iLife Family Pack
Upgrade to iLife and get the most out of the photos, movies, and music on your Mac with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD. Organize and search your photos by faces and places. Make a movie in minutes or edit with precision. Learn to play piano and guitar or record your own music. Create a stunning website and publish it anywhere.
Install the iLife Family Pack¹ on up to five Mac computers in your household.
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Overview
iPhoto ’09
Organize and search your photos in new ways.
- Easily find photos of the people in your life using Faces.
- Explore your library based on where you took each photo using Places.
- Instantly create stunning slideshows with animated titles and multiphoto layouts.
- Publish photos directly to Facebook and Flickr™ with a click.
- Create travel-themed photo books complete with custom maps.
iMovie ’09
Create a movie in minutes or edit your masterpiece.
- Fine-tune your movies with the new Precision Editor.
- Use enhanced drag-and-drop to easily edit your projects in just a few clicks.
- Smooth shaky clips with automatic video stabilization.
- Apply themes to an entire project with matching titles and transitions.
- Add eye-catching animated maps to your travel videos with a few clicks.
- Choose animated titles, new transitions, and cinema-quality video effects.
GarageBand ’09
Learn to play. Start a jam session. Record and mix your own songs.
- Learn to play piano or guitar at your own pace, with interactive lessons that combine video instruction with animated notation and instrument views.
- Let leading artists - including Sting, Fall Out Boy, and Colbie Caillat - teach you how to play their hit songs, then practice along with the band.²
- Play and record with new guitar amps and stompbox effects.
- Jam with virtual instruments in Magic GarageBand using a new full-screen view that lets you mix, play along, and record.
iWeb ’09
Design, publish, and update your own websites - no HTML required.
- Easily add YouTube videos, RSS feeds, iSight videos, and other dynamic content to your web pages.
- Link your iWeb site to your Facebook account and automatically notify friends when you update your site.
- Use built-in FTP publishing with virtually any web-hosting service.
- Easily manage multiple websites and publish one site at a time using MobileMe or FTP.
iDVD
Turn your home movies and slideshows into gorgeous Hollywood-style DVDs.
- Get started quickly with Apple-designed themes featuring animated menus.
- Author customized DVDs with a range of options for customizing menu screens.
- Combine video and photos for stunning, high-quality slideshows.
Most Useful Reviews
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iLife Family Pack
iLife '09 A Must Have - Loads of Enhancements
Written by EC from Stockbridge
9-Feb-2009
I used iLife '08 and recently purchased iLife '09 Family Pack and it's an awesome enhancement. iMovie has added loads of new transitions, themes and post edit stabilization. iPhoto has facial recognition and awesome new slideshows. Haven't gotten into all of it yet but best upgrade I've made in years. Lots of value. …More
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iLife Family Pack
definitely worth it!
Written by JJ from MARGATE
15-Feb-2009
iPhoto upgrade is worth it on its own. I love the new FACES and LOCATIONS feature. It is great to tag people. This makes it simple to upload pics to FACEBOOK and the photos are already tagged. …More
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iLife Family Pack
Worth the upgrade
Written by LC from Dexter
3-May-2009
I mostly use the iPhoto and iMovie applications, and I have found the upgrade to be worth the cost (I've been using iLife 08 for a year and a half prior to).
For iMovie, I especially appreciate the fast forward/slow motion features. The map tool and video effects are also wonderful. I had been hoping for these features, and Apple read my mind once again. Also, now you can edit your video quality in the same way you've been editing your photos in iPhoto (edit saturation, exposure, etc . . .).
In iPhoto, I had been hoping for more ways to organize my photos. I have so many events set up, it's irritating to search through. Faces and Places really does a nice job of this.
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Most Recent Reviews
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iLife Family Pack
Worth the upgrade
Written by LC from Dexter
3-May-2009
I mostly use the iPhoto and iMovie applications, and I have found the upgrade to be worth the cost (I've been using iLife 08 for a year and a half prior to).
For iMovie, I especially appreciate the fast forward/slow motion features. The map tool and video effects are also wonderful. I had been hoping for these features, and Apple read my mind once again. Also, now you can edit your video quality in the same way you've been editing your photos in iPhoto (edit saturation, exposure, etc . . .).
In iPhoto, I had been hoping for more ways to organize my photos. I have so many events set up, it's irritating to search through. Faces and Places really does a nice job of this.
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iLife Family Pack
ILife Rocks
Written by CG from Sun Lakes
11-Apr-2009
This update is worth the $$ just for the iPhoto changes. I have hundreds of family photos and the ability to sort them by person with facial recognition is outstanding. What a great help when I order an Apple book (using the iPhoto icon) for a Mother's Day gift. Keep going Apple - the ongoing improvements are awesome. …More
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iLife Family Pack
Looking at iLife ' 09
Written by CG from Fenelon Falls
2-Apr-2009
This years version of iLife has the same applications including iWeb, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and GarageBand.
Garageband has a nifty set of tutorials teaching you - how to play the piano or guitar. Simple video and practice methods for those who wish to learn music. GarageBand is the backbone applications that works to help you learn. it is a virtual music learning tool. The options are endless. It provides that smooth integration with iMovie that Apple is famous for.
iPhoto is the premiere data bank for your photos with an excellent editing set of tools to enhanse photos in a really professional way. While iWeb is stable, easy to use for the publication of any simple web design you may wish to create and put on the web. iWeb works well with Mobile-Me or any other web hosting service. And reliable iDVD burns your songs, photos or video to CD or DVD without a hitch. Integration throughout the applications make the purchase price for iLife single $99 or the best buy family pack $129 (5 users) a great bargain.
Out of all the ilife application my vote for best of class is iMovie '09!
Let's look into iMovie '09.
iMovie '09 is made for anyone to use. It has a very simple interface with some cool features to get your camcorder stuff into a DVD, iPod/iPhone, or up on YouTube. And it will make you look real good. The video stabilization feature especially will make your YouTube a better place for watching home-made videos without making our eyes bleed.
Maps and Backgrounds
The maps visual affects are pretty cool but not something that can be used with every project. There's eight different moving maps to choose from— real ones that you can put your real locations on, as well as set your desired duration. When changing the destination points on a map, it conveniently pulls up a search window for city or airport, which makes finding a specific location very simple.
Themes
Themes are selected in iMovie. There are six different themes to choose from and each one puts a visual effect on the first and last clip in the project. The first will show an intro title like a scrap book with video playing on it and at the end it will insert an impressive "Directed by:" holder for your name as title over your last clip. What's cool is it will also add theme-related transitions to the transitions selection. Same goes for the titles. You only get about four new transitions and titles, but it's nice to keep each element of the project in theme. Fortunately more titles can crack open your creative juices as iMovie 09 has over 32 titles selections.
I’d say ’09 makes the essential things (finding and selecting portions of footage; putting it on a viewer; previewing specific parts) so easy that people take them for granted, forgetting how much more tedious and clumsy it is in older approaches.
And finally keep in mind that taking your camera out to record a scene well is the best beginning. It’s not about how to make movies. It’s about your footage.
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Questions & Answers
Most Interesting
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free upgrade
- Asked by CS from philadelphia
- 6-Oct-2009
Best Answer
The only upgrade for iPhoto 08 is the updates released though the update software installer. To see if you have the latest iPhoto 08 version do the following
Step 1: Click the Apple logo in top left
Step 2: Click Software Update...
It will then do a system software update just follow the commands.
Please note I do not work for Apple but I believe that there is NO free upgrade to iLife 09 or iPhoto 09 since is it part of iLife 09.
Apple however will continue to release patches and improvements to iPhoto 08 until they fell the need to ask you to upgrade.
iLife 09 while it maybe 79$US which is around 100$AU it is a great investment for anyone that does not have iLife already, users that have iLife 08 should stay on the version until they feel they have the money to upgrade.
As I say it is not something you need it is something you would like.
Hope that answers your question. …More- Answered by RH from Northbridge
- 7-Oct-2009
- 28 of 30 people found this useful
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can i download the ilife 09 upgrade?
- Asked by SM from reading
- 6-Oct-2009
Best Answer
No, Apple only offers a small amount of products for download, iLife is not one of them.
- Answered by RH from Northbridge
- 7-Oct-2009
- 30 of 30 people found this useful
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Can you tell me which programme to buy for burning slideshow on to a disc
- Asked by JP
- 30-Sep-2009
Best Answer
You can use the standard iLife '08, but I'm not sure about '07 or earlier.
On iLife '08 click 'View' at the top, and the 'Show in Toolbar' in the drop down box, and then 'Burn'.
Make a folder/album with all the pictures you want to burn on to the disc, or just do a single album, and click burn in the bottom right.
Hope this help. …More- Answered by WH from Ipswich
- 4-Oct-2009
- 15 of 16 people found this useful
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