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the best facial expressions. The thumbnails that iMovie shows you are too small for this. Still in iPhoto, I

would also define specific albums for the movie and put the selected photos into them. This made it far

easier to locate the chosen photos from within iMovie. Thankfully, iMovie and iPhoto display the albums

in the same order.

The iLife link to iTunes was not necessary for my project. It looks like it would work nearly as well as the

iPhoto link, with the exception that the playlist selector in iMovie madly shows the iTunes playlists in a

random order - neither the alphabetical order of iTunes nor chronological.

I noticed there were some very interesting new sound effects including the self-explanatory "suspense"

and "foreboding". The wagon crash sound I use for ski mishaps was unfortunately gone, though no doubt

it's still on one of our machines somewhere. Also worth mentioning is the improved sound editing

capability in iMovie 3, where you can change the volume in a clip by dragging points on a volume curve

up and down.

Similarly there are some interesting new visual effects. While I don't normally indulge in these, I did

make an exception and use the lightning effect to draw attention to a great guitar solo from one of my

band members!

Due to lack of a DVD burner on my previous machine, I can't say how much of an improvement to

workflow is made by the iLife link to iDVD. Suffice to say that defining chapter numbers and hitting the

iDVD button are about all you have to do to get started with the DVD phase of your project. Just make

sure you've finished your iMovie activities first.

Another unexpected bonus was a new export option to export the sound of the whole video as an AIFF

file. From there I could import it into Sound Studio (bundled with my iMac), cut it up into tracks, import

the AIFF tracks into iTunes, burn them to CD and even rip my own CD to get mp3s. Making the CD of the

movie was a breeze, especially with the 16x CD burner.

The preference for "New projects are :" PAL or NTSC is helpful for those of us who regularly deal with

both formats. As iMovie can't reliably tell what type of analog camera is connected via the Dazzle bridge,

I would often experience the situation where previous versions of iMovie refused to allow me to continue

work with the camera and an existing project.

Don't try this at home!

If you have an iSight camera plugged into one of your firewire ports and a camcorder plugged into the

other, don't be surprised if you can't capture any video. How does iMovie know which of those cameras

it's supposed to be working with ? Before I realized this, I captured some video that had alternate sound

and silence - a couple of seconds of each.

Expect the worst if you choose the "New projects are NTSC" preference and then connect a PAL analog

camcorder via your Dazzle bridge or similar. I did this purely as an experiment and was pleasantly

surprised to get video that looked normal. Then I discovered that either sound was missing or sound

from one clip was associated with a different clip. I was trying to see if iMovie would detect the situation

and refuse to capture - maybe it would if the offending camcorder was digital.

iMovie limitations

iMovie allows you to make beautiful end credits just like those you see in a real movie; your friends and

family will love to see their own names rolling up the screen. In some types of titles, the right hand edge

of the text is slightly misaligned. Nobody who saw the movies seemed to notice, but I'd still prefer this

not to happen. Another thing I noticed about making titles was that there was some sort of usability flaw

that left me always getting the text of the previous title in the one I was currently trying to do. I always

managed to fix this by retyping and re-rendering the offending titles.

Many of my finished projects involve music, either because they are live music events or because I set

them to music. In either case, it's a serious limitation not to be able to see the sound waveform. I find

myself memorizing frame numbers, playing, rewinding and playing again to evaluate where cuts should be

to line up with music, when this would be plainly visible in the waveform. iMovie would be better if it did

this, but then again it's free and Apple makes Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro for people who want to

take their video making to the next level.

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