I installed iMovie3 on the day of release and was horrified to see my slick new iMac editing system reduced to a glitchy PC grade abortion of a machine. Promptly reinstalled iMovie2.
Has it been improved enough now to warrant upgrading again from 2?
I was just at a wedding yesterday that I filmed. On my way home I pulled out my PowerBook 800 and I hooked my video camera right up. With 90% battery I was able to pull in one hour of footage with some time to spare. Today I put the videos together with no problem, transitions, music and pictures.
I am not sure why people have an issue with iMovie 3.
I have had no problems with Imove3, or Iphoto, or Itunes, or Ichat or anything, have 5 macs.
(of course, only one has dvd, my new 1ghz imac), but no problems.
my camera isnt compatible with osx, so I import using imove one an os9 machine, then over network copy to osx machine then edit with imovie, and burn with idvd.
What seems to be most peculiar is the different experiences of recent iApp users. iMovie3 for instance seems to run like a dog on some systems, but run fine on other similair systems.
I have a 6 month old 800mhz 17in 256mb iMac and iMovie3 (which is now removed) and iPhoto2 (which is unbelievably slow) have given me serious productivity headaches. The iApps that were pre-installed ran like a dream.
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that simple. iMovie3.x is instable, unprecise, slow.
buy FCE - a pro tool for a very fair price.
or stay with iMovie2 - a hobbiest tool for a much better price :-))
if I'm patient, save often and restart the application everytime I trash something, I can endure.
Sounds appalling.
My copy of iPhoto is slow as hell also and I've been hearing negative feedback about iDVD3 also.
This Apple downgrading has worked in a sense I for one will definately be buying FCE a.s.a.p.
My opinion of Apples commitment to stable and functional software has gone down a lot though.
I am not sure why people have an issue with iMovie 3.
(of course, only one has dvd, my new 1ghz imac), but no problems.
my camera isnt compatible with osx, so I import using imove one an os9 machine, then over network copy to osx machine then edit with imovie, and burn with idvd.
I have a 6 month old 800mhz 17in 256mb iMac and iMovie3 (which is now removed) and iPhoto2 (which is unbelievably slow) have given me serious productivity headaches. The iApps that were pre-installed ran like a dream.
What's the secret to the new iApp success?