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The iWeb interface appears easier to use. Its more integrated with your photos, music and movies.

Garageband looks cool, i'm gonna borrow a guitar and keyboard to try out the lessons. My bro is pretty good with a guitar and piano. I can only play a small riff of star wars on his piano and a decent "When the saint go marching in" lol. Man i'm pathetic.
 
Got it yesterday...initial thoughts..took over 3 hours to scan 10k photos.

First person I did was my gf, and iphoto brought up other females in my library. Though the more I tagged her, the better it got. Started tagging all my friends, and the more people you do, the smarter it gets though elimination. Tagged myself....got every photo dead on...Im 27 now...even got photos of me as a child!! Very satisfied after playing with it for a couple of hours. I feel as though the more work you do with it, the smarter it gets. I'm excited to see what will happen when I upload more photos of my gf...will it catch them immediately!!
 
iWeb

Has anyone had the chance to put iWeb '09 through its paces yet? Does it contain any interesting new features other than FTP publishing and the new widget types? (I was hoping for blog categories, tags and RSS feeds for comments, but I'm not holding my breath... :rolleyes:)


Yeah, I'm waiting for Keynote-like animations...
 
I am just wondering... Has anyone found any virus or trojan in the the iLife '09 torrent? It seems like there is some type of trojan in every Apple product torrent out there.

Aren't (software) torrents for cheapskate parasites? They deserve all the malware they get. It's only $79/$99, buy it and reward software development FFS!
 
Curious how iphoto facial detection works if your pictures are stored on an external HD. I have thousands of picures stored on TimeCapsule and another HD that are not always plugged in. Would they have to always be plugged in or rescanned everytime I disconnect them. I do not have a Mac yet but will soon and just curiuous how that would work.
 
iWeb 09

Has anyone had the chance to put iWeb '09 through its paces yet? Does it contain any interesting new features other than FTP publishing and the new widget types? (I was hoping for blog categories, tags and RSS feeds for comments, but I'm not holding my breath... :rolleyes:)

Just installed iLife 09 and am using iWeb 09.

1. You have to re-publish your whole site the first time.
2. Overall no big changes in terms of available templates
3. Nice additions here and there...

Things that I am waiting to check out after publishing is complete:
- facebook announcement of the updating process. This is quite useful for me (private blog) as I don't have to send mails all over the place to let people know something has changed.

Widgets in general seem interesting. There is now a widget that allows you to insert a MobileMe gallery in the webpage, it gets displayed in a small square with the images of the gallery fading one into the other. Clicking opens the web gallery.

Overall I expected a better integration between iPhoto (Aperture in my case) and iWeb, such as the ability to publish albums directly to iWeb and not via MobileMe gallery. Or also the ability to link iWeb directly with the mobile me gallery without the widget (such as it can be done now by manually creating the album).

Other widgets include:
- Google AdSense widget
- Countdown widget (pretty useless if you ask me)
- Google Maps widget (was already there)
- iSight movie widget
- YouTube widget

Overall iWeb has changed very little, but the new widget remind me of Aperture's plug-in architecture. I guess we will see more widgets coming and maybe even thrid party widgets.

What I still miss is a tighter integration with Aperture. My blog serves me mainly to inform about technology and travel as well as a showcase of my pictures.
The pictures aspect of iWeb has been, in my opinion, underestimated.

Overall nice addition, but doesn't justify upgrading to iLife 09 alone. Different thing for iPhoto and iMovie, which fully justify the upgrade price with their, albeit not perfectly implemented, new features.

No blog categories and no rss feed for comments...
 
How's the integration with facebook and flickr? That's what I'm most interested about. (for example importing the names of tagged people from facebook to iphoto)
 
I've had very poor results with Faces. It gets very few faces from my photos, especially if you're not looking directly at the camera (and I don't like posed photos). It decided a glass of white wine was a face at one point, and even the criss-cross branches of a TREE!! All my friends must look very similar, because it can't narrow in on people, even when I think they have distinctive faces.

I'm particularly miffed after I spent about 40 hours making a biometric recognition system for my dissertation a couple of years ago, and it worked better than iPhoto. Rather than looking for distinctive features of a face, iPhoto just seems to look for an oblong of the same colour, and then look for correlations of other oblongs of the same colour. A high correlation must be the same face. Good software will look for eyes, ears, nose, mouth, sometimes hair and even scars to identify someone. I've heard of some that even look at shading for depth perception. iPhoto feels like it does non of this.
 
Iphoto: seems to be slow on my MBP 2.16GHz Intelcore duo.

Used faces this morning after letting it do it's thing throughout the night. Seems to find photos of my son (2 1/2 yr old) fairly well. It even finds his baby photos! Of course he is our only child, at least for 3 more months....

Let me make sure I'm doing this right. Iphoto finds similar faces. I go through and delete the ones that are not correct. Once I have them fairly well sorted I hit command A and select them all. I then hit the button that says "Correct name" Then I have to manually go through each photo again and tell it that it is my son?

Also Iphoto crashed on me!

I know I can draw a marquee box around the lot but this can be a pain when you are talking about 2000 photos! Is there a way to do a select all for the second confirmation?

Love the new garage band! Layout is slick and the lessons are very cool. I did two piano lessons last night.

Imovie stabilization feature is a real plus. I did a minute clip which was very shaky of my son on a pony. It's not 100% smooth but pretty dang close.
 
Got it yesterday...initial thoughts..took over 3 hours to scan 10k photos....

That seems like a long time. I would think that is should only take about 5 minutes.

I know you mean that iPhoto scans your library but it made me think of something else. I scan a lot of pictures from my printer onto my Mac. It would be a good idea if Apple made it easier to add scanned photos directly to your iPhoto library. When I scan photos, I have to scan them to my desktop then transfer it to my iPhoto.
 
Waiting for new imac

Im sadly still on a xp but once the new imac comes out, im buying it.
Another reason for holding off on purchasing the current imac is to wait till all the bugs in '09 get sorted out - imagine me transfering my photos and videos, using iLife and stuff gets lost because of an error!!! :eek:

but please apple, do release the imac as soon as possible:D
 
imvie 09 question: does it work on existing (08) movies

Q for those who have access to iLife 09: is itp ossible to apply new enhanced features (such as antishaking) to existing movies created with imovies 08?

What I mean can I apply the filters within an imported imovies 08 project to a specific clip or shall I apply the antishake to the original clip and then paste it again in the imovie 09 project?

thanks,
blackdir
 
re: Saving iMovie '08 projects in different folders

I haven't actually tried this, but couldn't you use a "symlink" (symbolic link) to trick iMovie '08 into saving projects in a different place than it thinks it's saving them to?

This has been an important feature in Unix operating systems for decades. You use the "ln" command from the terminal to create a filename or folder name that really redirects to a REAL file or folder on another drive, or another part of the same drive.


Jim, we only use iMovie to give our future teachers experience using video editing. We also teach them pinnacle on the PC for this reason. Chances are these are the programs they will be using when they go to elementary schools or high schools to teach. It does them no good to know how to use final cut.

Our visual design department that teaches full blown video editing do use the Pro Apps. Either way, its extremely annoying that such a simple feature as specifying where to create a new project was removed from '08.
 
So the package just includes the same version of iDVD as before? Not even any new themes?

I'm not sure I want to pay full price for a package that only includes half the apps changed and the other half the same as I already have.

Exactly, I don't see why I'd pay $79 for this one... Maybe I'll just get a new iMac, thats the only way I see myself getting '09
 
iPhoto - Updated.
iMovie - Updated.
GarageBand - Updated.
iWeb - Updated.
iDVD - Not updated.

That's 4 out of 5 applications updated, not half.

Apple believes that burning DVD discs is on its way out. They haven't even updated DVD Studio Pro since 2005.

I sort of disagree, not that Apple believes that DVD's are on their way out, I agree for the distribution of movies the industry is moving towards downloading. I do disagree for distribution of personal 'home movies'. Once one uses the wonderful I-movie, what do you do with those projects? You tube? Ipod? That's nice for personal viewing, but picture this. A holiday family gathering where you're wanting to show movies of your child's 1st steps or shots from a vacation? Get everyone to huddle around a laptop or a desktop computer? I think not. Slap in a DVD and show it on the big screen.


I'm a bit disappointed that I-dvd has not been updated. If not new features, but how about a few new themes?

The other updates absolutely make '09 worth it!
 
Widgets in general seem interesting. There is now a widget that allows you to insert a MobileMe gallery in the webpage, it gets displayed in a small square with the images of the gallery fading one into the other. Clicking opens the web gallery.


iWeb did this before with galleries.
 
So, I've spent the day face-tagging and geo-tagging my 16k+ images. Phew! So what can I say. 70% of the faces were detected. 30% were not even detected as faces, even in high quality shots. Blurry backgrounds seems to distract the algorithm. A shirt with a square-patterns that I wear in some photos seems to generate in false face detections on the actual shirt. Kind of funny.

Geotagging then, well, I have now geotagged 16k+ images by hand and it was a tremendous amount of work and what did I get?


16k photos in 1 day, are you serious? Sounds far fetched or is iLife really that good?
 
I haven't actually tried this, but couldn't you use a "symlink" (symbolic link) to trick iMovie '08 into saving projects in a different place than it thinks it's saving them to?

This has been an important feature in Unix operating systems for decades. You use the "ln" command from the terminal to create a filename or folder name that really redirects to a REAL file or folder on another drive, or another part of the same drive.

I've used symlinks in the past and use them still for some other redirection (thank you Microsoft User Database :mad:), but it seems silly that there isn't just a simple upfront "where do you want to create your project" option like there was in iMovie 6.
 
I sort of disagree, not that Apple believes that DVD's are on their way out, I agree for the distribution of movies the industry is moving towards downloading. I do disagree for distribution of personal 'home movies'. Once one uses the wonderful I-movie, what do you do with those projects? You tube? Ipod? That's nice for personal viewing, but picture this. A holiday family gathering where you're wanting to show movies of your child's 1st steps or shots from a vacation? Get everyone to huddle around a laptop or a desktop computer? I think not. Slap in a DVD and show it on the big screen.

If it's your house, you stream it to your AppleTV. If it's someone else's house you plug your iPhone or iPod into their big TV, or watch it on YouTube using your grandma's AppleTV.

That's not my opinion. I'm just say'n, that's what Apple is thinking. This mind-set is only going to grow stronger from here on out, so get ready for it.
 
iPhoto '09 is a welcomed update. The faces and places features are cool, but the new slideshows are killer and the ability to export them in 16:9 properly is tops.

A places, issue, though. Some of my photos were taken in Japan, and once I tagged them, the pins in the map only display the city names of some cities (Tokyo, Nagoya) in kanji, whereas others (Kyoto) are in English. Anyone know how to fix this?

iMovie, though better than '08, is still not as good as '06 was, IMO. '09 is superb for making, like, a trailer of the movie you're going to make in iMovie '06, I think.

The new UI of GarageBand hasn't been commented on too much, but it is super-sweet and provides even more visual info than previous versions. For example, if you have a track muted, it greys it out so you know instantly what you are and are not listening to.

All in all, sweet ups, dudebro.
 
16k photos in 1 day, are you serious? Sounds far fetched or is iLife really that good?

No it's really not that good, I've narrowed the images down to the cities that they where taken in like New York, let's batch a few hundred images. Berline, another hundred, Stockholm, a thousand and so on and so on. So it's not that far fetched.
 
iMovie - VERY impressed. So easy to manipulate details of movies. Considerable improvement from iMovie 08'

Could you comment on DV video? iMovie08 did note do well with it in terms of quality. Also, will the new iMovie show timecode?
 
If it's your house, you stream it to your AppleTV. If it's someone else's house you plug your iPhone or iPod into their big TV, or watch it on YouTube using your grandma's AppleTV.

That's not my opinion. I'm just say'n, that's what Apple is thinking. This mind-set is only going to grow stronger from here on out, so get ready for it.

I agree with your assessment on Apple's thinking. The problems is that broadband and Apple products are required. DVD is ubiquitous. Under Apple's paradigm, I can't send movies to my sister in rural Missouri. No broadband, and I'm not mailing my iPod touch just so she can watch one movie.
 
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