Some good news out of Apple recently for vloggers who happen to have Macs – iMovie (Apple’s video editing software) has recently gotten an upgrade and a makeover.

A few of the better enhancements are highlighted below:

• “Super-fast movie creation,” as they call it, allows you to skim easily through a video at various speeds, forward or backward, starting in various places.
• When you find something from your footage you want to use, you simply select the footage in the same way you would select text. Then you simply paste that into a movie making frame.
• The default setting for the thumbnails under the main video pane is broken up into sections according to when you started and stopped recording. However you also have the ability to dig down into each section of each video and see clips broken up into thumbnails for every 10 seconds, every five seconds, or even more detailed.
• Nice title templates.
• Can publish directly to YouTube right from the iMovie interface.
• A new video library.

The new iMovie is part of the the iLife package, which includes other programs such as their photo and audio editing software. For those who already own a Mac, the iLife ’08 package is available for a suggested retail price of $79. All new Macs will come with the software included.

To see the features in action, check out the video below. To get to the nitty-gritty and bypass the very basics, like uploading a video, etc. – skip ahead to the point in the video where there is approximately 6 minutes left (about 1/3 of the way in).

LINKS:

The Apple iMovie Homepage

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