![]() This move has caused a large segment of the population to switch back to their home computer systems. Apple instead offered consumers the ability to view their movies through an internet site via the iTunes service. In addition, the vast storage space provided allows you to store many movies on one device.Īpple discontinued the iDVD project in October 2021 with the general public unable to obtain or purchase iDVD players due to Apple discontinuing all iDVD products. The main benefit of using iDVD over other methods of creating DVD-quality movies is that you can produce as many copies of your movie as you like without additional expenditure. iDVD players can be purchased from Apple itself or through many third party companies on the market. iDVD enables the consumer to burn QuickTime videos, music, and photographs to a DVD that can then be enjoyed on a standard DVD player. Note that while iMovie '08 can import projects created with iMovie 6 and earlier, iMovie 6 cannot work with iMovie '08 projects unless they are exported as a QuickTime file.IDVD is a famous internet discontinued product of Apple Inc. Apple has also made iMovie 6 available as a free download. ![]() (It's not the CPU itself that matters, says Apple, but the GPU, but it's easiest to identify an iMovie-capable machine by its CPU configuration.) For all these reasons, it's a good thing that the iLife installer leaves the previous version on your hard disk (adding the new version next to it) when you upgrade the rest of the suite. IMovie '08 also has much higher system requirements than the rest of iLife '08: It requires at least an Intel or G5 processor (the rest of the package will work with a G4), and in the latter case, it requires at least a dual 2-GHz PowerMac or a 1.9-GHz iMac. Apple also promises that its Web site will soon feature more tutorials that will address some of the more advanced tasks users might be having trouble with. If you're a fan of the current version, it's worth reading through the comments to find out what might be missing. The complaints are being given a full airing in the forums on the Apple site and at. Likewise, third-party add-ons from earlier versions are unlikely to work with the new release. According to Apple, this release is focused mainly on sharing via the Web, iPhones and iPods, and Apple TV, and better DVD support may be coming in future releases. At the same time, there is a new "ducking" feature that can let a single track, such as the narration, force a reduction in volume in the other audio tracks.Īnd, at least in this first release, you can't add chapter markers in an iMovie project to create chapters when you take your movie into iDVD. For example, you can no longer manually adjust the volume of just a part of a clip's audio track. As with previous iMovie versions, you drag the clips around to create the order of the video, and you can also easily select video within clips that can then be moved, deleted, copied or edited in some other way.Īpple's dramatic rewrite of iMovie for iLife '08 has added a lot of welcome new features, but many users have found that some of their favorite editing techniques or methods from previous versions either have changed or just aren't there any more. The process, which truly makes selecting and positioning specific pieces of video startlingly easy and natural, is a major advance over previous versions of iMovie.Ī clip in the Project Library can be represented by a single thumbnail or by a skimmable thumbnail, as in the browser (you can select how long each thumbnail is on a clip-by-clip basis). Once a section of video is selected, that section can be dragged into the Project Library (what used to be the Timeline) and manipulated. ![]() The process is smooth and intuitive and allows users to simply select segments of video in the same manner that they would select text in a word processing document or audio in GarageBand. Now they are displayed as a series of thumbnails that users can skim over with the cursor while the preview of the clip moves along with them as though fast-forwarding or rewinding. The browser can be set to display only clips that are appropriately marked or tagged, making it easy to find specific clips.Īnother, even more revolutionary change is that clips are no longer displayed as a single thumbnail image. ![]() (See the iPhoto section of this review for more about how Events groupings work.) Clips can even be marked as Favorites or as Rejected and can be tagged with keywords (an option that iPhoto has offered since its first release). The clip browser allows users to browse by Events, which group together video clips recorded or imported on the same day. IMovie has received the biggest overhaul of all the iLife components. ![]()
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