[MacDV] Re: STAY AWAY FROM iMovie 3!!!

[Mark M. Florida]

Make sure Apple hears about these issues.  Use the iMovie feedback form 
on their site:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/imovie.html

- Mark

On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 04:28 PM, Michael Winter wrote:

>
> On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 03:42  PM, Karl Hayden wrote:
>
>> I would be so happy if someone can report anything positive about 
>> it........... but I won't hold my breath until then. I am going back 
>> to iMovie2 until they fix iMovie3.
>
> I've got a list of good things, and a list of bad things.
>
> The Bad:
>
> There's a big delay between when I click on a clip and I can start 
> "scrubbing" through it. This is on a dual 1 GHz system with 1.5 GB 
> RAM, and it was instantaneous in iMovie 2.
>
> I don't like the fact that moving clips around doesn't actually select 
> them. I have to move them, then click on them (or vice-versa). The 
> result is some confusion about which clip is currently selected, 
> especially since there are times when you can have two clips 
> highlighted (one in the Clips pane, one in the Timeline).
>
> The Save File dialog box when I try to export a movie is broke. When 
> try to navigate to a different drive by dragging the scroll bar at the 
> bottom, the display columns don't change and I get a "ghost" image of 
> the columns above and to the left of the main dialog window. Then when 
> I try to edit the name, I can only select either the whole name or 
> just the extension with the mouse. I have to resort to keyboard 
> navigation with the arrows and delete key to edit the name.
>
> Though it supposedly fixes a major audio sync problem, I now have sync 
> problems where none existed before, specifically when exporting to 
> full quality quicktime.
>
> The Good:
>
> Exports don't come to a grinding halt when iMovie is in the 
> background! That's a biggie for me since I like to do other things 
> with the computer while an export is occurring, especially since 
> iMovie is still limited to one processor at a time.
>
> I like the fact that when I split a clip, it moves other clips to the 
> side instead of placing the clipped section in the next "open" spot 
> -sometimes way down at the bottom.
>
> Other than switching between clips, everything else seems to be faster.
>
> Importing video seems to work better in that iMovie doesn't seem to 
> "lose" the video stream as easily and I don't get the occasional 
> "iMovie unexpectedly quit" type stuff any more.
>
> That's all I'm coming up with for now. For me its about an even trade.
>
> -Mik
>
>
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