Apple today announced iLife ’05, the must-have upgrade to Apple’s award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, featuring major new versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and GarageBand and including the latest version of iTunes. iLife ’05 continues to lead the industry with the most innovative and comprehensive suite of software for organizing, editing and sharing digital photos; creating stunning digital movies and DVDs; and purchasing, managing and creating digital music.
“iLife ’05 is far beyond anything available on a PC, and is a must-have upgrade for every Mac user,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO in the press release. “If you have a digital camera, digital camcorder or create music, iLife ’05 is built for you.”
iPhoto 5 adds advanced editing tools so you can perfect your photos without ever leaving iPhoto, including controls to set exposure, black and white points, saturation, tint, temperature and sharpness, while also showing users a histogram and providing the most intuitive way ever to straighten photos. iPhoto 5 adds support for uncompressed RAW photos throughout the entire application so that high-end users can exploit all the image data their cameras can capture. iPhoto 5 includes a new advanced slideshow builder which allows users to easily apply effects, transitions and durations to each individual slide. iPhoto 5 features an entirely new way to create affordable hardcover and softcover photo books, now starting as low as $3.99. iPhoto 5 lets users choose from stunning new book layouts, all featuring double-sided printing, and easily place and rearrange their photos until perfect, then order their book online right from within iPhoto 5. With iPhoto 5, Apple is also cutting the price of individual 4×6 prints in half, from 39 cents to just 19 cents each.
With iMovie, Apple revolutionized movie-making by allowing anyone to import and edit digital video on their Mac. Now iMovie HD leads the revolution again by allowing users to capture and edit stunning High Definition Video (HDV) from the new generation of HDV camcorders. iMovie HD also includes Magic iMovie, the easiest way ever to make a movie. With just a few clicks, Magic iMovie automatically imports your video into separate clips, adds titles, transitions and music, all in one step. iMovie HD imports video from HDV and standard DV camcorders, and from video cameras that generate MPEG-4 video.
iDVD 5 includes 15 amazing new themes featuring moving drop zones that can display video clips or photos in motion across DVD menus, just like the latest Hollywood DVDs. iDVD 5 also features OneStep DVD, which lets users create DVDs by simply plugging in a DV camcorder and clicking a button. iDVD 5 now supports all single-sided DVD formats including -R, +R, -RW and +RW with a compatible Apple SuperDrive.
GarageBand put a complete recording studio on a Mac. GarageBand 2 adds 8- track recording, so users can record an entire band at once, plus pitch and timing correction to quickly fix those tracks that don’t sound perfect. GarageBand 2 now displays and edits musical notation in real time for people who know how to read and write music or want to learn. With Apple’s growing family of GarageBand Jam Packs, including the latest, Jam Pack 4: Symphony Orchestra, GarageBand users can create professional sounding music in their favorite genre.
iLife ’05 also includes iTunes 4.7.1, the latest version of the world’s best digital music jukebox software with the iTunes Music Store inside. iTunes provides seamless integration with Apple’s complete family of popular iPods, including the new iPod shuffle. With Apple’s legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as iMix playlist sharing, seamless integration with iPod and groundbreaking personal use rights, the iTunes Music Store is the best way for Mac and PC users to legally discover, purchase and download music online.
iLife ’05 will be available in the US on Saturday, January 22 and worldwide on Saturday, January 29 for a suggested retail price of $79 (US) through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. The iLife ’05 suite of applications will be included with all new Macs, and an iLife Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchase a new Mac on or after January 11 that does not include iLife ’05 for a shipping and handling fee of $19.95 (US). Jam Pack 4: Symphony Orchestra is sold separately and will be available in the US on Saturday, January 22 and worldwide on Saturday, January 29 for a suggested retail price of $99 (US) through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. iTunes version 4.7.1 is currently available as a free download at http://www.apple.com
iLife requires Mac OS X v10.3.4 or later, QuickTime 6.5.2 or later, a Macintosh computer with PowerPC G3 (400 MHz or faster), G4, or G5 processor, 256MB or more physical RAM (512MB recommended) and a 1024×768 or larger display. A 600 MHz G3 processor or faster is required for GarageBand. A G4 or G5 processor is required for GarageBand software instruments and advanced iPhoto editing. An Apple SuperDrive or 733 MHz G4 processor is required for iDVD and a compatible SuperDrive is required to burn DVDs. High definition video requires Mac OS X v10.3.6, a 1 GHz G4 processor or faster, and 512 MB of RAM. RAW requires Mac OS X v10.3.6 and a supported RAW compatible camera. iPhoto books and prints are available in the US, Canada, Japan, and select European countries.
More info about Apple’s iLife ’05 here.
There goes my paycheck”s”
iMovie HD?! Wow! and the whole suite for $79? Wow 2x!
and Mac mini? Wow 3x!
This is the fruitition of Apple’s “Digital Hub” strategy, folks. As someone else has pointed out, other companies talk about “media centers,” Apple just makes them.
if Garageband can print out the notation score as sheet music, we have the perfect solution for high school music lessons and it comes free with a mac!!!!
I have just saved �150 per computer on Sibelius.
Wow. iLife ’05 is adds really amazing things. More ways to organize and more ways to edit in iPhoto. Support for RAW! Slideshows which you can time with lots of effects, even the Ken Burns-effect! And you can save those slideshows! Wow. 16:9 editing in iMovie, even HD! Wow. Improved timeline editing is really nice too. And Garageband with its multitrack recording. And you can now notate your music. You can even use your regular keyboard to jam. Those are really nice things. Apple has finally hit the nail. And I can see that everything is coming together. A Mac truly is a complete digital hub with the best apps on the planet! And iWork ’05 seems really nice too. What a nice page layout app. And Keynote 2 is wonderful too. Too bad the new Mac mini doesn’t include iWork ’05. Hopefully they add it soon because then buying a Mac will get you a complete setup, and its the software that counts!
There is no iLife’04 upgrade to iLife’05. You have to pay for the full $79 to get it.
Just bought a iMac G5 three weeks ago and now I have to pay full price for iLife 05. Arggh!!!
Excellent! Jam Pack 4 is exactly what I’ve been wanting. This is almost bigger news to me than the whole iLife upgrade…although adding 16×9 to iMovie is pretty cool too.
giofoto:
Oh my God, a whole $79. How could they not provide a $15 upgrade? Selfish Californian bastards with their ponytails and their alfalfa smoothies – I’ll show them, I’ll go and buy a Dell.
Or maybe, if I was American, I’d just save $7 for the next 11 days. Or – if $7 seems a little steep – I’ll wait until February 20th and save up at $2/day.
But actually I’m British, which means I’ll have to work out how to save �49, between now and January 29th – or �2.75/day. Now, if I cut out one cup of coffee a day from Starbucks, that’ll be around �1.95, so where will I get the other 80p�
Did I miss something. I thought superdrives were only DVD-R.
will the new iDVD work with external drives? That’s the 79 dollar question for me…
If you’re British, MCCFR, just off the continent so to speak, what are you doing going to Starbucks? That place only shines where the nearest alternative is yet another American coffee shop.
LiM:
Because I live in a town with three Starbucks, including a branch in the supermarket I use. So a Starbcuks that’s open at 7pm wins against a mom-and-pop coffee place that shuts at 5pm.
It’s a sad fact that Starbucks is simply willing to pay rents that independents often cannot match, and that their coffee is bland and the atmosphere homogeneous, but convenience wins out when I need a shot of caffeine. I also have to admit that the mince pies that Starbucks sells at Xmas are just too scrummy.