Just before bed tonight I thought I would peruse the new updates that Apple launched today. I know many are not happy that there wasn’t an iPhone nano (useless if you ask me) or something wonderful and fantastic that we didn’t know we need until Steve Jobs tells us we do. Earlier today when they said iLife was being updated I thought I was in no rush to get it. Well, that has all changed.
I just went through the iPhoto and iMovie 09 demo updates and I’m pretty impressed.
I don’t use iPhoto, but the Face recognition sorting and the geotagging abilities are pretty damn cool. (I use Aperture instead). I won’t go into too much detail, but it may be worth checking out because like I said, it is pretty neat.
But I am more excited to get my hands on is iMovie. The last version of iMovie ruffled a lot of feathers, but to be honest with you, with my short attention span I like quick and dirty editing. The simplicity was perfect for me to get that travel video on my blog quickly.
With the new iMovie comes a lot more features. The simplicity of the latest version but a lot of the features that were taken out from the version before that.
One of the features that I’m particularly excited about is the World View. You put in two locations and it will animate a globe with a line that goes from your start to finish point. How cool is that?
You know you can hardly wait to see all my videos with a globe at the beginning?
Apart from the fun stuff, they also added in some editing tools that can be useful to everyone. iMovie will update remove the shake from your video which is a great feature. We’ll see how well it works!
So stay tuned, I’m off on vacation in a couple of weeks and I will be taking some video that will be perfect for all these groovy new iMovie features.
You can see them all plus some videos of them in action at the Apple web site.