Strange..I found it faster. iMovie 2 was real buggy when it came to the sound and effects menus paticularly with third party stuff. iMovie 3 does take a second longer to start playing in my experience, but other than that I love chapters, direct access to itunes and iphoto..maybe I've been lucky
iMovie 3 has just turned my dual 450 into a performa. christ its slow. even playing a clip I get around 2fps if I'm lucky. my system is clean with no hacks or system add ons.
I tried it on my ibook 800 14 incher and it was even worse. what the hell is going on?
this is why my faith in apple is slowly vapourising. First it was X and the geeks claimed "Oh, but wait its new, apple will continually improve it - just wait till its finally finished".
still waiting.
now its the iapps. This doesn't bode well for future development of safari etc. aren't iapps by implication mant for non pros? so lets not have any cr*p about adding ram or how well it runs on anyone's dual gigger.
God, sometimes I wish apple would just get their heads out of this self induced coma that they're stuck in.
Its not just iMovie. iCal eats at my processors. what the hell can it be doing? Jagwire ran like a dream yet every update since has successively slowed down my mac and made it less responsive. iPhoto 2 launches when i click on iMovie 3 in the dock and takes forever to actually run. My old albums which took a little time to load in iPhoto 1 now take much longer (painfully so) to load and display in iPhoto 2. projects that I had worked comfortably in iMovie 3 now are useless as I can't even see the previews when I hit play. I get the first frame, then a pause then a frame from around 3 seconds in then a pause then it jumps and shows me a frame from 12 seconds in.
if apple can't even optimise their own software how the hell can any other developer be expected to.
why should a home user be expected to buy more ram? Its not as if a home user isn't the market for the iapps. and I bet its a great feeling for those with imacs who were getting along great with the previous versions to find that they need a new graphics card to run the newer versions.
doesn't anyone at apple test these iapps on anything less than a dual gigger?
I am running a 550 G4 Tibook with 512 mb and iM3 is barely usable in terms of speed. It is very Windows98 in terms of stability. Very cool program, but iM3 seems terribly beta to me.
I bet its a great feeling for those with imacs who were getting along great with the previous versions to find that they need a new graphics card to run the newer versions.
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Spooky, what are you on about ? Do you mean older iMacs ? I have an iMac 800 (512mb) and have no problem with any of these apps running slowly. I have plenty of other probs with iMovie which need sorted, and quickly, but apart from the playhead taking a couple of seconds to respond I haven't seen the crippling slowdown you seem to be implying. I trust Apple to put these things right with an early fix. I'm not sure why they gave iMovie such a radical overhaul, basically rewriting it from ground up, when it was such a killer anyway. 10.2.3 is certainly no slower on my machine than the original 10.2 (Jag - u-ar ).
However, I do think you have a decent general point about some of these apps ( Keynote and iMovie in particular ) escaping before they were ready. I think we can safely put that down to pressure from SJ who wanted a blistering Macworld to divert attention away from the processor situation. Just hope the Powerbooks don't prove to be a disappointment.
I know its not our hardware being the reason this is happening. I am on my new 15inch powerbook 1ghz and it just isn't usable. I t crashes every 5 minutes, audio and video playback is horrendous. And it crashes every 5 minutes. I'm thankful that where I work I use Final Cut Pro or else I'd be screwed.
<strong>I have had no problems with iMovie 3 in over 5 hours use of it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
On my imac 800 15" w/512 ram. i-movie plays back fine ( did notice some audio delay in fullscreen not seen in V2of imovie)but have found other things to worry about when the project was imported into iDVD3 - strange Bad edits and lost audio tracks...Sure half the problem is me tryin' to do it the old way but sounds like from these post some of it could be the way the new software is working...
The Slowdown for most of you is because the program is NOW rendering your project to a Quicktime file for iDVD/QT everytime you save it as your working in imovie to save you time later so they think! ...but boy does this tax your system...I think thats why some of you are getting such poor playback... well I had this New ilife a few days and have had more problems with this than the whole year I have been playin' with this imac. And yes now my mac does seem slower... <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
I am on a 17" iMac with 768 megs of ram. This pre-render stuff sucks, it lags everything down. Before I would get my movie how I wanted it then export for idvd later when I knew I was going to be away from my mac, I would usually do it before i went to bed or something. Now it takes much longer just to edit clips and the constant crashes are annoying. My last project was 45 minutes long no transitions or anything, just imported from camera and cut some stuff out then i export it to quicktime with the full quality/dv option and after about 20 minutes the sound is out of sync. This new iMovie feels like some 3rd party windows program. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
i have been saying the same thing since IM3 came out... that they wont fix the bugs anytime soon, not until they feel they have sold enough copies of FCE to us non-pro users.
and the ploy IS working... i plan on getting FCE myself, barring any unforeseen cash shortages of course.
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oh yeah...iMac 800 15" 512
I tried it on my ibook 800 14 incher and it was even worse. what the hell is going on?
this is why my faith in apple is slowly vapourising. First it was X and the geeks claimed "Oh, but wait its new, apple will continually improve it - just wait till its finally finished".
still waiting.
now its the iapps. This doesn't bode well for future development of safari etc. aren't iapps by implication mant for non pros? so lets not have any cr*p about adding ram or how well it runs on anyone's dual gigger.
God, sometimes I wish apple would just get their heads out of this self induced coma that they're stuck in.
PS: don't extrapolate a problem with some aspect of iMovie to the whole of Apple.
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<strong>Might be a graphics card thing? It runs well by all counts on my 700 MHz LCD iMac, 512 MB RAM.
PS: don't extrapolate a problem with some aspect of iMovie to the whole of Apple.
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Its not just iMovie. iCal eats at my processors. what the hell can it be doing? Jagwire ran like a dream yet every update since has successively slowed down my mac and made it less responsive. iPhoto 2 launches when i click on iMovie 3 in the dock and takes forever to actually run. My old albums which took a little time to load in iPhoto 1 now take much longer (painfully so) to load and display in iPhoto 2. projects that I had worked comfortably in iMovie 3 now are useless as I can't even see the previews when I hit play. I get the first frame, then a pause then a frame from around 3 seconds in then a pause then it jumps and shows me a frame from 12 seconds in.
if apple can't even optimise their own software how the hell can any other developer be expected to.
why should a home user be expected to buy more ram? Its not as if a home user isn't the market for the iapps. and I bet its a great feeling for those with imacs who were getting along great with the previous versions to find that they need a new graphics card to run the newer versions.
doesn't anyone at apple test these iapps on anything less than a dual gigger?
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I bet its a great feeling for those with imacs who were getting along great with the previous versions to find that they need a new graphics card to run the newer versions.
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Spooky, what are you on about ? Do you mean older iMacs ? I have an iMac 800 (512mb) and have no problem with any of these apps running slowly. I have plenty of other probs with iMovie which need sorted, and quickly, but apart from the playhead taking a couple of seconds to respond I haven't seen the crippling slowdown you seem to be implying. I trust Apple to put these things right with an early fix. I'm not sure why they gave iMovie such a radical overhaul, basically rewriting it from ground up, when it was such a killer anyway. 10.2.3 is certainly no slower on my machine than the original 10.2 (Jag - u-ar ).
However, I do think you have a decent general point about some of these apps ( Keynote and iMovie in particular ) escaping before they were ready. I think we can safely put that down to pressure from SJ who wanted a blistering Macworld to divert attention away from the processor situation. Just hope the Powerbooks don't prove to be a disappointment.
I have both, I used to use iMovie for quick simple edit projects, now I have abandoned it because iMovie3 is slower than FCP.
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<strong>I have had no problems with iMovie 3 in over 5 hours use of it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
On my imac 800 15" w/512 ram. i-movie plays back fine ( did notice some audio delay in fullscreen not seen in V2of imovie)but have found other things to worry about when the project was imported into iDVD3 - strange Bad edits and lost audio tracks...Sure half the problem is me tryin' to do it the old way but sounds like from these post some of it could be the way the new software is working...
The Slowdown for most of you is because the program is NOW rendering your project to a Quicktime file for iDVD/QT everytime you save it as your working in imovie to save you time later so they think! ...but boy does this tax your system...I think thats why some of you are getting such poor playback... well I had this New ilife a few days and have had more problems with this than the whole year I have been playin' with this imac. And yes now my mac does seem slower... <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
<strong>Maybe it is an ingeneous ploy to get people to move to FCP.
I have both, I used to use iMovie for quick simple edit projects, now I have abandoned it because iMovie3 is slower than FCP.
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i have been saying the same thing since IM3 came out... that they wont fix the bugs anytime soon, not until they feel they have sold enough copies of FCE to us non-pro users.
and the ploy IS working... i plan on getting FCE myself, barring any unforeseen cash shortages of course.