iMovie

If youtube is your thing, then imovie alone is the reason why you should cut the crud, stop the excuses and buy a mac. There is nothing on the PC which can touch it. Home movie editing, and with a bit of practice, and the right help files, a video podcast, montage or HD movie could be yours. Its not a big boys editing suite but there is more power under the hood for the owner of a home camcorder or Flip type device than meets the eye with this app.

iMovie is a great movie editing application for home movies. It's not quite powerful enough, though, for more industrial use (like podcasts, etc), at least in my opinion. I plan on upgrading to Final Cut Express in a few months. Still, for most people, iMovie is a great movie editor.

While I did manage to put together a pretty decent video of an event with iMovie, I did find fairly quickly that it was missing some critical features such as being able to adjust the speed of a clip, adjust the volume of individual audio tracks & export in full HD. I think I will be saving up some cash for Final Cut Express for next time.

What a piece of crap!!
The most basic functions like changing the aspect ratio of a clip are too much to ask for. Also the lack of a decent timeline is very annoying!

Simple.

iMovie is so easy to use! I love plugging in my camera through firewire and importing videos to edit. It's so much fun to mess around with all of the neat transitions and title screens!

Really simple i think, pretty easy to use.

Not as good as the old version, which iLife 08 users can download, UI is complex and lack of easy to edit clips and audio makes it hard to use.

iMovie is great

i movie rocks, made my first attempt yesterday and i must say that i was impressed!

it would be good it it supported import from a wide range of file formats, i had to convert a wmv file to mov to get it into imovie

I love what Apple has done with iMovie 09. It is so much better and easier than past versions. And considering it is part of the iLife package it is extremely good value.

iMovie '09's interface totally blew me off, it's easy to use but needs a bit of learning, especially those who uses iMovie HD. Very much improved from previous versions.

Great piece of software, particularly the new '09 version. The new transitions and other effects look really good.

The newest version of iMovie not only runs great on my MBP (Mid-2007) but it also the best version yet. Adding nearly all the features of iMovie HD back into the program, it keeps the simplicity of iMovie 08. They also added in some brand new stuff like the precision editor, custom animated titles, and even video stabilization. The only drawback is that plugin support is nonexistant, so you are stuck with what the program does out of the box. Also a minor complaint that YouTube made it filesize upload limit bigger (presumably for HD material) but iMovie still thinks it's only 100MB. Nothing a simple update won't fix, but still a pain if you make a 8-10 minute video in HD/Half-HD you want to upload. Terrific software and worth it's money in simplicity but powerfulness.

I miss some features from the earlier versions (mainly to do with audio) but it's much simpler to use. Seems to run a bit slow sometimes though.