Confession time. I wrote my column for Guardian Unlimited yesterday on a minor creative high, after completing a movie on iMovie 3 over the weekend. The piece wasn't intended to be a comprehensive review of iMovie, let alone of the whole iLife package, more something praising the fact we can now do on our desktops what used to be something only the most skilled, or very rich, computer users could do. But my glitch-free experience led me to believe this was a fairly solid bit of software.
Alas, the collective wail of the iMovie 3 userspace hit my in-box this morning: my experiences certainly didn't seem to be representative of many users'. The complaints collected here vary in importance, to my mind: some are the simple UI issues that so many Mac users get their knickers in a twist over, while others are gripes about wishlist items that never appeared. But other glitches are more serious and (worse) vary between machines, which suggests Apple's testing was a little skimpy. When you own the operating system, the hardware and the software which runs on it, you really should get these things right first time.
Now, I'm off home to see if I can reproduce some of these faults on my own Mac...
