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Tuesday, February 03, 2004

iMovie Still an Exercise in Patience

Christopher Breen: "iMovie 3 was so slow that only those with the fastest Macs [relied] on it for working with multi-clip projects ... I recently completed my latest Breen's Bungalow in iMovie 4 and I regret to report that this advice applies equally to the version of iMovie included with iLife '04. Unlike iPhoto 4, which is noticeably more responsive than its predecessor, the latest revision of iMovie is as sluggish as ever. As projects get bigger, one sees the Spinning Beach Ball of Death ever more frequently as the program churns and churns away over actions as simple as shifting an audio clip or using the new direct trimming feature."

And on a humorous note, Breen later added, "Reader M. Clark was concerned that my observations might be based on a bad attitude toward Apple rather than iMovie's performance -- particularly since I didn't mention the specifications of the Mac I was working with." It's hilarious that a Mac advocate like Breen gets email like that.

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