• Adobe Creative Suite Tutorials, Reviews and Resources for Photographers, Designers, Illustrators and Developers | Layers Magazine – I've just received two complimentary copies of this digital magazine. All I did was move PS4 to a new MacBook Pro and re register it. It's a reward for registering with Adobe, but it's not the first time I've done it.

• Overlap causes iMovie to crash – If you've experienced this problem here's a possible solution.

Final Cutters

A useful site for editors and storytellers using Apple’s Final Cut and to tempt you to visit there’s a software prize on offer too.

You also have better control over the audio track, the title animation, and the sound effects–you can change them or move them around, for example. But we still would prefer a more precise manipulation. For example, we wanted to match up an exact part of a song to a specific point in a video clip. We could only do this after a lot of dragging and dropping and trial and error. If we had a timeline, lining them up would be a lot easier. For better transitions and edits, the precision editor works great, but we still miss the timeline.

While it seems that the new iMovie is better than the previous version the lack of a timeline still concerns me. I will update my views after I have installed iLife ‘09 for myself – still waiting for the postman to delever.

I found out about this from the Apple iMovie ‘09 tutorial so I have posted a question on the iMovie ‘09 discussion on the Apple Site to see if anyone had discovered a workaround.  In the meantime I’ll be using version 6 HD, which I am assured does work after iLife ‘09 has been installed.

Apple allowed users to download the earlier version because iMovie 08 was such a radical change  that many users were left without some essential functions – timeline editing to name just one.

I can only assume that because iMovie ‘09 has more functions Apple thinks that the old application is no longer needed.  What they will have failed to take into account is the way that Digital Storytellers use iMovie using a narrated voice track and still images compiled on a timeline. Even if ‘09 is capable it will take time for workshop leaders like myself to devise new workflows and update their user manuals.

It seems that iMovie HD is still on the Apple Support servers and can be downloaded by following this link. iMovie HD So get your copy now and keep it somewhere safe. You may still need it for a while yet – you may even prefer it.

Story first seen on MacRumours.com

Apple – Downloads – Aperture – Aperture BorderFX

An Aperture export plug-in that allows you to add borders to images as you export them. 

If you are an Aperture user this free plugin is just brilliant. Add borders, text, and watermarks with a wide range of options. How did I live without it?