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iMovie 3.0: Coming to a Mac Near You - Soon
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
August 14th 2002
AltiVec, Jaguar enhancements for the movie-making iApp.
iMovie 3.0 is due to be released in weeks, rather than months according rumor site
MacOS Rumors.
The story predicts iMovie 3.0 could be available within six weeks, rather than in
several months. Like iTunes 3.0, it will be for OS X only and will receive a slww of
new GUI enhancements and improvements to its performance.
Under the hood, iMovie 3.0 has apparently been extensively rewritten to take greater
advantage of AltiVec instructions in the G4 chip, as well as OS X.2. With Apple taking
the first step to dual processors across the pro Power Mac line yesterday, this may
signal a future shift to DP in consumer models, particularly as Apple continues to lag
behind its x86 competitors in individual processor clock speed.
One major change expected is iMovie''s ability to deal with file sizes larger than
2.0GB, a hangup of many older applications [being a Final Cut user, I never knew this
was a limitation of iMovie, not having worked with large clips in the app]. Currently,
the 2.0GB file size limits movies to around 9 minutes.
Analysis: With no update for iMovie for some time, and Apple''s expanding DVD-R range
of Macs, iMovie needs a face lift. A mini-Final Cut Pro for consumer Macs is just what
DVD-R eMacs and iMacs need. iMovie was always head and shoulders above the PC crowd''s
movie apps, but an expansion of its capabilities would be a major improvement. I''d
like to see the ability to import non-DV QuickTime clips to edit and send to iDVD.
There''s a lot of analog footage out there, and exporting to DV for use in iMove is
far too slow. Burning non-DV footage to DVD - despite its inferior quality - would be
a real bonus for home movie makers.
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