Comments on: Review: iLife ‘09

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:35:39 +0000

Paintbrush – http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/

If you’re going to compare something to Windows Paint, at least make sure it’s a Paint clone. XD

BTW, did Apple leave iDVD at version 7?

By: remote desktop software

remote desktop software — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:37:28 +0000

iLife is an amazing product. I am a huge fan of the Faces and Places portion. For people thinking about buying a new mac, the addition of iLife for free is a great feature.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:00:57 +0000

I’m having the same issue with speed-up, slow-down. I’ve watched all the tutorials, googled the problem for an hour, and found myself in this forum.
If I double-click on the clip it simply plays. I can triple, quadruple, or better-click and all I get is the same clip playing.
I’ve been into preferences, added everything and tried every way I can and still can’t speed up or slow down clips, or even get the option with the slider.

By: C Bot

C Bot — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:29:54 +0000

I can;t find the speed up/slow down/reverse slider. Grrr. Lil help? I believe I downloaded all the mac updates, installed them and rebooted 2 days ago.

By: meg

meg — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:41:05 +0000

so HOW do you get the box with the ’speed’ line up? i have tried clicking everything to find where slow motion / reverse / speed up are but STILL can’t find them! what do you click to get that box in the photo up?? thank you :D xx

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:39:31 +0000

I’m a bit disappointed with the editing capacity in IPhoto 09. It will default back to the unedited version of the photo after I have spent time ‘fixing’ it and I move to the next photo. Cropping and resizing both seem very unstable. When I combine these types of edits with any image enhancement, i.e. increased exposure, it can’t handle it. I would expect a more robust graphic feature from MAC.

By: shunted

shunted — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:47:53 +0000

I have heard that iMovie ‘09 has a larger bank of transitions. Can anybody confirm this?

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:54:52 +0000

Is there a way to pull my identified faces over to iMovie. It does not seem to be an option. Seems that this would be a great way to create movies for kids b-days, etc.

By: zaf

zaf — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:11:44 +0000

yes, it is written to the exif of the file, even the location information is entered inside iphoto. Just check the location information box while exporting the photo.

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By: iLife ‘09 Available Now in Hong Kong | NeonPunch

iLife ‘09 Available Now in Hong Kong | NeonPunch — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:42:54 +0000

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By: SANE

SANE — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:39:04 +0000

Does anyone know if the places data get written into the exif of the file or is stored in the iphoto directory. IE: can you take your file out of iphot and still see the GPS coordinates?

By: Alina

Alina — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:55:36 +0000

I, too, have been spending some time in iLife ‘09 after receiving it last week. I haven’t published my iMovie ‘09 review yet, but you can view my iPhoto ‘09 review on my blog. The only problem I had was with face tagging…it’s great–if it finds the face. I outlined my problem on my blog already, so I won’t retype it all here, but overall, I was pleased and very excited to have two new ways to organize my 4,200+ photos.

caseforcreativity.blogspot.com

By: Dom

Dom — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:07:56 +0000

Actually, it doesn’t work properly. It doesn’t link to your friends’ profiles, just puts a name in – meaning you have to re-tag anyone on your friends list.

Oh – and you can’t have two people with the same name. So if you’re tagging first names only (as iPhoto encourages) you’re not allowed to know two people called John.

Plus you can’t tag people whose faces are only partly visible or have their back’s to camera, as iPhoto will try to “learn” what they look like from the back of their head. Not that the recognition feature works 90% of the time anyway.

In short, it’s poorly thought out and very badly implemented.

(I don’t think this review was particularly useful as you don’t appear to have tried most of the new features in any depth)

By: Paul Preugschat

Paul Preugschat — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:42:17 +0000

I seriously rofld at that comment man, the way you burst out. Really, a good one!
It’s true that apple doesn’t have a proper competitor to paint, but besides using paint for dumb nerd pranks from youtube, noone uses it. As for iMovie, I thought this review was nothing. The new iMovie is fcking awesome!! It’s way better than iMovie 08, which we expected, and compared to iMovie HD 6, it’s about the same. iMovie 6 is more for special effects and sound effects, but iMovie 09 really has some awesome new features that more than make up for iMovie 08. Combined, you can make the perfect homemade movies! And yes, the faces takes long to do with a lot of photos, but osmehow its fun to do that.

By: Faces in iPhoto ‘09 | correlate

Faces in iPhoto ‘09 | correlate — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:43:08 +0000

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By: twitter.com/int23

twitter.com/int23 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:07:57 +0000

Good review, but you come off a bit lazy and really didn’t seem to do your homework on the product. Or you totally missed the keynote. Again, must have been the JimmyJane vibrator keeping you sidetracked.

By: msl

msl — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:37:00 +0000

please don’t waste money on steadicam devices. practice your shooting. float the camera instead forcing yourself to try and hold it still and always keep it moving slightly. like walking with a teacup and saucer.. you won’t spill, you wont shake. and you won’t need the feature either.

By: billy

billy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:57:01 +0000

I have the macbook pro, but in imovie i need slow motion and fast motion, how to do?

By: Michael Dodd

Michael Dodd — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:38:56 +0000

ou can slow down or speed up video clips in your project, and you can make them play backward.
To slow down, speed up, or reverse a clip:

Double-click a video clip in your project.
Drag the Speed slider to the left to make the clip play slower, or to the right to make it play faster.
Fields to the right of the Speed slider show the percentage of normal speed and the clip duration. The farther you drag the slider, the more extreme the speed change.
To set the exact percentage of speed or clip duration, type it in the fields to the right of the Speed slider.
To make the clip play backward, select Reverse.
In the Project Browser, when you move the pointer over a video clip that has had its speed or direction changed, an icon in the upper-left corner of the clip indicates the following:
Rabbit facing to the right: The clip is sped up.

Turtle facing to the right: The clip is slowed down.

Rabbit facing to the left: The clip is reversed, or both sped up and reversed.

Turtle facing to the left: The clip is reversed and slowed down.