iMovie really, really, really...sucks.

[silvarios]

M A V I C wrote:
And the later admitted you didn't even know the name for the technology you were referring to.

I didn't because it's not true. There was at least one other post that pointed out what you were saying wasn't true.

A momentary lapse of memory regarding a tech term, with credit given to those who posted the term, means what? Honesty and good manners in an open exchange? That's what I was going for.

Who disagreed? Look again what decay, Doc, ztirffritz, Silencio, and possibly others posted. Tying yourself into Exchange (setting your computer or phone to get your email via IMAP from an Exchange server, is not the same thing) gives IT control of your device. Disagree with me all you want, but realize that your problem with the technology's reach should be directed to MS, Apple, and other implementors of ActiveSync. Because you don't believe it to be true doesn't mean squat. I'm sorry if that offends you.

I'm trying to be civil. Seriously, PM me or reply to the relevant topic. Stop crapping all over this thread.


Nathan

[stephen]

Wow, there's a bit of history. I was so excited about the VideoSpigot.

I've never bothered to spend enough time with the recent iMovies to learn them, but I'm disappointed at how non-intuitive it seems to be at a glance.

[Mini 9]

I agree that the current iMovie sucks.
That is all.

[wowzer]

Gee....I didn't realize that I'd start the third world war BEFORE North Korea.

I'm glad that several folks found iMovie as non-Mac-like in interface as I did. Who'd have thought that SAVE AS would be gone? It's the hallmark of Mac interface from the 1980's. Google didn't reveal the answer.

[Jimmypoo]

I see it is time for ANOTHER Dale Carnegie course.

[Article Accelerator]

wowzer wrote:
I'm glad that several folks found iMovie as non-Mac-like in interface as I did. Who'd have thought that SAVE AS would be gone? It's the hallmark of Mac interface from the 1980's.

Yes, it's not the traditional Mac way.

I think the idea was to make iMovie as simple, direct, and efficient as possible. To work with it, you'll need to drop old habits and preconceptions:

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...msg-338620
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...msg-744960
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imo...stone.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/132477/2...o2504.html

[Sam3]

Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=wowzer]
I'm glad that several folks found iMovie as non-Mac-like in interface as I did. Who'd have thought that SAVE AS would be gone? It's the hallmark of Mac interface from the 1980's.

Yes, it's not the traditional Mac way.

I think the idea was to make iMovie as simple, direct, and efficient as possible. To work with it, you'll need to drop old habits and preconceptions:

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...msg-338620
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...msg-744960
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imo...stone.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/132477/2...o2504.html
But that's a very Microsoftian thing to do. Not Apple-like. Microsoft expects everyone to learn a new OS with every OS release, and now the same thing with Office. Learning Office 2007/2010 has a steep curve. It's completely different than 2003/XP/1997. Even after taking classes there are things that I can't find in the newer versions that I could do in the older versions.

Even during the transition to OS X from OS 9, Apple tried minimizing the uniqueness of OS X by allowing OS 9 methods of doing things.

[Article Accelerator]

I don't disagree with you, but when iMovie '08 was introduced, Randy Ubillos, Apple's lead video software designer, took a clean slate approach to the easiest and most efficient way to do video editing. Some people (read my links above) feel that he succeeded.

http://www.unlockingimovie.com/2009/01/w...randy.html

[Jerry®]

I agree with the OP.

When they revamped iMovie after iMovie HD I was excited to try it out - so i did and found it to be the worst piece of crap I'd ever worked with. It was difficult to understand - it had this new "Event" workflow you were supposed to just get - it had less title and transition effects - you couldn't tweak the audio for custom fades, etc - I could go on and on.

iMovie HD is the best. When I first go into making little homemade movies I quickly grasped how iMovie was supposed to work - you have a big box that shows you a preview of your footage with boxes on the right showing your various clips. You dragged and dropped clips to the timeline - hi-lighted whichever one you wanted to add an effect to or transition from - you could simply rearrange clips by dragging and dropping them like icons on your dock - etc -etc.

Now in iMove Sucks 08-11, you have Events and Libraries and timelines that resembled sentences with hard returns snaked in a cramped interface. You're supposed to choose segments from your footage by dragging a box around it - all the while almost guessing it's what you wanted to select because there is no larger preview of what you're doing. Then just try and figure out how to split a segment and add any effects (which have been scaled down - or more like dumbed down) while still trying to keep everything flowing correctly in this odd snaked mini footage view. And don't even try and work with the audio.

They've seriously taken a huge leap backward with iMovie Sucks 08-11 and its counter intuitive layout and event timelines and boring transitions, titles and effects. IMO it has none of the ease and power of iMovie HD. Luckily I still have iMovie HD and still use it today. I hope Apple will someday figure out that their reinvention of iMovie really is a complete and utter piece of clunky, confusing, wanting to be elegant piece of wet crap.

Thank you.