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OK, so I just got the marketing mail from Apple in my inbox - does anybody know when it's supposed to be available locally? I believe it's been shipping in Europe since around the 24th.
 
We're normally a couple weeks behind, already ordered it. Should be here by the 15'th of Feb.
 
Only the iWorks version has the trojan in it and a version of the cs4 suite. Mine works fine ;-)
 
This coming week if sources are correct. Does anyone know what the upgrade price will be for people that bought new Macs, Apple.com says $9.99 wonder what we will pay ?
 
PAYBACK said:
This coming week if sources are correct. Does anyone know what the upgrade price will be for people that bought new Macs, Apple.com says $9.99 wonder what we will pay ?
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Is it a downloadable upgrade?
Core will surerely overcharge for it, but are there benefits to upgrading to iLife 09 over 08?
 
PeterCH said:
Is it a downloadable upgrade?
Core will surerely overcharge for it, but are there benefits to upgrading to iLife 09 over 08?
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Ah yes... Image stablisation in iMovie (a FCS feature). Face regocnition in iPhoto(which I here works well)... Direct to FTP publishing in iWeb (finally)

It always worth upgrading iLife :)

Now iWork (the most underrated Apple product) If the've tweaked a couple things in numbers then i'll be all over it!

Really looking forward to getting both these products. :)
 
VertigoZA said:
Ah yes... Image stablisation in iMovie (a FCS feature). Face regocnition in iPhoto(which I here works well)... Direct to FTP publishing in iWeb (finally)

It always worth upgrading iLife :)

Now iWork (the most underrated Apple product) If the've tweaked a couple things in numbers then i'll be all over it!

Really looking forward to getting both these products. :)
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Image Stabilisation (SmoothCam) is actually a Shake Feature ported to Motion 3 and Final Cut Pro 6.0 but the optical flow technology it utilises is dog slow. Also you will loose out on quality if your shaking is anything more than a fine tremor as the function zooms in the bounded non-movable section. With 2-3% zoom it's still OK-ish but any more and picture starts to suck, unless you work in HD and export to SD at the end.

On an implementation level the weakest implementation is in FCP, then Motion 3 adds more customisation options and finally Shake has the most features, you can even tell it which sections the analysis algorithm should ignore.
 
yes pumpkin... but this is entry-level Moviemaker grade stuff we're talking about.. nobody said anything about it being used for anything more than crappy holiday videos..

and I said it was FCP feature simply for simplicity sake...
 
VertigoZA said:
yes pumpkin... but this is entry-level Moviemaker grade stuff we're talking about.. nobody said anything about it being used for anything more than crappy holiday videos..

and I said it was FCP feature simply for simplicity sake...
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My main point was that it's VERY SLOW. It's not as nice feature as you may think it is especially for holiday videos where the
camera will bounce around tremendously and you may get the idea
that this new thing can be quite effective. It is nice, but as said it is
very slow (on a quad core Mac Pro on standard def video) and unless they water down the
algorithm it will be dog slow on an consumer Mac. Also with big bounces
the degree of zoom will be huge so you may end up with low res video.

My advice to avid home video makers is to get a consumer video
camera with optical image stabilization rather. Don't expect iMovie '09 to
be adequate substitute for that.
 
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