Apple has started to seed the iPhone 3.1 SDK to developers. According to Gizmodo, the seed version of the SDK includes, among other things, access to video editing for third-party developers and nondestructive editing by allowing to save copies of a video.
This is one area that we predicted developers would get access to during the summer, so we will see video editing apps popping up in the App Store very soon. In our opinion, we will see “simple” editing apps first, from filters to cropping, before more advanced apps (special effects, transitions) will go all the way to editing on a timeline or even transcoding. But then, this might happen much faster than I think would be possible – after all, I just had to eat my own words that specialized photo editing would not be coming to the iPhone soon (in this case, in the form of stitching panoramas).
Also, non-destructive editing will clearly be a big driver for purchases of the 32GB iPhone 3GS.
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