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“Only a week later, there were rumors circulating that iLife ’11 was going to be released in time for back to school or at Apple’s September media event,” Grothaus reports. “So far, it has yet to materialize.”
Grothaus reports, “However, a sharp-eyed reader pointed out that an iLife ’11 Family Pack listing has appeared on Amazon.com… The family pack’s price is US$99, and its shipping time is listed as ‘2 to 4 weeks.'”
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Hoping for a faster iphoto for large libraries (15,000 to 20,000 photos).
And a fix for the import crashing if you have a movie on your camera with the pictures.
There are customers that have 60K photos and still refuse to buy Aperture, or an external HD….but still continue to spend cash on fancy lenses. Those were my tech support days for Apple.
How about Blu-ray authoring in iMovie/iDVD combo? We all know about that NC data centre, but there is world beyond US, not to mention that majority of US still doesn’t have enough bandwidth for decent HD playback.
Almost all consumer camcorders sold today are HD. Very large percentage of households that have HDTV also have a blu-ray player. The format’s rate of penetration is growing at the same pace that DVD was growing when it was introduced (almost 20 years ago). If we keep in mind that DVD was going against a significantly inferior VHS (as well as he LaserDisc, which was a flop), and Blu-ray lost two years of time fighting off HD-DVD, it is clear that the format is well on its way to mainstream adoption.
In order to create a Blu-ray disc of my home movies (for family, relatives, friends), I have to go through the iMovie to Toast song-and-dance, which is clunky and unintuitive. There are very few other options on the Mac (and they are expensive), compared to at least half a dozen sub- $100 integrated software packages on Windows that let you aquire AVCHD (or HDV), edit it and burn it as Blu-ray (whether using AVCHD on standard DVD-R, or MPEG-2 on BD-R discs).
I know Steve says Blu-ray is a bag of hurt. But we don’t really care so much about Blu-ray playback. Authoring tools shouldn’t be too complicated to create. So, how about iBlu-Ray, Steve?
I thought Aperture was to edit photos. I just like taking pictures and watching them on my ‘old’ apple tv with music in the background.
I use a canon S2IS (almost 5 years old now
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Still haven’t found a good enough reason to use Aperture, but I sure as hell know why I want a Canon 16mm-36mm f2.8 L Series lens.
Browsing Amazon, I can find no reference to iLife ’11. Plenty of entries for the current and former versions of the software suite, but no mention of the ’11 version…
@ me
I had an S1 and still have an S3. It was my favorite compact camera until the G10 came along, and still gets used from time to time.
@ Rev. Dr.
Yes you do. Because it’s freaking amazing. STILL my favorite lens.
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But for editing… If you’re going to use a professional lens, don’t waste your time with a remedial Raw editor.
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… is one of those with a huge library of pictures. Maybe one in ten is deserving of “general distribution” and maybe four times as many are worth occasional or specific distribution. The other half are – at BEST – repetitions or merely absolute crap. Yet, he continues to hoard them! His compact camera is better than mine – in some ways, many ways? – but my <u>library</u> is much better than his. I delete crap pictures, use-and-lose at least half of those I keep, and organize them all. I also take fewer pics of fewer situations … I’m self editing. His is a mess!
… how did this devolve from a discussion of the Rumor of iLife ’11 to a discussion of iPhoto? What about iMovie? And GarageBand? And iWeb? How did we wander down the iPhoto rabbit-hole without a single mention of those other apps? And … will we ever see the return of iDVD? A version that is actually usable?
We spent more time talking Aperture than some of these other apps. And about a Canon lens with minimal zoom and no real information about the range itself – is 16mm the actual measure? or the 35mm equivalent (wow!)?
And … thanks for keeping this apolitical!
… you have <u>underline</u> listed as an option in “Allowed HTML Tags”, yet it obviously doesn’t apply itself to the text. When will this be fixed? Either by changing the “Allowed” page or by getting the code to work as advertised?
I hope everything in iLife gets a bit snappier. iPhoto is slow, even on the latest MBP. BTW, iTunes made progress in this direction, so I hope the best.
iWeb is one of the most underestimated apps I think. Of course there are many things to been done, but it gets better… I am looking forward anyway…
@Me
ALL i wish apple did to iLife 11 is that they fix that crash u mentioned when importing lots of photos and videos. It’s so annoying.
That they bring back all the Functionality of iMove HD 06 which is what I still prefer to use even tho I have the current iLife Suite. I just can’t get used to the Current iMovie Format and the extremely limited options. I just more free using iMovie HD. Apple Replaced something that wasn’t broke. I I really tried to use the current version and I keep getting a stop sign when I cant doing something that I was able to do in iMove HD 06. It was just too good of an app.
And that they include iWork along with iLife. iLife to me stands for everything a person needs and iWork is the missing link to complete that..
@me: Yeah, I get that crash, very annoying, means I have to use an SD card reader instead and drag everything into iPhoto.
A few other bugs I’d like fixed:
1. iMovie quitting whenever it’s had enough, or at the very least, the option to save manually instead of autosave so that not so much work is lost.
2. A long standing bug (at least I think it’s a bug, it doesn’t strike me as being a very useful feature) in Garageband, where when you click a note in the note editor at the bottom, not only does it play back that note, but whichever note the playhead is over. Very annoying, the only way to make it stop the continuous drone is to play and then pause.
And @Lilochris: I find the new iMovie, much, MUCH easier to use, but I do agree they need to bring back a lot of the functionality of the old one.
Please support Sigma’s RAW format, Apple.