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54 of 65 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great consumer software, 2007-08-21
It seems that some people are disappointed in the new iMovie, which is substantially different than the old one. The new one is much easier for most non-computer people to use, making it possible for just about anyone to make a movie quickly and easily. So what's wrong with that? That ease of use sacrifices many of the uber-advanced features that technical people love. Everything is packaged and ready-to-go to look good, but you can add advanced volume or video controls and filters. In the end, this will push the technical people to buy the more advanced Final Cut Express, and make the majority of the population able to finally make a movie quickly. What you think of this depends on what you want. Personally, I like it because I don't have a lot of time to satisfy my inner geek.
The other software is generally improved. I am a big fan of the new iPhoto events, which groups your photos according to the days and times you took the photos. For this to work, you've got to set your camera's time and date correctly; otherwise, the events are grouped into odd clusters. iWeb is improved with better management for personal sites. Garageband has a new Magic Garageband feature that makes it much easier to generate your own music. All of this software is more efficient at handling today's huge data files.
One caveat to all of this software is that there are more bugs than I'd like. Apple does do a good job fixing bugs, though, and most things I do work fine. Also, this software appreciates a newer Mac - either a 2.0 Ghz or faster G5 or an Intel Mac are required to use the new iMovie. So if you're using a G4 or older processor, you might be disappointed by the speed of this software. On the other hand, with a newer computer, you'll probably be impressed by the speed.
Generally, if you like fast, easy-to-use software and you have a newer computer, you'll love the new iLife. If you're a technie and you like to have lots of features and options, this update might not impress you.
12 of 20 customers found the following review helpful:
 Keywords in iPhoto is mangled, 2007-08-18
While everyone is beating up on iMovie 08 (deservedly) there's other things people need to beware of before upgrading to iLife 08. iPhoto 08 has mangled the Keyword interface, making it less efficient and a pain to use.
I use iPhoto 06's keyword feature to organize and recall photo's totally. While 06 allowed you to have a single keyword interface up all the time for Assigning and Filtering (and allowed you to resize the Keyword buttons so larger keywords are shown) - this is all gone in 08.
Now you have two interfaces for keywords, one for assigning and one for filtering. Both interfaces have to be called up when you want them (you can't have them load up at app start), the filtering interface (the one you'd use the most) fades out after you move you're mouse somewhere else, then you have to call it up again. The button's with the keywords for both interfaces (assigning & selecting) are now rediculously small and won't get them sized much larger - designed for one word keywords obviously. Any keyword more than two small words is abbreviated. Have two keywords like "name 2006 birthday" and "name 2007 birthday" both look like "name 200..." now. If you have keywords with two names in it that aren't both short forget it, abbreviated so second name is non readable. You can't reorder the keywords in the interfaces, to group the related ones together, like you could before - alphabetical only now. In the Filtering interface you have an area to put often used keywords, but again it groups them alphabetically defeating the purpose if you have more than 5 you want to use there as you have to start scanning alphabetically to fine your keys.
The sad thing in all this is that the original area where the prior version keyword interface existed is still available - this update for keyword functionally was totally unnecessary. To think that alot of development effort was wasted to make a key feature more complex and less useful is a real downer - and should be a black mark for the project manager who did this.
If I could unload iPhoto 08 to get iPhoto 06 back I would. I want to keep the rest of 08 on as I like them (using iMovie 08 as video organizer with HD for edits for example). If Adobe updated Photoshop Elements for Mac to use its tag interface from Windows I'd be all over it now. In fact if they did this for Photoshop Elements and did a good port/update of Premiere Elements to the Mac, Apple would be in a bad spot with regards to iPhoto 08 and iMovie 08. Sad...
Keyword users, beware of iPhoto 08.
9 of 18 customers found the following review helpful:
Excellent for the non-Tech, 2007-08-17
I was a little surprised by the ratings I saw by some of the Apple / Mac "faithful", on this latest edition of iLife. I just received my copy, and found it to be a pleasure to work with, and was particularly pleased with iPhoto and its enhanced interface. This suite of software is, principally, geared to the non technical person, and is excellent for for my family and friends who don't work the WEB for a living, as I do. Of course, I work with CS3 and a number of very high-end packages, but it isn't fair to compare them to iLife, which seems to be what some of the other reviewers are doing (or wish it was). If you're looking for a package that will more than please the bulk of the Mac users, you won't be disappointed --- if you're looking for professional products with a great deal more features and flexibility, you'll have to spend your money elsewhere.
22 of 34 customers found the following review helpful:
 They should have a zero stars option, 2007-08-15
Let's say little Joey catches his first baseball. Want to slow it down. Sorry. A bunch of kids at a party running around and want to speed it up? You can't. Want to change a transition? Can't. Want to use some plug ins. Nope. Do not buy this software if you use iMovie. I should have read the reviews. The reason you can make a movie so fast is because there aren't those annoying features that get in the way. You can download iMovie 06 for free though! While you're at it go ahead and download OS 8, it's free as well.
43 of 57 customers found the following review helpful:
Bad Apple!, 2007-08-14
In the past 10 years I have bought every single piece of Mac software as soon as it came out. And THIS is the only time I've felt burned. And burned bad.
First of all, iWeb is buggy. It has a huge problem reading previous sites. The "translation" process loses all your pictures, and if you have a site with a zillion pictures, like me, then you're up the creek. And although it now "allows" you to publish to a non .mac site (finally, duh), you still can't manage multiple sites. Which is absolutely stupid.
iPhoto is fine. An improvement, even.
Garage band seems fine so far, too.
Haven't use iDVD yet....
However... iMovie is a disaster. And nevermind all the horrible, horrible reviews the new iMovie has received. The fact is I spent $84.93 on iLife '08, and iMovie WON'T INSTALL ON MY COMPUTER! ...that is unforgivable, Apple.
That's right. I have a dual 1.25 PPC with 2G RAM. I run the newest version of every single professional graphics, audio and design application without a hickup... My computer is lean, mean and fast. And the iMovie installer won't let me even "try" to install iMovie.
Apparently, you need the very "newest" Mac supercomputer to utilize this "consumer" application.
Give me a break.
This is VERY un-Apple. And the exacty opposite of WHY people choose Apple products in the first place. ...to FORCE people to upgrade their computers by artifically creating performance limits on applications that are designed, and advertised to be "for the whole family" is insane. At the very least give me a warning: "you may experience sluggish perfomance...".
Just keep innovating the iMacs and the MacPros. People will upgrade every few years or so anyway. Just don't be underhanded about it.
As a long-time Apple fanboy and stockholder, this is a travesty.
For shame, Apple.
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