iLife ‘05--the suite of tightly integrated
applications that continues to lead the digital
media revolution--offers significant new
versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand
and the latest version of iTunes.
With iLife
‘05, the must-have upgrade for everyone who uses
a Mac, you can easily create stunning softcover
books; import, organize, and edit RAW photos;
and stun them with fully customizable slideshows
using iPhoto 5. Edit high-definition 16:9 video
from the newest camcorders and create movies
automatically with iMovie HD’s new Magic iMovie
feature. Drag and drop video clips, pictures,
and music into the new animated drop zones found
in iDVD 5 templates. Or create multi-track
recordings in GarageBand 2. Of course, iTunes
seamlessly integrates with iPhoto, iMovie HD,
iDVD and GarageBand and syncs with every member
of the iPod family. You won’t find a better or
easier-to-use set of creative tools than iLife
’05.
iPhoto 5: Make photos picture perfect.
From stunning new softcover iPhoto Books
(available in three sizes) to fully
customizable, cinematic slideshows, iPhoto 5
lets you do more with your photos. In fact, it
even lets you import RAW photos and use them
throughout the application. Take video clips?
iPhoto 5 imports them, too. iPhoto also helps
you keep every photo in its place with new
hierarchical folders that let you store multiple
albums, iPhoto books and separate slideshows.
You’ll also enjoy more options for finding
photos: a Calendar View, for locating photos by
day, week, month or year; and a search field for
lightning fast, iTunes-like searches. And wait
till you try the new Advanced Editing Dashboard.
With its tools, you can modify exposure, white
balance, saturation, contrast and more. Even
straighten those slightly off-kilter horizons.
Top new features at a glance:
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Breathtaking books give you more choices of
sizes, styles, and designs.
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Advanced Editing Tools let you edit like a
pro.
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Make Mine Raw: iPhoto supports RAW
throughout the app.
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Create fully customizable slideshows with
new cinematic transitions and effects.
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View your photos by calendar date or range
of dates.
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iTunes-like search field finds photos
lightning fast.
What’s New in iPhoto 5?
There’s something new for every photographer in
iPhoto 5. Better organization tools--such as
hierarchical folders. Instant searching via an
iTunes-fast search field and a new Calendar View
that lets you find photos by the day or week.
Support for more formats: both MPEG-4 video
clips and the RAW format preferred by more
advanced photographers. Much more powerful photo
editing. More advanced slidedshows: they’re
cinematic and completely customizable. And a
completely new generation of iPhoto Books with
new designs, new sizes, and more affordable
pricing options.
Exciting News about iPhoto Books
iPhoto 5 delivers a completely new way to make
books that’s dramatically better than it was
before. And that took some doing. To get you
started, you can have iPhoto automatically
create a book for you. Just choose the photos
and let iPhoto lay it out for you. Then use the
new layout editor to turn it into a personal
work of digital art--rearrange photos, change
page designs, even edit photos until they’re
perfect.
There’s more. You can now choose from an
entire family of stunningly beautiful yet highly
affordable iPhoto books. This includes new soft
cover books available in three sizes--small,
medium and grand. Prices start at just $3.99.
All books now offer duplex printing, including
the highly popular hardcover Keepsake books,
which now start at just $29.99. And wait till
you see the great new designs you have to choose
from.
Make Mine RAW: iPhoto Supports New Formats
Pros do it and an increasing number of you do,
too. Capture photos in the RAW photo format,
that is. Shooting RAW lets you take advantage of
every pixel of detail and the full dynamic range
your digital cameras can capture. iPhoto 5 not
only lets you import and organize uncompressed
RAW images, but it supports RAW photos
throughout the application, letting you edit
them until they’re picture perfect, add them to
your slideshows, order prints of them, and
include them in iPhoto Books.
Video Clips from Your Camera
That’s not all. In addition to supporting RAW
photos, iPhoto 5 also lets you import and
organize MPEG-4 video clips, as well. You import
them right alongside your photos. In fact, you
can keep the clips in the same "roll" as the
photos and use them in slideshows. You don’t
even have to leave iPhoto to see them, either.
Just doubleclick to watch them. And if you want
to use them in iMovie HD or iDVD, you can just
drag them into those other apps or import them
via the iLife media browser.
Edit Like a Pro
What about editing your photos? Thanks to an
entire suite of sophisticated tools, editing in
iPhoto 5 has been significantly improved. In
fact, you may never have to leave iPhoto to make
your photos absolutely perfect. Using the new
advanced editing dashboard, you can easily
optimize saturation, exposure, sharpness and
more. You’ll even find a tool for straightening
horizons that includes its own grid to make the
job as easy as possible.
Advanced Slideshows
A wide range of new transitions and effects lets
you easily create dazzling cinematic slideshows.
Taking advantage of the new slideshow editor,
you can rearrange photos with drag-and-drop
ease; assign attributes--such as duration,
transitions and effects--on a slide-by-slide
basis; and save your slideshows separately from
albums. iPhoto 5 can also automatically modify
the length of your shows to fit the music you’ve
chosen. You can customize slideshows as much as
you like--and save them alongside the albums you
use to create them.
Find Photos in an Instant
And thanks to a new iTunes-like search field,
you can search for your photos more easily and
find them much more quickly--especially since
you can now tag photos as you import them for
instant retrieval. You’ll also like iPhoto’s new
Calendar View. A click lets you see all the
photos you took on a day, week, month or in a
range of dates.
iMovie HD: Turn home video into home
cinema.
Are you ready for high-definition (HDV 720p and
1080i) 16:9 widescreen video? So is iMovie. Or,
more accurately, iMovie HD. Though still as easy
to use as ever, iMovie HD lets you import and
edit video from the newest camcorders--not just
HDV cameras but the tiny and affordable flash
media video cams, as well--and in the latest
formats, including HDV, MPEG-4 and 16:9
widescreen SDV. Dramatically increased
performance lets iMovie HD move quickly through
even the most complex projects, and new and
improved tools let you edit quickly and easily.
Take, for example, the Timeline. Now you can use
it for all your editing, including rearranging
clips. You’ll also like the new Skywalker Sound
audio effects and even more effects and
transitions. And you’re really going to enjoy
creating movies automatically with the new Magic
iMovie feature.
Top new features at a glance:
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iMovie makes it easy to work with High
Definition Video (HDV).
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Connect your camera and let Magic iMovie do
the rest.
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Take on bigger projects thanks to major
performance gains.
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iMovie HD lets you rearrange clips directly
in the Timeline.
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The Preview button quickly shows effects and
transitions.
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Copy video clips from other projects or from
the Finder.
What’s new in iMovie HD?
The new name gives it away. Now iMovie supports
HDV, the new high-definition video standard. But
that’s not all. In addition to dramatic
performance improvements, iMovie HD lets you
create movies automatically, offers easier and
more powerful editing features and comes with an
assortment of new audio and video effects and
transitions.
Edit High-Definition Video
Want to shoot with state-of-the art video
cameras? The newest camcorders let you capture
widescreen (16:9) high-definition (HDV 720p and
1080i) video, and iMovie HD lets you import it
and edit it just like standard digital video. In
fact, iMovie makes it easy to work with HDV.
Trim it. Add transitions and effects to it. Burn
a high-quality DVD and show it on your
widescreen home theater or on your iMac G5.
Supports More Formats
In addition to HDV, iMovie HD supports the new
flash media video cameras. Small in stature and
lean in price, these video cameras capture
MPEG-4 video, which provides high quality while
requiring less storage capacity. iMovie HD lets
you import and edit the MPEG-4 video. It also
can import live video from your iSight video
camera--without the need for transcoding. And
iMovie HD also supports the widescreen, 16:9
aspect ratio of standard digital video (SD DV),
offering you lots of new options.
Create Movies Automagically
Pressed for time? Now you can connect your
FireWire video camera to your Mac and take
advantage of a new iMovie HD feature. Called
"Magic iMovie" for good reason, it can import
your video, place your clips on the Timeline
(complete with scene breaks), insert
transitions, include titles, add chapter
markers, introduce a soundtrack, even send the
completed project to iDVD--all automatically.
Ideal for both novices and experienced editors,
Magic iMovie can get your next project off to a
very fast start.
Dramatic Overall Performance
You’ll notice it the first time you use iMovie
HD. From launching to editing to scrubbing to
saving, iMovie HD offers noticeably improved
performance. As a result, iMovie HD lets you
tackle even the most advanced movie projects
quickly and easily.
Easier and More Powerful Editing
You’ll enjoy both the powerful new tools and the
improvements made to familiar tools in iMovie
HD. Now you can do all of your editing,
including rearranging clips, right in the
Timeline. From the Timeline, you can also drag
and drop clips to and from the Clip Viewer, to
and from other iMovie HD projects, to iDVD drop
zones, to other applications or to a folder on
your hard drive. iMovie HD also offers smoother
scrubbing, better clip management,
non-destructive video and audio editing and a
new Save As feature to safeguard your project as
you work.
More Effects and Transitions
Add more style to your movies. iMovie HD
includes 10 new video effects, three new
transitions and 12 new Skywalker Sound audio
effects.
iDVD 5: Create stunning, Hollywood-style
DVDs.When it comes time to share your musical,
cinematic or photographic accomplishments with
others, there’s no better way to do it than with
a DVD. And when it comes time to author a DVD,
you’d be hard pressed to find a faster, easier
way to create Hollywood-style DVDs than with
iDVD 5. For starters, iDVD 5 makes it easy to
import movies, images and music via the built-in
media browser or by dragging them from other
iLife ’05 applications. Beautiful new themes now
include gorgeous animated drop zones that move
across the TV screen, dazzling and delighting
anyone who plays your latest DVD project. In a
hurry? With iDVD 5, you can create a OneStep
DVD, a one-click, camera- or videotape-to-DVD
solution. And you can burn that project or
others onto a wider assortment of DVD media,
including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW.
Top new features at a glance:
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Animated drop zones let you create truly
dazing DVDs
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Pick your favorite from 15 gorgeous new
themes.
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One Step DVD offers a one-click video
tape-to-DVD solution.
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Burn to almost any DVD media: DVD-R, -RW,
+R, +RW.
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Seamless integration with iPhoto makes
slideshows a snap.
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Map view lets you see at a glance all the
components of your DVD.
Thanks to increased performance, you’ll find
iDVD 5 more responsive, making it easier than
ever to create and edit your DVD projects. But
it’s the new themes and their animated drop
zones that really steal the scene in this
production. Customized with your photos and
video, they move across the TV screen, offering
you new opportunities for creative expression.
You’ll also find exciting new options for
editing your DVD projects, including a new
editable DVD Map, a new Drop Zone Editor and
Scrubber, and even more drag-and-drop ease than
before.
New Themes Featuring Animated Drop Zones
Take your next DVD project to the highest
creative level. Innovative and exciting, the 15
new, Apple-designed themes in iDVD 5 will amaze
and entertain anyone who sees your DVDs.
Exquisite in design, they include "animated drop
zones" that move across the TV screen while
displaying your still images and playing your
movie clips, slideshows and, of course, the
music you select from iTunes. You’ll also really
enjoy the new drop zone editor and scrubber:
they make it much easier to add media to and
reorganize the media already in multiple drop
zones.
OneStep DVD
Can’t wait to see the latest footage you shot?
With "OneStep DVD," you simply need to connect
your video camera to your Mac, and iDVD will
quickly transfer your video onto a DVD. In fact,
iDVD not only provides a one-click tape-to-DVD
solution, it also rewinds the tape for you and
automatically creates an auto-play movie on DVD.
So all you have to do is pop the DVD into a DVD
player.
Burn Projects onto New DVD Media Formats
When you’re done with a DVD project, it makes
sense to archive it. And with its support for a
wide variety of DVD media formats--including
DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW--iDVD 5 teams
up with a compatible SuperDrive to offer you
more media options than ever. In fact, iDVD 5
even lets you archive projects as Disc Images.
Saved this way, your projects are extremely
portable, take up less space and are read-only,
as well. What’s more, they’re also already
encoded, so you can quickly burn them to DVD.
Support for HDV and Widescreen Video
You’re using the newest video cameras. Shooting
the latest video formats. And importing it all
in iMovie HD. So it’s only natural that iDVD
would also let you import the high-definition
video (HDV) and 16:9 widescreen formats (both
HDV and SDV) you can edit in iMovie HD. iDVD, in
fact, quickly and easily converts them to a
standard definition DVD format, letting you
create DVD projects of stunning quality.
Improved, Editable Map
If you liked it before, you’re really going to
enjoy the new, enhanced and editable DVD Map. In
addition to offering more options for viewing
your project, Map View lets you edit--even batch
edit--your project. For example, you can change
themes, menu and button settings, and
transitions between menus or for slideshows
without leaving Map View. Like to add media to
your project? Just drag it in. You can drag
music directly into a navigation menu or a
slideshow. And if, for example, you drag a video
or slideshow into Map View, iDVD will
automatically create navigation buttons for
them.
GarageBand 2: Record your next big hit.
Since its introduction a year ago, GarageBand
has made it easy for novice and experienced
musicians alike to perform, record and create
their own music. Now, without missing a beat,
GarageBand 2 delivers an impressive encore
performance, offering, for openers, multi-track
recording.
That means that you can now play the guitar
and sing while recording both tracks at the same
time. Or invite the band over to back you and
lay down up to eight audio tracks at once. You
can accomplish this feat using any audio
input/output device compatible with Mac OS X.
GarageBand 2 also provides built-in real-time
music notation. And it includes smart recording
features that let you enhance the tuning and
timing of audio recordings (real instruments and
vocals).
Top new features at a glance:
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Multi-track recording handles up to eight
tracks at once.
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GarageBand can display music notation in
real time.
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Enhance timing and pitch for better quality
recordings.
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Change the tempo & key of your recorded
instruments at any time
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Tune your guitar before you start recording
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GarageBand 2 lets you save your own
recordings as Apple Loops
GarageBand lets you easily perform, record and
create your own music. Whether you’re an
experienced or aspiring musician. Or just want
to feel--and sound--like a rock star. With the
new version of GarageBand, you can even record
multiple tracks at the same time. Sing as you
play the guitar, harmonize with your best
singing bud or jam with the band, and GarageBand
will record every note. And when all your tracks
are in place, you can view them in full music
notation and take advantage of new GarageBand
features to enhance the tuning and timing of
your recordings.
Multi-track Recording
Thanks to its new multi-track recording
capabilities, GarageBand now lets you record
your own vocals as you tickle the ivories or
strum the guitar. You can sing a duet, or you
can invite the band over to back you. GarageBand
works with any I/O hardware device compatible
with Mac OS X and can record up to eight
simultaneous audio tracks--eight Real
Instruments and an additional Software
Instrument track.
Display Musical Notation
Wish you could view full musical notation as you
record? Now you can. Whether you’re recording
software instruments or recording your own live
performance, GarageBand can now generate music
notation in real time, displaying it on the fly.
There’s more. You can now choose how you’d like
to edit software instrument recordings. You can
use the "piano roll" view you’re used to using.
Or you might want to try something new.
GarageBand 2 lets you edit your recorded
music--adjust, replace or move notes--using the
new music notation view.
iTunes 4.7: Organize, share and enjoy your
music.
Regarded by many as the world’s best digital
music jukebox for both Macs and PCs, iTunes also
has another significant claim to fame: as the
world’s number one music download store, it
offers you a choice of more than one million
songs from all four major and more than 600
independent labels, and it’s sold more than 200
million songs. iTunes not only manages your
music remarkably well, it also automatically
syncs your music to the growing iPod family,
including the unpredictable new member of the
clan: iPod shuffle. What’s more, iTunes plays an
essential role among the members of the iLife
suite, too. Not only does iTunes serve as the
conduit to iPod photo for iPhoto users, but it
lends its library to iPhoto, iMovie HD and iDVD
whenever a song or playlist is needed. And it
serves an important function for GarageBand,
letting you export the songs you create to your
personal music library, where they can be burned
to disc, added to playlists, transferred to
iPod, shared via AirPort Express with AirTunes
or used in other iLife projects.
Top new features at a glance:
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Supports iPod shuffle, the newest member of
the iPod family.
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Create playlists instantly with Party
Shuffle.
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Print your own CD inserts using album art.
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Stream music wirelessly to your stereo with
Airport Express.
Recognized as the world’s best digital music
jukebox. Acclaimed as the leader against which
all online music stores are judged. iTunes
continues to delight, offering music lovers the
easiest way to manage the music they own and the
absolutely best way to discover and purchase
even more music, as well as audiobooks.
Connecting with Your Life and iLife
Whether you purchase music from the iTunes Music
Store or import it from the music CDs you own,
once your music is in iTunes, you can use it in
many fun and exciting ways. As part of the
highly-praised suite of iLife applications,
iTunes seamlessly integrates with iPhoto,
iMovie, iDVD and GarageBand.
Your music is never more than a mouse click
away when you’re creating a fully customized,
cinematic slideshow in iPhoto, adding an audio
track to a movie you’re producing in iMovie HD
or looking for the perfect song or playlist to
add to one of the new dynamic motion menus in
iDVD. Particularly strong: the tie between
iTunes and GarageBand. When you save the
compositions you create in GarageBand, you can
export them to iTunes. And once they’re in
iTunes, you can access and use your GarageBand
compositions in iPhoto, iMovie HD and iDVD; add
them to other iTunes playlists; transfer them to
an iPod; or burn them to a CD or DVD.
Take It with You
Designed to enhance your digital life, iTunes
works seamlessly with our growing iPod family:
the classic white iPod, iPod mini, iPod U2
Special Edition, iPod photo--which lets you
carry as many as 15,000 songs or 25,000 photos
from your iPhoto library--and the latest member
of the family, iPod shuffle. Just connect your
iPod to your Mac or Windows PC, and iTunes takes
care of the rest, automatically synchronizing
the new items in your music library with the
songs and audiobooks you already have on the
iPod. And, in the case of iPod photo, iTunes
automatically creates thumbnails and transfers
images from iPhoto (or a selected folder on your
hard drive), letting you take up to 25,000
photos on the road.
Have you assigned ratings to songs on your
iPod? Created On-the-Go playlists? Read a few
chapters of that new bestseller? iTunes keeps
track of that information, too. Not wanting you
to miss a beat or turn to the wrong page, iTunes
makes certain that Play Count, Last Played
dates, Song Ratings, bookmarks and other
settings remain in sync.
Share Your Music
If other people you live or work with enjoy
music too, you can let them listen to yours.
That’s because iTunes lets you share your
personal music with others, streaming it over a
local network from your Mac or PC. Share your
entire music library or just select playlists
with every iTunes user on your local network.
That Sounds Great
iTunes supports a variety of musical formats,
including Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). A
cutting-edge audio codec that’s perfect for the
Internet, AAC encoding compresses much more
efficiently than older formats such as MP3,
which iTunes also supports, while delivering
quality rivaling that of uncompressed CD audio.
In fact, expert listeners have judged AAC audio
files compressed at 128 Kbps (stereo) as
virtually indistinguishable from the original
uncompressed audio source. You’ll appreciate
this quality whenever you purchase music from
the iTunes Music Store.
Staying in Tune
Like to mix and match the songs you listen to?
Create playlists that fit your needs and moods
to a T? iTunes offers two options for creating
playlists. You can create them manually just by
clicking and dragging individual songs, groups
of songs or whole albums.
Or you can let iTunes do all the heavy
lifting for you by taking advantage of its
ability to generate dynamic Smart Playlists. You
simply define a few parameters--such as ratings
and year--and iTunes will scour your library,
collecting just those songs that match.
Burn CDs of Playlists
When you’ve created a playlist that’s just
perfect--all your five-star favorites, perhaps--iTunes
makes it easy to create a CD you can play in
your car, home stereo or computer (Mac or PC).
Just select a playlist in your library and click
the Burn CD button.
It’s that simple. And you’ll want to take
advantage of the simplicity of iTunes to archive
your growing music library, particularly those
songs you purchase from the iTunes Music Store.
With iTunes 4, you can burn playlists too large
to fit on a single CD or DVD to multiple discs,
a feature called disc spanning.
Featuring five best-in-class applications—iPhoto,
iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iTunes—in a
single, integrated suite, iLife '05 provides
your customers with all of the tools they need
to enjoy, create, and share their digital media.
