Mood
Well that's put me in a good mood. I just had a few minutes with the new versions of iPhoto and iMovie in iLife '04, and it's gratifying to note that both have hugely improved performance.
The scrolling in iPhoto will add years to my life. As soon as you have more than a very few photos in the old iPhoto, it crawls to an almost-stop and becomes almost unusable. This has the knock-on effect of making you reluctant to upload photos to the Mac, and the further effect of making you reluctant to take photos in the first place, because you know it'll be a pain to do anything with them other than look at them on the camera. So yay to Apple on that, and about time.
The "sepia" effect works well, too, if you like that sort of thing, plus photos are better organised, by default, and the new slide show feature is spot on. Whereas previously you just had a slide show with the option of a single piece of music, you now have novelty transitions (not that interested in those), can choose a whole playlist of music, and you can rate, rotate, and trash photos as you go through the show. Fantastic.
As for iMovie 4, it certainly launches quicker, and the other immediate benefit is that the so-called "Ken Burns Effect" (which in the UK should be called the Ken Morse Effect) is miles quicker. Choosing a photo with the KB effect used to be frustratingly, painfully, slow. Now, when you click "apply" it happens in (almost) a blink of an eye. I mean, that red progress bar just races across the clip, and there's no waiting. So a double yay to Apple on that, but please, what was iMovie 3 all about? Because it was rubbish from start to finish, so good riddance.
As for iDVD 4, I'm not installing it until I know it works. Took me about 8 months to get version 3 working properly (had to wait for an update while Apple seemingly were in denial of the problem). And GarageBand... I'll have a look at soon, but I'm in the midst of a pro tools project, so it won't be for a while.
The scrolling in iPhoto will add years to my life. As soon as you have more than a very few photos in the old iPhoto, it crawls to an almost-stop and becomes almost unusable. This has the knock-on effect of making you reluctant to upload photos to the Mac, and the further effect of making you reluctant to take photos in the first place, because you know it'll be a pain to do anything with them other than look at them on the camera. So yay to Apple on that, and about time.
The "sepia" effect works well, too, if you like that sort of thing, plus photos are better organised, by default, and the new slide show feature is spot on. Whereas previously you just had a slide show with the option of a single piece of music, you now have novelty transitions (not that interested in those), can choose a whole playlist of music, and you can rate, rotate, and trash photos as you go through the show. Fantastic.
As for iMovie 4, it certainly launches quicker, and the other immediate benefit is that the so-called "Ken Burns Effect" (which in the UK should be called the Ken Morse Effect) is miles quicker. Choosing a photo with the KB effect used to be frustratingly, painfully, slow. Now, when you click "apply" it happens in (almost) a blink of an eye. I mean, that red progress bar just races across the clip, and there's no waiting. So a double yay to Apple on that, but please, what was iMovie 3 all about? Because it was rubbish from start to finish, so good riddance.
As for iDVD 4, I'm not installing it until I know it works. Took me about 8 months to get version 3 working properly (had to wait for an update while Apple seemingly were in denial of the problem). And GarageBand... I'll have a look at soon, but I'm in the midst of a pro tools project, so it won't be for a while.
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Friday, January 16, 2004
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