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This minimalism carries over to preferences, too. There are zoom sliders here and there, and a search bar, but the dozens of unlabeled buttons and confusing sections have gone the way of the dodo. The new version of iMovie simplifies the interface without taking away major features.īut that’s it. In another iPhoto/Final Cut-esque move, all possible clip and audio adjustments have now been hidden inside Adjust, while those who care little for green-screen options and color correction can ignore that icon altogether-they can still brighten up their video with one click from the Enhance button, or slow down their video from the new slow-motion scrubber in the timeline. IMovie’s myriad buttons and shiny aluminum textures are all gone, replaced with a few distinct sections: a sidebar for accessing your photos, videos, projects, and content library buttons for importing video, creating new projects, and sharing clips/projects a tab switch between iMovie’s Library screen and iMovie Theater and two editing buttons, Enhance and Adjust. But once you open up a project, it becomes clear that those editing chops are still there. Its initial treatment reminds me far more of iPhoto’s management options than of a piece of video editing software. The first thing you see upon launching the program is a collection of your event clips and a big viewing screen-you don’t even have to make a project if all you want to do is find and share a particular clip.
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But unlike previous versions of iMovie, those tools aren’t out in the open-they’re instead secreted away behind simplistic-looking buttons that won’t scare off casual filmmakers or beginners.