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iMovie, iPhoto and iLife Arrive

Exporting

Hey all, for those looking for the old export features of html pages and quicktime slide shows, just goto file> export. Looks like Apple pulled the button from the bottom to streamline the .mac approach. Luckily, those other features remained, just not as obvious.
 
iPhoto 2 still butt slow

Doesn't look like much has changed except now we've got buy stuff icons at the bottom. Can't even view pics at their actual sizes yet. And did I mention it's still slow as molasses? What have the iPhoto developers been up to in the past 7 months or whatever it is?
 
Originally posted by Eple
After trying imovie 3 i would suggest a minimum requirement of a 1 ghz mac
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Yeah, I wonder why this is.

Everything seems...I don't know....not "flowing." I even have two 1 Ghz processers. ;)

Hopefully Apple will fix these problems soon.
 
I hate CompUSA

I went to CompUSA to pick up my copy of iLife today. Their Mac section was arranged nicely, but no salespeople anywhere near.

I found the salespeople surfing the net (3 surfers; 4 up front talking to the female cashiers; 4 outside smoking in front of the building).

After arguing with me repeatedly that you cannot download iDVD, they said they didn't have any copies of iLife in the store or on order.

What a mess. I will visit the Apple store soon.
 
Originally posted by edesignuk

Yup, I think so....but I'm sure you won't be the last :rolleyes: ;) I'm expecting a dozen more threads on the same subject any time now.
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You should consider using BetterHTMLExport . It's an iphoto plugin that lets you create templates for exporting considerably prettier websites than the ugly iphoto ones.
joe.
 
My impressions on an older mac...

I just updated iPhoto and iMovie on both my iBook and my iMac. First off iMovie is a pain in the butt because on CRT iMacs you have to go in and change the screen res before you can even use it. It feels about the same as iMovie 2 did on my computer. I don't have a DV camcorder yet so it is not a big deal to me. You can use it on an older G3 machine, but fluid it is not.

iPhoto which I use a lot is an improvement. It does feel slightly more reponsive scrolling and it is a much more complete interface.

Now for the biggest speed booster you can EVER do to your computer...

We finally recieved Cable internet in this little South Dakota cowtown and they came and put it in today...HOLY COW...it is like my old 400Mhz iMac DV is a new beast while on line!!!!!!! Safari really shines I am looking forward to the actual release of Safari!

Now I have a buddy that is a die-hard PC user and he tried telling me that his new Gateway would actually smoke mine surfing the net because he has a 3.06Ghz processor and I only have a 400Mhz processor. He has dial-up that is connecting around 40-45K but he thinks that his will render a page so much faster with all the speed it has that the connection will not matter. Now wouldn't you say that the PC world has really used the Ghz to sell anymore!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Originally posted by Eple
After trying imovie 3 i would suggest a minimum requirement of a 1 ghz mac
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WTF? Are you sick? I have a dual gig and it's still slow. I'd recommend a 970 to run this and iPhoto.

iMovie can preview a clip with soft focus effect. Previewing effects-Earthquake, Fariy Dust, and a few others are plain riduluosly slow.

iPhoto is also a little slow and Enhance kinda sucks on a photo that isn't really horrible. It seems to only fix the crappiest photos, why destorying half way decent ones.
 
My local Apple stores SUCK!

I just called all of my local CompUSA's, and the two Apple Stores near me. (In Michigan)
The Apple Stores are saying they won't be getting iLife in until Feb. 4th, and CompUSA says they don't know, maybe as early as Monday, but they're thinking maybe towards the end of next week. THIS BITES!
I have some movies just waiting to be thrown into iDVD 3 as soon as I install it.
 
Re: Re: I wonder...

Originally posted by Codemonkey

As a point of note after downloading the latest Dev Tools earlier today: I find it amazing that at any given time I can reach a minimum of 150k/s downloading off of apple.com, and regularly over 225k/s. I can't imagine their bandwidth/pipe/server bills. :eek:
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I used my cable modem today and all 81.8MB of iMovie came down in about 4 minutes flat at 335 KB / s. iPhoto took about 2 minutes.
I rarely get speeds that good from other servers, and I can imagine Apple's servers are fairly busy today, at that.
 
Re: Re: I wonder...

Originally posted by Codemonkey
As a point of note after downloading the latest Dev Tools earlier today: I find it amazing that at any given time I can reach a minimum of 150k/s downloading off of apple.com, and regularly over 225k/s. I can't imagine their bandwidth/pipe/server bills. :eek:
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from apple.com, i usually reach a minimum of 700-800k/s and regularly get over 1000k/s... for example, when safari first came out, i downloaded it in 3 seconds flat.. and the combined iPhoto 2 and iMovie 3 download finished in under two and a half minutes :D ;)
 
Originally posted by adamberti
Hmm, I keep my apps in seperate folders, not all in the applications folder, so I had to move the new versions into their appropriate folder and put them in dock, while taking out the old ones, something I've become accustomed to.
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I do the same thing-- keep Applications folder on an external HD, and have an alias to it where Applications usually is. Most installers just go straight through the alias and the stuff gets installed to the external, but everything through Software Update (well, Apple software in general) deletes the alias and installs it on the boot drive. It's kind of annoying, i wish there was a better way--

i've changed the permissions on the Applications alias to match the folder itself, but it still deletes it...

pnw
 
Originally posted by Eple
After trying imovie 3 i would suggest a minimum requirement of a 1 ghz mac
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my gosh u are so right.. i just tried it on my 400Mhz Pismo G3 with 576MB RAM.. first of all, it took nearly a minute just to launch the program, then almost another minute to load an old imovie project.. the video playback can get so choppy that it's practically unusable.. and i haven't even tried doing any editing yet :mad:.. too bad i can't go back to imovie 2

hopefully this is a problem that apple will fix.. and fix soon:(

on a brighter note, iphoto 2 does seem slighty faster and more responsive
 
Licensing question

I always play by the rules for licensing. In the keynote speech, Steve Jobs said that iLife was being packaged and sold in stores because iDVD would be too big to download. So if I buy (or even borrow) a copy of iLife, can I install it anywhere I like because the content is free? Or do I need to buy an iLife for every DVD Mac that I want to use it on?
 
Re: Licensing question

Originally posted by Doctor Q
So if I buy (or even borrow) a copy of iLife, can I install it anywhere I like because the content is free? Or do I need to buy an iLife for every DVD Mac that I want to use it on?
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iDVD is not free. I think Steve said that because he didn't want backlash for charging for it, but I don't think that means it's free if you can get your hands on it somehow.

Howevery, I always thought you could buy one license for a piece of software and install it on multiple machines as long as you were the only user, or you could put it one one machine and have multiple users, but not both. Am I wrong about this? If I have a desktop and a laptop that only I use, am I supposed to buy software twice?
 
Re: Licensing question

Originally posted by Doctor Q
I always play by the rules for licensing. In the keynote speech, Steve Jobs said that iLife was being packaged and sold in stores because iDVD would be too big to download. So if I buy (or even borrow) a copy of iLife, can I install it anywhere I like because the content is free? Or do I need to buy an iLife for every DVD Mac that I want to use it on?
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that's a very good question... i would guess you should find the answer in the installer.... hmm, let us know what you find out.
 
iMovie 3 problem...

Anyone care to trouble-shoot this...it has me baffled. Just DL'ed iMovie 3, installed fine, try to start it up and...there's the app...everything looking OK...then, spinning beachball of death! I eventually have to force-quit out of it.

It's not a big deal since I usually use FCP, but when my wife uses my machine, she prefers iMovie. Any suggestions?

This is on a MDD Dual Gig with 2GB of RAM.

Edit: Oh yeah, and 10.2.3
 
Re: iMovie 3 problem...

Originally posted by SumDumGuy
Anyone care to trouble-shoot this...it has me baffled. Just DL'ed iMovie 3, installed fine, try to start it up and...there's the app...everything looking OK...then, spinning beachball of death! I eventually have to force-quit out of it.

It's not a big deal since I usually use FCP, but when my wife uses my machine, she prefers iMovie. Any suggestions?

This is on a MDD Dual Gig with 2GB of RAM.
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i read somewhere that those with large itunes libraries and large iphoto libraries took longer to start up because it has to find everything, then afterwards quit out and relaunch again. Mine was a little slow at first launch, but better since. Although imovie3 does seem clunkier in some aspects, but its very cool being able to drop in all your photos to make a sequence, it still has to render them all in, but its a little more convienent.
 
hmm i dunno what you guys are talking about. I have iMovie 3.0.1 (tho for some reason it tells the finder its 2.1.2) on a 667 G4 powerbook w/ 1GB of ram. It is fast and responsive in everything except resizing the window and starting and stopping video. The latter I attribute most to my 4200 slow (not a nice new fast one) hard drive.

My only complaint is the awful brushed metal. Why does apple have to mar aqua's perfection for something that reminds me of my TiBook's paint... And metalifizer cannot seem to alter imovie 3 and itunes 2 like other cocoa apps. I have hacked through the nibs and the textured window boxes and such are all unchecked. I bet there is some internal software part that forces the app into ugly metal mode. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

iPhoto also cannot ken burns photoshop docs. which is really really annoying because all my iPhotos are photoshop docs. And it does a HORRIBLE job at useing them. they are very large res images and it makes them look like they were done on a kilopixel camera.
 
Slow iPhoto: Nope.

Originally posted by unc32
Has anyone tried iPhoto2 yet? It seems very slow on my iMac 700 with 1gb of ram. Is it just me?
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Just got the download just then, it's much faster than it used to be for me, and I'm on a 14" iBook 600 too.

I have a very hefty collection (thanks to my Canon s30) and it used to chug quite badly (with the odler version), I'd suggest a paranoia check to make sure it was updated because an iMac with 40% more ram than me and a G4 processor shouldn't have any probs...

-- Dan :D
 
The first time you open iMovie you have to leave it alone until it finally opens. Don't know what it is doing but be patient. After that it works fine.

Seems about the same speed to me as iMovie 2. Things take awhile to render. I have an iMac 400DVSE.

The Ken Burns affect is cool but is sorta painful on this machine. Can't wait to see if works a little better on my 12" PB next week.
 
Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
how long did you wait before you force quit?

i got the same thing, but after like 30-45 seconds it actually started...

i'm on dual 800
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Seems like Apple didn't get all the bugs out of iMovie-even with an update to 3.0.1 prior to its release.
 
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