This past Sunday we celebrated the one year adoption of our dog Daisy. This past year was full of joy, surprises, and various costs I didn't know a dog could incur. Daisy warmed our hearts the first time we saw her on petfinder.com. She was at a local shelter who had rescued her from an abusive home. She had already suffered through many hardships and surgeries by the time we had adopted her at young age of six months. Daisy's loving personality never will let you know what she has been through in her short life. All she asks for is love, a chew toy, and of course a place to swim.
Now I know you must be asking yourself, why am I writing about my dog and not something Apple related? Well here it is, the act of looking over this past year was made easier by some Apple products. Much to my surprise iPhoto '11's face recognition can actually pick out a dog's face with some accuracy. Now it is always a good laugh to see what or rather who iPhoto picks out as Daisy but more and more it continues to find Daisy's face in our pictures. Though the tricks of iPhoto are not what I really wanted to write about here. Recently Apple updated it's iLife suite and added some great enhancements to iMovie. The new added feature that I really enjoy is the movie trailer templates. The templates range from a variety of movie genre such as Action, Sci-fi, and Romance. The best part is the trailers included professional orchestra soundtrack to perfectly fit the genre. Within 20 minutes of opening the templates you can have a professionally scored movie trailer that rivals some independent films.
The one frustrating part of the templates for me was the limitations I had in creating my trailer. Each clip is a predetermined length and the soundtrack is also preselected. Now I find this frustrating but only due to the fact that I still regularly use Final Cut and the old iMovie HD. The latest version of iMovie has given more control in the editing of clips, I still miss some of the features I had in iMovie HD. With that being said, the latest versions of iMovie do offer many opportunites to individuals who don't want to spend much time editing video footage, but still produce a high quality movie. iMovie '11 offers easy sharing to various social media sites and also to your devices such as an iPod or iPad. This latest update to the iLife software continues to provide easy ways for novices to create stellar audio-visual works with intuitive designs and controls.
Now without further ado, our dog Daisy starring in her first movie trailer.
