[MacDV] Re: iMovie 3 & iMovie 2 Co-Exhist Beautifully

[Thubten Kunga]

For those of you who did allow the iMovie 3 install overwrite your 
iMovie 2, you can use Pacifist to extract and reinstall iMovie 2 from 
your Jaguar Install CD-ROM. Just remember to rename iMovie 3 to "iMovie 
3" or "iMovie The Dog" or  anything except "iMovie" before you 
reinstall iMovie 2.

In future IMHO, any updates from the System Preferences should be 
downloaded first using the "Download Checked Items to Desktop" Under 
the "Update" menu instead of pressing the Install button in the corner 
of the Software Update dialog box. Then you can archive the application 
or system updater as well as have more control over the install. Always 
move or rename old versions of applications before installing the next 
version so the old version won't get over written by the new 
potentially BUGGY new version.

k

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 05:40  PM, Mark M. Florida wrote:

> Maybe Apple just know what kind of turd they were dropping with iMovie 
> 3,
> and set things up so you could go back to the good ol' iMovie 2 if you 
> need
> to actually get something done.  But that's assuming that you renamed 
> or
> moved the app file so descriptively named simply "iMovie" (no version 
> number
> or anything "confusing") before running the iMovie 3 installer.  I'm 
> sure am
> glad I stuffed my iMovie 2 app before installing iMovie 3.  ;-)
>
> - Mark
>
>> Well I just figured out that all the Title, Effects, Transitions and
>> Audio files can be shared by both programs. You can't run them at the
>> same time. But you can easily quit one and launch
>> the other no problem.
>>
>> I wonder why the "minute frame" slider displays every frame as it
>> crawls across the scratch bar below the picture very smoothly in 
>> iMovie
>> 2 while the same slider jerks and leaps across the bar only showing
>> every few seconds instead of every frame in iMovie 3. This has nothing
>> to do with the coexistence of both versions.
>>
>> But for those of you who have been afraid to try having them both on
>> there, you should know they can both be installed. If you haven't done
>> it yet, rename iMovie to iMovie 2 and put it in a folder for save
>> keeping. I named my folder iMovie 2 as well. Then when you install
>> iMovie 3 it won't write over the old version. Simply adds the new one.
>>
>> I got all the new audio files, all the new free bonus effects and
>> transitions from the Apple site. All the new stuff that iMovie 3
>> installs works in iMovie 2 as well. They SHARE one set of all the
>> various goodies. It is truly having the new and the old as well so we
>> can experiment between the two.
>>
>> Kunga