iLife '09
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Software Reviews of iLife '09
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.
Customer Review: Worth Every Penny!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorite applications. iLife is packed with everyday "Useful" features. You will be happy with iLife!!!!!!!!!!!!Customer Review: New and improved!
Summary: 5 Stars
ilife 09 is great! I love the iPhoto option of being able to locate places. Many other features also improved-A+Customer Review: Lost photo data during iPhoto09 upgrade
Summary: 3 Stars
I upgraded to iLife09 for the great new features in iPhoto (the new layout, face recognition, GPS location, etc) and I'm very happy with those features. However, the upgrade from iPhoto 5 to iPhoto 09 resulted in lost data and pictures. The iPhoto 09 did not import the picture titles, keywords for many of my photos. I've also found that some of my photos are no longer there. Thankfully, I have DVDs of all these photos and "in time" will be able to sort thru all the photos to determine what's missing, re-enter the missing data and import the missing photos. Checking and re-entering data and photos will be very time consuming.
This loss of data & photos has left me frustrated. I'm also stunned since I've never had problems with any Apple product I've bought before. I did not find anything in the upgrade instructions that indicated that lost of data and pictures was possible.
Customer Review: I now has a life...
Summary: 5 Stars
I now have a life... I mean iLife and I love it!!!! Way cool for all you Mac folks who are looking into iLife. I especially love how you can put names on pictures in iPhoto.