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Vincent Ferrari
01-26-2009, 10:15 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/26ilife.html' target='_blank'>http://www.apple.com/pr/library/200...01/26ilife.html</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Apple today announced that iLife '09 will be available tomorrow, January 27, and features major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand, with breakthrough new ways to organize and manage photos, create movies and learn to play music. iLife '09 is included with every new Mac and is available as a $79 upgrade for existing users through the Apple Store&reg; (www.apple.com), Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1233004466.usr18053.jpg" /></p><p>I don't know about you folks, but I'll be out there with serious determination to get my hands on this one tomorrow.&nbsp; I just hope they have the family packs right away; I'd hate to have to wait!&nbsp; Anyone else gonna rush out tomorrow and grab it, or am I just a shameful fanboy?</p><p><em></em></p>

doogald
01-26-2009, 10:38 PM
I preordered the family pack a day or so after the keynote and I got an e-mail today saying that it was shipping today, arriving tomorrow. When I ordered it they gave the expected arrival date as February 4; under-promise and over-deliver!

Spooof
01-26-2009, 10:54 PM
Despite owning a copy of 2008 I am still running 2006. So no I won't be running out. I guess I am a late adopter.

Phronetix
01-26-2009, 10:58 PM
Hmmmmmmmm...

Fanboy. ;-)

I ordered my family pack last week. I will let iLife come to me. Looking forward to seeing if iMovie '09 delays my need to use Final Cut Express for the family movies.

Vincent Ferrari
01-26-2009, 11:12 PM
I ordered my family pack last week. I will let iLife come to me. Looking forward to seeing if iMovie '09 delays my need to use Final Cut Express for the family movies.

I so <3 Final Cut express. Seriously. Although I have a feeling I will be spending less and less time in it with the arrival of iLife '09. As it is, most of my video needs are met adequately by iMovie '08, and with this new update, I think it's going to be even more up my alley.

All I can say is I'm glad I got a new MBP. My old BlackBook would creak under the weight of the new apps.

Jason Dunn
01-27-2009, 04:42 PM
Despite owning a copy of 2008 I am still running 2006. So no I won't be running out. I guess I am a late adopter.

Was there something about 2008 that you didn't like, keeping you at 2006? I can't imagine buying a new piece of software and sticking with the old version. :D

Vincent Ferrari
01-27-2009, 04:46 PM
Was there something about 2008 that you didn't like, keeping you at 2006? I can't imagine buying a new piece of software and sticking with the old version. :D

I can probably guess...

2008 was such a paradigm shift for video editors that it threw a lot of people for a loop. If you're doing more than assembling roughly cut clips together into a video, it may not be for you because there's no timeline and the editing itself is somewhat imprecise. Apple knew it was rough because they still have iMovie HD (2006) available for download for owners of iMovie '08. If that isn't an admission of "guilt" nothing is.

It seems that in 2009 they've remedied a lot of the complaints with 2008. I'll know for sure tonight because I'm hitting the Apple Store on the way home to get my copy of 2009! YAY! :D

Darius Wey
01-27-2009, 04:59 PM
I just hope they have the family packs right away...

Looks like the family packs are shipping, too. The Mac Box Sets are also available.

doogald
01-27-2009, 07:13 PM
I can probably guess...

2008 was such a paradigm shift for video editors that it threw a lot of people for a loop. If you're doing more than assembling roughly cut clips together into a video, it may not be for you because there's no timeline and the editing itself is somewhat imprecise. Apple knew it was rough because they still have iMovie HD (2006) available for download for owners of iMovie '08. If that isn't an admission of "guilt" nothing is.

Ok, that said, if you installed iLife '08 on a system that already had iMovie HD on it, it did not replace iMovie HD but offered both versions. If that was the reason, it should not have been.

FedEx still has not arrived, alas. I hardly ever do anything with video myself, but I am looking forward to the face recognition and geocoding features in iPhoto '09. I'd been putting off categorizing all of my photos based on who's in them, so I could then have smart folders with all the photos of the kids, etc., but that should be vastly easier now, and I've been putting off making a photo book of our vacation in Europe last summer - again, procrastination pays sometimes.

Well, I also took video of my daughter's chorus concert last weekend, but '08 was good enough for that. I'll just see what '09 can do when I get it. Later.

mwfielder
01-27-2009, 08:18 PM
So what is the best upgraded feature that you all see? I'd like a little more editing ability in iPhoto, and I'm looking forward to see what the face recognition does.

Right now I have a 18 min video made from some clips and mostly pics that I made in iMovie. I try to burn a DVD using iDVD, but it seems to hang at minute 15 or so. Wonder if the newer version handles it a bit better.....

Does anyone know if this is downloadable, or is it only via mail?

doogald
01-27-2009, 08:49 PM
Does anyone know if this is downloadable, or is it only via mail?

'Tis not downloadable. iWork you can download a trial and install a license later; not iLife.

doogald
01-27-2009, 10:57 PM
I preordered the family pack a day or so after the keynote and I got an e-mail today saying that it was shipping today, arriving tomorrow.

They lied in the e-mail. It actually shipped today, and will arrive tomorrow. Or Thursday; we're supposed to get a bunch of snow tomorrow.