iLife '09 comments

[Rant]

If you're still 'thinking' about iLife '09, here's the read-me with features and hardware and software requirements.

About iLife ’09

iLife ’09 makes it easier than ever to get the most out of your photos, movies, and music on your Mac. Organize and search your photos by faces and places in iPhoto. Make a movie in minutes and edit with precision in iMovie. Learn to play an instrument or record your own music in GarageBand. Create a stunning website and publish it anywhere with iWeb. iLife ’09 also offers a variety of convenient Internet sharing options, including direct publishing to MobileMe, Facebook, Flickr™, and YouTube™.

What’s new in iLife ’09

iPhoto
• Faces: Easily find photos of the people in your life
• Places: Explore your library based on where you took each photo
• Themed slideshows with multi-photo layouts, titles, and captions
• Integrated Facebook and Flickr support for direct photo publishing
• Improved, more powerful photo-editing tools
• Beautiful travel-themed photo books complete with maps of your itinerary

iMovie
• Precision Editor: Just skim and click to refine your edits
• Advanced drag-and-drop editing with pop-up menu control
• New titles, transitions, and effects, plus slow, fast, or reverse motion
• Dynamic themes with coordinated titles, transitions, and end credits
• Animated travel maps customized to your travel videos
• Video stabilization reduces camera wobble and shake in your footage
• Full-screen Library browser uses Cover Flow to browse your entire library

GarageBand
• Learn to Play: Basic Lessons, a revolutionary way to learn guitar and piano
• Learn to Play: Artist Lessons, with songs taught by leading artists (sold separately)
• New guitar features including redesigned amps and new stompbox effects
• New Magic GarageBand lets you mix, jam, and record in full-screen

iWeb
• Drag-and-drop iWeb Widgets to easily add dynamic content to web pages
• Facebook notifications let friends know when you update your site
• Integrated FTP for publishing your website virtually anywhere
• Independent site management for managing multiple websites


Contents
iLife ’09 contains iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, iDVD, and QuickTime; electronic documentation.


iLife ’09 requirements

Hardware
Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor.*
• iMovie requires an Intel-based Mac, Power Mac G5 (dual 2.0GHz or faster), or iMac G5 (1.9GHz or faster)
• GarageBand Learn to Play requires an Intel-based Mac with a dual-core processor or better.

512MB of RAM; 1GB recommended. High-definition video requires at least 1GB of RAM.

4GB of disk space
DVD drive for installation

Software
Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later*
QuickTime 7.5.5 or later (included)

Flickr service is only available in select countries.
GarageBand Artist Lessons are sold separately; only available in select countries.

iWeb requires Internet and web server access (MobileMe recommended).*
Some features require Internet access and/or MobileMe, additional fees and terms apply.*

For additional requirements and details, visit*apple.com/ilife/requirements.*

[griffmiester]

Originally Posted by Rant

Flickr service is only available in select countries.

Is Australia one of those countries?

[decryption]

Was iDVD even touched? Not a mention of it in the readme you posted above!

[Lutze]

Originally Posted by decryption

Was iDVD even touched? Not a mention of it in the readme you posted above!

It seems to no longer be part of the suite.

I like that iWeb finally has FTP ability though.

[chrism238]

Does anyone know if OSX 10.5.6 is really required?
10.5.6 breaks iPhone/USB/DFU detection, making earlier versions greatly preferred for me.

[chrism238]

Whoa! Double post.

[decryption]

Originally Posted by Lutze

It seems to no longer be part of the suite.

I like that iWeb finally has FTP ability though.

iDVD is in there (says it on the website and in that readme), but it just seems as though there's no changes. I guess I'll have to take a look for myself when I get iLife '09 some time in the next few hours (I hope).

[homerjay]

Does anyone know if OSX 10.5.6 is really required?
10.5.6 breaks iPhone/USB/DFU detection, making earlier versions greatly preferred for me.

there is a simple hack that lets you upgrade but still put iphone in DFU mode

[jeremy_warnock]

Originally Posted by decryption

iDVD is in there (says it on the website and in that readme), but it just seems as though there's no changes. I guess I'll have to take a look for myself when I get iLife '09 some time in the next few hours (I hope).

What could you change in Idvd ??maybe some new themes but it does what it does very well


(also dont forget that apple secretly want to phase out dvds with of internet video services)

[james the 2nd]

Originally Posted by chrism238

Does anyone know if OSX 10.5.6 is really required?
10.5.6 breaks iPhone/USB/DFU detection, making earlier versions greatly preferred for me.

Hi, I just purchased ilife 09, it will NOT install unless the OS is 10.5.6.. it does a check on the OS at the very start of the install and stops if it is not 10.5.6.

I've only looked at iMovie so far and it is great! It runs much faster than '08 and the themes are very cool.

[evmorg]

Originally Posted by jeremy_warnock

What could you change in Idvd ??

Support for Blu-ray, maybe. Not going to happen in a hurry, I suspect (the whole "bag of hurt" thing).

[Rant]

Originally Posted by decryption

iDVD is in there (says it on the website and in that readme), but it just seems as though there's no changes. I guess I'll have to take a look for myself when I get iLife '09 some time in the next few hours (I hope).

I did a custom install and it offered another 181 MB of 'extra content' for iDVD, but the description read "iDVD 1 - iDVD 5 themes", which have either been removed from the '09 version or there's something new...

I can't tell WHAT, because the install is still running. Honestly, it's taking longer than an OS clean install.

How could you improve iDVD? How about Blu-ray disc making for HD iMovies??
iMovie has done HD since 2005 and Sony have been putting Blu-ray burners in Vaio's since 2005.

Maybe now Steve's out of the picture, Apple will remember their membership of the Blu-ray Disc Association and support Blu-ray.

edit: The bag-of-hurt is to do with playing commercial BD movies, not making your own BDs. Steve doesn't believe in DVDs or BD. He said so when he demoed iLife '08.

[timothy]

Only last week I was saying I didn't understand the big deal with Blu Ray.

I bought an iMac 24" on Friday and the screen is so beautiful. Plays movies very well. It really should play Blu-Ray movies. Not that I care to buy heaps of them to play on my iMac but it would be nice to have the option.

Now I am waiting for my "up-to-date" copy of iLife 09. It says not yet shipped on my order status... so maybe Monday next week.

[gikku]

Why must I buy a disk? go get a disk/wait for it to be delivered. pooh to that.
I wanna download like iWork!!

[Rant]

Originally Posted by timmytomtam

But theres no point putting blu ray functionality in iDVD if there arent any macs that have blu-ray drives..

No Macs with BD drives INSIDE them (if you don't count Mac Pros), no. There are plenty of external Blu-ray drives for Macs. Some manufacturers even make Mac-specific ones that look sleek and Apple-like.

[Rant]

Apparently iPhoto can't index faces (only 2,500 photos) and preview the 60 page photo book I've been working on without crashing. After a fresh restart, (4GB of RAM), and nothing else besides Skype running.

Don't suppose anybody's ever used the words 'robust' and 'iPhoto' in the same sentence before.

[Rant]

Originally Posted by decryption

iDVD is in there (says it on the website and in that readme), but it just seems as though there's no changes. I guess I'll have to take a look for myself when I get iLife '09 some time in the next few hours (I hope).

iDVD is version 7.0.3 (1110). Frankly I hadn't fired up my recently Software Update updated iDVD before I loaded this one. A couple of the themes look new (to me) and the theme drop-down lists

7.0 Themes
6.0 Themes
5.0 Themes
Old Themes - which must have been that 'extra' in the Custom Install.

Unfortunately iDVD was so far ahead of the competition 5 years ago, there hasn't been much desire on Apple's part to improve it. Plus, Steve's aversion to anything optical. Still smarting from the failure of the Next Cube, I guess.

Count yourselves lucky you got MacBook Pros with an optical drive in them, this time - it might be the last.

[tcn33]

Originally Posted by Rant

Apparently iPhoto can't index faces (only 2,500 photos) and preview the 60 page photo book I've been working on without crashing. After a fresh restart, (4GB of RAM), and nothing else besides Skype running.

Maybe there's something else going on - iPhoto is indexing 6,000 photos just fine for me, with only 2GB of RAM and with Mail.app, iChat and Safari running. Pushing the fans a little, but getting the job done nonetheless.

Bad iPhoto install, maybe?

[james the 2nd]

I have over 21,000 photos here and the indexing is going fine. Using an Alu iMac, 2 Gig Ram..

btw, Loving PLACES!!

A family member sent me a photo he took on his fishing trip off the coast of mexico and it tagged it about 100kms into the ocean.. v.cool.

[LifeIsCheap]

Originally Posted by timothy

Now I am waiting for my "up-to-date" copy of iLife 09. It says not yet shipped on my order status... so maybe Monday next week.

I got the shipping notice in my inbox overnight last night and the DVD turned up at work this afternoon! Fingers crossed you should get it soon...