“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.
They already ruined iMovie anyway, might as well slit its wrists and bury it online.
Ya, I’m bitter.
Premiere Pro FTW!
I am not buying this one. Editing movies stored on a user’s hard drive using clouded iMovie, perhaps. But uploading movies to Apple’s servers and edit them from the user’s end? When I edit something, I like to see what I am editing and I am willing to bet others do too. Even for small things like checking whether the timing of a cut is right. That means the servers will have to keep streaming the same movies over and over without the ability to cache the movie on the user’s end. That may work for small files, but huge data like movies?
The rumor makes more sense if movies are edited on the user’s drive and then uploaded to the cloud.
I remember when I was in school for digital media production, and in the first few classes for video production, we opened up Final Cut Pro.
One of the first things the teacher showed us was setting up our sources. I remember him saying “DO NOT SET UP YOUR SOURCE ON OUR NETWORK DRIVE!!” It would be slow as hell, and could have possibly crashed it with a class of 30 students trying to access the drive.
How would this hold with SD footage, never even mind HD footage?
all these writers have no ethics anymore.
“Apple is largely believed (by me at least) to be moving …”
seth, you just read that on 9 to 5 mac, like all of us, they brought up the rumor so give them credit for it, we don’t care what you believe. you have no inside whatsoever, but they seem to have sources (remember unibody? they brought it up).
this is how he should have been writing this:
“there is a rumor on the internet, that apple will … (this is the information)
to me that makes a lot of sense because…” (and this is the personal opinion)
no journalistic ethics anymore. sad, very sad.
To be honest, even the iWork cloud rumours don’t strike me as being particularly solid.
iWork’s first priority has to be to deliver a more complete user experience, particularly with Numbers: for example, one of the things that would be useful would be the ability to parse XML data structures for use as live data feeds; hell, even the ability to suck data out of a database would be more useful than this nonsense rumour.
I don’t *want* web applications for iWork. I don’t always have a network connection. Having to do my stuff ONLINE is a distraction and an inconvenience.
iWork is not going cloud exclusively. There may be a Pages/Keynote/Numbers cloud version, but the desktop apps will stay. iMovie on the cloud is stupid. Who actually believes that crap? Yeah, have fun uploading 2GB of video files via your DSL connection, especially using the high speed iDisk.
@TB2
My thoughts exactly.
Or is that precisely?
@ nobodi
“As far as I’m concerned, every firm promoting “cloud computing” can shove it.”
The issue here is choice. The consumer needs to be the one to choose how to run an app – standalone, networked LAN or on a Cloud.
I believe that it is not that the Cloud is bad per se (after all the web is a Cloud) but no one want to be FORCED into the Cloud.
but no one wants to be FORCED into the Cloud.
That’s why Jesus gives you a choice!
iBong
Vapooware
iMovie
i Don’t think so
Editing movies with a web-browser sounds like a dumb idea. Video editing programs need the fastest hard-drives, most memory and faster processors you can give them; editing through a web-browser would compromise performance in every way. What would be the advantage of doing this?