It sounds like the best feature of iMovie 8 (the version that comes with the recently released iLife ’08 suite) is the fact that it does not delete an already installed version of iMovie from your hard drive.<\/p>\n
David Pogue, NY Times technology columnist, echoes the hue and cry<\/a> from the blogsphere and the discussion boards regarding the removal of many useful features from versions of iMovie prior to v8:<\/p>\n “I can’t remember any software company pulling a stunt like this before: throwing away a fully developed, mature, popular program and substituting a bare-bones, differently focused program under the same name.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Among the changed or missing features:<\/p>\n Regular users of iMovie will recognize this list as comprising a significant portion of the feature list of previous versions of iMovie. All gone…<\/p>\n Fortunately, installing iLife ’08 over previous versions of iLife does not result in the deletion of your old version of iMovie. Look for a folder title “iMovie (previous version)” in your Applications folder. If you inadvertently delete it, Apple will allow owners of iLife 08 download a free copy of iMovie 6<\/a>, the version immediately prior to v8. It’s a 155 MB download, and it will install only if it detects an installed copy of iLife 08.<\/p>\n Educators should also be aware that iMovie 8 requires significant computing power to run at all. Apple’s site states: “iMovie requires a Mac with an Intel processor, a Power Mac G5 (dual 2.0GHz or faster), or an iMac G5 (1.9GHz or faster).” It will no longer run on G4 processors. iBook users are out of luck.<\/p>\n While I can recommend the improvements to other iLife components (iPhoto 8 in particular), it’s going to be important for most schools and educators to stick with iMovie 6 until Apple updates and improves the current release.<\/p>\n\n