Apple has released iMovie HD 6, which was previously distributed with iLife ’06, as a free download for those who have purchased and installed iLife ’08.
The minimum requirements for iMovie HD 6 are:
• A Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G4, G5, or Intel Core processor
• 256 MB of RAM; 512 MB recommended
• High definition video requires a 1 GHz G4 processor or faster and 512 MB of RAM
• Mac OS X 10.3.9 or Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later; Mac OS X 10.4.4 recommended
• Mac OS X 10.4.4 (or later) required for themes, real-time video effects, and audio effects
• iLife ’08
More info and download link (154.6 MB) here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Michael” and “neo” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: Yesterday we reported that Apple’s new iMovie application lacks support for G4 Macs, so this helps G4 Mac owners who’d like the rest of iLife ’08 (iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, iWeb).
earlier sentence should have read…
” iLife 08 install already puts iMovie 06 into a folder in your applications folder and saves it.”
I’m a student with an iBook G4 and i must say that i am disappointed with the lack of imovie support. Why wouldn’t i be. My computer in 2 years old. The app looks simple and easy to use, and would fit in with what i want in a casual video creator.
I don’t think this is a big request.
I have upgraded my memory to 1.5 GB and i plan on upgrading to leopard and plan to have my comp for another year or possibly 2. I’d rather not buy a new comp every 2 years. Some people just don’t have the money or what to hurt the environment.
@ Willie G. – also, my editing machine is a 20″ iMac, intel core 2 duo.
It’s not about the machine or the compatability with previous software for me. It’s the fact that iMovie 08 is feature poor compared to the software it’s replacing.
Any casual look at the iMovie discussion boards would explain why Apple is releasing iMovie 06 to iLife 08 owners. There is a mammoth backlash brewing there over there about iMovie 08 being a downgrade.
Huh? I am confused.
I am currently using iLife 06 (part of my new MBP).
I just ordered iLife 08 from Apple.com
Doesn’t iLife 08 already contain the new iMovie HD? That is, the same one that Jobs demoed recently? I don’t understand why there is a separate download for it???
Heh….
“iMovie ’08 sucks, and it doesn’t run on G4s!”
“The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small!”
Haven’t used iMovie ’08 and couldn’t really care less about it, but for handling something as data-intensive as video doesn’t it stand to reason that the G4–with the stuck-in-the-1990’s data pipeline–was going to be unable to keep up at some point? There is a reason Apple dropped PPC, after all…
OK sorry. I get it now. The download is for people who do not have fast Macs, or who prefer the old iMovie.
Anyway, iMovie 08 is the REASON (well, the key reason) why I bought iLife 08.
Actually it’s hard to say. I would have gladly paid money for the new iPhoto as well.
It’s just super awesome that Apple is sellling the whole package to us for such an amazing price.
Sure I can download this on the BitTorrent sites but if we don’t support the companies that produce the good stuff, it won’t get produced.
More power to Apple!
Not sure what others are complaining about.
I just love the fast way I can do a new movie with the new iMovie 08.
I guess there are features it might lack (does it?) compared to the old one but I do not have time to spend hours editing home video when my entire family is clamoring to see it.
For more features, heck, you can always go to Final Cut Express.
No apparently those of us who listened to the Megahertz Myth speech and bought our G4 powerboooks and iMac G5s a mere year and a bit ago were completely mistaken. We were supposed to wait until Apple switched to the same hardware as Dell and Gateway so we could switch to arguing that only our OS is better.Apparently the MDN thing only works if you change your machine every time Apple introduces new hardware configuration.The rest of us are simply luddites for listening to Steve when he was still enamoured with Motorola. Oh …I am flameproof so go ahead.
@New iMovie Bad?
“For more features, heck, you can always go to Final Cut Express”
or I can go to iMovie 06.
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To Steve Jobs….
Somebody at apple should check the definition of “upgrade.” A software upgrade maintains full functionality of previous versions so that prior iMoiveProjects can be loaded without loss of content (this include audio, subtitles, transitions and audio level settings, etc.)
Sadly, iMovie ’08 does not contain the functions many of the iMovie HD ’06 users found so valuable and useful to create amazing videos of close-to-cinema-like movie quality that many of us enjoy and made those who watch our movies say “WOW!”
iMovie ’08 has lost that “wow” factor. Apple should change the name to iMovie Lite and do not call this an upgrade. I will continue to use iMovie HD 06 and hope upgrades and fixes will still be forthcoming because at this momement I have no plans to use iMovie ’08 so it is sitting on my harddisk taking up space.
I wish had been a Beta version prior to release so that I could have take an “test drive” to determine if this was something worth purchasing or not.
Apple, please consider giving your audience opportunities to try these “new” functions – and provide valuable feedback – otherwise it will be NO surprise to witness the negative comments and disappointment seen here in this thread as well at other places like blogs and product reviews.
@ Wake
Wake up is more like it. They could have said iLife 08 requiires a G5 or later. THAT’S what MS would do. Then you could not use any of these apps. The truth is they are giving you all 5 apps, just not the latest and greatest of one. Quitcherbitchin.
The biggest reason for the ground up rewrite of iMovie is that it has been simplified so much that it eliminates its use as an editor by serious, low-budget, independent amtuer and pro filmmakers who were using previous versions of iMovie.
Filmmakers who didn’t buy FCE, let alone FC, because iMovie was a simple, satisfactory and extremely affordable video editor.
Personally, I find this situation unfortunate, because it was iMovie that lead me to FC. I had been using iMovie for a couple of years and after seeing an Apple sponsored FC demo at an editing house, I realized iMovie was the starting step to learning FC – because the fundamental timeline approach was nearly identical.
That can’t be said anymore.
I wonder how many beginning (home movie level) filmmakers will find themselves frustrated by iMovie 08’s limitations and not bother to go any further with their video interests because they will presume (wrongly) that “the pro stuff must be impossible to learn.”
@Mark
I understand your position but disagree with you 100%.
“the authors who post MDN Takes are hypocritcal closed-minded people to most things non-Apple and all things Microsoft.”
Hypocritical, maybe, a BIG maybe, but close-minded? Having made an informed choice to use a better product is not close minded. It is called being informed.
All products are not equal and never will be. One product will always be the best, and at this time in history Apple is proving to be the maker of many of these products. This is not just opinion, the numbers don’t create opinion, they create fact. You of all people should know that. For example, most everyone one recognizes that the iPod is the best choice for a music player. Are these people close minded for not liking something by Creative? I say they are informed.
MDN does not make fun or poke fun at every non-Apple product on the planet, they focus on specific (crap) products, and for good reason, they suck when compared to Apple. Simple. Again, you may think it is close-minded but all who follow what MDN has said in the past will see (while it may be harsh at times), it is anything but close-minded.
“Just a lot of hate for competitors and blind allegiance to the mother ship.”
How can you say blind allegiance? This usually makes sense when the “Mother Ship” is actually something negative or bad and going against what everyone wants. Apple is anything but that. Wow, you have Apple stock? Crazy. Who said it is wrong to hate bad products? Hate of a person, is wrong, but why get upset if MDN hates products? I hate some products and I am sure you do as well.
I say MDN is justified and informed not hate filled and close-minded. To act like MDN should “accept all products for who they are on the inside” is just plain stupid! Crap products need to be called out!
Thanks MDN!
MW: “Kind” Thank you MDN for not being kind to the crap products out in the digital world.
No they say it requires a G5 of a certain speed. Very MS of Apple I must say.
@borg
“What’s the matter Apple? Can’t use Xcode to create a universal application?”
Uh…….yes. It runs on G5s moron.
@ nobodi – you said it better than anyone on this thread so far.
@ Jim TIV,
I do agree with you on the point of the lack of separate audio tracks.. though one could simply do their VO and foley in Garageband, export the mix into iTunes, and subsequently have it available as a stereo track for iMovie. If I used iMovie, that would likely be my approach anyway. As it is, I use FCP and have little use for iMovie.
The loss of Mpg – 1 support seems like a strange oversight, and something I would expect to remedied in a software update.
Transitions are still there, and serve the current incarnation fine. If one needs to get more elaborate, than they have outgrown iMovie, and need to move up to FCE or FCP.
Also – the touted feature is not the ability to simply ‘mix down’ a movie in 20 minutes, it is being able to fully create one in that time. In that respect, this new interface has nailed it for the novice user.
That said, I think that the new approach for iMovie was not created for people who use FCP and are accustomed to the more in-depth timeline approach. Instead, this re-write is built for what is a growing new pop-culture niche, amateur video shorts.
Everyone and their dog these days are making little movies and uploading them to the web. Youtube is the most visible example of this, but is by far not the only one. The new iMovie is clearly made with these people in mind. It honestly is the simplest approach to video editing I have ever seen, and someone who comes to this with no editing background will be able to make a fairly decent composition in very little time.
What would have been nice, would have been for iMovie to operate in different modes. Much like the new Pages does, and in a similar fashion to other apps like DVD Studio Pro. A ‘Basic’ mode that utilizes this new approach, and an ‘Advanced’ mode that gives us a timeline and a more robust toolset. I figure that they didn’t do this here, because they have plans for Final Cut Express – an app that Apple hasn’t updated for quite a while – to fill that need.
@Selfish Complaining Whiner w/Head Up My A–
Well said.
imovie 08 is a brand new application. It doesn’t run on G4 because they are not powerful enough. You can buy iLife 08 and get iMovie HD if you want.
@ Willie G
“What would have been nice, would have been for iMovie to operate in different modes. Much like the new Pages does, and in a similar fashion to other apps like DVD Studio Pro. A ‘Basic’ mode that utilizes this new approach, and an ‘Advanced’ mode that gives us a timeline and a more robust toolset.”
Now that’s a good idea. But I’m with you. I think Apple is trying to use this as an entry level movie editing program, and move everyone to FCE or FC.
Remember too, that Apple has set precedent for lowering the price of softwares before. Remeber when DVD Studio Pro 2 as a stand alone cost nearly what the entire Final Cut Studio now costs?
I have a suspicion that when Apple re-tools FCE they may lower the price down from $299 to like $100-$149, and include a layout option that rings reminiscent of iMovie 06 and earlier.
Honestly, many average people I know shy away from making little movies, because even iMovie ’06 had somewhat of a learning curve.
All Apple did with this incarnation was make video editing more accessible. I don’t think they intend to leave the independent filmmaker out in the cold, as an earlier post suggested, merely they are encouraging them to use tools more appropriate to their craft in the form of FCE.
If Apple bridges the gap and nudges down the price, they will accomplish that goal
THE BOTTOM LINE?
With iMovie 8 Apple are producing a ground breaking, easy to use, powerful and demanding app that needs more than a G4 processor.
Every prior version of iMovie is already better than anything available to Windows users whichever processor they choose.
So what IS the problem? Oh I get it, you want to use your hand held hammer to make a noise trying to bang on the hull of the good ship Apple…
Pathetic.
The video scrubbing is great on iMovie8, I’ve not really done anything with it and I don’t know how something like Final Cut would perform on my machine but if this is the sort of performance they can get I’m looking forward to the overall improvements of Leopard.
shaun,
The last PowerBook was sold by Apple stores in April 2006.
Thats a little over a year, not 6 years.
“it’s not like macs only bought 18 months ago won’t work with the new iMovie”
Yes, that’s exactly what it’s like.
Well now it IS family packs for iLife, iWork and Leopard. 400€…