After spending a good portion of the day working with iLife 6 and primarily iMovie HD I would have to say that iMovie 6 is one buggy piece of software. It’s horribly slow on 1 Ghz - 1.5 Ghz G4 machines with lots of RAM. It requires that when you add a transition you have to wait until it completes itself before you add the next one or else all succeeding transitions will not render properly resulting in dropped frames. Furthermore a good portion of the Slick Motion plug-ins will not work with this version either. The Ken Burns effect is more difficult to arrange and work with because it only allows for full preview mode while working with your photos.

The theme chapter markers and bumps are a nice addition, but only if they would work like they are supposed to. Some would not render at all resulting in a dead still red rendering line below the frame causing a force quit to recover. Apple has also started using floating palets which tend to get in your way while working. Exporting to iDVD is no longer a nice icon with simple features. You now have to select it under the Share option along with Quicktime, iPod etc.

I’m not happy with this version of iMovie at all. It is my guess that Apple is pushing products out the door before they are ready to be released - just to keep the product hype going. Shame on you Apple!