Apple Updates iMovie App With Numerous New Features Including iMovie Extension for iOS 8

Apple has released iMovie 2.1 for iOS 8 which brings numerous new features including the ability to enhance video clips in the Photos app using the iMovie Extension.

With a streamlined design and intuitive Multi-Touch gestures, iMovie lets you enjoy your videos and tell stories like never before. Browse your video library, share favorite moments, create beautiful movies, and watch them on all your devices in iMovie Theater. And with the iMovie extension, it’s fast and fun to make every video more memorable — right in the Photos app.




FEATURES:
Make every video more memorable
• Use the iMovie extension to enhance video clips right in the Photos app
• Add a video filter, animated title, and soundtrack to any clip
• Instantly save new video clips to your photo library

Browse and share your videos
• Enjoy all your videos in the full-screen Video browser
• Quickly share a clip or a portion of a clip
• Mark favorite moments to easily find them later

Make Hollywood-style trailers
• Choose from 14 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
• Select the best videos and photos for your trailer with the help of animated drop zones
• Record video for your trailer right in iMovie

Create beautiful HD movies
• Choose from 8 unique themes with matching titles, transitions, and music
• Give your movie the perfect look with 10 Apple-designed video filters
• Enhance your movie with slow motion, fast forward, picture-in-picture, and split-screen effects*
• Create a soundtrack using built-in music and sound effects, songs from your music library, and your own narration
• Fine-tune your soundtrack with audio controls including trim, split, duplicate, and fade


Watch anywhere with iMovie Theater
• Fill iMovie Theater with posters as you share clips, trailers, and movies
• Access iMovie Theater on all your devices with iCloud
• Enjoy iMovie Theater on your HDTV with Apple TV

Share with friends and family
• Send videos with Mail and Messages
• Publish to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and CNN iReport
• Save videos and iMovie project files to iCloud Drive
• Share videos and iMovie project files with AirDrop**
• Use AirPlay to wirelessly stream video to your HDTV with Apple TV***

* 2x speed-up is available on iPhone 5s, iPad Air, iPad mini with Retina display, and later devices.

** AirDrop requires an iCloud account and is available on iPhone 5, iPad (4th generation), iPad Air, iPad mini, iPod touch (5th generation), and later devices.

*** AirPlay requires Apple TV (2nd generation) or later.



What's New In This Version:
What’s New in Version 2.1
• Support for iOS 8
• Enhance video clips in the Photos app using the iMovie extension
• Choose from 10 Apple-designed filters to stylize a video clip or an entire movie
• Slow down, freeze, or speed up a portion of a clip*
• Save videos and iMovie project files to iCloud Drive
• Send videos to other apps on your iOS device
• Create titles using bi-directional text
• Support for Arabic, Australian English, Hebrew, and Mexican Spanish

* 2x speed-up is available on iPhone 5s, iPad Air, iPad mini with Retina display, and later devices.

You can purchase iMovie from the App Store for $4.99.

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