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iLife '08 | 
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Category: Software
List Price: £55.00
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Rating:  8 reviews
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Macintosh
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
Legal Disclaimer: IFILE
MPN: MB015Z/A
Model: MB015Z/A
UPC: 718908999677
EAN: 0718908999677
ASIN: B000BX5JQG
Release Date: August 17, 2007
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ILIFE 08 RETAIL UK
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 What have they done to iMovie? August 11, 2007
Stephen Lodziak (Cambridge, UK)
22 out of 31 found this review helpful
OK, positive first:
The upgrades to iPhoto and iWeb are great and enhance the overall experience of using these programmes. I think the gallery application in iPhoto is fantastic; being able to let others upload photos on to your own webpage is really useful, saves CD's and postage costs! Perhaps for the enhancement to these two programmes alone iLife '08 may just about justify its price tag.
So why only 2 stars?
Well the new iMovie is incredibly disappointing, frustrating and worrying.
Disappointing because it seems like a step back rather than a step forward - why have they removed so much that was so good about the previous versions? In particular removing the timeline I find inexplicable; matching clips or photos to the right juncture in the music was really important to my iMovie experience - using the right transitions for the clips and photos was also important, now half of them have gone.
It's frustrating because although my Mac is only a year old (MacBook Pro, Core Duo 2Ghz) iMovie works at a snails pace - will the same happen with OS X.5?
It is worrying because mac say they have made the changes to simplify use for the majority of users and if this is a trend that will continue one has to wonder what will eventually happen to their other iLife apps. It is also worrying because with this release of iMovie Apple seems to be saying "if it's too basic for you buy why don't you spend 800 on Final Cut Studio which has the Timeline and so much more...".
In short: get iLife '08 for the improvements to iPhoto and iWeb but give Apple hell for the direction they are taking iMovie.
 Mostly great August 15, 2007
Mr. A. J. Kelsall (England)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
For me this is worth it just for the iPhoto which is great but iWeb, iDVD and Garageband have all had quite decent upgrades.
Whilst it's true that iMovie has lost some of the old editing functions it's worth noting that installing it does not remove your old version so you can make use of iMovie HD and the new iMovie 08. Apple also provides iMovie HD as a free download to purchasers of iLife 08 if they don't already have it. You should also note that the new iMovie will not run on anything less than a G5 and not even all G5s will run it. The other apps work fine on my G4 mac.
Stephen Lodziak wrote that Apple seem to be suggesting that if we need more editing features than iMovie 08 provides then we should upgrade to Final Cut Studio at 800. Actually the natural upgrade from iMovie would be Final Cut Express HD which is currently at 199. It may well be that it's simply the case that iMovie 08 as a new application is a works in progress and we'll see more editing functions added later but only time will tell.
iPhoto '08 Is Excellent, Let Down By iMovie '08 January 13, 2008
Alan (England)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
iLife '08 comprises 5 applications for 55, so 11 per application. For 4 out of 5 of these applications, iLife '08 is an improvement over its predecessor iLife '06 (there is no iLife '07) and a great upgrade. However, iMovie '08 takes 2 steps back from iMovie HD, in an attempt to take 1 step forward. More on that later.
iPhoto '08 is excellent and worth 55 alone. It has some excellent new features such as Events, the .Mac Web Gallery, Unified Search, New Calendar and book styles, Theme-based home printing and new Editing Tools. The editing tools are worth pointing out as iPhoto now does something very clever when you edit a photo. It remembers every single alteration you made to it, in a truly non-destructive way, down to the positions of the adjustment sliders, the exact angle of straightening, the cropping, everything. So, for example, if you increase the contrast of a photo to +10 and then quit iPhoto, when you re-open it iPhoto remembers that the contrast was set to +10 and you can adjust it down to +5. There's no need to save, or remember what adjustments you made; iPhoto takes care of it all. This enables you to go editing crazy, rapidly cropping, straightening and fixing colour casts on all your photos, without worrying about destroying the original or getting the edits perfect the first time. Brilliant.
iMovie '08 has nothing in common with the previous version, iMovie HD. It is a brand new application, starting from scratch. While it introduces some excellent new features, it loses a lot of the control and creative power of iMovie HD. The new video library system is great, automatically capturing and archiving your MiniDV, HDV and AVCHD camcorder footage. It's like iPhoto, but for your home video. The whole of iMovie '08 works in real-time, even with mixed format footage in the same project, processing all of the edits, transitions and titles on the fly. Very impressive. The new tools for skimming and dragging make editing extremely easy, enabling you to chuck a series of clips into whatever order you want in an incredibly short amount of time. Due to the new library system, the video project files are now tiny, since they only contain a list of instructions, not the actual video files. This means you can make 10-20 different projects, but using minimal disk space, since all the projects reference the same collection of video files. Plus, iMovie '08 incorporates an automated YouTube uploader, offering to put your projects directly on YouTube where they can be viewed by millions, literally. The most viewed video on YouTube currently has 71 million views!
Where iMovie '08 goes wrong is in what's missing. Gone is the traditional timeline view, making editing video to music very very difficult. Gone are all of the slick real-time video effects that made iMovie HD so impressive. Gone are most of the transitions. Gone is the ability to record your project back to MiniDV tape. Gone is the ability to maintain interlacing (iMovie '08 automatically de-interlaces everything, reducing the fluidity and clarity of MiniDV video). iMovie '08 is clearly aimed at the YouTube generation, not the DVD generation.
The good news is, iMovie HD is available as a free download to anyone that owns iLife '08. So, nothing is really lost. iMovie '08 clearly has brought down the reputation of the iLife suite, turning a 5 star product into a 4 or 3 star product. If Apple have any sense they will focus all of their iLife '09 efforts into iMovie, adding back the missing features and turning a disappointing application into an excellent application. Apple are extremely fast and focused at pumping out new software, so I wouldn't dismiss iMovie just yet. Watch this space...
 IMovie October 12, 2007
J. M. Sheehan (Doncaster, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The new '08 version of iMovie is ultra simple to use and you can genuinely edit a movie in minutes. And, as a bonus you get to keep iMovie '06 or download for free from Apple so you get the best of both worlds!
The changes to the rest of the iLife apps are worth the cost in themselves. iPhoto and iMovie with skimming and events is just amazing. Mac gallery and YouTube uploading is a dream to use and the new templates and printing options with frames is excellent. In my opinion you won't be disappointed. And no, I don't work for Apple!
 Great iPhoto upgrade, but iMovie failed December 1, 2007
Bernard Smith (Somewhere, Europe)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have a G4 PowerPC running at 1.67 GHz with 1 GB memory and using Leopard. I upgraded to iLife '08 because it appeared to be the sensible thing to do, and the cost was reasonable. The upgrade to iPhoto is certainly very useful, although I have not exploited all the new features yet. I have not really used iDVD and iWeb yet, but I will get round to it in the near future, and I don't use GarageBand. My biggest negative is with iMovie. iLife '08 does not allow the upgrade on my "old" machine. Reading the reviews, this could be a good thing since many of the comments about the latest iMovie are negative. I am still disappointed since it does not say on the box that iMovie won't load for older machines. So, basically 4 stars go for the iPhoto upgrade, minus a star for the failed iMovie upgrade. Equals 3-stars overall. The upgrade may still be worth it just for iPhoto.
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