Should I go back to iMovie 6?
Since I have upgraded to the latest MacBook Pro with iMovie '08, I have had hours - no WEEKS - of frustration trying to edit one 50 minute video taken on a Sony Handycam. It plays perfectly on my Mac Book but after burning it runs jerkily. I notice that there are quite a few posts on the forum with the same problem.
On my old PowerBook and iMovie 6, there were no problems at all and all the videos I burned, including some old cine footage, burned beautifully. I thought my new computer would be much easier to use and I am very disappointed indeed. The only way I could get a half-way decent DVD was to encode the movie using Garageband which I suppose turned it into a Quicktime movie. Why oh why do Apple make it all so difficult?!
iMovie 6 => iDvd'08 offers custom chapter markers whereas iM7 has interval or incremental chapter markers (it edits for you, to which many of us say ...no thanx).
btw .... most users may not realize this, but this feature was already present within iLife 6. But frankly I rarely used it....
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--------------- T H R E A D ---------------
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