Yesterday at the NotSteveNote, Apple introduced a new iLife, along with new iWork and MacBook Pros. Not a ton of excitement overall, but the new iMovie has some interesting improvements.

Personally, I really liked iMovie 08 – I thought it was a perfect product for folks getting started in video. Not many people seemed to share that opinion though, so iMovie 09 brings back a lot of the feature that people missed from iMovie 06, while retaining the new new interface and editing style. Apple’s iMovie page gives the full rundown.

A few things they didn’t mention at the keynote: green-screening, flip minoHD support, and archiving of file-based media. Here’s hoping the Final Cut team is paying attention (assuming they still have jobs).

Canon has announced a load of new cameras – The HF S10, HFS100, HF20, HF200, HV40 and a half dozen more.

The HV40 retains the HV* tradition of tape-based HDV, plus the ability to record to memory cards. The rest of the line is AVCHD to a variety of recording mediums, but adding the 24mbps AVCHD mode that’s all the rage these days.

A nice bump across the line, and they’ve still got the mic input, which makes them loads cooler than anyone else. (Are you listening, everyone else?)