Make like Windows and crash… on your couch
While downloading some pictures and video clips from my camera, a thought occurred to me: why doesn’t Apple make something like iPhoto but for video clips? I’m not talking about iMovie because that’s not really for organizing your video clip library, it’s more for doing editing and such. I mean something like iPhoto or iTunes, where you organize, and can view all of your movie files all in one place. Right now, iTunes sorta organizes movies, if you want it to, but that’s not really it’s job. iTunes is being quite charitable.
I think Apple should either (a) retool iMovie to include library capabilities yet make it faster on startup, or (b) create another iLife app that gathers and organizes your movies/video clips. Although, quite frankly, there’s too many iLife apps as it is (they’re up to 80 now).
It seems unlike Apple to not address this situation and to put movie file organization into the hands of an application whose job is to organize music. I can hear iTunes now, “What do you want me to do with this movie? But that’s not my job!”
So, with Apple’s “Showtime” event coming up, I’ll predict, along with the pretty much guaranteed movie store, that Apple will move videos off of iTunes’ couch and into some other digs.
Hmm… but then how would the video iPod connect and sync? Damn you Apple and your multimedia device! They just need to combine aspects of iTunes and iMovie – iTuvies.
