A new generation of Win8 watch weapon

Computer shop news: Although Win8 has built-in music and video playback software, it is generally weak, especially when we are used to traditional video players. In fact, with the popularity of Win8, there are already many good performance tools in the app store. For example, iMovie is a video app with great features.

iMovie's startup speed is very fast, compared to the original Win8 & ldquo; video & rdquo;, it is easy to create a sense of take-off. After the application is launched, it will directly display the contents of the “Video Library”. If you are good at using the “Library” to manage the files, you will feel the whole operation is very easy.

Figure 1 Very intuitive software LOGO

Figure 2 will automatically display the video library file after startup

iMovie uses thumbnails to display files, mouse click, play It started. Like the "video", iMovie also uses a translucent toolbar for control, built-in playback /pause, stop, progress control, time display, volume control and other functions, to meet the basic application naturally no problem.

However, the author found a small problem in the test, that is, iMovie's control bar position is too low, the tablet may be suspected of being accidentally touched. And the volume limit is only 100%, and there is no common gain amplification, maybe the tablet users will not be happy to hear this news!

Figure 3 Translucent Control Bar

If the file to be played is not stored by the “library”, you can right click on the blank space and select “Add File” to add . At this point iMovie will launch a file selector, of course ……Metro. The function is similar to the Metro version of the file manager that you have seen. Anyway, you can get started with a look.

Interestingly, iMovie has added a little detail here, that is, when hovering over a video file, a brief overview panel pops up, which is helpful for everyday choices. of.

Figure 4 Right-click to open the file outside the library

Figure 5 Overview of the video popped up after the mouseover

The selected video will appear first in the video selection area (ie software startup) After that page), click to play. And iMovie allows users to select multiple sets of videos at the same time for everyday use. As with the library video, the newly added will also appear as a thumbnail.

Figure 6 allows multiple sets of videos to be selected at the same time

Figure 7 喏…… just clicked on the video here~

iMovie supports LAN and media service playback, This should be considered unique in the current Win8 video player. The specific method is to right-click on the video startup page and select “network file”, then add the corresponding video address to it, the whole process is almost the same as local playback. It may be that the specific operation should be designed to be more user-friendly, such as supporting network folder browsing and so on.

Figure 8 Playing LAN Video

In general, this iMovie is still very simple, and currently only meets some of the most basic playback needs, especially not supporting .mkv, .rmvb I am afraid that many of my friends will be disappointed. However, the author still thinks that the author has set up a good platform for it. What software lacks is precisely some sideline. If you can improve these small details in the future, it is definitely a good tool.