iMovie for iPhone gets a cheeky hack for jailbroken 3GS, runs well-oiled
By Richard Lai 
posted June 30th 2010 12:21PM
posted June 30th 2010 12:21PM
posted June 30th 2010 12:21PM
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cool.
If you're already jailbroken, then load the app from someplace else other than the app store and save $4.99.
Pass. I have no interest in video editing on my cell.
As I thought.. there really is no reason for this not to be on the 3GS.
@mynameisjay
of course there is a reason dummy... AAPL needs to maximize profits by driving more people to buy latest and greatest.
@mynameisjay Simply... magical.
@mynameisjay the only reason for this is for more people to upgrade...
@walter164 It is unethical if you ask me. Not to mention treating customers badly, give it a few months and apple will release it for 3gs.
I really love my iPhone but I really think apple suck.
@LockStock666 Business isn't ethical, if you want ethics out of business we need small business and charitable corporations to prosper. Where something before profits can be the top or a shared top responsibility.
Apple has done things like this for a long time and gotten away with it, I hope now that they are mainstream consumers start to notice this shit and are willing to take something that is nearly equal so that Apple can realize that it's "shit does stink" and that they have to put their all into customer focus in order to continually grow.
I thought Apple put a special code in iOS4 to report jailbroken iphones?
@Seven2k and do what?
@Seven2k
... and what would they do with that information once they knew? Send the apple police? Besides, if the OS can be jailbroken, then said "Special Code" could be suppressed.
Lame if its true.
@Puggs
Not to mention there is nothing law breaking about Jailbreaking anyway, and Apple can only work to stop future jail breaks. Now, if people choose to pirate apps, that is different..
@Puggs
This the closest thing i could right now to what i read a week ago.
http://ezinearticles.com/?iPhone-4-and-iOS-4---Privacy-Problems-Or-More-Secure?&id=4546371
@Madcat Jailbraking is a gray area. It shouldn't be illegal, it's your property and as long as you don't violate FCC rules (rogue handsets can take down a cell tower) you should be able to do what you want. However, thanks DMCA, it may fall under "circumventing". Something is only illegal when a court says so. It hasn't gone to trial yet, so who knows what a judge will declare.
@Seven2k And those who are reported twice go on double-secret probation.
guys... I installed this on my 3gs, without ANY editing. Well, except for the editing I do in iMovie. Editing the 3Gs vga video is a little blah though.
sweet,
VGA movies
Does it work on the third generation iPod Touch with the improved internals?
The app is a total piece of crap anyway that can't export if the movie is more than about 3 minutes. I thought Apple was known for quality. This app is a joke.
"Trouble-prone"? Mine certainly works like a champ.
Guess what; if your phone supported true multitasking rather than this cleverly disguised hibernation system you could go watch a cat jump in a vase while it exports at a glacial pace.
@nexekho
You mean like how dropbox and other apps keep uploading even after kicking out? Guess what, if the app developer programmed it in, we could do that now...
@TWiz Should developers really have to go to the trouble of writing a seperate background process to handle this kind of thing?
No. Almost all programs have stages at which they need time to think and the advantage of true multitasking is that this is natively handled. Not everything is as trivial as file uploading to move into a background process. Something like exporting a video is far more tightly tied into the iMovie app itself and is likely to never have proper backgrounding functionality.
@nexekho
No, devs should never have to code for multitasking, multithreading, 64 bit processing or anything else...I suggest you try again.
Erm I don't understand this at all I've had iMovie on my 3GS for the past week!!! I simply downloaded it and it worked I did nothing I didn't even know it was iPhone 4 only????
I installed this on my 3GS yesterday. It crashes a lot if you are exporting any movies with a few vid clips and pictures etc. Plus it eats ram. I had 146mb free before exporting and then 12mb free during export. I guess it crashes when it runs out of mem.
downloaded this lastnight, works well. can only export on the lowest quality though.
More garbage from Apple. Yay!
I don't mean to nitpick. If 3GS owners really want iMovie, then by all means. But...
The app is *really* choppy. Which is extra lame because it's just SD footage. I can almost guarantee that if this guy loaded some 720p footage in, the app would slow to a crawl when trying to do anything.
I don't think people realize how much processing power goes into dealing with HD content. iPhone 4 exclusivity isn't just Apple being greedy, it's because if you run it on a 3GS (or a 3G, for the extra-whiney), you're looking at a horrible end-user experience.
@al3xstone
A phone isn't meant for video editing. Why anyone should really need this I can't really imagine.
@weabooman You've missed the point entirely.
It's not so much that we needed to be able to edit HD movies on our phones, but it's that we can. And now that we can, we have more and more people finding that they enjoy it.
The whole point of pushing more power in to mobile devices is to make them do more, push more of the desktop capabilities down to the mobile handset, as the device becomes more prevalent in our day-to-day.
You're probably one of those people that said we didn't need cameras on our phones or web browsers, right?
i have this on my 3gs anyways you can just download it from the app store...
Wow, now thats what I am talking about. I been happy with my jail broken 3G for two years, think I will be for another 2 years.
Lou
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Did anyone get this working on iPhoneOS 3.x? For me it installs fine but shuts down immediately after launch. That's on a 3GS with 3.1.3.