It wasn’t by choice initially to move to iMovie ‘08. I was very comfortable with iMovie 6HD thank you very much. But my newest piece of kit (being the Panasonic SD5) demanded it. iMovie HD6 doesn’t recognise it so my hand was forced and I’m kind of glad it was. The simplicity of iMovie ‘08 has meant that I focus on the content more than ever and it has some super nice features for publishing to Dot Mac (which I do regularly due to a certain someone). The crop and colour correction features are super nice too. Some things are not so cool though such as the ability to extract audio and do B-roll edits. It wasn’t intuitive at all. I was prepping some teacher reflection footage for an Education.au symposium I’m presenting at this week and wanted to overlay some student footage to compliment what was being said and for the life of me couldn’t figure out how to do it. Atomic Learning was not helpful (for a change) so a web search it was and I uncovered a gem.

Unlocking iMovie ‘08

You may be like me. You may need help figuring out how this new iMovie
actually works, especially if you spent a lot of time in previous
versions. Here you can find tips, information, and commentary all about
the newest version of the flagship iLife application.

Told me exactly what to do to achieve the B-roll edits I wanted and a bit more besides. A great resource, one I highly recommend for those whose first foray into editing is iMovie ‘08 and one I would mandate for anyone switching up.