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iLife '08 Introduced

This might be talked about before, but if you buy Leopard when it comes out, would iLife '08 come with it, or would you have to buy it seperately anyways
 
jigspanchal said:
This might be talked about before, but if you buy Leopard when it comes out, would iLife '08 come with it, or would you have to buy it seperately anyways
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the OS never comes with iLife. iLife comes with a new Mac. If you want iLife, you'l have to buy it seperately (or - as I said - get a new Mac ;) )
 
Anyone know if iMovie '08 supports HD-DV 24p video?

This Canon camcorder here can record 24p HDDV and I'd love to be able to import and work with that properly.

Any ideas?
 
iMovie requirments

Has anyone tried installing iMovie on an old mac? It says you have to have a iMac G5 with a 1.9GHz, I have an iMac G5 1.8GHz and was woundering if I can install it?

Please let me know.

thanks
 
iPhoto 7, first impressions

duklaprague said:
Can anyone let me know if iPhoto still has the calendar view?

Always found it very useful for finding photos if you know when they were taken, but couldn't see it on the video tour.

Cheers.
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It's now buried under search. Click on the spotlight icon to the left of the search box on the bottom & select Date. Personally, I preferred the old way. A nice improvement would have been to allow typing eg "May 2005" into the search box (it doesn't work).

"Events" is very nice and I love the scrolling through w/o opening the event (very 10.5!). But why didn't they extend the metaphor to regular albums -- with Key Photo preview or tree-view options? Also, why can't one create a folder of events (Trips: below them all Trip events) like you can with Albums. Also couple other things. I don't know what algorithm it uses to come up with the initial Events. My 34,500 photos were arranged into 303 events. Some just one photo. Another with 4000, spanning all of 2004. When "Merging" two Events, you lose whatever titles you might have given which is aggravating.

Also, the Web Gallery has beautiful Carrousel, Grid and Mosaic views (see http://gallery.mac.com/emily_parker#100380&bgcolor=black). Why didn't this make it into iPhoto itself?

There are nice features, but it feels more kludged together than it should.
 
iMovie downgrade?

bignumbers said:
Based on a quick review of the new iMovie pages, I'm very concerned that iMovie may have lost a significant amount of its power and flexibility. The new features do look nice for the right purpose. No sign of prior version's ability to edit multiple audio tracks, timeline editing, etc.

Hopefully it's all still in there somewhere.
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That's exactly what I was thinking too. At first I was impressed with how easy you could trim the clips and put a short movie together real fast. But later I realized I never saw any timeline editing option anywhere. When creating longer movies you really will need a timeline editing option to create things like musictrack with multiple songs that crossfade etc. But maybe it's still there. :confused:
 
is it me or are there no editing features whatsoever in iMovie, its like too basic, it looks incomplete as far as a video editing program, a rushed job as far as im concerned, very dissapointed with iMovie.

iPhoto - preview and slideshow no longer seems to work with raw (.orf) files, it just produces a ?. although you can view the pics fine in events and double clicking on them.
 
I think it's a real pain that you have to buy the whole bundle. I don't have a movie camera, so both iMovie and iDVD are pretty much useless, I don't want GarageBand or iWeb, and iTunes is free. So all I get out of iLife is iPhoto, which is really not worth the money.
 
Edmar said:
I always thought that the iMac was the best looking desktop outthere but Apple managed to make even better looking. A lot of you complain about the chin but I've always liked it, I dare anyone to find a better looking desktop outthere. Price is not too bad but I wish it had 2GB RAM standard.
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Well you can go to OWC and buy 4 Gb of ram for $233 and get a rebate for your 1 GB that came with the iMac. Not a bad way to go.:D
 
superleccy said:
But I don't think this is an evil ploy from Apple to make the more advanced iMovie users upgrade to Final Cut Express - even it that turns out to be the side-effect - which could be a nice little earner for Apple.

I think they've just looked at the market, and decided on a calculated gamble on satisfying the "ease of use" crowd over the "semi-serious" crowd.
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I think that is right. This is about pulling users from the Windows world -- "a 5 minute movie? Try that on Windows." Bet they have already filmed that in the next PC Man vs. Mac Man ad.
 
vandlism said:
Yikes people. iMovie '06 is free, so you get what you needed. iMovie '08 is a brand new program, a 1.0. new icon and all. I'm sure Apple knows what issues are involved with this new program, especially after we have been spoiled by iLife of the past. They're working on it, just takes time. In the meantime we have iMovie '06 available.

Though Carousel and Mosaic would be some great features for iPhoto...
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I concede that my reaction was somewhat knee jerk. However, I'd have liked Apple to be more transparent with what they were doing, and explained in the Aug 7 event and/or the guide movie that iMovie was no longer intended to do what it used to do, but that iMovie HD would be provided to all '08 users who wanted it.

Now the big question is whether iMovie HD has become abandonware, and if the more advanced functionality will return to a later version of the new iMovie.... From what I've seen of iMovie HD in '06, I'll be happy using it for many years to come. I'm still using '04 !!!
 
So both iLife and iWork 08 are installed in the Apple Stores you say?

I know one practical use for my 16GB USB key now!!!!

Also, how long before they're on Limewire do you reckon?
 
zorinlynx said:
Anyone know if iMovie '08 supports HD-DV 24p video?

This Canon camcorder here can record 24p HDDV and I'd love to be able to import and work with that properly.

Any ideas?
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A quick Google search says "Yeeees" (like that Little Britain guy lol)

However, it also said that - because it's so high quality - the data transfer is 150mbps, so they wholeheartedly recommended using a FireWire 800 port to transfer the data. I'm sure 400 would work though, just take that little bit longer.
 
OS X Dude said:
So both iLife and iWork 08 are installed in the Apple Stores you say?

I know one practical use for my 16GB USB key now!!!!

Also, how long before they're on Limewire do you reckon?
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Ha ha. You complete and utter cheapskate :p
 
OS X Dude said:
I know one practical use for my 16GB USB key now!!!!
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Yay you! When you try and rip-off the software, I hope you miss a bit and end up with something semi-functional at best. Or even better, I hope security throw you out of the store and ban you.
OS X Dude said:
Also, how long before they're on Limewire do you reckon?
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Are you asking that question because you genuinely don't know the answer and think the MacRumors forums users here have a better idea than you? Or are you trying to score some sort of teenage kudos-points by saying "look at me, I rip off all my software I'm so cooooool!!!11!!1!!lollollol".

Here's an idea: upload it yourself to Limewire from your 16GB key, then all the other thieving cheapskates will get a half-working copy too.

One more thing... if you can afford a 16GB USB key, how come you can't afford to pay for iLife '08? Or did you steal your 16GB USB key as well?

HTH
SL
 
ScottDrummer said:
is it me or are there no editing features whatsoever in iMovie, its like too basic, it looks incomplete as far as a video editing program, a rushed job as far as im concerned, very dissapointed with iMovie.

iPhoto - preview and slideshow no longer seems to work with raw (.orf) files, it just produces a ?. although you can view the pics fine in events and double clicking on them.
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It's being more like a Adobe Premiere Elements style program.
 
backsidetailsli said:
good questions. can someone answer?
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1.) No, those new install disks will most likely not work as they might be architecture dependent (aka intel only, just a posibility)

2.) Tiger never shipped with iLife. Check it out. Go do an erase and install and check out all the iLife fun you won't be having.
 
iMovie doesn't look rushed, it just looks over simplified for 'average people'... Hope the have a timeline view. Having done timeline editing for a decade I can't imagine this new style of editing being very precise.

But it sure makes a movie quick. McMovie.
 
superleccy said:
Yay you! When you try and rip-off the software, I hope you miss a bit and end up with something semi-functional at best. Or even better, I hope security throw you out of the store and ban you.

Are you asking that question because you genuinely don't know the answer and think the MacRumors forums users here have a better idea than you? Or are you trying to score some sort of teenage kudos-points by saying "look at me, I rip off all my software I'm so cooooool!!!11!!1!!lollollol".

Here's an idea: upload it yourself to Limewire from your 16GB key, then all the other thieving cheapskates will get a half-working copy too.

One more thing... if you can afford a 16GB USB key, how come you can't afford to pay for iLife '08? Or did you steal your 16GB USB key as well?

HTH
SL
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Ever heard of sarcasm? I don't intend to copy or Limewire either (Limewire would take eons to download them) pieces of software. If I was that cheap I'd use Linux lol

No, I got that key as a crimbo present from my grandad.

I will be heading on over to the Meadowhall Store to get both of those pieces of software and a .Mac sub now you can have personal domains and the space has been given a boost.

So...NAH!!!
 
so i can't believe that no one has made mention of the fact that iPhoto '08 has the same blue scrollbars as iTunes!?

is this a sign that they share something - perhaps a custom scrolling component to handle 10s or 100s of thousands of items that a normal carbon/cocoa scrolling doodad won't handle well [under tiger?] and they have this style because leopard will have it (but then why wouldn't they make it match for now and then update for 10.5???)
 
pengu said:
so i can't believe that no one has made mention of the fact that iPhoto '08 has the same blue scrollbars as iTunes!?

is this a sign that they share something - perhaps a custom scrolling component to handle 10s or 100s of thousands of items that a normal carbon/cocoa scrolling doodad won't handle well [under tiger?] and they have this style because leopard will have it (but then why wouldn't they make it match for now and then update for 10.5???)
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I believe from looking at it that CoverFlow is being used as the basis for the interface, same as in iTunes. Apple are starting to use that in a big way, so it would make sense.
 
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