You can now double-click a transition in the timeline to adjust its duration

Apr 11, 2014 09:35 GMT  ·  By

Users of the $14.99 / €13.99 iMovie desktop application are being offered a fresh update this week packing numerous tweaks and enhancements that make editing much smoother and the application more stable overall.

iMovie is first and foremost a library for your videos, sporting comprehensive content management features and sharing options. But the software is also a video editor, with basic manipulation features.

“With a beautiful, streamlined design, iMovie puts the focus on your video and lets you tell stories like never before. Browse your video library, share favorite moments, and create beautiful HD movies and Hollywood-style trailers. And with iCloud, you can enjoy them in iMovie Theater on all your devices,” according to its creators.

Customers can choose from 15 themes with matching titles and transitions and enhance their movie with options to customize titles, speed up and slow down the action with fast-forward and slow-motion effects, create picture-in-picture, side-by-side, and green screen effects by dragging clips above one another, color-coded audio waveforms, and soundtrack options.

Version 10.0.3 is now available with a number of key enhancements, including an option to sort events in the sidebar by date, options to change the font, size, and color of new titles introduced in iMovie version 10, and the ability to double-click a transition to adjust its duration in the timeline.

Other additions include the ability to crop and rotate clips in events, add speed effects using the Adjustments Bar, and the option to transition in and out of speed effects more smoothly.

Some issues are addressed, such as one that could cause iMovie to quit unexpectedly, and a problem involving failed shares. The update further improves reliability of search when using partial or multiple search terms, and packs general usability improvements for several languages.

The full set of supported languages is English, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

Requirements include OS X 10.9.2 (the latest version of Apple’s Mavericks operating system) and an Intel-based processor. Users can grab the application fresh from the Mac App Store, or download the free update through the Updates tab of the Mac App Store on their Macs.

The file size is just shy of 2GB, so be patient with this download if this is the first time you’re installing iMovie on your Mac.