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Anthony Fiti
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Aug. 8, 2007

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The fourth application is iDVD, which sports better performance (which is sorely needed, as anyone who has tried to use iDVD can tell you). Apple offers professional grade encoding to speed up the process as well as produce a better output.

Lastly, the fifth and final application in iLife is the Garage Band application. The neatest new feature is multi-take recording, which allows you to combine different takes of the music and put them together. If you hose the guitar solo but nailed the chorus riffs, you can stitch them together. This feature is also found in Soundtrack Pro 2 that is part of Final Cut Studio. Steve showed off the Magic Garage Band, which is designed to get the non-musicians involved in making music too. The idea is you can piece together different musical instruments all playing different parts of a song, and from there put it into GarageBand and start messing around with it.

Magic GarageBand looks like a good way to kill some time, but for the tone deaf out there like myself, I don't see me being able to make any good music out of it.

Finally, what I think would be interesting would be for Apple to port iPhoto to the PC. It is a very compelling application in terms of ease of use - far better than any other software I have used that was provided by camera manufacturers to organize photos. Apple also makes revenue vertically with iPhoto - through picture printing services, calendar and photo album printing, sharing photos with .Mac, etc. So by enabling Windows users to use iPhoto and see how easy it is, they can get acquainted with the Mac way as well as provide a significant increase in revenue when users take advantage of the services offered. Once Apple gets Safari ironed out, look for selective ports of other Mac applications that would provide substantial benefit for Apple to leverage on the PC platform.

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1 - Posted by dmacvid on August 23, 2007 - 8:57 am

I just installed iLife 08 and upgraded my previous version of iLife.I opened my domain in the new iWeb and found that both my photo galleries had been deleted and replaced with "New" blank photo gallery pages. Plus all my page links were no longer centered. Impressive
I run a dual monitor setup for Final Cut studio with one monitor running on a non-compatible quart extreme ATI PCI card. My other monitor card is the one that came with my G5 that is quartz extreme compatible. iMovie will not run because it detects the no.2 non quartz extreme PCI card instead of the no.1 quartz extreme compatible AGP card. So I can run Final Cut studio but not iMovie. I paid $80 bucks to have this happen. 1 star

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