I just purchased iMovie 11, I mean, it was pretty cheap in the new Apple App Store where you could buy it for $14.99, so I figured risk was minimal.
Now, lets see what new features and performance we find.
I’ll just update this as we go along.
OK, installation completed with not a finger lifted after I clicked the buy button in the app store. The App “flew” down to the dock (task bar area for you curious Windows users) and that’s the last I heard of it until I fired it up.
The App launched, and looked for new videos in my iPhoto library. Then it asked to generate thumbnails. OK, this we did, a process that always takes a while since we’re actually rendering tiny versions of all the video found in the iPhoto library.
Now I’m going to cut right to the chase on why I bought iMovie 11 and why I’m pleased with the result. As y’all prolly knowwww, iMovie and iPhoto like to gobble up all your files and stick them inside a volume “library” that isn’t too friendly about being invaded by finder or other processes, but I like to manage my files in multiple directories and multiple drives. My iPhoto is set to not import, but to reference files in their original locations, but iMovie was always “set on kill” for that idea. Anything to be used in iMovie had to be copied or moved into its stores.
I hate that.
No more. iMovie picked up all my external video files from iPhoto and now shows them in the iPhoto event library.
Cool. I’m much more likely to use iMovie now that I can keep files where I want.
Other features have been well covered- I’ll post about them here too, but for now, I’ll publish, so check back for more if my impressions and mini-reviews of iMovie 11.
