Apple made iPhone apps have their limits, iMovie is no exception

iMovie is Apple’s latest paid creation. An iPhone app that will be available for $4.99 in the App Store. Don’t get us wrong, when we saw this app shown off during Apple’s WWDC Keynote, we were absolutely blown away. iMovie is a full-blown movie editing application for your phone. With Apple’s new 5MP camera and increased camera quality with 720p recording, editing movies will be fun and quite useful. Sometimes the best of  things looks great on stage, but when you find out the limits off the stage you could feel quite let down. Much like I do right now after finding out that the iMovie application is pretty gimped. So whats wrong with it? Read on!

First and foremost, the application will only work on the iPhone 4. Quite a bummer, but I can see that this will help drive people off their old phones and onto the new ones. The problem I have with this is Apple saying it is because the 3GS cannot handle movie editing. LIES! The next big thing that really bugs me, this application won’t allow you to move your edited iMovie file onto your Mac and continue editing it with the desktop version of iMovie. What?! That alone takes away any possibilty of doing serious editing. Thanks for that. Last but not least for me, no iMovie for iPad. If there is an Apple device that is multi-touch and perfectly capable of content creation, it is the iPad. There is no iMovie application for the iPad and according to this leak, the iPhone version won’t even work at all on the iPad. Not even with the pixel doubling feature on the iPAd.  Again… lame. There is more. Here is the original list we found at TidBITS.

• iMovie for iPhone will require the iPhone 4, and will not be available for the iPhone 3GS. Handling video and creating real-time transitions needs the power of the iPhone 4’s A4 processor.
• Although the iPad runs the A4 processor, the app won’t run on that device. I suspect the app is tailored to the iPhone 4’s higher-density screen, and therefore wouldn’t work within the iPad’s pixel-doubled compatibility mode. (I’d be very surprised if an iMovie for iPad version doesn’t appear at some point, possibly with the release of iOS 4 for the iPad in a few months.)
• Projects edited on the iPhone cannot “currently” be transferred to iMovie on the Mac for further editing; projects stay on the phone. (The edited movies can be exported or synced to iTunes, however.)
• Video clips can be recorded directly within iMovie for iPhone or come from the Camera Roll (clips previously shot using the phone’s built-in camera). Based on how the Camera Roll works, I suspect it may also be possible to work with clips you’ve shot elsewhere by emailing them from your computer to the iPhone, then saving the attachment to the Camera Roll. The clips would need to be properly formatted as H.264 videos (and without having the software or an iPhone 4 to test, I don’t know which specifications that entails).

Well, there is no guarantee that we won’t see an iMovie app for the iPad sometime later in the year, or even some iMovie to iMovie support on different clients. Also we don’t have any official confirmation on this right now. It is speculation based on someones “source”. We will wait and see, for now if you want to do some minor editing, use what comes with the phone and save your $4.99.

[Via TidBITS]

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