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Apple Update iMovie '08 to 7.0.1

sigamy said:
Well, you have used bold so I guess you must be correct.

Seriously, you have to be the only person on this planet that believes that iMovie '08 has a timeline.

And Themes are still there, but in the old sense of themes they are gone, but still there, but gone?

IMHO, you are contributing to the confusion on what features are present in this new app. Making things bold doesn't make them true.
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I don't think NickBates was only stating this as his personal opinion, it looked like he was trying to make a point that nobody here bothers to read the previous posts as he was simply restating what Nagromme had already stated in bold and Nagromme I think has had a pretty good track record, no? So, I don't think they used the bold to "prove" that it was true, they did it so you would notice it and read it and then do the research for yourself... seems like you may have missed the whole point here Sigamy and seems your being kind of petty as well?

As for me, I haven't had a chance to check out there differences yet, so I will reserve my opinion of what is in there and what is not, but it does look slick from just opening it!
 
websyndicate said:
I don't know what to tell you, works fine here. You have an audio clip going to the end of the movie but it doesn't fade? What happens, does it just end abruptly?
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I was just messing around with iMovie '08 this weekend, and ran into this issue, and yes, it just ends abruptly. If I dragged a track of music onto a clip and extended it to the end of the clip (and the end of the movie I was making), both the movie and audio clip would then just end abruptly, no fade out. If I dragged the audio clip onto the 'entire' movie, as indicated by the the entire project area becoming highlighted before I released the mouse, it faded out the music at the end of the project automatically. I never reconciled how to make it fade out the first way. If someone knows the proper way to do it, I'd love to hear it.
 
Well my iMovie is still broken. Worked find for a few days but now I get loads of buttons missing, video disappearing and reappearing randomly; I'v re-installed, repaired permissions etc etc - so glad I spent money on this product. :mad:
 
Originally Posted by sonicboom View Post
HOWEVER, it significantly degrades DV content on import, resulting in unacceptable movie quality... which is why Jobs was promoting using AVCHD.
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alFR said:
Can you post some samples? As far as I know this hasn't been reported elsewhere.
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There are some threads about the iMovie8's poor DV quality in the Apple discussion forums, here are a couple examples:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1090633

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1088568
 
Digitalclips said:
Until I test iMovie 8 myself (I use Final Cut Pro HD) I won't disagree with you ... but I find this very hard to believe. This is Apple we are talking about here ;)
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The only reason its that hard is he wants slo-mo. Which I agree is a very often used "special effect". Honestly, iMovie 08 is the first one I would ask my wife (who is very good with computers, even setting up servers but who doesn't have a lot of free time or patience to learn new tools) to use. I disliked iMovie 06 as it was too limiting and complex at the same time. Now I can use iMovie 08 for fun stuff and FCE for more professional stuff.
 
re: iLife '08 and hard drive camcorders

I just used iMovie '08 with a Sony hard-drive based camcorder yesterday.
Yes, it does work, but my experience with it wasn't very "smooth".

Basically, the first time I attached the camcorder to a USB port on the Mac, it launched iPhoto instead of iMovie '08, and proceeded to try to import a bunch of individual frames of movies as still photos!

I then closed out of iPhoto (after deleting all the junk it mistakenly imported), and tried to manually launch iMovie '08. The first time, nothing happened at all when iMovie '08 opened (leading me to believe this camcorder wasn't supported by it).

Then I read some comments on Apple's forums from people with the same camcorder. Apparently, most of them had to close and re-launch iMovie a second time while the camera was attached, and THEN it started working!

So I tried that, and yep - that finally worked! But then, iMovie '08 repeatedly crashed during creating of the "thumbnails" of the imported video. Every time I re-ran it, it appeared to continue converting the thumbnails from wherever it left off when it crashed though. So after about 5 re-launches of the app, it finally got everything imported.

In summary, this thing really felt like "beta quality" software...NOT some release version I should have paid for! I hope 7.01 fixes some of this!


MacFly123 said:
Can someone please tell me if iMovie '08 works with all these Hard Drive camcorders??? I thought that's what they showed when they imported the video and it showed thumbnails before the import. Can anyone confirm that it works with all the Hard Drive camcorders??? Thanks :D
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akac said:
The only reason its that hard is he wants slo-mo. Which I agree is a very often used "special effect". Honestly, iMovie 08 is the first one I would ask my wife (who is very good with computers, even setting up servers but who doesn't have a lot of free time or patience to learn new tools) to use. I disliked iMovie 06 as it was too limiting and complex at the same time. Now I can use iMovie 08 for fun stuff and FCE for more professional stuff.
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You got it wrong akac. Digitalclips was responding to me. I don't want slo-mo. I want my DV footage to look as good in the final movie as it does in the raw clip.

imovie8 kills the DV video quality on import (I previously posted links to threads which demo this).

Hence, imovie8 is not good for editing DV.

I'm surprised there isn't more outrage about this, but I guess people are distracted with feature comparisons instead of actually trying to use it.
 
iMovie 08 Hard drive question

If I have all of my video on an external hard drive, is there a way to 'point' iMovie 08 to that drive so that I can create projects and edit and save without the footage (aside from the final project footage) being saved on my internal drive.

For example, I had a very long video on my internal drive. I created a 2 minute project and then moved the long video from my internal drive to my external. But the project wasn't accessible after this.

I would like to store all of my video on the external drive, connect it when I want to create projects and edit, and save the projects on my internal drive. Is this possible?

Thanks.

edit: created a new thread with this question.
 
guzhogi said:
Anyone else concerned about how quickly these updates have come out considering iLife '08 hasn't been out even a month yet?
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No.

Don't forget that the software that was included on the iLife '08 disc probably was wrapped the better part of a month before it was announced. It takes time to QA the master build(s), produce and package and distribute the packages.

There may well have been updates in process that started before the announcement, or were in process before the internal cutoff to be issued after release.

Happens all the time with software products.
 
genshi said:
I don't think NickBates was only stating this as his personal opinion, it looked like he was trying to make a point that nobody here bothers to read the previous posts as he was simply restating what Nagromme had already stated in bold and Nagromme I think has had a pretty good track record, no?
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No, actually NickBates was being quite rude and immature. If you look at what I wrote, I prefaced it with "I need to do more research" and "if".

There was no need for his arrogance or unprofessionalism.
 
I think they're putting all the old features back in. Can anyone check? Go Apple!
 
iMovie 08 is fine to edit a 3 minute video to share on youtube, but it lacks features that are needed for longer projects or if you want to make a DVD of your movie.

Most iMovie users I know make DVDs, and MUST have chapters.

After several days of experimenting with iMovie 08 I have found that I cannot use it. I have gone back to iMovie 06.

I am confident that Apple will eventually correct this mistake. (I understand that Apple has made iMovie 06 a free download for owners of iMovie 08!) I believe that the best course of action would be for Apple to continue upgrading iMovie 06 (iMovie HD) with full support for iDVD and DVD burning. Rename iMovie 08 (iVideo?) for small, quick little videos or slideshows for absolute beginners that don't want to burn a DVD.
 
This chapters thing again. My home moveis I always burn to DVD and they're always about an hour long. So I can't have chapters in '08? So if I burn my one-hour movie to DVD we have to watch it from the beginning or use fast forward?? :eek:
 
HOWEVER, it significantly degrades DV content on import, resulting in unacceptable movie quality... which is why Jobs was promoting using AVCHD.
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Doh !!!!

In my opinion, Apple made this (well, Jobs made Apple make this) for people to produce "edible garbage": clips for YouTube and nothing more.
 
MrSmith said:
This chapters thing again. My home moveis I always burn to DVD and they're always about an hour long. So I can't have chapters in '08? So if I burn my one-hour movie to DVD we have to watch it from the beginning or use fast forward?? :eek:
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Yes you can create chapters. I posted the steps here a while ago ;)
 
I just wish they would hurry up and amend the d*mn software to import mpeg movies from iPhoto as well as the .avi it currently imports. It is soooooo frustrating that only my old videos from my previous camera are being selected, all Sony cybershot T20 vid's - which is my current camera - are being ignored...it's not as if mpeg is a niche format...jeez.

On another note I honestly feel they should have called this something completely different. This is NOT an upgrade, it's a brand new way of working with video, which frankly does not come out well when compared to iMovie HD.

I'm honestly confused. I've never experienced a company to 'upgrade' a product by removing/reducing that which attracted users in the first place, namely customisation. Its just weird.

But I'll live with it - and keep hold of my copy of iMovie HD within a firm rictus grip - as long as they expand the video formats from iPhoto they will acknowledge.

Vanilla
 
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