Imovie 08 is a downgrade

where do i complain? There are little to no video editing features with this new iMovie 08. yes some features are nice but it seems to be a rather downgraded, throw together an ok vacation video program. before i was able to have some artistic liscense and now it is very plug in and go.

It would have been much less of a shock to the paying userbase if iMovie '08 was a combination of iMovie HD's features and the new stuff. If the user wants to splice and order clips then he would be switched to the "new" UI.. and if the user wants to add chapters, do themes, and visual editing then he should have a toggle to swap the UI.
At this point, sure the new app is a totally new setup but Apple just threw off nearly the entire core userbase without much of an explanation and ...crucially... support documentation to help those who find themselves stuck. Users of an iApplication shouldn't have to browse forums to figure out how to use an consumer app. That's the fault of the HUI engineer or the documentation guy.

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    I am not sure if it is will still work but if you have an original disk you can try loading it. It should load to a different folder.
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