Apple iLife '05 (Mac)
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Software Reviews of Apple iLife '05 (Mac)
Customer Review: Superior!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This the best product from Apple , simply easy & Powerful collection of software
you will never imagine it , good work Apple.
Customer Review: Nice little media package
Summary: 5 Stars
At first I hestitated to upgrade from iLife '04. Like most people, I am only willing to spend the money on upgrades if I can see a notable need, or significant new features. I eventually sprung for it, using my student discount, and I'm glad I did.
The thing I find funny about a lot of the other reviews I see, is that the reviewers think that this is a professional product or at least review it like it is. Why? Nobody, especially not Apple, is claiming it to be so. It is, without a doubt, is an excellent product for its class, which is a suite of media tools for the novice to advanced amateur. I am a professional photographer, and I find myself using iPhoto nearly every day. iPhoto is an excellent image manager. One of the greatest new features is the ability to handle RAW files. Other nice features are the automatic card recognition, downloading, and organizing. The program has nice editing features, they are quick and easy to get to (what I call 'down and dirty'). A very nice feature is the ability to set what happens when you double click on a photo, you can aither go to the editor, open the iPhoto editor in another window, or pick an editing program of your choice- like Photoshop Elements, or my favorite Photoshop CS2, or any other program you may want to use. You also still have the ability to get to iPhoto's editor with a button at the bottom of the screen. IPhoto makes outputting your images super easy, you can email, post on the net, print, make and order books, export files, and set wallpapers and screen savers. I use the program as my main photo organizer, finding it much easier to deal with than Photoshop, or even the Adobe Bridge.
In the military, I am a videograoher, which I guess makes me Pro in that field, and I can say that Apple products far exceed the competition. We use Avid, and it absolutely sucks. It is the most counter-intuitive program, buggy, and chock full of inane error meassages that invarialby pop up on every operation. The answer is Final Cut, a fantastically easy and powerful program. But if you don't need a professional editor, than I can reccommend iMovie and iDVD. On a recent mission, we needed to cut a few DVDs, and the solution was not to use the Dells with the horrendous PC software, but to use my Powerbook and iMovie and iDVD. We banged out a nice product in no time using our finished stories from Avid. So, whereas I would never had bought these products individually, I am sure glad I had them as part of the iLife Suite.
GarageBand is also a very nice little program that I like to play with, music being a great interest of mine, though just for fun. I find GarageBand to be supercool, and all I need and more, and as usual, very easy to use.
One fo the best things about the product is that it is from Apple, running on an Apple operating system, running on an Apple computer, so compatibility is never an issue, and the Apple quality and ease of use runs throughout. Whenever Apple upgrades the OS, it immediately upgrades the iLife program if needed.
I highly recommend this product, either as a first purchase or as an upgrade, you won't be disappointed.
Customer Review: ok Apps EXCEPT iMovie HD!! Avoid
Summary: 3 Stars
All works great except iMovie HD. If you try timeline editing it seems to leave some invisible footage at the end of your video. Makes editing small clips or small videos very difficult. The invisible footage does not get exported but it just feels more flaky than a fully updated iMovie 4 (as long as you remember to SAVE PROJECT before emptying trash).
Would only buy for the new iDVD, so if you don't have a superdrive, iLife5.0 will be a waste of money as iPhoto will be your only useable app.
Customer Review: superb!
Summary: 5 Stars
Great new features in iPhoto andd iMovie HD. Nice new themes in iDVD.Customer Review: A nice upgrade
Summary: 4 Stars
We upgraded our old iLife (`04) to `05 primarily because of the new version's ability to deal with wide screen dv. Everything is just as simple as before - there are no surprises. Garageband seems like a powerful application, but nothing that is essential to our life. iPhoto is a solid upgrade that has better editiing tools - if a bit cryptic for newcomers to video editing. I would suggest adding features like the old Metacreations Photosoap; of course that would infringe on Photoshop's area and that isn't likely to happen. I expect iDVD to be every bit as good as the previous version, though I haven't had a chance to use it yet.
All in all this is a solid upgrade. I recommend it for anyone with a newer (any G5 with DVD player) Power Mac, a digital camera, and a dv recorder.