Apple releases iMovie for iPhone 4 in App Store
The $4.99 application weighs in at 30.6MB and requires a new iPhone 4 running iOS 4. Early reviews have been positive, with most purchasers giving the application five stars.
"Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fun, feature-rich video editing application for iPhone 4," Apple said. "Create a video postcard of your day at the beach and publish it to the web — without ever leaving your spot in the sand. Or make a movie if your child's birthday party and send it to your parents — while the party is in full swing. With iMovie for iPhone, you can start several projects and finish them whenever you want and wherever you want."
Apple introduced iMovie earlier this month, when it debuted the iPhone 4 with its new 720p-capable HD video camera. The software takes advantage of the 5 megapixel lens in the iPhone 4, which is capable of recording high definition video at 30 frames per second.
Though iMovie for iPhone requires the faster A4 processor found in the iPhone, the application will not work on the iPad, which runs the same processor — though half the RAM.
The company also highlighted the following features in its new application:
Made for Multi-Touch.
- Tap to add or record video right into your project.
- Drag to trim the lengths of video clips and photos.
- Pinch to zoom the timeline and get a closer look.
- Slide to scrub through the video in your project.
Give it a theme.
- Choose from a selection of themes including Modern, Bright, Travel, Playful and News.
- Each theme includes a matching set of titles and transitions — plus its own soundtrack.
- Instantly change themes or swap themed elements in your project.
- Titles and graphics automatically update with location data from your video.
Add music and photos.
- Select from included music that matches each iMovie theme, or select from your own song library.
- Enable ducking to automatically lower the volume of background music and highlight audio from video clips.
- Add photos from your own library, or take a picture and drop it into your project.
- Customize each photo with a unique "Ken Burns" panning effect.
Share your movie.
- Export your movie in one of three sizes: Medium, Large, or HD.
- Share your movie on the web in a MobileMe gallery or on YouTube.
- Send your movie to friends and family in an email or via an MMS message.
- Easily sync your movie back to your computer.
20 Comments
I started downloading it last night on my iPhone 4 and it was taking forever so I stopped. Finished up this morning.
Only a 30MB file size but even on my PowerMac G5 it took almost half an hour to finally download it....
Can't wait to play!
Blah. Not interested in a mobile iMovie. Too restrictive. I can't even edit a mobile iMovie in the desktop version. FAIL.
Blah. Not interested in a mobile iMovie. Too restrictive. I can't even edit a mobile iMovie in the desktop version. FAIL.
Ridiculous.
iMovie on your phone, allows you to edit the movies that you record on your phone, on your phone. It's perfect for the task for which is was designed.
As for can't edit on the desktop version, why on earth would you want to do that? If you are going to edit on your desktop anyway, then why even start on the phone? And regardless of the why, you can easily use your recorded movies in desktop iMovie anyway, it's just that it will treat the transitions and effects as part of the video instead of editable elements of the project file. Want to trim down your movies, and cut out bits in order to save space on your phone while you transfer it to the desktop for later editing? Check.
Seriously, it costs half the price of a movie ticket, what do you want, blood?
Blah. Not interested in a mobile iMovie. Too restrictive. I can't even edit a mobile iMovie in the desktop version. FAIL.
I don't think there is a 'mobile iMovie' in the desktop version. There is only iMovie, and it has quite a decent feature set (for a bundled application).
As for the mobile iMovie (the one for the iPhone 4), you should not get it, since it is 'too restrictive'. The rest of us find it incredibly empowering to be able to shoot, edit, post and deliver a movie, complete with credits, transitions, audio, etc. There is no other mobile device like it.
It is just a matter of time before someone decides to actually make a real movie (i.e. shoot the film, do all post-production work and upload to YouTube) using just the iPhone (and the mobile iMovie).
Blah. Not interested in a mobile iMovie. Too restrictive. I can't even edit a mobile iMovie in the desktop version. FAIL.
troll?
imovie desktop is an incredibly powerful and easy program to use. i've used it to create several small very nice home-movie type thingys. not sure what your comment says about your willingness to invest time to learn even the easiest of things.
downloaded the app yesterday and in about 15 minutes i strung together two (720p) video clips and a couple still images and set it all to music. that was just silliness but it seems a nice enough app. doubt it could come close to the feature parity of the desktop version but i'm going to play with it some more today.