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114 of 145 customers found the following review helpful:
 iMovie 08 Should Be Named iMovie Lite 1.0, 2007-08-14
After several days of experimenting with iMovie 08 (part of iLife 08), I have found that I cannot use it. I have gone back to iMovie 06. With no ability to set Chapters where desired (without using Garageband!) no timeline editing and no sharing with iDVD I found the program unusable.
iMovie Lite 1.0 (iMovie 08) is fine to edit a 3 minute video to share on youtube, but it lacks features that are needed for longer projects or if you want to make a DVD of your movie.
iMovie Lite 1.0 (iMovie 08) lacks a true timeline, Nor does iMovie Lite 1.0 (iMovie 08) let you add DVD chapter markers to specific spots in a movie, such as the beginning of each major scene (each day in your vacation, for example).
I feel bad for people who purchase iMovie 08 but have never used 06. They may never know how good Apple can be at designing entry level video software.
But what if you want those missing capabilities? Apple has a great video-editing program for you: it's called iMovie HD (iMovie 06).
I am confident that Apple will eventually correct this mistake. (I understand that Apple has made iMovie 06 a free download for owners of iMovie 08!) I believe that the best course of action would be for Apple to continue upgrading iMovie 06 (iMovie HD) with full support for iDVD and DVD burning. Rename iMovie 08 (iVideo?) for small, quick little videos or slideshows for absolute beginners that don't want to burn a DVD.
20 of 24 customers found the following review helpful:
 Only reccomended for upgrading., 2007-08-14
iLife has made some positive and negative changes.
iPhoto: iPhoto is much better. You have a gallery view for all photo albums, and all of your books, cards, and libraries are seperated so everything is organized.
iMovie: Horrible. the themes in HD '06 have been removed, importing videos currently on your computer is actually hard. I reccomend using iMovie HD '06, because it is better than '08
iDVD: it has improved. better themes, yet same interface. the drop zones are no longer it's own transluesent window so it makes the DVD Preview window used for typing and viewing dropzones is smaller, but it should not affect the use of the program in a negative way.
GarageBand: I only use this for editing so I haven't noticed very much, but I am sure that it would have better ease of use. I have noticed that you can burn songs onto a CD for playing on a CD player.
iWeb: better themes, new web widgets, new page type and other cool features. this is a great improvement.
overall: I do reccomend upgrading to iLife '08, so you can still use iMovie HD '06. everything in this is great... except for iMovie '08.
19 of 31 customers found the following review helpful:
Disappointed Apple Fan ....., 2007-08-13
I have had such a great respect for Apple Products and could not wait for iLife 08 but Alas the Suite is not all its cracked up to be ..... If you dont have a brand new system forget about iMovie .... I have the last Generation Powerbook (1.67 GH 120 GB 2G Ram ) and have spent Thousands of dollars with Apple.... Now The New software is not compatable ..... That is a slap in the face for all Long Time Apple Users ..... From another company i might just shine it on as another Money Trip but with Apple I trusted that they were realy Solid with their Customer Base ..... I dont want to second guess or do my Homework as some reviewers have suggested .....This is iLife 08 and Darn it ....its suppost to be Totaly There ..... and Work ..... Im not giving up But....Im also not installing any more of the 5 loads that I have in the "FAMILY" pack.....
27 of 52 customers found the following review helpful:
 Bloatware hits Apple's iLife (and does less with more), 2007-08-12
The two reasons some high-profile Mac users are now using PCs & Windows are that the mac (i.e., Apple software) didn't easily do what it is being sold as being easy to do, namely Photo and Graphics. Virtually any low-cost PC-based photo program was better than iPhoto 06 and earlier. iLife 08 does improve one major flaw, it now allows you to selectively import photos from your media card--can't believe you couldn't do that before.
But the new design has a entirely new set of confusing interfaces that look like the software developers wrote, approved and implemented the specifications--that is no real users actually sat down and field-tested this thing for usability.
The other growing problem with Apple software in general and iLife 08 specifically is that of bloatware. That is software that grows in size, slows in performance and has fewer features. I blame this mostly on using Intel chips (my G5 Mac version of the updates Apple provides are always 1/3rd to 1/10th the size of the Intel versions of the identical patches). But that's a non-scientific opinion.
I upgraded because I thought (A) the software is low-cost ($75 on Amazon, $79 in the Apple Stores) that is cheap unless you're a software pirate, then I don't really care if you think its too expensive.
But the sad thing is it is so much slower and so much fatter than iLife '06 and has only two major updates.
1) Selective import of pictures.
2) New iMovie interface.
I really do a lot of video editing and often revert back to iMovie when Apple's high-end Final Cut Studio 2 doesn't like the camera or format I've filmed in. iMovie always saves the day by just working.
Sadly, from what I've read, this may also be a fading star. In fact, non of the more than $500 in iMovie plug-ins I've purchased will work in iMovie '08. Its great to expose an interface, but guess what Apple, you're supposed to actually support it forever.
Bottomline, there is absolutely no reason to update to iLife '08 from '06. If you are buying a new Mac, you'll get it anyway, and thus, may not see/know the difference. If you have a Power PC G5 or earlier, it just runs to slowly to be usable (but after the first run, everything except iMovie did seem to respond better).
You are better off getting PhotoShop Elements for Mac.
For movie editing, you can stick with iMovie '06.
If you get iLive '08 for some reason, know that Apple is providing a no cost download of iMovie '06 for free to anyone who has iMovie '08--even Apple no realizes they made a mistake.
33 of 46 customers found the following review helpful:
 Terrific Productivity Suite, 2007-08-12
I've been a Mac user for two decades...both professionally and personally - in education and out. For most users this suite is terrific. The functionality and collaborative features are incredible. You can much more easily see what photos and movies you have, use them and share them. You can now have web galleries of your photos much more easily available to others and you can collaborate with them.
If you want more details, to see the functionality and features, go to http://www.apple.com/ilife/guidedtour/ and see for yourself.
Some people have complained about the new iMovie application. I personally think the new iMovie is a far step ahead of the old one - but if you don't like it, you can download the old one for free from Apple!
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