iMovie HD on MacBookPro

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MrOllen Author

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iMovie HD on MacBookPro

What is the difference between iMovie HD and HD 6?

Will they run on a 2008 MacBookPro? If so, which one is better?

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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on May 17, 2009 6:42 PM

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Answer 1

May 17, 2009 11:25 PM in response to MrOllen

iMovie HD is another name for iMovie 5, which (of course) is older than iMovie 6 (also called iMovie HD 6).

iMovie 5 will not work with Mac OS X 10.5, so get iMovie 6 (part of iLife '06).

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Answer 2

MrOllen Author

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May 18, 2009 9:03 PM in response to Lennart Thelander

Lennart,

Thanks for your reply. Do you have some experience using iMovie 6 yourself? Any suggestions on the best tutorials/instructions to help learn it? I'm interested in blending still images, video, music and possibly text.

Oh, I'm usually bad at keeping a large amount of my hard drive free. Any idea how much this program needs to work well? Thanks again.

georgeollen

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Answer 3

May 18, 2009 10:47 PM in response to MrOllen

Yes, I am an experienced iMovie 6 user.

Try the "Help" menu when running iMovie 6.

Or get David Pogue's book: "iMovie 6 - The missing manual".

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Answer 4

May 20, 2009 1:27 AM in response to MrOllen

+Any idea how much this program needs to work well?+

Minimum of 15 GB, better if you have 25 GB or more on your computer's drive. The iMovie application needs to be on the computer's drive, but you can import, edit and export from an external drive if you wish to save space on your computer's drive. Just be sure the external drive is Mac-formatted and connects via Firewire.

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Answer 5

MrOllen Author

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May 21, 2009 5:47 PM in response to Beverly Maneatis

Thanks for the answer to my freespace question.

Now my only problem is finding a way to download a copy of iMovie 6. It turns out the old iLife installation CDs I have are for '08.

Does anybody looking at this thread know how I can obtain iMovie 6?

Thank you.

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Answer 6

May 21, 2009 7:41 PM in response to MrOllen

You can try ebay.

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