Received iLife

adambyte · #1 January 21st, 2005, 02:45 AM

Yay. iLife '05 came today. I installed it as soon as possible so I could reap the benefits.

iPhoto- I so dig the view by calendar thing.
iMovie- Never use it. Got Final Cut. iMovie is too simple, and I can't figure it out... still.
iDVD- Great new themes. Except for the Anime Pop one. It's obnoxious. But the rest of them are great. I can't wait to burn my videos.
GarageBand- A-freakin'-mazing. The thing that turns your keyboard into a piano is great, and with the music notation editing, you can refine it. It's freakin' great. Only thing is, to edit to the 16th notes, you have to zoom in really far.

Oh, and an improvement that is in most of the apps... when no song, movie, etc, is open, there's a single window that shows up with three options "Create New Project," "Open an Existing Project," and "Quit." A nice interface touch in the iLife apps.

Randman · #2 January 21st, 2005, 03:47 AM

Hmm, mine's still on order. What's the damage done, space-wise?

pds · #3 January 21st, 2005, 08:32 AM

does iphoto allow for subfolders? How many levels?

adambyte · #4 January 21st, 2005, 03:23 PM

Randman... assuming you do a full install, with all the iDVD themes, and including GarageBand's sample songs, I think it was a few gigs.... 3, maybe?

iTunes app: 30 MB
GarageBand: 62 MB
iPhoto app: 158 MB
iDVD app: 2.2 GB
iMovie app: 63.3

Yup. You can put folders in other folders. And for those folders to contain any photos, you have to put an "album" at some level. And uh... I don't know how many levels, but I stopped at nine levels.... but that's just me being lazy with your question.

I think nine is enough, don't you?

Decado · #5 January 21st, 2005, 03:56 PM

i ordered a new computer last week (after o1/11). received it today, but no iLife05. so i have now ordered the update. had really looked foreward to installing it. well well. guess i have to wait another week.

edit.

pds · #6 January 21st, 2005, 04:46 PM

Nine is almost enough for most of my needs.

Thanks

HateEternal · #7 January 21st, 2005, 06:38 PM

Looking forward to GarageBand 2.

Durbrow · #8 January 21st, 2005, 08:14 PM

Is iPhoto faster than the previous version? I.e. scrolling through hundreds of photos? Also, Adam, how fast a G4 are you running it on? Thanks for any info.