iLife '05 Warning

perfessor101 · #1 January 25th, 2005, 09:32 AM

I just got the following eMail from Formac. Fortunately my copy of iLife '05 was delayed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Formac

Dear Formac Studio customer,

it has come to our attention that Apple's iMovie 5 has problems with DV devices. This is a general issue with DV devices and not specific to the Studio. We strongly recommend not to upgrade to iMovie 5 yet, as we cannot guarantee the functionality of your Studio under these circumstances. We have informed Apple about this issue and hope to have a solution soon.

Best regards,

Your Formac support team

**Cheryl** · #2 January 25th, 2005, 07:39 PM

There will probably be an update released soon.

jocknerd · #3 January 25th, 2005, 08:43 PM

iLife 05 has some serious bugs. iPhoto's performance reminds me of iPhoto from a couple of years ago and iMovie HD has major problems with importing and pass-thru mode. My video camera won't work with it now in pass-thru mode to import video from my VCR.

So hopefully, an update is coming. I just wish Apple would fix these problems before they take my money.

JPigford · #4 January 26th, 2005, 10:11 AM

My general rule is to never get anything from Apple the second it comes out. Give it a couple of weeks to let some of the bugs get worked out.

brianleahy · #5 January 26th, 2005, 10:13 AM

That's not only good advice for Apple products, either.

On the other hand, if NOBODY got the first version, there'd never be a 1.1 version...

Decado · #6 January 26th, 2005, 05:19 PM

no problems with inlife here. iPhoto is actually a lot faster (though it took forever to upgrade my 7000 photos. about a hour). Be warned that they say on macosxhints.com that there might be a bug concerning old albums. it didnt effect me.

btoth · #7 January 26th, 2005, 06:05 PM

iMovie has been giving me lots of problems (probably my worse experience with anything Apple). It seems to have a mind of it's own... works one minute, than does something completely different or just crashes. It's a very poor product from what I've dealt with this week. iMovie 4 had plenty of quirks and issues of it's own, but it seemed much more stable.

iDVD has been giving me white flashes on the screen at the beginning of each song when I import an iMovie movie. If I save the iMovie movie as a Quicktime DV first, then it works OK. Very time-consuming.

I was hoping that iPhoto's new folders would be reflected in the Finder as well, but I guess that was just wishful thinking, the iPhoto database structure still bugs me, but I guess I don't have to use it.

I definitely feel like I wasted $80. If the problems do get resolved, there are plenty of worthwhile new features (like iDVD natively supporting disk images) that might all work at some point.

I think I'll pass on iWork for now... I don't trust it.

brianleahy · #8 January 26th, 2005, 06:42 PM

Strangely, when I brought up iPhoto just now, it worked fine. Thrashing seemed to be over.

Go figure.