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Archives => 2007 => Topic started by: Parker on August 18, 2007, 11:24:44 PM

Title: iMovie 08 users can download iMovie 06 from Apple!
Post by: Parker on August 18, 2007, 11:24:44 PM
So apple realized that iMovie '08 isn't the best program, since it lacks a lot of features iMovie '06 offers, like Themes, Timeline view, and a few other features. After receiving many complaints, they are offering iMovie '06 as a free download online for iLife '08 users.

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html
Title: iMovie 08 users can download iMovie 06 from Apple!
Post by: Mrious_be on August 19, 2007, 03:33:30 AM
I listened to an interesting topic about that on the Dutch MacOsx Podcast about that.
I didn't used iMove so I can't back it up for myself but it seems iMovie 06 has grown up into a program that was really complicated to use.
You have to hold in mind that the iLife suite is created for home users, to have fun and to give you the ability to create simple things (websites, movies, music etc) in a simple way.
Exactly cause of the timeline, iMovie felt pretty professional from the beginning and people have been using it in a bit of a professional way (kinda shooting under Apple's Pro Applications wings for that matter).
iMovie is to create simple movies from family holidays or whatever, not to create your own 2 hour movie.
I guess it's fun being able to create your own movie but that sure wasn't what Apple had in mind so they re-thought it all over and went back to the basics.
In itself, iMovie 08 seems to work really well but it's just that people have been used to use that timeline and so... complains are flying in now.

Pitty, but in a way it's Apple's own fault of course.

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Title: iMovie 08 users can download iMovie 06 from Apple!
Post by: swhitset on August 19, 2007, 11:09:15 AM
This is true albeit a bit of a mischaracterization.  The iMovie 6 download has been available since the iLife 08 introduction.  Apple did not wait for complaints.

Steve
Title: iMovie 08 users can download iMovie 06 from Apple!
Post by: Parker on August 19, 2007, 11:21:25 AM
just what i heard from the grapevine...

any other plusses about iLife that you've noticed Marcel?