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iLife Apps Available for Download
gsfprez writes "iMovie 3.0.1 and iPhoto 2.0 are available for download. iTunes 3 has been out for a while, and iDVD 3 is only available from your friendly neighborhood Apple Store or the virtual one." They are also available via Software Update, and Air Mapster writes "Those of us who ssh in from work/elsewhere can do 'sudo softwareupdate iMovie-3.0.1' and 'sudo softwareupdate iPhoto-2.0' to have them ready when we get home."
I saw these at Macworld for the first time and I am truely amazed. I am a born and raised PC user but I recently switched to Mac because of MS's craptastic doings - I tried Linux but it wasn't pretty enough. Plus, why use Linux when you can get a *nix box with OS X and still have the best GUI and best app support out there? Anyway - these products are so far beyond anything that a PC vendor has available. You couldn't pay (under $500) for a better product on the PC platform. This really is an awesome set of apps.
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Wait dont slash dot the site yet. I'm trying to download mine and its going too slowly!
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SSH into your computer at home from work and use Software Update remotely so the new stuff is ready for you when you get home?
/., that's just...just...
Come on...even for
Hmmm...actually, it's not a bad idea...
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
iMovie 3.0.1 - 84,5MB
iPhoto 2.0 - 33,3MB
That's nearly 120MB to download..
I'm pretty stunned. iMovie works fluidly well, and doesn't feel like it's losing anything despite running on a pretty basic mac, a G3/350.
I don't have a use for iPhoto personally, but that's a slick-arse interface. Kudos to Apple for these two
> softwareupdate
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002 Apple Computer, Inc.
Software Update found the following new or updated software:
- - iMovie-3.0.1
iMovie (3.0.1), 86530K
- iPhoto-2.0
iPhoto (2.0), 34100K
To install an update, run this tool with the item name as an argument.>softwareupdate iMovie-3.0.1
This will start the process, and all you have to do is wait to see if you are prompted to restart. Given the size of these two, it will naturally take some time depending on your setup, etc. I use this method from the office, as a routine, so that everything is ready when I get home. Nice to see it mentioned along with the update notice. Now to get Apple to announce the item names on their support pages...
New in iMovie 3.0.1
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New resizeable window; Liquid Timeline editing interface
Custom volume control for clips, music and sound effects
Ken Burns effect for still photos
Stunning sound effects from Skywalker Sound
Pro-quality video effects and titles
DVD chapter markers
Send movies to iDVD with one click
Media browsers let you use your iTunes music and iPhoto pictures
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New in iPhoto 2
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Make photos picture-perfect with one click of the Enhance button.
Eliminate unwanted blemishes with the new Retouch brush.
Archive photos to CD or DVD for easy organization and safekeeping.
Create slideshows complete with soundtracks from iTunes.
Burn slideshow DVDs with a click of the iDVD button.*
Email photos from iPhoto using your favorite email application.
Use the new printing templates to get the most from your expensive photo
paper.
Unlimited keywords help keep your photos organized.
Retrieve accidentally deleted images from the new iPhoto Trash.
*Requires Apple SuperDrive
One thing I read recently (perhaps here?) about softwareupdate was that Apple was going to release an SDK for softwareupdate so that third parties could use it as a mechanism to keep users up-to-date.
I think that is fantastic.
Well, the app size in Finder is 46MB, then in /Library/iMovie/Documentation there is 60MB of manuals and lessons in PDFs in a number of different languages (no sample .DV stuff inflating the download).
.DMG format.. I thought that was the new OS X way of doing things..
If they wanted to they could offer smaller, country specific versions (which they might already do)...
Also, it wasn't in a
The iLife CD with all three is $14.95 special intro education price, so I opted for the snailmail solution. ....
Have them installed when I get home? Like I have time to use them, anyway
iPhoto 2 uses a different storage format than iPhoto 1.x used.
As of 1/31/03 Brian is testing iPhoto Library Manager for compatibility with iPhoto 2. He recommends LM users delay installing iPhoto 2 until he reports on his test results in a "few days".
I am sure we will soon hear if iPhoto 2 has cured iPhoto 1.x's performance and scaling problems. Since iPhoto 2 does allow mini-album exports, better performance would remove the need for iPhoto Library Manager. Consolidating those disparate libraries may be interesting, however.
(I'd love to hear why iPhoto 1.x scales so very poorly. I do know that a bug that causes iPhoto to "forget" to use the more efficient library outline/roll view doesn't help.)
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If Apple manages to pull it off.
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True but the specific cases you name (SSH, Stuffit, Apache third party apps) were all security hole fixes. So you can believe these were scrutinized out the wazoo. I'm not opposed to that. But contrast that with the lastest update of imovie 3. that was just a pure update. if we had 3rd party vendors doing that, it would be ripe for exploitation and the result would be root level acces to every mac in the world in a matter of a week. not somthing to take lightly.
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okay, this is getting OLD. Give it up, wanker.
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"But the reason I use PCs is because they are more hands on! Open that case, open that case!"
Integrate Keynote and LaTeX
So, in software update, I checked iphoto (33.3 MB) and imovie (84.5MB) and here's what softwre update said:
( and I cut and paste!)
889MB is required to download and install the checked updates. To free up space, remove files from your hard disk, then try again.
Wow. Time for a bigger disk partition, or a new math chip.
Honest, folks, I am using a PPC G4, not a pentium 1!!!!!
Well I have updated my iMovie and taken the new one for a whirl...
I was initially excited to hear about the resizeable window, because the previous (full screen) iMovie just looked stupid at resolutions above 1024 x 768. Big voids of space between the three main elements (the timeline, the bin, the viewer) just made using higher screen resolutions a pain, so I would always scale down my screen just to run iMovie.
I figured the resizeable window would be great, but when I make it fill my screen, the viewer gets bigger while the clip bin and the timeline don't expand at all. I would really like to see it expand so that you could see more thumbnails without having to scroll, but instead you just get a GIANT preview screen.
I find the single-window nature of iMovie to be very limiting. I know, I know, it's a consumer app, it's supposed to be very simple for very simple people, but I was always under the impression power is supposed to lurk behind the simplicity for those who need it.
If Apple is going to keep iMovie all in one window, they should make the panes between the screen elements moveable as well, so that I can have a bigger bin when I need it, and then make it small at my whim so I can watch a bigger preview.
iDVD requires an internal DVD burner to install/run. This was clearly done in order to sell new Apple HW, fair enough. Part of the hoped-for trade off for charging for iDVD was support for external drives, like DVD Studio Pro. But now that they're charging us$50, I say they're fair game for a bit of, er, adaptation....
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Talk about a useless skill... funny tho.
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I got my iLIFE yesterday and it ships on CD for imovie, iphoto and itunes OR a DVD with all those plus iDVD on it.
Create slideshows complete with soundtracks from iTunes.
shame it's only one tune it plays. suck ass apple
Ok I take it back. File -> Export does the trick. *hides*
Has anyone else tried to export photos to a web page from the new iphoto? It looks like it requires a .mac account! That is just WRONG if it is true. Workarounds?
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In iMovie, the link to iTunes is grayed out. I can't bring any of the music from there to the movie without just importing them. Anyone else? Brett
- iPhoto 2 is much faster. I'm using an iBook 600 and have about 1250 ~1.2mb jpegs in iPhoto. Moving back and forth between photos is actually instantaneous now, rather than a half second pause followed by a unfocused view of the image followed by another half second pause and then the image itself. Starting and quitting the app itself seemed to best 1.x by at least a couple seconds each.
- The iPhoto interface is much cleaner. It always seemed to me that the 'Export' button and panel could be eliminated in iPhoto, and with the release of 2.0, it seems I was right.
- iMovie 3 is only slightly improved from my perspective. The only problem I had with 2.x was how it would take over the whole screen. Now it looks and behaves like any other app. Other than that, the interface does look much more refined and the app itself just feels faster (when exporting, mainly).
- The only problem I've had with either is with sound in iMovie. I opened a project I created with iMovie 2 and although each clip shows up, when I try to play any of them, I get a rather loud and annoying tone played rather than the sound itself. This problem seems to be related to an incompatibility between the Formac Studio DV converter box I used to import the clips and iMovie 3 itself. Several people are having this problem, so I imagine it will be fixed fairly shortly. Until then, I've used a workaround posted on the Apple discussion boards.
All in all, a worthwhile upgrade (particularly once the glaring problem with iMovie is fixed).Perl - $Just @when->$you ${thought} s/yn/tax/ &couldn\'t %get $worse;
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