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5 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 Don't buy unless you have a G4 or G5 system!, 2005-07-05
I'm sure this is a nice suite of programs from Apple. I love my Mac but cannot install the full program on my (now) puny 400 MHz G3 iMac - the slowest system it can work on. It requires 4.67GB on your startup disk. That's half of my almost full harddrive! And the installer won't allow it to be installed on an external drive. I've got lots of space there! Must be on startup disk. Dang.... GarageBand also doesn't work on a G3 system like mine. iPhoto 5 on a G3 system leaves off the advanced editing tools. So, be very careful about ordering this. Read the fine print about system requirements. I am very disappointed. Oh well, it's almost time to buy that G5 iMac with the 20" lcd.
2 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Nice, but nothing groundbreaking, 2005-05-29
iLife '05 is nice, and especially so for somebody like me who is coming from the original iLife. However, I am not sure that any of its improvements would be worth $80 from iLife '04.
6 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
Great upgrade, but..., 2005-04-01
All I wanted to do was create a DVD for my brother. IMovie is decent. It has a few minor quirks to it. The amount of time for title slides has a max of 4 seconds. All of my slides are 4 seconds. Anything else seems too short and amateurish. It had a problem importing MGEP 1 movies. I had to go through a convoluted process to get the movie into place. Even then, the first .5 seconds of the audio was missing... due to the conversion process. This is not Apple fault, except they should be able to import those movies. all other formats works fine.
I found iDVD to have major quirks. First, the audio was 1 second behind the video on the DVD. Then the audio kept advancing forward, make it ouf of sync, more and more as the movie played on. Then the movie would stop the audio at the first sound effect i placed in a text slide. This was extremely frustrating. I thought it was supposed to be easy!?
iDVD just takes a movie, renders it, and burns it to a DVD with some selection screens. How hard is that? I ended up remaking one of my iMovie projects three time before it finally came out. The other project, well, I had to extract the audio so that it would be on the DVD (except the first and last video). Lastly, the final chapter (movie marker) pointed to the start of the movie.
I like Garageband, it's easy but not a powerful tool like Logic.
ITunes, well, it's iTunes! It is definitive.
iPhoto is awesome. It still feels like it is just feature creeping, for better or worse.
5 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 Sometimes it doesn't just work., 2005-03-16
iLife '05 is supposed to support RAW image processing (see product description above) for photos in iPhoto. The surprise is that although my Canon camera is supported, it's RAW image format is not, rendering iPhoto useless for most of my photographs. This was unexpected as third party companies have image conversion software that manages to do this with little problem. I know there are many RAW image formats, but it's the job of good technology to simplify a complex environment.
I'm new to Apple products and very pleased overall since we purchased the imac G5. It seems like in most cases "it just works" describes their system well, but in this case, I guess we needed to read the "fine print".
I also noticed that it is still not possible to record anything on GarageBand with the iSight's (Apples webcam/microphone). Apparently there is some type of software/hardware incompatibility. Expected in Windows machines, (fortunately) unusual in Apple products. Not a major issue for most, but the incompatibility of Apple hardware and software is still an unwelcome surprise.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 The iPhoto alone is worth the price, 2005-03-16
All of the improvements are great. I was editing a video for a presentation when my order arrived. There was a transition that I simply could not get the old iMovie to do. I installed the new iLife and told it to make the same transition in the film and it worked perfectly. I don't know why or how but I was sold five minutes after the box arrived.
I still think iPhoto is the best improvement however. I really like the scrollable photo index when looking at a picture in edit mode. I also like the ability to eject the camera from within iPhoto(I sometimes forgot to do this before.) And the one-touch red-eye correction is nice too.
Also I like the new themes for iDVD. The movie I was editing ended up getting one of the new themes instead of the old theme I had originally picked and I was very pleased with the end result. The presentation was a big success.
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