Apple iMovie Reviews

Rating
Reviewed by: crazylegs
(Intermediate)

Review Date
June 5, 2002

Overall Rating
4 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
2-5 years

Visitors rate this review
3.33 of 5,
3 votes

Review 1 of 4

Price Paid: $50.00 from UCSC

Summary:

A great nonlinear tool for learning fundementals of basic editing.

Strengths:

Easy to follow tutorial. No extra bells and whistles that distract first time novice editors.

Weaknesses:

Sound. There is an inherant flaw in the program that creates sound pops indiscriminataley throughout the project.

Similar Products Used:

Premiere, Media 100 & Final Cuts Pro

Customer Service:

Good. Apple is great with online Q&A.

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Rating
Reviewed by: FunkyBass
(Intermediate)

Review Date
May 29, 2002

Overall Rating
4 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
2-5 years

Review 2 of 4

Price Paid: $0.00 from free with any Mac

Summary:

Great product for the amateur Video-editor. iMovie2 is a great (free) upgrade. It really took the childhood out of this software.

Strengths:

Easy 2 use Sound addition (as many sound tracks as you want) Connection towards iDVD Price/Quality so there's no need to go stealing software from buddy's...

Weaknesses:

Exporting towards digital files (QT, ...) isn't too clear, you should export towards the camera or VHS.

Similar Products Used:

None

Customer Service:

Never needed...

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Rating
Reviewed by: skyman
(Intermediate)

Review Date
April 14, 2002

Overall Rating
2 of 5

Value Rating
5 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Review 3 of 4

Price Paid: $0.00 from Mac Trade show

Summary:

the camera shop where i work sent me to a mac demo recently that featured amongst other things i movie. it is very simple easy to learn software that is suprisingly powerful but somewhat cumbersome to use.

Strengths:

Easy to learn, very straightforward logical interface.

Weaknesses:

precision in editing is tricky to achieve, so fine tunning your cuts can be painfull

Similar Products Used:

media 100, adobe premier, adobe after fx, final cut pro.

Customer Service:

n/a

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Rating
Reviewed by: berrywise
(Casual)

Review Date
April 13, 2002

Overall Rating
3 of 5

Value Rating
5 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Review 4 of 4

Price Paid: $0.00

Summary:

iMovie is free software on a lot of the newer Apple computers. The learning cuver is extremely fast. You hook up your computer, the software identifies it. You hit import on the clips of the video that you''''d like and then later drag those clips into the timeline in the order you''''d like your video. Same goes for audio, capturing from a mic or cd. You really can outgrow this software quickly if you are looking to make more creative videos though because of the lack of advanced features.

Strengths:

Very easy learning curve

Weaknesses:

Lack of any advanced features

Similar Products Used:

Adobe Premiere

Customer Service:

n/a

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