“I almost wish Apple hadn’t introduced Themes into iMovie HD 6, because they’re bound to obscure some cool new features in the video editing component of iLife ’06. I mean, themes are cool—you can add well-designed title sequences customized with your own photos and video clips—but they’re cool in that flashy, pop singer, look-at-me kind of way,” Jeff Carlson writes for Macworld. “Just because Apple is promoting themes as iMovie’s most important feature—they took up the bulk of the demo time Steve Jobs allotted to iMovie in his keynote—doesn’t mean it’s the only addition to the digital-video editing application that deserves attention. Let’s shine some light on what else is exciting about this release.”
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I like the themes. They are a new addition, not and upgrade and so I think they are worth more anouncement time.
i’ve seen people make stuff with imovie who can barely work a calculator. burned to dvd with idvd menu, really slick.
I almost wish people would stop using the phrase “I almost wish.”
There are many more improvements much greater than the themes…. such as the professional quality sound editing controls…. the graphic EQ alone is worth the upgrade.
it’s a memory hog, it’s crash prone, and I’m running it on a clean install of 10.4.4 on a G4 dual 1.8.
nice program, but wait for the 6.1 update
I wish people would THINK about their expectations for software and hardware improvements.
MacWorld is running an article here: http://www.macworld.com/2006/01/features/imaclabtest1/index.php
They conclude iMovie has quite a few bugs which make it run slower than expected on the new Duo Core iMac.
I content that Steve Job’s statement during the keynote was missed. Steve clearly stated the system is the same, except for a processor that is 2-3 times faster. He explicitly says the Hard drives, memory, etc are not twice as fast. Yet the MacWorld testers didn’t mention that as they held the new iMac to a 2-3 times faster standard that Apple didn’t actually claim.
The themes really aren’t that bad…now maybe if Apple would beef up their current “title” offers, they wouldn’t end these themes.
That was one thing the really surprised me about the new iMovie – they didn’t do a thing to upgrade how you add titles to a movie. You still can’t really choose placement and the titles still have a very “PowerPoint” feel to them…
I haven’t had a problem with it at all and I run 10.4.4 on a 1.8 SP G5.
Me…
“I wish people would THINK about their expectations for software and hardware improvements.”
well….. I “think” it’s fair to expect software to run without crashing, quiting unexpectedly, hanging during a render process, or generally being less usable and more unstable that the version it replaced, don’t you?
Me communiqué continued….
I mean, the whole reason we’re on a mac is because we wanted it to work right?
if I wanted a piece of software to crash, I’d buy it from MS, not apple.
iMovie discussion forum….
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1115
a serious read for anyone who hasn’t bought this piece of software yet.
After tons of tinkering, I finally got it to work on one of my macs, it still crashes regularly, lot’s of time if you’re rendering more that one photo or movie clip, or transition, and I’ve got a g4 dual 1.8 with 1.5 gig of ram.
wait for the upgrade folks…. it’s not totally unusable, but the upgrades are certainly worth waiting for, stay with iMovie 5 till the upgrade is released.