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“iLife is widely regarded as the best suite of ‘Digital Life’ applications in the world, and iLife ’11 makes them even better,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “iLife now makes it easier than ever to create books and letterpress cards, make amazing movie trailers from your personal videos and post them online, and make your band sound far better or teach yourself piano or guitar.”
iPhoto ’11 features stunning new full screen modes that take advantage of your Mac’s brilliant display for browsing, editing and showcasing your photos. Sharing your photos is easier than ever in iPhoto ’11, whether you send them by email using one of eight beautiful themes, post them to your Facebook wall with a single click, or play them in full screen with one of 12 professionally designed slideshows. iPhoto ’11 features a completely new approach to creating books and cards with a sleek carousel interface, intelligent book layout and a bookshelf that displays all your projects. New letterpress cards let you combine your photos and text with elegant imprinted designs to create unique wedding invitations, birth announcements, holiday greetings and more.
iMovie ’11 helps you turn your videos into captivating Hollywood-style trailers that are fun to watch and share. You can choose from 15 different genres including Adventure, Romantic Comedy and Epic Drama, each one complete with its own unique titles, graphics and cinematic soundtrack. Powerful new tools make it easy to selectively adjust audio levels and apply sophisticated visual effects like flash and hold, instant replay and jump cuts with a single click. People Finder analyzes your videos and marks sections containing faces, so you can quickly find the perfect clips for your trailer or movie. iMovie ’11 also adds exciting new themes that make your videos look like professional news or sports programs.
GarageBand ‘11 includes two new ways to fix or change the timing of your recordings. Flex Time lets you move, stretch or shorten individual notes by clicking on just the part of the audio waveform you want to change, without affecting the rest of the recording. With Groove Matching, you can select any track as the “Groove Track” and all other tracks will instantly match its rhythmic feel. GarageBand ’11 adds seven authentic-sounding new guitar amps, five fun new stompbox effects, and 22 new Basic Lessons for piano and guitar. The new “How did I Play?” feature listens while you play along with any lesson, highlights mistakes and tracks your progress to help you become a better musician.
iLife ’11 is available immediately for a suggested retail price of $49 through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. The iLife ’11 Family Pack includes five licenses and is available for $79 and the Mac Box Set which includes iLife ’11, iWork and Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard is available for $129.
iLife ’11 requires Mac OS X version 10.6.3 or later, a Mac computer with an Intel processor, 1GB of RAM, a DVD drive for installation and 5GB of available disk space. iPhoto print products and GarageBand Artist Lessons are sold separately and are available in select countries.
More information on iLife ’11 can be found at here.
Source: Apple Inc.
Well, apparently Apple isn’t going to get my $50. I will still have to use Toast in order to deliver my HD videos to family, friends and kids’ class parents in Blu-ray.
I completely understand Steve’s “Bag of Hurt” position, but that pretty much only refers to playback of Blu-ray with DRM. Encoding Blu-ray is fairly trivial, there is tons of software for it out there (including Apple’s own Compressor), so WHY did they not bother to even mention the existence of iDVD, let alone make it iBD (or iBluray, or something)? There is no way I can squeeze school performances, field trip videos and other activities in to the YouTube’s 15-minute time limit. More importantly, nobody I know would bother watching HD video on their computer; that’s why they all bought their HDTV’s.
So, I’ll have to suffer the whole iMovie to QuickTime to Toast song-and-dance, just so that I can burn BD-AVCHD discs on ordinary DVD-Rs…
Well, apparently Apple isn’t going to get my $50. I will still have to use Toast in order to deliver my HD videos to family, friends and kids’ class parents in Blu-ray.
I completely understand Steve’s “Bag of Hurt” position, but that pretty much only refers to playback of Blu-ray with DRM. Encoding Blu-ray is fairly trivial, there is tons of software for it out there (including Apple’s own Compressor), so WHY did they not bother to even mention the existence of iDVD, let alone make it iBD (or iBluray, or something)? There is no way I can squeeze school performances, field trip videos and other activities in to the YouTube’s 15-minute time limit. More importantly, nobody I know would bother watching HD video on their computer; that’s why they all bought their HDTV’s.
So, I’ll have to suffer the whole iMovie to QuickTime to Toast song-and-dance, just so that I can burn BD-AVCHD discs on ordinary DVD-Rs…
Was hoping for more editing options in iphoto. It is really very basic in it’s editing.
Was hoping for more editing options in iphoto. It is really very basic in it’s editing.
On the other hand, that GarageBand update is very exciting indeed. As is iMovie (audio control is very, very welcome). Perhaps it just might be worth spending $50, even without that Blu-ray authoring feature.
On the other hand, that GarageBand update is very exciting indeed. As is iMovie (audio control is very, very welcome). Perhaps it just might be worth spending $50, even without that Blu-ray authoring feature.
Okay so I keep reading and haven’t seen anything about 64 bit. I guess that means it’s not????????
Okay so I keep reading and haven’t seen anything about 64 bit. I guess that means it’s not????????
@Predrag
people will be able to watch videos on their HDTVs via AppleTV with AirPlay … or not ?
@Predrag
people will be able to watch videos on their HDTVs via AppleTV with AirPlay … or not ?
did they totally forget about iWeb???
it looks the same as ’09
did they totally forget about iWeb???
it looks the same as ’09
Nothing too terribly exciting. Figures I miss the $6 upgrade by 3-days. Oh well. Will probably fork over the $49 or whenever, when Amazon finally lists the software.
Nothing too terribly exciting. Figures I miss the $6 upgrade by 3-days. Oh well. Will probably fork over the $49 or whenever, when Amazon finally lists the software.
Was really hoping for a major grade to iWeb. There is a HUGE opportunity to target small business users who know nothing about HTML coding but want professional looking web site. Instead, it’s still just a “personal” website development tool.
Was really hoping for a major grade to iWeb. There is a HUGE opportunity to target small business users who know nothing about HTML coding but want professional looking web site. Instead, it’s still just a “personal” website development tool.
Where’s iWork 11?
Where’s iWork 11?
The audio editing in iMovie is worth the whole price. There’s shareware more expensive than this.
The audio editing in iMovie is worth the whole price. There’s shareware more expensive than this.
@ fatal
Nothing is new in iWeb (or iDVD), it’s the same app apparently which is really disappointing. I think it’s a bit rich to only update some of the iLife apps and call the suite a “brand spanking new”.
Looks like I’ll have to wait until iLife ’12 at least.
@ fatal
Nothing is new in iWeb (or iDVD), it’s the same app apparently which is really disappointing. I think it’s a bit rich to only update some of the iLife apps and call the suite a “brand spanking new”.
Looks like I’ll have to wait until iLife ’12 at least.
Jake is so right I am producing business web sites already with iWeb as it enables high quality sites to be generated quickly, reliably and with little fuss yet allows good customisation which however could be even better and flexible. Dreamweaver and even Freeway just make such sites too expensive in time and cost to easily produce and rework for such clients. I managed to reproduce my own web site in 3 days which would have taken me weeks with its more complex competitors yet looks so much better and consistent too. An upgrade adding to its capabilities and removing its few major flaws could have made it extremely compelling for small business and even web designers to use, many of the former use online alternatives at the moment for such projects which have many more restrictions. The one thing I really needed and just my luck it hasn’t arrived. Lets hope this is a delay rather than a loss of interest on Apple’s part.
Jake is so right I am producing business web sites already with iWeb as it enables high quality sites to be generated quickly, reliably and with little fuss yet allows good customisation which however could be even better and flexible. Dreamweaver and even Freeway just make such sites too expensive in time and cost to easily produce and rework for such clients. I managed to reproduce my own web site in 3 days which would have taken me weeks with its more complex competitors yet looks so much better and consistent too. An upgrade adding to its capabilities and removing its few major flaws could have made it extremely compelling for small business and even web designers to use, many of the former use online alternatives at the moment for such projects which have many more restrictions. The one thing I really needed and just my luck it hasn’t arrived. Lets hope this is a delay rather than a loss of interest on Apple’s part.
korky,
I can’t expect every single parent in my child’s class to fork out $100 for an AppleTV, just so that they can watch YouTube. Not to mention that YouTube streams 1080p at an abysmal 5Mbps bitrate, which butchers the image quality. While most of the folks in my circle already have broadband that could presumably handle those 5Mbps, vast majority of Americans (and pretty decent majority of others in the developed world) can only dream of such bandwidth at home.
Even at 15Mbps, AVCHD provides extremely good, but by no means excellent image quality. It is perfectly adequate for HD home video (after all, it does originate in AVCHD at 24Mbps anyway), but professional eye will quickly notice the difference between that and 50Mbps Blu-ray stream.
My argument is that optical media should not be ignored, as it is still the only reasonable way people exchange significant amount of home video. Blu-ray isn’t going anywhere, adoption rate is faster than DVD 15 years ago, despite ubiquity of broadband and online video. People still watch home movies on TVs and store them on individual physical media. That ain’t changing anytime soon.