iLife '09
by Apple Computer
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Software Reviews of iLife '09
Customer Review: iLife 09
Summary: 5 Stars
I love everything Mac. I want to make sure that I have the latest upgrades to iPhoto and the rest. This program is great!Customer Review: Very useful software
Summary: 4 Stars
I've only used iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD from the suite.
- iPhoto: Quite nice photo software. I use it mostly to organize and share Jpegs I've already edited in DxO, Lightroom/Photoshop. Integrated nicely with other OSX, iLife and iWork applications, like Mail, iDVD and Keynote. The Facebook/Flickr uploading feature is nice. Faces and places is great. Makes it easy to manage your photos. I would give this software alone 4 stars. The inability to create subevents is a major drawback.
- iMovie: Very easy to use software. The video editing capabilities are great. Transitions and themes are easy to apply. The audio editing part is not very good. You have some editing options, and you can add tracks to your sequence, but it's nowhere close to the capabilities of other programs like FCE. As an addition to my complaint about the audio editing capabilities, is the UI. I much prefer the FCE, FCP or Premiere Pro UI, with the browser, viewer, canvas and timeline.
Another serious shortcoming is the text editing capabilities. I don't expect a powerful tool like Livetype to come with every Mac, but a lite version of Livetype would be very much apreciated and would make iMovie a much better video editing software.
I give iMovie 3 stars. It's a nice piece of software, but the UI, lack of audio options and lack of text editing options are in my opinion major drawbacks. However, for simple home movies and videos, it's a great app., and my guess is that most people will be thrilled with the simplicity and power of the video editing capabilities.
-iDVD: This is a great app. Making awesome looking DVDs is easy, fun and fast. Obviously, after using DVD Studio Pro, I feel limited, but considering the price, it's an awesome app. For a hobbyist making a home video, the only shortcoming is in my opinion the very limited slideshow feature. Slideshows in iPhoto are really nice. If apple could integrate this into iDVD, I would be thrilled. When exporting a slideshow from iPhoto, it's compressed into a Mpeg video file. I would like to create the same slideshow in iDVD with the full resolution photos, same themes as in iDVD.
As said, there are some shortcoming, and Apple should address them, but I don't believe they are major drawbacks, so I will give iDVD 5 stars.
END NOTE: Considering that iLife is included in every new Mac, it's a great value, easy to use and quite fun. It certainly adds to the value of the Mac.
Customer Review: wonderful!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great piece of software. It's easy to use and the results are fantastic. Love being able to easily shoot and move and have it imported into this software, where I an easily edit it and even share it with friends. This is great for getting all those family memories on video.Customer Review: WOW
Summary: 5 Stars
Iphoto is even more fantastic than ever - face recognition capabilty keeps Mac OS way ahead of the Windows look alike attemptCustomer Review: Ilife '09
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this mainly for the IMovie and I am loving it! My daughter has worked with the IPhoto and says it is great also. For me this was worth having and I look forward to learning all the little extras.