I started with iMovie '08. So many people say that iMovie HD 6 is way better. But i dont know why. What are the differences, and why do you advice me to take iMovie HD 6, iMovie '08, iMovie '09, the newest version or another program to make your movies good and easy? And secondly, how can i download iMovie HD 6 on my computer if i prefer to have that? At this moment, i still think that iMovie '08 is good enough, and that iMovie '09 is even better! I hope you guys will help me solving this problem, and sorry for my bad english, cuz i'm only 15 years old and dutch.

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nero.

I’m all for making things easier, but dumbing a program down to the point where it’s useless for people who know what they’re doing is silly.

They should at least have an option to work with a timeline!

Bah. Guess I’ll have to wait until I get home and can use Final Cut. Apple just f&#%ed up my day.

@istara: Removing the audio from the clips is easy – at the start of each clip, there are three boxes in the top left hand corner – one for video effects (changing the brightness, saturation etc), one for cropping the video, and the final one is for sound. From there you can reduce or boost the volume of the clip, reduce sound for all other tracks to a certain volume while its playing (ducking, which probably makes more sense to you than me), and all the other stuff. All you need to do is drag the volume to 0% in the clip to make it silent. May be kinda counterintuitive to some people, but it made sense to me.

@Mike Cohen: The transitions are on the right hand edge of the window, under the preview window. It’s the box on the end with the four sections, next to the text button.

@Christopher: As above, all the transitions, text, audio and photo overlay etc. are on the right hand edge of the window. While it’s true there aren’t any video “effects” so to speak (i.e. presets for sepia, black and white, glowing, negatives, whatever), a lot can be done by editing the video effects in the clips themselves (again, the first box in the top left corner of every clip). I would try those out before completely abandoning it.

I guess that I’m the market that Apple has been aiming at – while I could USE iMovie before, I definitely didn’t find it as easy as I do now. Depending on your perspective, you could easily either call me an idiot/simpleton, or the guinea pig, or a quick adapter. It doesn’t matter, really. All the functionality which you REALLY need (as in, the core basics) are all there. For relatively precise editing, you can change the view so that every clip is split into half second segments (and so every section that you skim is essentially 1/2 a frame or a frame) – do you really need to be more precise than that? For actual editing of the video like that, at the start and end of each clip there’s a button with two arrows on it – pressing that selects the video in an orange box, and dragging the handles on each end will add or subtract frames… simple, effective and precise. I didn’t need to read the manual for any of this, it just made sense, really.

What you really need to understand is that the timeline is still there. The difference is that instead of adding clips TO the timeline, the video clips BECOME the timeline.

Hope this helped.

I know this is an old post, but anyone have any tips? I’d be interested as well

Brent