Apple iLife '08

Apple's iLife '08 offers significant new versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand and iWeb.

iPhoto '08:

• iPhoto automatically organizes your library by Events, based on dates. It's more fun to browse, and much easier to find a specific photo.
• In iPhoto '08, 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.
• A whole palette of retouching tools and an array of effects to play with. All of your edits are nondestructive - so you can always go back to the "negative" if need be.
• Unified search which lets you search by name, keyword, rating, or date and see your results in an instant - neatly organized by Event.
• Create new hardcover photo books with customized dust jacket, large-format calendars, and more.

iMovie '08:

• All your video is automatically organized by Event in an easy-to-browse library.
• Make movies faster with the ability to drag favorite clips or parts of clips to a project and arrange scenes like slides.
• Publish movies directly to YouTube or .Mac Web Gallery. Send to iTunes to view on an iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.
• Easily skim through your video to review footage faster than real time.
• iMovie supports standard and high definition video, as well as the most popular formats, including DV, HDV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and even AVCHD.

iDVD '08:

• 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.
• 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.
• A range of options for customizing your menu screens, letting you edit drop zones, choose from an expanded button library, and use built-in alignment guides.
• Pro-quality encoding lets you maintain higher quality with more of your movies and slideshows on a single DVD.

GarageBand '08:

• Magic GarageBand lets you play with a hand-picked band on a virtual stage. GarageBand generates a new project based on genre and performance styles.
• Multi-take recording allows you to mark a region to repeat, record your part multiple times, and pick your best performance.
• 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.
• Define sections of your song — intro, verse, chorus — and copy, move, or delete at will.
• Automation of tempo effects and instruments.

iWeb '08:

• Web widgets allow you to add live content from other websites - like videos, stock tickers, and news headlines - directly into your web pages.
• Place fully interactive Google Maps and Google AdSense ads on your web pages.
• Simplify navigation by dragging your photo albums to a sleek, animated index page.
• Switch the theme of any page with the click of your mouse. Mix themes in a site if you wish.
• My Album keeps photo and movie page navigation easy and organized.

The Family Pack allows for a single copy of iLife '08 to install the entire iLife suite on up to five Macintosh computers (household use only).

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