[FatBastard]

If this is iLife, then call in Dr. Kevorkian!

- Three separate CPUs all G4 1 gig and above.
- Very clean, i.e. I run Apple disk utilities and Norton Speed disk to optimize.
- Three separate jobs, all varying in media inclusions (DV, stills, After Effects, MP3s and AIFF)

I end up with the same unstable conclusions, Crashes, crashes, crashes. I haven't the time for this. I'm producing back in OS 9.2 and iMovie 2. It's the only way I can be productive and not a beta tester.

I've had audio editing crashes in iMovie (20 plus in one day). Importing stills and the default time attached to each, has moved out of preferences and is non-existent unless you use some creative detective work and play with the damn Mr. Burns effect. P.S. Thanks, to whomever, for figuring the Ken Burns effect fix offered previously, it helped. I'm sure Ken would be real proud of the bad interpretation of his revolutionizing technique that now includes a choppy effect. iMovie says it's creating an iDVD project, but isn't (after giving it the benefit of the doubt for 1 hour). Grey frames, WTF.


iDVD crashes when asset encoding at least twice per project. Fun! iDVD will not allow me to even check my e-mail while burning or even using iDVD (beach ball of death every time). I guess that's a residual of the so-called time saving background asset encoding.

iPhoto crashes when attempting to look at anything over a three meg image. But the cropping and the red-eye reduction is kinda nice, if your working on lo-res images!

iTunes, you poor thing. You are the only one program that works like a charm and the others surrounding you (iMovie, iDVD and iPhoto) are going to bring everyone down. Cut loose from the family and venture off on your own.

If Apple cannot create stable apps on it's own OS then what am I doing continuing on this beta bus? Let me off.

Other apps perform much more CPU and OS intensive functions yet are leaps and bounds above Apple, when it comes to stability (and it's not their OS either).

It's gotten so bad that I have an alias to my "Preferences" folder so I can trash them and restart, in order to TRY it all over again.

iLife is a great concept but it’s a sin to release such instability into the mix. As one of my many PC using co-workers would say, “Do they test this $#!<pi> before they release it.” Just as the Apple logo has a bite taken out it, I hope they can redeem themselves before they end up with just an apple core.

[SirCastor]

I don't want to say your issues are isolated, because many people have been having some difficulty. With these apps. For me, I haven't had any trouble with crashing on any of them. Granted, I don't have iDVD, or the hardware to run it.

On the other hand, my computer's upkeep isn't really 'clean' I'd consider it reasonable. I think you're being a little quick to judge it as 'beta quality'. I don't know what you're doing, but iMovie 3 runs pretty dang smoothly on my G4/400 (896 MB ram) and I don't have any difficulities with choppyness (except the shuttle marker, which is jumpy... I'm hoping they fix that)

It's important to note that on message boards (especially of this size and usage) for every 1 person who has a problem, there's bound to be a number of people who don't have that problem, and don't bring it up. To say Apple puts out beta software because your having difficulty isn't fair to the people who wrote software that works fine.

3 G4s exhibiting the same behavior? Do they all have the same software? I wonder if a 3rd party piece of software could be causing the issue.