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Users can make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fun, feature-rich video editing app designed for Multi-Touch. Create a video postcard of your day at the beach and publish it to the web — without ever leaving your spot in the sand. Or make a movie of your child’s birthday party and send it to your parents — while the party is in full swing. With iMovie, you can start several projects and finish them whenever you want and wherever you are.
Made for Multi-Touch.
• Tap to add or record video right into your project.
• Drag to trim the lengths of video clips and photos.
• Swipe to split video clips.
• Pinch to zoom the timeline and get a closer look.
Give it a theme.
• Choose from a selection of themes including Modern, Bright, Travel, Playful, and News.
• Each theme includes a matching set of titles and transitions – plus its own soundtrack.
• Instantly change themes or swap themed elements in your project.
• Titles and graphics automatically update with location data from your video.
Add music and photos.
• Select from included music that matches each iMovie theme, or select from your own song library.
• Switch on the audio for video clips and iMovie automatically lowers the volume of background music.
• Add photos from your own library, or take a picture and drop it into your project.
• Customize each photo with a unique “Ken Burns” panning effect.
Share your movie.
• Export your movie in one of three sizes: medium, large, or HD.
• Share your movie on the web in a MobileMe Gallery or on YouTube.
• Send your movie to friends and family in an email or via an MMS message on iPhone 4.
• Easily sync your movie back to your computer.
What’s New In Version 1.1
• Compatible with iPod touch (4th generation).
• Ability to split video clips.
• Automatic music looping when video extends beyond music track.
• Scrub to preview clips in Video Browser.
• In-app Tips page that illustrates how to use key features.
• Updated Photos Browser with newest images at top.
• Mute badge to indicate video clips with audio disabled.
• Additional performance and reliability improvements.
More info and download link here.
Yes, this looks like a good update. I hated that you couldn’t split the clips to add transitions at various times.
Good one.
Wait… You have to pay for it again? Nothing is coming up under Updates, and the Buy button is active on the app page (doesn’t say “installed” even though it is?)
Now wait a minute. If iMovie works on the iPod touch with half the RAM as the iPhone, then it should also work on the iPad now, which has the same amount of RAM and same processor as the iPod touch. Right? And yes, I know the iPad has no camera, but theoretically……..
@ Gary
No it’s free. Does it say “Buy” on the app store on the phone or in iTunes?
Was this a “self-updating” update?
@ Synthmeister
“Requires iOS 4.1 or later.”
Mr Kruser: No
@ Synthmeister
It is widely believed the new iPod touch has 512 megs of memory, just like the iPhone 4. That is why it can run iMovie. I expect that the iPad will either get a quiet upgrade this fall or the change to 512 will take place in the winter/spring as part of a product refresh.
@ Ralph M. According to iFixIt teardown A4 chip on new iPod Touch is same as iPad not the iPhone 4 which would indicate 256Mb rather than 512Mb.
@ Synthmeister and Ralph M
I don’t think RAM has anything to do with it. Also, this AppleInsider article says the iPod touch has 256mb of RAM
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/08/teardown_of_apples_4th_gen_ipod_touch_finds_256mb_of_ram.html
The reason there is no iMovie for iPad is very simple, and you said it. iPad has no video camera. You’d have to import a video shot on some other device through your computer onto the iPad, just to edit it.
this was also the lowest-end ipod touch. Chances are, the mid and high-range ipods will have more ram. Apple is known for gimping the lowest-end product (no dedicated video card on 13″ MBP etc)
@Urlow
This logic doesn’t apply to iDevices at all. The basic performance stuff is always the same across all models of a generation.
And I find the comparison to the 320M rather insulting (as I’m getting one). It’s a $1200 notebook (1000 for the non-Pro). For that price you’ll only find a RECENT dedicated GPU on the Alienware x11 or whatever it is called, which sacrifices CPU for GPU and is kinda a netbook).
You also forgot to mention that among the memory-sharing GPUs, the 320M is (according to Nvidia) top-of-the-line. 80% increase over my 9400M? Hell yes.