Apple has debuted iMovie ’08, its low-end video-editing software, with support for many of the latest AVCHD, HDV and DV camcorders. Unlike its professional-level Final Cut Pro sibling, iMovie ’08 is designed primarily for speed and simplicity.
The completely redesigned video-editing application, a component of Apple’s iLife ’08 ($79) suite, displays the user’s entire video library, whether it’s stored on internal or external drives. Editors can preview any video clip by moving the mouse over the clip to “skim” through it forward or backward at any speed, including faster than real time.
Users select video in the same way as selecting text. Sequences are built by dragging the selected video clip into the project. The software has the capability to add music and narration tracks, as well as superimposed titles.
As with the previous version, Apple supports most MiniDV camcorders that use a FireWire cable. The new version adds many camcorder models that record to flash memory, a hard drive, or DVD media. These random access devices normally use USB 2.0 for connectivity.
Apple said it had tested iMovie ’08 for use on Intel-based Macs with Sony’s HDR-SR1 and HDR-SR7 AVCHD camcorders, both recording to hard drives. Also supported is Panasonic’s HDC-SD1, which records AVCHD video to flash memory. AVCHD DVD camcorders are not supported by iMovie ’08, while many MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 models are.
iMovie has long been used by both professional and student filmmakers for basic presentations. For this reason, there was some criticism that iMovie ’08, which is greatly simplified over the previous version, has lost some features, such as the original timeline view, chapter markers and some audio tools.
To address that criticism, Apple immediately began offering the previous version of iMovie as a free download on its website at www.apple.com.
Comments (3) for "Apple’s iMovie ’08 Handles AVCHD"
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how do you connect and import?
Posted by sonia on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 @ 12:45 PM
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I got the Panasonic HDC-DX1P/PC for Christmas and I have not been able to use imovie to edit my recordings. I bought the new ilife 08 and then when that did not work I bought the new leopard operating system, Will I ever be able to edit my movies using a MAc? THis is really not fun I want to edit my darn movies
Thanks for any Help I can get
Ben
USB connect it has worked on other Macs with Ilife and leopard why not my older iMac all updated?
Posted by Benjamin Shaw on Friday, January 18, 2008 @ 09:46 PM
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As the most popular editing software, [b]iMovie[/b] is always the first choice for Mac users to do some editing to their video files. But what frustrated most of HD camcorder owners is that iMovie can not recognize the AVCHD recordings when HD camcorders are connected to iMovie. This case prevents people from editing these AVCHD recording for better playing and sharing. Now with the help of Brorsoft MTS/MTS Converter for Mac, you can get free from this trouble and do some conversion and editing at ease and at random.
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For the preparation of this conversion, connect your HD camcorders to computer and transfer your MTS/M2TS video recordings to computer hard drive.
Step 1: Load AVCHD video files to this program.
Click the "Add" button at the top of this software to import your AVCHD video files from hard drive to this program. As the feature of easy to use and intuitive, this software allows multiple AVCHD video files to be imported for conversion. So if you would like to join several video files into big one, just tick the checkbox of "Merge into one file" and batch video files will be combined into one automatically for smoothly playing and editing.
Step 2: Choose MOV as the output video format and set the destination folder.
Select MOV as the output video format from the "Format" drop list and specify the folder where you prefer to put your converted videos by clicking the folder pull list after the "Output" button.
Step 3: Start [b]AVCHD to MOV[/b] conversion.
Click the "Convert" button under the preview window and the conversion will be begun.
After a little while, the MOV video file is ready for you to perfect editing on your installed iMovie.
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Posted by wishyou on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 @ 07:56 PM
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