iLife '09
by Apple Computer
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Software Reviews of iLife '09
Customer Review: My life with iLife
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently had to have my hard drive replaced so to my surprise I couldn't find the software to load back onto my computer. So I began to look at the various versions of iLife.( Amazon had the most amazing price bought on the spot) My Macbook is 5yrs old so to no surprise iLife had made some amazing progress. I love the face recognition in the photo app. It has made it so much easier to locate photos. The iMovie is awesome it is so easy and fun to use. I'm not much of a garage band so I can't comment on it. Overall this is another great product for a Mac user. Customer Review: iPhoto improved
Summary: 4 Stars
The only part of iLife that I have used is iPhoto, and I like the new sort features, FACES and especially, EVENTS.
The iPhoto EDIT feature has been improved, though I have Photoshop Elements set as my external editor for best editing.
Customer Review: Improved product
Summary: 3 Stars
Apple has done it once again! Iphoto now has the ability to recognize faces, post your pictures directly to facebook etc. Garageband also has the ability to teach you to play keyboard and guitar. The learning curve is not huge which is a plus. However, this upgrade should not cost more than 30 dollars!Customer Review: Solid Upgrades
Summary: 4 Stars
Bought mostly for the upgrades to iPhoto. Faces and places are both great. Faces isn't perfect at recognizing people, but it is still better than nothing. Both are great ways to sort through large libraries of photos.Customer Review: Some good, some bad, most just not quite there yet
Summary: 3 Stars
iPhoto 09
60% accurate at even finding a Face on the page, even if the face is huge and obvious.
of those, it has about a 50% chance of Identifying it as someone KNOWN.
Of Those, it has a 90% chance of Identifying them correctly.
So, if you Click FACES, and click Tom (whatever name), then look at the "please confirm" list, you will be amazed. It's
about 90% accurate in who it thinks is Tom.
But... if you then go through your photos, you will find at least 70% of the pictures with Tom in them, either have no box around the face, or have it listed as "Unknown Face".
It's a cool feature, but it's a lot of work going through 10,000 + photos. It almost never recognizes profile or 3/4 shots.
iMovie 09
It's strange, but a LOT of the user friendly stuff you got used to in the past, are gone.
The first time you load it, it takes forever. It loads in every movie you ever took in iPhoto.
There is no SAVE command. Or even SAVE AS. It saves as you go, so no backups.
It freezes at the cuts, so you'll never know what your film actually looks like until you export it, and this is not a memory issue. I have 3 Gigs of RAM, and I was doing a 30 second film.
Good thing is that is ADDs iMovie 09 to your system. IT leaves iMovie HD alone, so you can use both.
No more Drag n Drop. That's gone. Why? Don't know. just is.
You can not just drag videos from your desk top to the clips panel. You have to use the menu, and IMPORT.
You can not simply COPY a clip you are using, and paste it again in your video. You must grab the original clip from your clips and re-cut it to the same length, apply FX, etc. I had a bouncing ball I wanted looped. Same for Text. Can't just grab text you liked on one section and paste over another.
Text has been reduced to iMove 1 levels. You can only use about 10 text types for most text displays. In the past you could move them around, change the style, etc. Not any more. One text selection has a bold large text, then a smaller SHADOWED text. You can not turn the shadow off, nor add a shadow the the other text.
Transitions are also lame. If you have a shot you want to fade to black over 3 seconds, then fade from black on the next shot in 1 second, you can't. All transitions affect BOTH clips. You can not just affect one.
It's great that we can now scrub sound, and the presission editor is pretty cool, but those don't make up for what was taken away.