This assumes you have a FireWire-ready digital camcorder (the least expensive cost about $900) to shoot the video you plan to edit with iMovie. The only catch is that you need a relatively new or heavily upgraded Mac to use iMovie.Īpple's system requirements for iMovie are a G3 or better with at least 64 MB of RAM, Mac OS 9, QuickTime 4.1 and a FireWire port so you can import digital video for editing. A few weeks later, Apple made iMovie, the regular guy's movie-editing software included with DV iMacs, free for the download. In the past several weeks, Mac users have had some tasty software freebies tossed their way.įirst, there was Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5. Everybody likes to get something for nothing.
