I've been playing around with the new iMovie with iLife '08 and I just don't get it. Why did Apple mess with it so much. They didn't just update iMovie they completely rewrote it and totally screwed it up.

The one thing I liked about the old iMovie is that it was pretty obvious how to use it. This new version is far more complicated to figure out.

All I wanted from the old iMovie interface was a finder style movie clip interface so I could sort items by date. This whole rewrite was unnecessary.

On the other hand, iPhoto '08 is a great improvement.