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- krystalo, on 03/02/2009, -0/+21Solid review by Ars, as usual.
- MtheoryX, on 03/02/2009, -0/+17Of course.
- inactive, on 03/02/2009, -0/+12I love the new stabilization feature in iMovie. Of course, Apple offers the same functionality in Shake. Of course, you don't have to be a special effects specialist to take advantage of what's in iMovie.
- ralphthemagi, on 03/03/2009, -0/+6I've been thinking about buying this just because iMovie '08 was a freaking travesty.
- dagamer34, on 03/03/2009, -0/+4Garageband's "Learn to Play" got me going on the basics of piano enough to seriously start learning on my own. It's great!
- abbathdoom, on 03/02/2009, -1/+5I can't wait for the Garageband review. Garageband is the thing that made me switch.
- MtheoryX, on 03/02/2009, -0/+3Just a warning from my personal experience...
Switching from iPhoto to Aperture is much, much easier than trying to go back from Aperture to iPhoto ;(
You can easily do it one photo at a time, but there exists no mass library import in iPhoto like there does in Aperture. - spacebuddy, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2iLife is AWESOME.
- BossKey, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2Of course, with iMovie you also aren't paying $500 for Shake.
- srg13, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2Hey, $500 is noting for Shake. The previous version was something like $4000, and before Apple bought it, you had to pay a support contract as well...
- Gee1004, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2Your comment is *****
- xCIone, on 04/15/2009, -5/+6i think this going to be a good application
- ryleyleckie, on 03/03/2009, -0/+1your loss
- Phych, on 03/03/2009, -1/+2I won't deny it...I had to look up the meaning of "aplomb".
- MightyUpsetter, on 03/03/2009, -2/+3Never. Buy a mac.
- ScottyDelicious, on 03/03/2009, -0/+1It would be even cooler if it worked. I watched the demo movie at apple's website and I was like "Whoa... that is awesome", and I quickly started thinking of situations or footage where that would be totally useful. I went outside with my video camera and recorded about two minutes of my dog running around chasing a tennis ball with about 10 seconds of REALLY shaky video of me chasing her around too. I let it process in iMovie 09 (which took about 2 hours on a 17" MacBook Pro), and I am really struggling to see any improvement from the raw footage to the post processed, exported to quicktime clip.
It is somewhat disappointing, because that was one of the main reasons I bought 09. The Places and Faces in iPhoto is pretty cool though. - foresmac, on 03/03/2009, -0/+1Dude, seriously... iMovie IS NOT FOR PEOPLE WHO PREFER TRADITIONAL NLEs. That apparently includes you. Get Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro and move along.
- arsix, on 03/03/2009, -0/+0picasa for life!
I do like Garageband and iMovie a lot tough - datdamonfoo, on 03/03/2009, -1/+1I wish Apple would die an iDeath.
- captcoolguy, on 03/05/2009, -0/+0You eat *****
- guyver48, on 03/03/2009, -0/+0Don't get me wrong, I love the new iLife, but I would still have to say that when it comes to iMovie, iMOvie HD was by far my favorite to use. It was easy to edit video and the ability to go frame by frame was amazing. Editing audio was also incredibly simple. I think they should bring back the UI of HD with the look of '09 because the precision editor is just not "cutting it."
- winbutler, on 03/12/2009, -0/+0Transer contact-information from Apple Address Book to Faces with http://prosopagnosia.dessibelle.se/
Cheers - inactive, on 03/03/2009, -2/+1Let's compare Apples to Apples. Why are you comparing Lightroom to iPhoto? iLife is a consumer software suite and your comparing it to Pro software packages. Secondly unless things have changed, Premiere is a poor choice for video editing. It was once considered a professional app, but its was considered too unstable to use in a pro production. Final Cut is the standard.
Lastly, Lightroom is not ahead of Aperture. If your embedded in Adobe's workflow, than Lightroom is a good choice. But Lightroom lacks the large database size and Lightroom is a modular design making you switch between modules. Its a real pain in production. Aperture also works flawlessly with PhotoShop and the entire Apple software family. Lightroom only works well with PhotoShop, huge limitation in today production workflows - SpookyET, on 03/03/2009, -5/+4I am disappointed with iLife 09. I can only speak for iPhoto and and iMovie since those are the only applications I use. First, iMovie. I'm sorry, Apple, word-processor style workflow for video in iMovie 08/09 is a bad idea. It's far harder to use than a timeline with multiple tracks. For my basic editing, I need at least two audio tracks. One for the soundtrack and another for noises. It's abnormally hard to do that in iMovie. It's also hard to have a different soundtrack for different timeframes in the movie. The application is also slow as hell. I find selecting clips awkward and slow. Disk space usage is also insane. The stabilization feature is another iPhone ad. It's far from reality. It doesn't work like in the commercials on the Apple website. It only works for minimal shake and sometimes it bends the video. No way in hell was that skateboarding video passed through the iMovie algorithm. I guarantee you that they shot it twice, once with a steadicam. Or, they used a more sophisticated stabilization plugin in Final Cut Pro.
iPhoto's faces is a nice feature, but the face information is not written into the metadata of the actual image file. You also cannot associate an address book entry with a face. I've tried it on many photos. It works about 30-40% of the time. I have to do a lot of manual adding. If a face is not perpendicular with the camera, it doesn't even detect that a face exists. Furthermore, it makes a lot of mistakes when it actually detects something. The geotagging interface is a little awkward. I haven't checked if it writes the geotags to the image files. The image editing features are less than basic. It's storage is crappy. Every time you make a change, even when rotating a photo, it creates a new image wasting a lot of disk space.
I would ask people move to Final Cut Express or Premiere. Premiere has a plugin called SteadyMove Pro ( http://www.2d3.com/product/?v=5 ) for stabilization from 2d3 which has been in development for many years. There is a plugin for Final Cut as well, but its name escapes my mind. I don't know how good it is.
For photo management, use Lightroom. Aperture is cool but it's behind Lightroom in terms of features and speed. I find Apple pro apps slow. Either because they are not mature enough or because they want to sell pro hardware. Aperture is much slower than Lightroom for me. Lightroom is not just for professional photographers. Those who are not certaintly need it to somewhat fix their crappy photos. - MrViklund, on 03/03/2009, -3/+1Arse Reviews? This site-name is so stupid. How came up with that *****?
- Betrayer, on 03/03/2009, -5/+1when will they make iLife for the PC (it is a stand alone product?)... after all i am a PC, and all i have is my browser.
- coldkill3r, on 03/03/2009, -9/+2Bacon.
- inactive, on 03/03/2009, -10/+2Did you pull that out of your Ars?
- captcoolguy, on 03/03/2009, -19/+0There is another product on the shelf...called *****
As in, I am not buying into any of this *****!
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