection issues.


Dave
 
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