Macworld: MWSF: Apple brings out iLife '05 ...

montgomery_burns

859 posts since
Aug 31, 2004

16. Jan 12, 2005 4:50 PM

in response to: MW Forums

iDVD widescreen

Since 2005 is the year of HD, will iDVD include themes that are optimized for widescreen displays?

And will you be able to resize the iDVD window? In the current version, you can't resize the main window at all. So if you have a high resolution monitor, the window looks miniscule. And you have to constantly scroll around in the map view. The lack of window resizing seems like a big omission, since iPhoto and iMovie both allow resizing.

Machound

866 posts since
Jan 4, 2004

17. Jan 12, 2005 5:23 PM

in response to: Jim Heid

Re: Disk Image

iDVD 5 lets you save a DVD as a disc image. You can then use the Finder or
> Toast to burn a disc on any DVD burner, including third-party external burners.

I'm curious if anybody knows whether iDVD5 can make 9-GB disk images for dual layer DVD burners? My guess is probably not, but I just had to ask.

BobofBobs

68 posts since
Aug 3, 2004

18. Jan 15, 2005 4:06 PM

in response to: montgomery_burns

Re: iDVD widescreen

yes. iDVD (according to the website) does support HD and 16:9.

lkalliance

1,334 posts since
May 5, 2002

19. Jan 17, 2005 1:01 PM

in response to: cptmoll

I think that might be a poor labelling issue

If I had to guess, I would say that iPhoto 5 does not use Dashboard, but instead features a dashboard. That is, what you would call the implementation is a dashboard (small "d") in that it's a collection of similarly-themed tools in a confined area, but that it does not use Dashboard (capital "D") which is the name of a technology to be included in Tiger.

Besides, the individual items in the Tiger Dashboard demo are called "Widgets", not "dashboards."

Perhaps he used the potentially confusing term to note that the iPhoto editing dashboard does have the "look and feel" of the widgets that he's demonstrated in Dashboard. Or perhaps everyone is right, that that particular feature requires Tiger. But I think it's the former. There would be disclaimers on the Apple site that say that the feature requires Dashboard.

I expect we'll get this widget without Dashboard. And when we do get Dashboard that it won't power this widget because this dashboard is not a Dashboard Widget or a but rather a regular widget that happens to be a dashboard.

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