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Friday, 14 January 2005 | senay
Apple Introduces iLife '05
5 Applications Working Together
Take photos? Shoot video? Make or listen to music? Even if you've never considered yourself a creative person, iLife '05 - a suite of tightly integrated applications that places no limit on your talent or creativity - makes it easy and fun to learn new skills. Getting better all the time, iLife '05 introduces major new versions of your favorite media applications. And each of them offers outstanding new features, letting you have even more fun with your photos, movies, and music in 2005.
Offering major new versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and GarageBand, iLife '05 lets you easily create fully customizable slideshows and stunning softcover books with iPhoto 5. Edit high-definition 16:9 video from the newest camcorders in iMovie HD. Add movies, pictures and music to iDVD 5 projects just by dragging them in. Or create multi-track recordings in GarageBand 2. Of course, iTunes offers the world's best digital music jukebox for Macs and PCs. It 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.
Then again, it also lets you work with more kinds of images: like video clips from your digital still cameras and photos shot in RAW format. Once you've imported your pictures, iPhoto helps you keep every photo in its place with new hierarchical folders that let you store multiple albums, iPhoto books and separate slideshows. You also have 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 tools. With them, you can modify exposure, white balance, saturation, contrast and lots more. Even straighten those slightly off-kilter horizons.
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.
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. iDVD provides a wide assortment of easy-to-use editing and authoring tools such as the new fully editable DVD Map and the new Drop Zone editor. In a hurry? With iDVD you can create a OneStep DVD, a one-click, camera- or videotape-to-DVD solution. Beautiful new themes now include gorgeous dynamic drop zones that move across the screen, dazzling and delighting anyone who plays your latest DVD project.
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 timing, easily tightening up the rhythm of guitar, bass, vocal, and other real instruments.
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.
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