What happened to iMovie?

What happened to iMovie?
I'm actually a FCP user who would very often use iMove to do very quick and intuitive creative work.
I still have my G5 with iMove 4 installed and I recently started exploring the newest version of iMovie 7.1 on my MacBook Pro.
I don't get it! iMovie was an amazingly intuitive program. Now it's barely usable... very PC-ish.
Everything right down to basic project management is very clumsy and unlike a mac application.
What a shame.
I know I don't have any right to complain about a program which is basically free but usually products become better as they evolve.
I haven't been to this forum in years. Has anyone else found that the new version of iMovie is much more difficult and unintuitive than versions up to iMovie HD 6?
best,
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I do a lot of work using imovie. I edit football videos in hd for a local high school team. I started using the old version of imovie and digital 8 tapes (obviously not in hd). I still use the old imovie only with a new hd camera (60 gig internal hard drive). I bought the new version of imovie and was very disappointed with it.
The old version of imovie was a perfect fit for me. High school football videos, the way the coaches want them, tend to be about 50 minutes long. I was able to use the chapters option to make it easy for the coaches to go to a particular quarter and watch the game or start from the beginning and just run the entire game. And it looked great.
The new version is very difficult to use on anything over 10 minutes. It is very frustrating dragging clips from the events screen to the projects screen. It was not able to create chapters. The only option I had available for the coaches was to make separate projects for each quarter. The big disadvantage being not able to start the game from the beginning and let it run to the end of the game. The ultimate problem is the amount of time it takes to create an idvd project from the current imovie. Using the media browser to create the movie into a form idvd can use is long, and probably adds 2x (and then some) the normal time to make a dvd.
The new version is fine for the shorter films. It has very good looking graphics for titles etc. However, all else being equal, I use the old imovie at this point. Too many advantages for using the old imovie. Easy to use, chapters, less time to create an idvd project etc. The coaches usually want their game dvd's by the next day at noon. I can do this using the old imovie. Not so with the current imovie.
I would not be a supporter of the current imovie.
If anyone at apple reads this post, please add this to the large number of people who have expressed dissatisfaction with the current imovie.
I hope this helps you with your problem

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