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Apple iLife '08 Family Pack

Apple iLife '08 Family Pack
From: Apple

List Price: $99.00
Buy New: $57.95
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 25 reviews
Sales Rank: 322

Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Macintosh
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Family Pack
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.3 x 0.8

MPN: MB016Z/A
Model: MB016Z/A
UPC: 885909243563
EAN: 0885909243563
ASIN: B000BX7GIA

Release Date: August 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • A major update to Apple's award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications; includes iPhoto, iWeb, iMovie, GarageBand and iDVD
  • Powerful new Events feature automatically organizes your photos and video by the events where they were taken
  • Completely reinvented iMovie collects all your video clips in one library where you can make movies in seconds with drag-and-drop ease
  • GarageBand makes it simple to produce great music, whether you're an accomplished musician or you've never played a note
  • Showcase photos and movies online with a few clicks in a .Mac Web Gallery, create stunning websites, photo books, calendars, DVDs, and more

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Editorial Reviews:

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Never has it been so simple to get so much out of your photos, video, and music--and to share your memories with friends and family. The powerful new Events feature works the same way your memory does, automatically organizing your photos and video by the events where they were taken. The completely reinvented iMovie collects all your video clips in one library where you can make movies in seconds with drag-and-drop ease. GarageBand makes it simple to produce great music, whether you're an accomplished musician or you've never played a note. You can showcase photos and movies online with a few clicks in a .Mac Web Gallery, create stunning websites, photo books, calendars, DVDs, and much more. All with the new iLife '08 Family Pack.

Now iPhoto automatically organizes your library by Events.

iPhoto. Your photos, like you've never seen them before.

Your Web Gallery visitors get an interactive experience, viewing your photos as they wish.

A whole palette of retouching tools and an array of effects to play with.

New in iPhoto '08.
Don't be daunted by all those digital photos you've been taking. Have fun with them. Share them by email or create amazing web pages, cards and calendars. iPhoto automatically organizes your photo library and makes editing as easy as clicking your mouse--so you can get the most out of even the biggest collection.

Organize by Events.
You don't remember photos by time and date. You remember them by events, like "Karen's graduation" or "Nathan's first bike ride." And that's exactly how iPhoto '08 organizes your entire photo library. So it's more fun to browse, and much easier to find a specific photo.

.Mac Web Gallery.
In iPhoto '08, it's easy to share photos with friends and family. With a couple of clicks, you can send an Event or photo album to your personal .Mac Web Gallery, where visitors can enjoy your photos, download high-quality images, or even contribute photos of their own from a Mac or PC.

Powerful editing tools.
Your photographic talents are legendary. But even the pros take photos that need a little work. With iPhoto, improving photos is almost as easy as snapping them. You have a whole palette of retouching tools and an array of effects to play with. And all of your edits are nondestructive--so you can always go back to the "negative" if need be.

Unified search.
How do you find that one special photo when your library has thousands of photos? In iPhoto '08, the answer is: with ease. You have a number of ways to search your library and they're all in one place. Search by name, keyword, rating, or date and see your results in an instant--neatly organized by Event.

Theme-based home printing.
Print beautiful, frame-worthy photos based on Apple themes, directly from your home printer. Make them perfect--change layouts, add effects and borders, enhance photos--and just hit "print."

New calendars and books in iPhoto '08
Stunningly beautiful hardcover photo books. Bigger calendars. iPhoto raises the standard again with eye-opening new ways to enjoy and share your photos.

The most personal gifts and keepsakes are the ones you create with your own photos. Now iPhoto gives you even more ways to dazzle friends, family, and yourself with professionally printed memorabilia--from a new hardcover photo book complete with dust jacket and foil-printed cover to a larger 10.4-by-13-inch calendar.

Completely redesigned to help you make movies in minutes.

iMovie. Now showing: Your entire video library.

With iMovie, putting together a great movie is as quick as drag and drop.

Have iMovie send your movie to iTunes and you can sync it with your iPod or iPhone.

New in iMovie '08.
iMovie '08 makes viewing and working with video as intuitive as enjoying your photos. A built-in library automatically organizes your video, so all the clips you've captured and movies you've created are just a click away. With its revolutionary interface, iMovie makes it quick and easy to browse your library and create new movies. And iMovie is built for sharing. In just a few steps, you can add movies to your website, publish them on YouTube, and create versions for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV.

New video library.
iMovie makes it easy to view, explore, and enjoy your video. All of your video clips and movies are automatically organized in the iMovie library, where you can browse by Events or use simple search tools to find specific videos.

Skimming and playing.
With a central library organized by Events, you can quickly locate the Event you're looking for and browse the clips inside each Event. View in real time or quickly skim through a clip to find a favorite scene.

Superfast moviemaking.
Everyone's a director. Really. With iMovie, putting together a great movie is as quick as drag and drop. Drag your best video clips to the project area. Drop in Apple-designed transitions, effects, titles, and your favorite iTunes soundtrack. Then schedule your opening night.

Quick ways to add polish.
iMovie is designed to make everything simple--including the professional touches that help your movie stand out even more.

View and share anywhere.
One of the great things about digital video is that it can be shared with friends, family, and the world. And iMovie lets you share in many different ways. Every online sharing option lets you "tell a friend" about your newest creation with an email announcement, complete with a link to the web page where your video can be viewed.

Make music, audition instruments, even create your own virtual band.

GarageBand. Take the stage.

With your arrangement set, you can quickly rethink the structure of your song.

GarageBand gives you a range of powerful-yet-intuitive tools to help you get the mix you want or experiment with your sound.

Assign the instruments and styles to your musicians. Then let Magic GarageBand generate a new project file based on your choices.
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New in GarageBand '08.
GarageBand '08 and a little inspiration are all you need to make incredible music, even if you've never played a note. The new Magic GarageBand turns your desktop into a virtual stage, where you can choose the band and instruments they play to easily create amazing songs. Then plug in and jam along. You can even add a singer to your song with the new Jam Pack: Voices. And accomplished musicians will appreciate other new features like multi-take recording and 24-bit quality.

Magic GarageBand.
Get the creative juices flowing. Bring the band together and let Magic GarageBand generate a new song. Create a virtual jam session or use the song project as a starting point to create your next hit.

Arrangements.
Most songs are arranged in distinct sections: introduction, verse and chorus. GarageBand brings this kind of structure to your song. With the different sections clearly defined, you can rearrange your song at any time.


Multi-take recording.

  • Define a region.
    Mark off the section of the song where you want to add your part. GarageBand repeats that section as you play, so you can lay down as many takes as you like.
  • Save every take.
    Every take you perform is recorded and saved. GarageBand displays that part of your song as a multi-take region.
  • Pick your favorite take.
    After you've recorded all of your takes, GarageBand makes it easy to pick the best one. As you play back your multi-take region, you can switch between takes in real time. Simply select your favorite and move on.
  • Change your mind, change your take.
    Even after you've picked a take, GarageBand saves them all. That way, if you're so inclined, you can select another take days or weeks later.

Visual EQ.
You don't need to be an expert to tweak the sound of your mix in GarageBand. Using the built-in Visual EQ, you can adjust a track's equalization simply by dragging the EQ bands until you get the sound you want.

Automation of tempo effects and instruments.
Record producers use dynamically changing effects to keep a song sounding fresh and exciting from start to finish. GarageBand makes it easy to do the same by automating effect changes within a composition--so you don't have to settle for one constant setting throughout.

Create websites that are more custom, more complete, more you.

iWeb. Your life: Now playing on the web.

New in iWeb '08.
iWeb makes it easy to create a website that's stunningly beautiful--and totally you. Start with an Apple-designed theme, then customize it with your own text, photos, movies, and podcasts until it's exactly what you want. And switch themes with a click anytime.

Web widgets.
With iWeb, it's easy to add live content from other websites--like videos, stock tickers, and news headlines--directly into your web pages. So you can create pages that are informative, interesting, or just plain fun.

iWeb makes it easy to incorporate some of Google's most useful features.

Google Maps and Google AdSense
iWeb makes it easy to incorporate some of Google's most useful features. With just a few clicks, you can add a fully interactive Google Map to your site. Or you can place Google AdSense ads on your pages and get Google credits every time a visitor clicks.

My Album pages.
It's so easy to create new photo and movie pages using iWeb that you'll probably create quite a few. But don't worry about your site's navigation growing too cluttered as a result. My Albums will keep things perfectly organized and easy to find.

Enhanced photo pages.
Dream big when you think about making photo pages with iWeb. With a click, you can turn iPhoto albums and Events with hundreds of images into beautifully designed, customizable photo pages.

Theme switching.
Apple-designed themes in iWeb make it easy to create a stunning website, page after page. It's also a snap to refresh your website at any time by switching themes. All it takes is a click.

Create Hollywood-style DVDs featuring your movies and slideshows.

iDVD. Hollywood-style DVDs made easy.

New button library, drop zone editor, and dynamic alignment guides provide total control.

Apple-designed themes with animated menus give you more choices in 16:9 and 4:3 formats.

New in iDVD '08.
Let your admiring audience enjoy those movies and slideshows in their living rooms. Quickly create a Hollywood-style disc with iDVD, using Apple-designed animated themes to give your DVD a gorgeous style from main screen to chapter selection. Ten new themes and snappier performance make iDVD more fun than ever.

Better performance.
iDVD is more responsive, so the creative process is faster and more fun. Rapidly switch among themes as you try out different looks for your menus. Quickly navigate between menus. Preview your completed project with smoother real-time playback.

Ten new animated themes.
iDVD lets you choose from more than 150 Apple-designed animated themes, including ten new theme families with coordinated designs for every screen in your DVD. Simply choose a theme, then drag your videos and photos into the drop zones to make them 100% yours.

Advanced menu customization.
Make every DVD uniquely yours. iDVD '08 gives you a range of options for customizing your menu screens. You can edit drop zones, choose from an expanded button library, and use built-in alignment guides to make your layout perfect.

Pro-quality encoding.
See movies and slideshows in superb quality. The new professional-quality option in iDVD uses advanced encoding technology to maintain the highest possible quality for DVDs that are near or at the disc's capacity.

Product Description
Delivers significant upgrades to iPhoto, iWeb, GarageBand and iDVD, plus a completely reinvented iMovie putting multimedia into your control iWeb '08 - Quickly create a stunning website, complete with photos, movies, and live web widgets. iDVD '08 - Turn your home movies and slideshows into gorgeous Hollywood-style DVDs. Store all your video in one central library, organized by Events. Create and play with a virtual band using Magic GarageBand. Add live web content to your website with widgets. Select pro-level encoding for higher-quality DVDs. Use advanced editing tools to make your photos look great.


Customer Reviews:   Read 20 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars If you want to EDIT video and make a DVD use iMovie 06 not iMovie 08   August 31, 2007
Skyhawk (USA)
40 out of 47 found this review helpful

iMovie 08 is a nice video ASSEMBLER, not a video editor.

* No Chapter Markers for iDVD
* No Share to iDVD
* No timeline
* No 'Save Frame' (Great for making DVD art)
* No frame-accurate editing possible. You cannot stop a clip at a specific frame
* No granularity--only global audio changes allowed
* Loss of multiple audio tracks
* No sound on import
* Loss of plugin support
* Cannot change transition speed after inserting a transition without making global changes
* No audio waveforms
* Cannot vary clip speed
* No pause control for titles
* Cannot play audio over black (when the clip is over, so is your audio. Apple knows best!)
* Cannot select a sequence of clips to move elsewhere within the movie
* Cannot overlap audio tracks (again...no multiple tracks)
* No themes
* Cannot extract audio (of course, you can't do much of ANYTHING with audio in this thing)
* Cannot import projects from older versions without losing, well...everything important.

iMovie 06 can do all of the above.

iMovie 08 is fine to assemble a 3 minute video to share on youtube, but it lacks many of the features that are needed for longer projects or if you want to make a DVD of your movie.

iMovie 08 should be called iVideo, or iTube. I think Apple will eventually go from 3 video editing programs to 4, and the upgrades to iMovie 06 will continue.

iMovie 08 is a nice video ASSEMBLER, not a video editor.

Want those missing capabilities? Apple has great video-editing programs for you, iMovie 06 (iMovie HD) or Final Cut Express they are Great.




4 out of 5 stars Check Hardware requirements carefully...   August 31, 2007
Christopher D. Alexander (Hampton Roads, VA)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful

Excellent product. Mostly incremental upgrades from previous version but all are an improvement over iLife '06. One exception is iMovie '08. They've increased the automation in it, but decreased the amount of user control at the same time. It's received mixed reviews in the press, but Apple has made the previous version of iMovie available via download via the web for those users who prefer having more control and/or the previous version. One other issue is that the hardware rqmts are on the high side and iMovie '08 won't install on anything older than a G5 or Intel-based Mac and the suite itself won't install on anything below a G4.


3 out of 5 stars Prefer the old iMovie to '08   October 1, 2007
Bill Staley (Santa Monica, CA USA)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful

I use both iPhoto and Photoshop Elements. With the old iPhoto I could work on the same file in both programs. Now iPhoto hides the photo files from outside programs, so I cannot locate them in Finder or in File/Open in PhotoShop. Initially, this was frustrating. The workaround is to name PhotoShop Elements as the editor in iPhoto/Preferences/General/Edit photo. It is still possible to use the iPhoto editor ( a "lite" editor) by right-clicking (in iPhoto) on a small photo icon and selecting "Edit." This entirely cures the issue for me.

The "events" orientation in the '08 iPhoto is better than the "roll" orientation of the old iPhoto, because you will often have more than one event on a digital "roll of film" (that is, on a download from the camera's memory chip). Working with events initially was not as easy as I had hoped in iLife '08, though. I had problems creating events, moving photos between events (still an issue when a photo from a recent "event" should be in a long ago event, and it is not possible to drag it to where it belongs). "Cut" and "Paste" did not work as I expected, nor did dragging from the desktop have predictable results. July '08 update: Either the program was updated or I learned to live with it, because these are no longer issues for me (except moving from a new event to an old event, which is still a hassle -- but I have not checked recently on [...] support or by google search for a better way). I now like iPhoto '08 just fine. It cannot do as much as PhotoShop Elements v.4 or v.6.

July '08 comment: I published my photos on iWeb using a .mac account. However, I did not like having all my photos available to everyone to whom I ever sent the link, and I did not want to password pages. Also, I did not feel good about publishing photos of my beautiful nieces on the web. So I deleted to web site and closed the .mac account. Now I can select the exact recipients of each group of photos. I use Kodak EasyShareGallery which I access via the Bridge program that came with PhotoShop Elements. (I use the Mac versions). I used the versions of Bridge that come with PSE 4 and 6 and like both. I first use the batch processing function in Bridge/Tools/PSE/Process Multiple File to convert all the photos to 150 dots per inch (dpi) so that they upload and download faster. I send the converted files to a special folder so that the originals are still in iPhoto. Before I convert and upload a batch of photos, I select and delete all of the old photos in Bridge. (Bridge can be used like iPhoto, but I do not use Bridge to store photos.) Then I select the photos in iPhoto and drag them to Bridge (making new copies of them in the process). Then I convert and upload them in Bridge. It would be great if someone would automate all this -- Apple, are you listening?

I am familiar with PhotoShop Premier Elements to edit video in Windows, and I could use iMovie HD '06, but I could not readily use the new '08 iMovie. I could not get the new iMovie to use .mov files, unless I created them in iMovie with the Mac's camera. I expect that if I watch a video tutorial I will figure it out, but it should not be this hard.

When I moved from Windows to the Mac, it felt like moving from a fixer-upper car to a new Lexus. The new iMovie had that old fixer-upper, beta-version feeling -- definitely not the intuitive, polished Lexus experience I hoped for.

July '08 update: This now seems too harsh, since I use and like iPhoto and iDVD '08 a lot. I would now give iLife '08 4 stars if I could change, but Amazon won't let me change the stars.

July '08 update: To edit video I now use Final Cut Pro as much as possible. I am not a professional editor, though, so sometimes I get stuck in (the infinite complexity of) FCP and go back to iMovie '06. I have never again tried iMovie '08. (I use that energy to try to learn about FCP.) I use iDVD '08 for FCP and iMovie '06 projects and iDVD '08 seems to work very well. iDVD Tip: If you get repeated multiplex errors, force a full rendering by changing the quality from "Best" to "High" or "Pro" quality. Also, I got a LaCie terrabit hard drive connected via the most recent (and fastest) version of firewire, which is a great place to capture and store video projects and the "scratch" versions of audio projects.

July '08 comment on Garage Band: I tried to use GB '08 to digitize music on vinyl and audio cassettes. It is possible to use GB for this, but GB is not the right tool for this. I use Final Vinyl, Audio Hijack Pro and Fission for this now. I never tried to use GB '06 for this. Apple -- do you hear an opportunity here? There are a lot of us boomers with legacy audio media that we would like to get into our iPods.



4 out of 5 stars Good Suite of Programs, but iMovie doesn't do HD AVCHD on a G5   October 18, 2007
M. Martin (East Palo Alto, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I really like this new version of iLife


- iPhoto 08 has some great new features and I feel like it is much more user friendly when it comes to managing your photos easily.

- iMovie 08 is cool in that it has support for new video formats like AVCHD, and I like the new interface, but it has taken me a while to get used to it.

- iDVD has some nice new templates

- Garage Band has some nice new features as well.

I decided to upgrade because I purchased an AVCHD camera (Canon's HG10) and the new version of iMovie does a great job with the footage on an Intel based Mac. However, when I tried to import the HD footage on my G5 Mac, it wouldn't import! It turns out that iMovie can only handle standard def AVCHD on a G5 Mac, not HD footage. This really bums me out - so be aware of this caveat.




5 out of 5 stars Just Keeps Getting Better   December 30, 2007
R. Anderson (Petoskey, MI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

There are already several detailed customer reviews and a very detailed Amazon review, I just want to add my positive vote for this suite of software. iLife has been getting better and better over the years since it first came out and this is another nice update. I especially like the scrollable event grouping that can now be made in iPhoto. A lot has been said about the new iMovie vs the old iMovie, don't sweat it. You get both the new version does not displace the older more complicated, movie editing software. With the two of them almost everyone should be happy.
No other developer offers so much for such a reasonable price.



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