Daniel Eran Dilger
According to a report by Jeff Carlson of Tidbits, "sources within Apple" have reportedly noted that the new $4.99 mobile iMovie for iPhone requires the faster A4 processor in iPhone 4, but will not work on the A4-equipped iPad, at least not at the app's launch next to iPhone 4 on June 24.
Carlson wrote, "I suspect the app is tailored to the iPhone 4's higher-density screen, and therefore wouldn't work within the iPad's pixel-doubled compatibility mode," but Apple is likely to support high resolution iPhone 4 apps as running at their native resolution on iPad, where they consume exactly the same real estate on the screen as a pixel doubled iOS app designed for earlier iPhone models.
More likely, iMovie for iPhone won't work on iPad right out of the gate because it takes advantage of operating system features within iOS 4, which won't be supported on iPad until later this fall.
Carlson also reported that iMovie projects won't transfer to the desktop version of iMovie for additional editing, although the movies it renders are in standard formats that could be imported into a desktop project. Movies can also be directly exported to YouTube, MobileMe galleries, emailed or sent as an MMS message, in Medium 640x360, Large 960x540 or HD 1280x720 formats.
The mobile app uses videos from the standard iPhone 4 camera roll, so it appears that externally shot video could be used as long as it conforms to the same standard formats for video shot by the iPhone 4 front and rear cameras.
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Obviously, the iPad ain't got a camera. Duh!
Obviously, the iPad ain't got a camera. Duh!
How should that effect its ability to edit video, it only effects the iPad's ability to capture video.
Makes you wonder if Apple will ever bother with a camera on the back, given the nature of the iPad and just put a forward facing one in for round 2?
Considering that the iPad has a bigger screen, I'd expect a more complex version of iMovie for $10-15. I wouldn't want the same iMovie as the iPhone.
No surprise here -- maybe when iOS 4 is available. It really does not make a whole lot of sense, the idea as touted at the demo was to use iMovie and the camera together for a way to do turn key projects. Without a camera it does not really work. Maybe when they put a camera in the next iPad...
It makes more sense for Apple to develop this into a robust app on the iPhone first, based on the device's projected sales. The iPad is small potatoes at this time, relative to iPhone sales.
Without a doubt, Apple will offer an iPad version of iMovie in time. Maybe when there's a camera in a future version of the hardware.