New iMovie for Mac Features Streamlined Design, iMovie Theatre, More

Apple has released a new version of iMovie for Mac which features an all-new streamlined design, the ability to share to iMovie Theatre, new title styles, new trailer templates, and much more.

With a beautiful, streamlined design, iMovie puts the focus on your video and lets you tell stories like never before. Browse your video library, share favorite moments, and create beautiful HD movies and Hollywood-style trailers. And with iCloud, you can enjoy them in iMovie Theater on all your devices.




Quickly browse and share video
• Enjoy your video library in Video browsing mode
• Easily share a clip or a portion of a clip
• Background import and native AVCHD support let you begin watching and sharing your video instantly

Make Hollywood-style trailers
• Choose from 29 trailer templates with stunning graphics and original scores by some of the world's top film composers
• Customize movie studio logos, cast names, and credits in the Outline
• Select the best videos and photos for your trailer with the help of animated drop zones in the Storyboard

Create beautiful HD movies
• Choose from 15 unique themes with matching titles and transitions
• Enhance your movie by customizing titles, transitions, and 3D globes and travel maps
• Speed up and slow down the action with fast-forward and slow-motion effects
• Drag one clip above another to create sophisticated picture-in-picture, side-by-side, and green screen effects
• Use color-coded audio waveforms to find the right volume, fade audio in and out, and create advanced audio edits
• Create a soundtrack using built-in music and sound effects, songs from your iTunes library, songs you’ve recorded in GarageBand, and even your own narration

Fine-tune every clip
• Instantly improve the look and sound of your video using one-click Enhance
• Give your video a boost with easy-to-use color controls
• Stabilize shaky video for a smoother picture that’s easier to watch
• Automatically zoom in on faces and glide across panorama photos with the Ken Burns Effect
• Choose from 38 fun video and audio effects


Watch anywhere with iMovie Theater
• Fill iMovie Theater with beautiful posters as you share clips, movies, and trailers
• Click any poster to watch full screen
• Access iMovie Theater on all your devices with iCloud
• Enjoy on your HDTV with iMovie Theater on Apple TV

Share with friends and family
• Email video clips and projects
• Publish directly to YouTube and Vimeo
• Share on Facebook
• Upload newsworthy video to CNN iReport
• Post to Youku and Tudou

What's New In This Version:
• All-new, streamlined design 
• Share clips, movies, and trailers to iMovie Theater and watch them anywhere
• Video browsing mode with quick clip sharing
• Adjustments Bar for easy access to video and audio controls
• 16 new title styles
• 14 new trailer templates from iMovie for iOS
• Eight new movie themes from iMovie for iOS
• Use photos in trailers
• Plus button for quickly adding clips to your movie
• Trim video and audio clips directly in the timeline
• Simplified drag and drop for picture-in-picture, side-by-side, green screen, and audio-only effects
• One-click Enhance for video and audio
• Adjust shadows, highlights, and color temperature
• Match the color of two clips
• Ken Burns Effect for panorama photos
• Improved video stabilization
• Enhanced green screen and blue screen effect
• Volume-aware audio ducking
• Speed change controls in the timeline
• Add just a portion of a song from iTunes to your movie
• Email video clips and projects
• Sharing support for Youku and Tudou
• Import, analyze, and share clips in the background
• Native support for AVCHD video
• 64-bit support

You can purchase iMovie from the App Store for $14.99.

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