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Apple iMovie is the name of a video editing software that allows users to edit their own videos on their home computers or directly on the camera. It has been available since 1999 to Apple and Mac users. Since the release of version 3, iMovie has been the only Mac OS X application that is available as a bundle in the iLife suite of Macintosh applications. The Firewire interface makes it possible for iMovie to import video footage on most digital video movie cameras. Then the user can edit clips, and add titles and/or music. They can also make corrections to the colour and use transitions such as fade in and fade out.
There are four versions of Apple iMovie – iMovie 4, iMovie HD 5, iMovie HD 6 and iMovie’08. Although each of these has distinct features there are similarities in all of them. They offer full screen previewing, sample sound effects, voice over narration capabilities, the ability to create still frames from the video, the ability to extract audio from clips and transitions.
Features of iMovie 4:
- Direct trimming of video in the timeline
- Snapping sync for video and the ability to listen to audio while editing
- The ability to select multiple chips and import them directly from iSight.
Features of iMovie HD 5:
- Full support for HDTV
- Integration with the rest of iLife
- Toolbox buttons that permit the importing of images from iPhoto
- Magic Movie through which the whole video editing process can be automated
Features of iMovie HD 6:
- Themes
- Real time effects
- Real time titles
- Enhanced audio effects
- Video podcasts and blogs
Features of Imovie’08:
- More HD formats
- Redesigned interface with iPhoto library
- Skimming ability of video library
- Highlighting of video clips
- Adding multiple layers of music and sound
- Direct export to Youtube