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Yo por mediados de octubre voy a estar de viaje por usa, y tengo una gran duda si me desido a comprar un iPhone, en algun momento lo podre utilizar aca como celular? por que para usar el iPhone como iPod o etc la verdad que no me sirve.
Saludos

no sé si ya comentaron lo siguiente, que va acorde al tema de este hread, pero tal vez debería ser puesto en otro capítulo:

NYT 16/8/07

1. From the Desk of David Pogue: Apple Takes a Step Back With
iMovie '08
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iMovie blog

Last week, Apple released a new version of its iLife suite-
its $80 package containing iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb and
GarageBand. The suite also comes preinstalled on every new
Mac.

The enhancements in iPhone, iWeb and GarageBand are great.
But iMovie '08 is an utter bafflement.

Most people are used to a product cycle that goes like this:
Release a new version every year or two, each more capable
than the last. Ensure that it's backward-compatible with your
existing documents.

IMovie '08, on the other hand, has been totally misnamed.
It's not iMovie at all. In fact, it's nothing like its
predecessor and contains none of the same code or design.
It's designed for an utterly different task, and a lot of
people are screaming bloody murder.

The new iMovie was, as Apple admits, designed primarily for
throwing together movies quickly. It lets you scan through a
clip to see what's in it, isolate the good parts, and rapidly
drop them into a sequence.

But iMovie 6 was just as good at those tasks; you could scrub
through, chop and drag its clips just as easily. Meanwhile,
iMovie '08 is incapable of the more sophisticated editing
that the old iMovie made so enjoyable. The old iMovie offered
the essential tools of professional programs like Final Cut
Pro without the cost or complexity. 

The new iMovie, for example, is probably the only video-
editing program on the market with no timeline-no horizontal,
scrolling strip that displays your clips laid end to end,
with their lengths representing their durations. You have no
indication of how many minutes into your movie you are.

The new iMovie gets a D for audio editing. You can choose one
piece of music to put behind the video, but that's it. You
can't manually adjust audio levels during a scene (for
example, to make the music quieter when someone is speaking).
You can't extract the audio from a clip. The program creates
a fade-out at the end of an audio clip, but you can't control
its length or curve.

All the old audio effects are gone, too. No pitch changing,
high-pass and low-pass filters, or reverb.

The new iMovie doesn't accept plug-ins, either. For years,
I've relied on GeeThree.com's iMovie plug-ins to achieve
effects like picture-in-picture, bluescreen and subtitles.
That's all over now.

You can't add chapter markers for use in iDVD, which is
supposed to be integrated with iMovie. Bookmarks are gone.
"Themes" are gone. You can no longer export only part of a
movie.

All visual effects are gone-even basic options like slow
motion, reverse motion, fast motion, and black-and-white. And
you can't have more than one project open at a time.

Incredibly, the new iMovie can't even convert older iMovie
projects. All you can import is the clips themselves. None of
your transitions, titles, credits, music, or special effects
are preserved.

On top of all that, this more limited iMovie has steep
horsepower requirements that rule out most computers older
than about two years old.

To be sure, the new version has some cool features. You can
send a completed video to YouTube with one menu command; the
color-correction and frame-cropping tools are unprecedented
in a consumer program; and you can really, truly delete
unwanted pieces of your clips, thus reclaiming hard drive
space. (iMovie and Final Cut, on the other hand, preserve an
entire 20-minute clip on your hard drive even if you've used
only 3 seconds of it.)

It's also worth pointing out that iMovie '08 creates titles,
crossfades and color adjustments instantly. There's no
"rendering" time, as there is in Final Cut or the old iMovie.
So you gain an exhilarating freedom to play, to fiddle with
the timing and placement of things.

But honestly. To rephrase (and sanitize) the wailing on the
discussion boards: What the [bleep]! What was Apple thinking?

Apple says that it was thinking: "It's 1.0. We'll bring it up
to par with free software updates, like we always do."
Internally, I'm guessing that it was also thinking, "iMovie
had gotten pretty old, and it was haunted by some intractable
bugs." And also, perhaps, "iMovie was getting so powerful, it
was taking sales away from Final Cut."

But it must also have been thinking, "Then again, it is a
little embarrassing to take so many steps backward."

That's why, with what I imagine is a certain degree of
sheepishness, the company is offering a free download of the
previous iMovie version to anyone who has iMovie '08.

In that regard, all the wailing is a bit overblown; Apple is
not actually taking away the older version. The only real raw
part of the deal is that people who pay $80 for a new
software rev expect an enhanced version-not another copy of
the old one.

I can't remember any software company pulling a stunt like
this before: throwing away a fully developed, mature, popular
program and substituting a bare-bones, differently focused
program under the same name.

I've used the real iMovie to edit my Times videos for three
years now. The results are perfectly convincing as
professional video blog work. But the new version is totally
unusable for that purpose. It's unusable, in fact, for anyone
doing professional work that requires any degree of
precision.

I can't help thinking that Apple would have done better to
call a spade a spade, and give the new program a different
name. Call it FlyMovie, or ByeMovie, or WhyMovie.

But one thing's for sure: it sure isn't iMovie.