Making The Impossible Possible

[Vincent Ferrari]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/01/imovie-09-high-definition-fail/' target='_blank'>http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/0...efinition-fail/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Maybe it seems a bit nitpicky, but it's bothersome that such a basic thing should be impossible. What is a guy to do if he doesn't want his wedding footage to be shrunk, cropped, or needlessly re-encoded? I'll tell you: get a PC. Because that's where I'm doing all my editing from now on after this debacle. iMovie and its picky formatting, its weirdo interface, and its crappy transitions can go straight back to Cupertino."</em></p><p><img height="383" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1235996367.usr18053.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" width="324" /></p><p>I don't know.&nbsp; Seems to work just fine for me (see my unretouched screengrab above).&nbsp; Had he complained about the broken deinterlacer built into iMovie '09, he might have had a point, but for someone who calls something "literally impossible" it must be embarrassing to be shown up by commenters who call him ignorant for turning on the scaling options in QuickTime when exporting something that's already in the proper proportions.</p><p>And finally, Mr. Coldewey says iMovie '09 "kicks 720p to the curb."&nbsp; Well, no, it doesn't.&nbsp; Actually the Share Movie function <strong>never</strong> had 720p.&nbsp; You may wonder why.&nbsp; Well, originally, the AppleTV didn't support 720p.&nbsp; Yes, Apple hasn't updated that export function since it was introduced in iMovie '08 (maybe he should downgrade and see for himself) and they probably should, but at least they give you other ways to export your movies directly.&nbsp; Frankly, if something like this matters that much to you, you'd probably want the extra control QuickTime offers over a generic format for YouTube, MobileMe, and the iPod.</p><p>This article is a perfect example of a tech writer starting with a premise and then pulling together everything possible to back it up, but instead proving only that they know very little about what they're writing about.</p>

[paris18m]

The article almost got me scared there :)

i have spend most of my weekend playing and learning imovie trough the tutorials apple has on the web. Its amazing how easy and straight forward you can do things.

Being a heavy windows user myself, for over 15 years shall i say, it is some times hard to understand how simple and to the point things are with the mac. its ironic however if you are used on handling photos at the file level, in windows, and try it on the mac you might get dissaointed unless you try and do it properly throught the apropriate app, then you forget the file system and its just pictures that you can play with on your finger tips. the same happens for music, movies and even the way you manage applications on the mac, its briliant its eisier its smarter! you just need to let yourself think beyond what you just got used to from the windows world.

[Macguy59]

It reminds me of some of the Vista FUD.