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Apple iMovie 9.0.4

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iMovie makes it easy to turn your home videos into your all-time favorite films. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll watch them over and over again. And you'll share them with everyone.

What's New

Version 9.0.4:

Support for opening projects imported from iMovie for iOS.
Fixes an issue where some audio adjustments were not preserved.
Addresses a performance issue when using large quantities of video clips with keywords.
Resolves issue with slow application launch when working with large iPhoto libraries.

Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.7 or later

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Apple iMovie User Discussion (Write a Review)

ver. 9.x:

(8)

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-13

Surfspirit reviewed on 06 Apr 2012

iMovie is cool, but when you export your masterpiece you find out the output quality is soooo bad it makes it useless, yes and it's not just me, there's users all over the web talking about the same thing, iMovie creates awful banding on black areas of video footage. Apple is rotten!

[Version 9.0.4]

waggonerwheel reviewed on 03 Jan 2012

Overall, this is a great update. However, the audio playback while scrubbing through a clip can get annoying at times, and when you open up the music panel, the navigation bar can get shifted to the left, so if you want to insert something at the end of the movie you must scroll down. Not all of the kinks are worked out, yet....

[Version 9.0.4]

+52

Moxiesozo commented on 11 Jul 2011

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"App Store only"??? Does that mean those of us who have iMovie NOT via the App Store are going to be left behind / ignored? Is Apple forcing us to (re)purchase this app on the App Store in order to stay current? WTH?

[Version 9.0.4]

1 Reply

+80

MacUpdate-Warren replied on 11 Jul 2011

As of this afternoon, the update is available through Apple's support pages; it's available through the 'Download Now' link above.

Doc8 reviewed on 20 Jan 2011

It took me several YEARS to finally get comfortable with the "new" imovie- I loved imovie 6- but this latest version finally did it. I literally forced myself to give up comparing it to imovie 6 and sit down and learn to use it and now I must say it is really quite easy and it is hella fast on my MBP and attains warp speed on the imac. Now if they would just allow 3rd party transitions and effects all would again be brilliant in movie making land.

[Version 9.0.2]

1 Reply

+31

Josh C. replied on 20 Jan 2011

Yes, I too would love to see 3rd party transitions come back

+258

Bigboysdad tipped on 20 Sep 2010

It might not be any good at making movies, but iMovie's file compression is simply outstanding and can be used solely for that purpose - tasked with compressing my wife's 750MB AVI file down to a size compatible with a uni project she was doing, iMovie managed to reduce the size of the same movie down to 7MB. I've never heard of such a ratio amongst most if not all of the shareware apps out there.

[Version 8.0.6]

+21

Kenbotwinick reviewed on 17 Mar 2010

I second the previous guys comment... iMovie is atrociously irritating to use compared to the good ole days of 4-6. MUCH more difficult and frustrating to accomplish the same thing. Thank God I almost never do video work anymore.

[Version 8.0.5]

zealot6 reviewed on 17 Jul 2009

I never dawned on me how much Imovie had changed since I had Ilife 06. I have been trying to edit a movie I made of my family from this summer and it has been such a frustrating experience. For one thing, the removal of the multitrack and timeline just threw me. It also seems like I can't easily cut scenes like before. I am going to have to use something else abit more intuitive than this.

[Version 8.0.4]

Merlixir tipped on 15 Jun 2008

Just a note that this 7.1.2 update requires Quicktime 7.5 as well - if you haven't got it yet, the update will not install, and iMovie happily tells you it's all up to date.

[Version 7.1.2]

-1

Oddsbodkin commented on 28 Sep 2007

Standalone iMovie 7.1 installer made no difference nor did the removal of files suggested by Thanos - see my reply to the Thanos Sept post.

[Version 7.1]

Thanos tipped on 26 Sep 2007

Hey, remove avc1Decoder & mp4vDecoder from your
/Library/Quicktime folder and fire up iMovie. I can now finally launch it!

[Version 7.1]

1 Reply

-1

Oddsbodkin replied on 28 Sep 2007

Well, yesterday all the iLife '08 upgrades came available from MacUpdate, VersionTracker etc., as stand-alone installers. Now we're getting somewhere, I thought. Somewhere bad it turned out. As with Software Update, the iMovie installer upgraded to the "more stable" 7.1 and the app would not launch. I guess if your idea of stability is inert you're good to go. And as to removing avc1Decoder & mp4vDecoder from the root library QT folder how would you know to do that? And why would it make a difference? It did nothing to make iMovie work for me. Do tech folk read these things or are we wasting our time here? Actually, iMovie 6 had some on-the-fly audio and video editing features I don't see in v.7.

Jcherian had trouble on 23 Jan 2011

I confirm that 9.0.2 does indeed fix the annoying bug of lack of audio sync after 10 or so minutes into a clip playback.

[Version 9.0.2]

+214

B. Jefferson Le Blanc had trouble on 25 Mar 2010

The download link on this page doesn't work for me. If you have the same problem, you can download the update directly from Apple at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL859.

[Version 8.0.6]

2 Replies

+293

Kobalt replied on 26 Mar 2010

Same problem with the link here at MU.

This is where I got it from following B. JEFFERSON LE BLANC's suggestion:

http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL859/en_US/iMovie_806.dmg

+151

Mistere replied on 28 Mar 2010

MU's download link doesn't work for me either

-7

-328

Legal Eagle had trouble on 22 Jul 2008

I have NEVER at any time been able to get iMovie to launch on my Core Duo Intel iMac 7,1 running Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.4. It ALWAYS crashes immediately at launch. I installed this most recent upgrade in the hope that, just maybe, it might solve the problem. But NO. Just the same. Can anyone tell me precisely what I need to do to get iMovie to launch successfully ? My computer is very new, but iMovie has NEVER launched.

[Version 7.1.4]

2 Replies

+136

chas_m replied on 04 Jun 2009

It's pretty obvious that something is wrong with your iMovie install, and updates are never going to fix that.

Reinstall iMovie from your system disk or retail iLife 09 disk.

Toon.B commented on 16 Jul 2009

The first time you run iMovie09 it will try to import your iPhoto-movies.
For some reason this is not indicated during the first startup of iMovie09.
iMovie09 will therefore seem to hang during it's first startup.
(you will even get the "iMovie - application not responding" indication in the "mouseover-popup on your iMovie-icon in the Dock" and in the ForceQuit-menu)

Do not despair !
Just sit your time out - wait - wait - wait...
Do not interrupt iMovie.

Finally (it might take hours...) iMovie will revive...
(just like Jesus form the tomb - a miracle)
And all your iPhoto-movies will be available from within iMovie.

Good Luck !
Toon.B

globetrotterdk had trouble on 02 Nov 2007

When adding an .mp3 sound file to iWeb (iLife 08 version), I get prompted with the message that I should use iMovie's QuickTime web export to reduce the file size. Unfortunately, I can't find this feature or any documentation of this feature iMovie. Help anyone?

[Version 7.1]

Milad-Action rated on 09 Mar 2012

[Version 9.0.4]

+47

Snake-One rated on 27 Apr 2011

[Version 9.0.2]

Dushi rated on 26 Mar 2011

[Version 9.0.2]

-37

RandomTox rated on 09 Feb 2011

[Version 9.0.2]

Nooneknowme rated on 21 Jan 2011

[Version 9.0.2]

-11

samzellat rated on 05 Jan 2011

[Version 9.0.1]

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Version Downloads:20,829

Type:Multimedia & Design : Video

License:Updater

Date:11 Jul 2011

Platform:Intel

Price: $14.99

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