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iMovie for iPad 2

2011-03-02
so there's two apps we're introducing today and the first one is iMovie for ipad and we have a long history of video editing we're the largest supplier of video editing software in the world we think and I movie for ipad is in that tradition it's got a precision editor on it multitrack audio recording this is not a toy you can really edit movies on this thing it's got new themes you can air play your video right to apple TV from the application you can share your videos in HD with some really popular sites and it's a universal app so what will also run in the iphone when we start out the app you can see our really nice new home screen with the old-time theater really gorgeous display here you can see each of your projects has its own little poster there's a thumbnail of the movie and the poster is based on the theme that's in the project you can just scroll back and forth between these works great in portrait it also works really nicely in landscape and this looks really great on the retina display of the iphone 4 on the ipod touch as well let's go ahead and do a little bit editing so i'm going to scroll down here now i can actually use there's a camera button on the right that i can use to they used a camera of the ipad 2 2 record directly in the timeline or i can go for my video bin now i can just press and hold on a clip and i can skim my finger back and forth to take a look at the video before it's been placed into the timeline or i can just tap on a clip and then i get two handles so i can actually choose the segment of the video that i want to put in and we have two different clips here I'll put in a piece of that one select the second clip another shot of that the girl going in the water so we'll pick kind of a corresponding position there tap that drops into the timeline and we've got to cross dissolve between if we want to do a more precise edit for the ipad 2 we have a precision editor so i can do a reverse pinch apart bring up the precision editor and now i can see all the content of the clip on the left before and after the edit and all the content for the clip on the right i also have full control over the transition we can double tap and we can set that to none so that will make a cut I can press and hold on the top dot and that allows me to choose the point within that video where we want to end so we'll pick a spot kind of which she goes out over the water now i can press and hold on the lower dot and do the same thing so we can make this kind of look like just a cut in the same shot i can press and hold on the center dot as well and i can roll the edit i can add and subtract frames from both sides simultaneously when I want to take a look we just back up a little bit and hit play really easy to keep going and adjust your edits to get things just the way that you want and with a pinch we close it up
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