IDVD and yLife (why iLife)

[Dennis R. Cohen]

On 2/5/03 at 1:10 PM, Steve Demarest <demarest at tumwater.net> transmitted
the following electronic message:

>Dear  Listers;
>
>All of the iLife components, except iDVD are available free by
>download.
>
>IDVD is available free with all superdrive macs
>
>IDVD only works with superdrive Macs
>
>So, who would want to buy iLife?
>
>Seems, either you can get all useable components free, or you already
>have the one component not available as a free download. What am I
>missing?
>
Anybody who has a SuperDrive Mac already, with iDVD 2 and who wants iDVD
3 would be the market for iLife (me, for example).


>And, on the topic of iMovie 3 . . .
>
> I really like the way a clip that gets split into two, pushes the
> other clips out of the way to keep the two in sequence.
>
> I really like the incorporation of iphotos iTunes. Especially iTunes
>since previously iMovie did not read the MP3 format.
>
This last part isn't true. iMovie 2.1 accepted both AIFF and MP3 files
via Import. The first part (liking the integration), I'll second.

> Now if only split clips appeared split in the Finder and if only they
>could be named in iMovie and have those names carry forward to the
>Finder. I still find it very hard to share clips between projects
>because of this naming hassle. When is iMovie 4 coming out?
>
Renaming the clips in the Finder is a hassle, agreed. As to iMovie 4,
I'd bet there's at least a year to wait, maybe 18 months. They don't
tend to do full-version upgrades more frequently than that. Now, an
iMovie 3.1 sometime later this year is not outside the realm of
possibility.

-- 
--Dennis Cohen
  iLife Bible (April/May 2003)
  iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, & iDVD Bible
  MacOS X Bible