 | Nov 10 2009 |
VALMAR I really like this application. I was using yflicks before, but that does not work anymore with Snow Leopard. That is why I started looking for an alternative and found this. Really great! Does exactly what I expect. I found just a couple of glitches: - When the window is not in focus, the backgrounds turns to the "striped" look of old versions of MacOSX. This looks a little bad in Leopard, but is just a visual glitch. Also, the buttons in the menubar don't have a Leopard look - If you choose to import the movies into the library, they are put in a simple flat folder with no hierarchy. I would like them to be put into "author" or "year" folder, something like that. - Finally. I would like to be able to remove the "2006","2007","2008" folders which are always empty for me. As you can see, they are all glitches and I hope that the developers can address them
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 | Sep 3 2009 |
LEXXY Actually, the application does NOT earn the "i" in its name. Organisation ist not an ease and movie import is EXTREMLY slow. Negative things that I have discovered: Batch processing is not possible (having to add Album, Author etc to each video one by one is a pain in the a**) Groupings not possible (i.e Author, Album, etc) Instead of cataloging videos, the application imports them, even if "Keep Videos where they are" is set in the settings panel. Application crashes constantly when playing videos with the iVideo Player (.wmv in specific) Good approach, but sparse performance. Ganz ehrlich: Das Programm hat das "i" in seinen Namen nicht verdient. Die Organisation ist nicht ganz einfach und der Import von Filmen ist EXTREM langsam. Negative Dinge die ich entdeckt habe: Stapelverarbeitung ist nicht möglich. Möchte man zu den Filmen Author, Album, etc hinzufügen, muss man dies für jeden film EINZELN tun. Gruppierungen sind nicht möglich Statts das Programm die Filme kalatogisiert, werden sie importiert, trotz Einstellung dass die Filme dort bleiben sollen wo sie sind. Wenn man den iVideo Player benutzt, stürzt das Prgramm grundsätzlich ab (speziell bei .wmv) Guter Ansatz, aber dürftige Ausführung.
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 | Sep 6 2009 |
Movie importing can be slow for certain movie formats (mostly MKV and WMV), but unfortunately there's not much I can do about that. The crashes are probably caused by the WMV plugin. For anyone with a large selection of WMV and MKV files, I'd recommend setting QuickTime Player as the default playback program and only using iVideo for organization. The other movie formats generally import very quickly and work great. I'm not sure what you mean by groupings, but you can sort by artist or make a smart playlist that displays movies by an artist. Not being able to edit extended information for multiple movies at the same time was an oversight of mine, and I apologize for that. I will add support for it in the next update. By the way, importing does not necessarily mean copying. If you have your library set to "keep files where they are", your files *will* remain where they are. iVideo uses the import process to gather information about your movies and save that information to the library. The files themselves are not modified in any way, nor is anything copied. - Mike McFadden
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| Jun 26 2009 |
ALLANMACAM I like the app very much. It really suits what I want it to do and works great, no problems. The only hitch appears if I wish to export a movie or number of movies. The exporting is so very, painfully slow. It's not the machine. I'm on a MacPro Quad-Core Intel with 8 GB of RAM!
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 | Jun 8 2009 |
IMACSUPPORTER When I start iVideo at says 15-days are over. But ... I installed it for the first time. Am I doing something wrong?
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| Apr 9 2009 |
MIKE.MCFADDEN I made a few changes to iVideo in response to the problems reported here: - iVideo is now a 15-day demo instead of limiting you to 25 movies per library. This will allow you to make sure iVideo can handle all of your movies correctly. - Importing is now handled by a separate helper app that runs in the background, which means iVideo will be more stable during imports. Hopefully that will result in a much improved experience for some people.
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| Mar 15 2009 |
CYMORROW This is a short review about the latest (as of 2009.03.16) version (4.0.3 v865) of iVideo. I did not understand the high rating this application has but I noticed that most of the reviews are very old, not for the current version This looked like a good app when it was offered as a deal on MacUpdate but now I am on the verge of requesting a refund, deal or no deal. I originally purchased this application to catalog my large video library. I was not aware of any "Mac" like applications for this purpose in the past. I was pleasantly surprised by the resemblance of the user interface to iPhoto. But that is where the resemblance stopped. None of the functions I tried worked in anyway expected at all. At first, I let the application search for all video files automatically as sugested by the application. After running a very long time, the application aborted. When I relaunched, it had found some files including many clips which I do ont consider movies. So I started over again by removing the app and the library. I set preferences is to keep the movies where they are and chose to find movies by myself. I selected VLC to be the default player. Importing movies file by file takes an extraordinary long time,about 40 minutes for 20 movies. Remember, it is only finding movies and cataloging them, not importing or re-encoding. Worse, during this time, the application shows as not responding with a spinning wheel so I could not stop importing as the button suggested I could. But I could tell progress was being made because the movie count and the movie name was advancing. After the import, I clicked on a movie but it took 5-6 minutes before it started playing and the play was very choppy at best. I checked but it did not seem to be using VLC to play as I had selected in the preferences. Further more, it was using 110% CPU resources (I have quad core). Any time I click on the movie, it froze for an additional 2-3 minutes before pausing or continuing. Ths was enough, this application is completely unusable and I have requested a refund.
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| Mar 16 2009 |
MIKE.MCFADDEN As I said in the response to the the email you sent me, that is QuickTime causing the crashes, not iVideo. There are good reviews because the problem you are experiencing is uncommon. (although it apparently makes people highly motivated to write reviews) QuickTime is generally very stable and can robustly deal with a large variety of movie files, but some people seem to end up with files that QuickTime can't handle well. I'm sorry, but I can't do much about that other than what I already do, which is give you access to 100% of the features in the demo and let you import any movie file you want. Also, as I told the previous person on here, I am going to attempt to work around this rare QuickTime problem by having importing be handled by a separate app, so that if QuickTime crashes or freezes I can just force quit the background app and go on to the next file. I haven't done that yet because it really is an uncommon problem.
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| Mar 12 2009 |
UNCOY I am really annoyed about this application. I demoed it from a MacUpdate promo. It loaded in 25 files. Seemed like a nice way to browse one's videos. First announcement when licenses - it doesn't handle AVI files properly due to defects in QuickTime. I would have liked to have heard about that while we were still in demo mode thank you. iView MediaPro handles avi just ine thank you. Then iView just won't successfully complete an automatic scan of the video on my hard drive always ending in a crash (even with avi turned off). I've wasted half an hour tweaking the settings already. I want my money back. But as it's a MuPromo, no chance. A fake demo mode like this is bait and switch from the developer. Very displeased. I don't have time to waste troubleshooting gadgetware like this. Unless you have time to waste stay away.
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| Mar 13 2009 |
MIKE.MCFADDEN Hi, I added that AVI warning because I used to get a lot of emails about iVideo crashing on them when importing their movies, and like 99% of the time it was because a stray AVI file caused QuickTime to crash (which then causes iVideo to crash). Like the dialog says, if you know your AVI files work fine in QuickTime, then continue. Other movie formats can cause QuickTime to crash too (which is what I suspect happened here), but AVI files are such a common headache that I decided to tell people beforehand about the problem. I'm not sure how you can consider anything bait-and-switch when every feature is fully available in the demo and you can import any movie files you want on your computer. Also, if you would have emailed me you would have found out that I do offer refunds for unsatisfied customers. Maybe most developers don't or something, but I do.
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| Mar 13 2009 |
Thanks for the prompt refund. Yes, I buy a lot of shareware and a few times a year the software just doesn't work out. And one developer in particular caused a lot of trouble for me - specifically Tim Breslin of TastyApps. He refused an application swap and wrote threatening and obscene letters when I called him on it. I think what you should be doing here is either eliminating the import feature (although it is a great feature and something which attracted me to the application) or making the import routine more robust. There is absolutely no reason why the whole iVideo application needs to crash on import, even if unsuccessful. What you need is to make the import of each individual movie a subroutine. So if this subroutine crashes what happens is that the movie gets logged as incompatible and handed to the end user at the end of import. You could even flag that file not to be imported in the future. If you do manage to improve your import routine, Mike, let me know. Best of luck with iVideo. I really appreciate you taking responsibility for the end user experience. If iVideo were a core application for my work, I would take the time to debug this issue much deeper now but I have so much real work now, I just can't do it for the moment. PS. If Nate would like to take the stars off of my comment above, I would have no issues with it. Based on your prompt response, there is no reason for the low stars to remain.
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| Mar 13 2009 |
MIKE.MCFADDEN I eventually plan on having each movie be imported from a separate helper app that runs in the background, so that if QuickTime crashes (or just locks up permanently), I can restore or force quit the helper app without iVideo having to suffer the consequences. Fortunately QuickTime is normally very stable so that those types of crashes are rare (except for those pesky AVI files). (I know hearing about how stable QuickTime *normally* is isn't much help for you specifically, but it's there in case someone else reads this)
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| Mar 13 2009 |
I got the crashes both with and without AVI movies included for import. Import is a huge area of fragility and it comes right up front in the application. Better to fix it sooner rather than later. Best of luck with iVideo!
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| Mar 12 2009 |
MARKAUK Nicely designed, simple to use... perfect for keeping track of video files. The developer has been very responsive to suggestions and quick to make changes so full marks on that count too. Highly recommended.
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| Apr 16 2008 |
STORMCHILD This was a great idea for an app, but its future now seems uncertain. The company website is still up, and it looks like they have a new app called "Acrylic" on the horizon (presumably some sort of painting app?), so apparently they are still active, but iVideo hasn't been updated in two and a half years, and there is no sign that an Intel-native version is even under development -- and the company blog was last updated in 2006. I hope to see this product developed further, or a similar one introduced by another developer.
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| May 15 2007 |
TOURNESOL Great app, but why has it not been updated since 2005 and why is there not a Universal version available? Seems sloppy to me.
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| Feb 25 2007 |
STARBARK I love this app!! Now my favorite piece of software! Although, I would like to see these features: - labels (for those episodes you've already watched) - set OWN thumbnail/"previews" that are already within the video (not search your hd for an image) - pressing 'enter' to rename (just like mac os x---then 'return' will play it) - choice to delete subsections of movie library (2001, 2002, etc.) +ability to put episode number, series title, episode title, season (tv series) + ability to put movie title, year released, genre (movies) + ability to put artist, song title, album (music videos) - remove "preferences" under window because it is already under iVideo Last 5 imports shows a lot more than 5 videos! Otherwise, great app! Will watch this for sure.
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| Oct 23 2005 |
JADRANKA iVideo is probably the best movie catalog on MacOSX platform. I have imported 1287 movies (from little funny clips in .wmv format, music video clips in .mpg format, and real movies (2-3 hours) .avi (divx). iVideo handle all this without problems, program is fast and stable, faster and better then other similar apps on the market. What can I say more, I am really happy with iVideo. By the way, trying with 25 movies is more than enough! IVideo is also that fast with thousand of them. MacOSX 10.4.2 QT 7.02 512Mb G4 1,25 MacMini
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| Aug 8 2005 |
ANONYMOUS (or iPhoto for that matter)
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| Aug 8 2005 |
ANONYMOUS NIce. WAY better than using iTunes with videos. Seems to have problems importing after a scan though - it finds a couple of hundred movies on my drive, but then gets stuck and crashes after importing 58 of them.
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| Aug 8 2005 |
SCOTT-G Is this a free update for those who purchased 2.x?
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| Aug 8 2005 |
MIKE The link to the version history above says this at the top: "Remember, all of these great features are completely free for existing iVideo users!"
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| Aug 8 2005 |
HOBY Much better than 2.x versions. It seems generally more stable and much more reliable at importing different movie formats. This just might have crossed the line into Useful.
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| Aug 8 2005 |
TOURNESOL Great app. Apple should take a look at how keywords are handled by iVideo and implement it in iPhoto. Seems a bit slow when shifting between smart folders, but not much. Bug? The last five imports shows all of my 57 movies. Is that because they were added all at once? Thought it would only show the last 5 movies added. To those complaing about avi files, just download divx and 3ivx plugs for Quicktime and iVideo will play them seamlessly :)
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| Aug 8 2005 |
MIKE "Seems a bit slow when shifting between smart folders, but not much. Bug?" Switching between smart playlists, folders, and normal playlists should all take the same amount of time because the actual updating of the playlist's contents takes place at a different time (e.g. when you change the rating for a movie). Any lag you experience is caused by iVideo having to load the thumbnail preview for the movies from the hard drive. "The last five imports shows all of my 57 movies. Is that because they were added all at once? Thought it would only show the last 5 movies added." Nope, if you import 57 movies all at the same time, that counts as one "import". I modeled it after iPhoto's "last roll" feature.
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| Aug 8 2005 |
HACKONO Doesnt handle half of my .avi movies and crashed twice....isnt it possible to built mplayer or VLC inside of ivideo?...if im not able to organize ALL of my videos, the price is insane
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| Aug 8 2005 |
MIKE The documentation responds to your problem under the "importing movies" section: How come some of my movies didn't import? If you are having trouble getting a movie to import into iVideo, try downloading some of these QuickTime plugins: WMV Player (http://www.flip4mac.com/) - US $9.95 DivX (http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/) - Free FFusion (http://aldorandenet.free.fr/codecs/) - Free / Open Source AC3 Codec (http://www.insaneness.com/) - Free MPEG-2 (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/mpeg2playback/) - US $19.95 I'd recommend the DivX plugin for the AVI playback problems.
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| Feb 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Doesn't handle .3gp, which is what my mpeg-4 camera produces. Quicktime Player opens them fine so it really doesn't make sense.
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| Aug 8 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Get a program here: http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html to convert your 3gp files to TRUE mpeg. Use export to DV, and CHECK THE BOX "Resample audio to 48Khz". Then you have a DV file that you can convert to whatever you like ( or open in iMovie, which you cannot do directly with the 3gp files !)
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| Dec 6 2004 |
TOURNESOL Awsome. Fast, responsive, intuitive, great looking and I could go on. Really great app. Would like a mail icon to be able to send movies like in iPhoto.
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| Nov 6 2004 |
STEVE STREZA This has to be my new favorite app. I've needed this for awhile. It's very quick and looks beautiful next to all of my Cocoa apps. Highly recommended.
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| Nov 5 2004 |
HOBY The intent is commendable and the thinking is very Mac OS X. But.. it's not very fast and the importing is hit or miss and very unstable. I thought at first maybe it just doesn't like windows media files but it also chokes randomly on several formats that it apparently sometimes understands (.mov, .mp4, .avi, etc.) Nice ideas and face but the code needs a lot more work. Let me know when it reads files like VLC and works as fast as PhotoGridX. And lower the price, at least for now.
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| Nov 8 2004 |
MIKE MCFADDEN You can increase the number of files that iVideo will import by downloading extra QuickTime codecs like the AC3 and DivX plugins. You're definitely right about the speed, and I am planning to optimize the next major revision.
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| Oct 31 2004 |
MACSTERDAM fantastic upgrade. Really happy with it now, in particular with the option, move files to iVideo library. What I'd love to see now is the option to import real and mediaplayer files with the option to open them in their own player. Here's to version 3 then :D
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| Oct 27 2004 |
RAWSWEETS Hands down, this is the finest piece of video cataloging software available for the Mac (and thusly, the PC). It is as easy to use as iPhoto and includes a very freindly set-up assistant. It's best use is for viewing your video catalog at a glance - each file is represented by a single frame from the movie. The single frame is set automaticaly via the preferences, or set later manually. You can set iTune-like star ratings per video, which can also be displayed in the "thumbnail view". The most important feature for me, was being able to keep my videos where they are - I'm sure if I took it on fully, I would allow iVideo to manage my video collection for me. One sore point is the navigation and interface when playing back a movie within iVideo. It's not very clear how to get back to the thumbnail mode, and changing the display size of the movie can only be done after exploring the menubar... In other words, common tasks related to movie playback are not available; instead the interface leans towards iVideo related tasks (like setting the video's star-rating). In geneal, this app would do well to follow the iPhoto interface more closely. This includes, optional shadows behing thumbnails, having mode buttons at the bottom of the window, etc, etc. One enhancement that would bowl me over and really tout the power of the Mac OS, would be to play the selected thumbnail(s) in the gallery view, at their thumbnail size. In other words, why be forced to double click (play) a movie when all you want to do is preview it? Also, if column view does this in the finder, why not a full-on app like iVideo? Wonderful app, and well worth the price.
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| Oct 27 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Very nice app indeed! I really like it but I miss one feature that Movie Jukebox does have. I keep all my movies on cd's because of limited HD space. When I want to play a movie that's in my playlist but not in my cd drive the program gives an error where Movie Jukebox asks for the right cd. It does work as expected when you put the cd in first. Just a minor issue with an otherwise great program.
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| Oct 25 2004 |
TOURNESOL Awsome. All the new features are superb! Especially the three types of database. Bug: Crashes when trying to add a new libary type.
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| Sep 10 2004 |
JCHRYSS This program is very useful to me. They have improved it on a regular basis.
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| Jun 21 2004 |
TOURNESOL I would still very much like that it could be set to automatically update certain folders automatically, so that I didn't have to add movies manually each time. That way I could just drop the movie in say, the Movies folder and iVideo would scan that folder and add or remove files accordingly when iVideo is launched or when manually updating folder content.
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| May 20 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Introducing iLife's in-law, iVideo. The missing iApp in the digital hub. iMovie is good but use for creating and editing movies. iVideo, on the other hand, is the solution for viewing, organizing, and storage of movies. Plain good, period.
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| May 20 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Superb Software! And the developers are really good, and will take and implement suggestions given. I have a lot of avi's (and used to use mplayer/vlc), so for those i have downloaded the divx quicktime plug in, FFusion plug in, and the AC3 plugin for quicktime. There is also a XVID quicktime component, but i think FFusion handles XVid anyway, so no need. Quicktime AC3 (and XVID) available from : http://www.insaneness.com/ Can practically play anything now.
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| May 8 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Apple needs to buy this software! This does for .mov and .avi what iPhoto does for images. Excellent program. I registered.
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| Apr 27 2004 |
DOMINIQUE Wonderfull! I love it! I was waiting for that for years!
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| Apr 26 2004 |
ANONYMOUS An excellent app that contains many features found in Quicktime Pro. This is the best video organizing/viewing solution on OS X. Runs spiffy on my G5 and not bad on my iBook.
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| Dec 22 2003 |
YINKA very poor product. I currently run 1.6 on Panther (dual 867 G4 with 1.25 gig of memory) and iVideo crashes constantly. also, the features are poor -- you only have the option to add movies one at a time or scan/add an entire drive (with the meaningless option to choose the folder depth -- this is meaningless if you want to scan/add 1 folder located on a drive!). this is a problem because if you have video files on a drive that are not supported by iVideo, you do not have the option (accept to add videos one by one -- which is ridiculous) to select specific folders or groups and the result is the program will crash trying to scan/add files it doesn't support.
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| Dec 26 2003 |
ANONYMOUS If you are going to give iVideo a bad review, please give valid reasons! If you don't like iVideo searching through three levels of subfolders, did you ever think about setting it to 1? It isn't hard to figure that one out. As for iVideo not being able to import more than one movie at a time, try any of the following: 1. Drag more than one file onto the window. 2. Drag more than one file onto the application icon. 3. Select the files you want to import, right click the files, and choose Open With > iVideo. All of these things are clearly documented in the Help window, which you probably never checked. There is no option to select specific folders or groups? What are you talking about? I would sure like to know. You can either: 1. Select the listbox on the left, then click the Add button at the bottom of the window. 2. Drag and drop some movie files from the Movie Library to the listbox on the left to create a new album. 3. Drag and drop a folder in the Finder onto the window. Yes, these things are documented too. You should check sometime. The crashing problem you are experiencing is a known problem, although it works fine on my computer, so it slipped through testing. Even so, making up everything else to justify a poor review is pointless and not appreciated, especially if potential customers actually believe you.
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| Nov 11 2003 |
CONNOR CARNEY It's a pretty god imitation of iPhoto's interface. It meets the claims, but it's a little (just a little) sluggish on my 800MHz G3. Also, it's missing a key feature that it won't import movies. If they would add that so I could store my DVD collection on my hard drive, it would be unbeatable.
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| Nov 10 2003 |
RUDY Just downloaded this program, and with 5 minutes I bought a license. Does this mean it's perfect? Nope, there's plenty of room for improvement, but for now it works as advertised. I for one shall be looking forward to the updates!
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| Nov 3 2003 |
EVAN SHERWOOD Uhh - crashes in Panther when starting up?!?!?!? Fine program if I can't even get it open...
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| Sep 24 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Drag and drop does work. Also, if you drag and drop a folder, iVideo creates an album with the same name and loads all the files into that album.
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| Sep 24 2003 |
ANONYMOUS VERY simple. TOO simple! It should not be allowed to put an "i" in front of a name, if you can't drag & drop and and.... I compare with FootTrack. Do the same!!!!!
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