“I’ve heard from reliable sources that Apple will offer a significant update to iMovie at next week’s Macworld. It will largely focus on Internet video in the Cloud for the YouTube generation,” Seth Weintraub reports for Computerworld.
“I’ve heard that iMovie will largely (if not entirely) be a Web Application and Apple would offer its users the ability to ‘upload your movies to us and edit them there,'” Weintraub reports.
“I am not certain if this means that iMovie is now entirely a Web Application or if Apple is offering a “Cloud” component to its iMovie application,” Weintraub reports. “iMovie in the Cloud would also offer users the ability to easily view their movies on iPod Touches or iPhones. If the application is entirely Web based, it means that potential customers include the ‘other 90%’ of users who use Windows.”
MacDailyNews Take: Make that 88.68% and dropping, buddy.
Weintraub continues, “Apple is largely believed (by me at least) to be moving its iWork applications to the Cloud as well. This would tie in nicely with the new iMovie’s Web Applications. Imagine editing a movie in iMovie online then importing it into a Keynote presentation online. This would be a great feature.”
Full article here.
“MacDailyNews Take: Make that 88.68% and dropping, buddy.”
Whew, there for a minute I thought MD was talking about APPL stock price…
So after the MobileMe fiasco Apple would expect us to trust them with editing ? I think not. And what company would trust office productivity software to ‘the cloud’ ? If Apple’s servers were down, or an internet connection, then what would office workers do ? I do not see this happening.
Wouldn’t it take HOURS to upload movie source files for use in the editing process, even at broadband speeds? This seems unrealistic. Uploading the final results for sharing “in the cloud” seems realistic, and an extension features that already exist.
> Apple is largely believed (by me at least) to be moving its iWork applications to the Cloud
Weintraub’s definition of “largely” is at least one person.
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how can I edit my 16 gig dv home movies over the web through a cloud server?
I wonder if Microsoft has an alarm which sounds whenever the market share drops below 90%. I wonder if the Zune-2K bug stopped it from sounding.
Placement of these applications in the “cloud” deo make sense if it is being done to allow their use by “small processor, RAM, memory machines” like the iPhone and potential host of variants, larger and smaller.
deo, deo, …does
how can I edit my 16 gig dv home movies over the web through a cloud server?
And how can I edit my 30GB per hour Hi-Def video online??? Of all applications, iMovie is probably the last candidate to be deployed as a ‘cloud’ app. I can’t possibly imagine how this would work.
Either I’m not thinking laterally and am stuck in the 20th century mindframe, or the writer of this article has no clue about technology.
hope iWork09 went 64bit to match up with snow leopard.
megame has it right, and iMovie in the clouds is absurd *given* today’s paltry bandwidth. I just finished a 45 min HD DVD that involved 75 GB of working .MOV files to render a final 2 GB DVD.
Buying the bandwidth to move those files around easily would be more expensive than buying FCP !!
“This would be a great feature.”
Yeah, right. Just uploading a 1-hour DV movie (~13GB) would take like 7 hours at a typical upstream speed of 512kbps. Then once you’ve edited it into a 1-hour DVD (~4GB), add another hour to download it (at 2mbps, if the servers can take the load).
Only an idiot would think this is a great feature. It ain’t gonna happen to iMovie.
Hmm – I don’t buy it. Too much data transfer would be required. Hosting video on mac servers would be feasible but you can do that already with iWeb.
There is no way iMovie would be web only, even if you end up with short little clips for youtube or something, often there will be large files of video to encode and trim, Apple won’t want to have to process it all and we won’t want to upload it. Some web based addition might be good, but it won’t take over completely.
After Apple’s fiasco with MobileMe — which is still unreliable to this day — does ANYBODY out there trust Apple with cloud computing? I certainly don’t. Apple can take cloud computing and shove it.
Oh yeah?
Tonight’s upload speed is 345k – just right for movie files, not.
Besides which Mobile me is hardly reliable, even now.
The app I would love to see in the “cloud” is iWeb.
This is about the worst possible idea I have heard re Apple in a long time. I doubt it is true. Barring the shear magnitude of data transfer that would be involved, not all of us care a damn about youtube or posting video online. Some of us, even have serious security concerns about uploading client video and documents for cloud computing/editing.
Guys, about those DVD’s after reducing them down to youtube quality they’ll probably hit about 300-400meg big for your average h.264 1hr-1:30hr film. Its a lot more palatable at that size, I think that I’ve been upload videos to youtube at about 700meg lately so it seems an alright kinda time span.
still, will be interesting to see what they do. I’m hoping to see the new iPhoto the last update was great, I love the events features.
Won’t be any good for the zillions of amateur pr0n “artists” the world over, though I hardly think Mac users are interested in THAT sort of thing.
As far as I’m concerned, every firm promoting “cloud computing” can shove it.
“Cloud computing” offers little, if any, benefit to most anyone… except those promoting it as a “solution” to a supposed “problem.” The “cloud computing” solution providers will reap tremendous “benefits.”
“Cloud computing” advocacy reminds me of how a certain mouthwash company advocated a “solution” for the problem of “halitosis.”
I’ll tell Apple they can go F- themselves with iLife and iWork, if it all goes cloud based. Dumb down my applications, so non-Apple customers can use them. NO WAY! Fine, provide a could alternative. But jezzz!
I agree with ken1w. How can one person be “largely”? Large, sure. I’m one large person, but i’m not largely.
And shouldn’t it be “widely” anyway?
Apple should ship 20 000km long Firewire cable with MobileMe subscription. No, wait. I’ll just keep using my external HDD and desktop apps. But if iWork becomes part of MobileMe, 79€ suddenly doesn’t sound so bad. But I would rather have native iPhone app.
As long as we’re gonna rumor the impossible:
Final Cut Studio will go into the Cloud at MW as well.
Imagine producing HD films over the Internet with that baby.
You heard it here first!
All these cloud apps. Anyone know the one thing that will kill all of them quicker than a teenager whacking off to Angelina Jolie?
Metered Bandwidth Charges. Yep! You heard it here. We already know Time Warner and the other telecoms have pilot programs where they meter peoples bandwidth. This isn’t going away anytime soon.