iLife '11 Family Pack [OLD VERSION]

by Apple

Product Features

• iLife '11 lets you do more with photos, movies, and music than you ever thought possible, with new versions of iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand.
• In iPhoto, you can browse, edit, and share your photos with new full-screen views--
• Or create professional-quality books, letterpress cards, or more.
• Turn your home video into a movie masterpiece with iMovie, with all-new audio editing, movie trailer templates, one-step effects,..
• Including tools for keeping your song in perfect rhythm and guitar and piano lessons.
• Also includes iWeb and iDVD for creating instant websites or your own straight-to-DVD classic.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B003XKXN0S
• Item model number: MC625Z/A
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 20, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #630 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

iLife '11 helps you do more with photos, movies, and music than you ever thought possible. In iPhoto, you can browse, edit, and share your photos in stunning new full-screen views. Create epic Hollywood-style movie trailers from your home video in iMovie. And GarageBand gives you everything you need to make a great-sounding song—including tools for keeping your song in perfect rhythm and guitar and piano lessons.

iLife '11 Family Pack License

Install on up to five Apple computers in the same household. A single-user license is also available.

The incredible new iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand.

iPhoto

• Enjoy stunning new full-screen views for Faces, Places, Events, and Albums.
• Email photos using one of eight beautiful Apple-designed themes.
• Share photos with your Facebook friends and see their comments in iPhoto.
• Enjoy a completely new approach to creating professional-quality books and cards.
• Create elegant letterpress cards that look and feel beautiful.

iMovie

• Easily create fun, Hollywood-style movie trailers.
• Produce the perfect mix with powerful, easy-to-use audio editing controls.
• Give your movie visual effects such as slow motion, a dream haze, and instant replay with just a click.
• Quickly find the clips you need with People Finder.
• Turn your video into a broadcast news or sports segment just like those on TV.

GarageBand

• Easily tighten the rhythm of your audio recordings with Flex Time.
• Re-create the sound of legendary guitar rigs and pedals using new guitar amps and effects.
• Learn to play piano or guitar at your own pace with 22 new Basic Lessons.
• See how you've performed

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Product Description

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this yet! Too buggy with too many features missing or changed for the worse!, November 19, 2010

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Scott E. Herman (Fallbrook, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iLife '11 Family Pack [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE UNTIL IT IS FIXED! This pains me to write this. I live in the Applesphere and have for more than 2 decades. I am proud of my Apple computers, devices and software, at least I have been up until now. This review is about iPhoto '11. I've been an iPhoto user since 2005. In 2006 it became my only photo database. I've used versions '05, '06, '07, '09 & now '11. I have almost 17,000 pictures and add over 2000 a year nowadays with a 2 year old around the house. I use iPhoto almost every day. I consider myself an iPhoto expert.

iPhoto '11 is not a good upgrade. If you already have an earlier version of iPhoto, stay with it until Apple can come out with a version of iPhoto '11 (currently iPhoto 9.1) that fixes the issues. I'm only going to mention what I've hit my head against today. I have written feedback to Apple on each of these along with a half dozen other things.

Features eliminated or changed for the worse:
Copy of Edit>Adjust settings has been eliminated
E-mail restricts photos to 8 predesigned Apple formats and restricts file size selection to 2. Text on formats only 3 lines, 74 characters each. Drag & drop to an e-mail results in full file size. Work around is time consuming.
Description area in photo info is limited to showing 2 lines. Cannot select any other size. To put more into box you must type it on outside resource like Word or Pages, then copy & paste.
Search feature now looks for any word (of a group of words) you type versus looking for EVERY word typed. This dramatically decreases it's helpfulness.
Program does not allow you to view two pictures enlarged side by side to compare! This makes editing similar pictures or choosing between several, very difficult as you have to open and then move from one to another.
Full screen view of image impossible!!!

Bugs:
Program hangs up, crashes
Adjusting date and/or time won't resort photos within an event when sorting by date. To see properly sorted after adjusting you have to exit to Events or another folder and then reenter the event.
Places sometimes won't show entries after you select them. To see them to confirm your entry you must either exit the event or quit the program and restart it.

Again, these are only what I have bumped up against today. I wish I had never up(down)graded to this version. Here is what I like, the new card selections are nice. The share, create & add to menus are better.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great software, but rather poor as an upgrade, November 16, 2010

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Jonathan Birge (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iLife '11 Family Pack [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

I'm not sure how to review this: some people could potentially be buying this to upgrade a very old version of iLife. If I review this as a standalone piece of software, it's fantastic and quite a value. For less than $50 you get a world class digital music studio, one of the best photo organizing programs, and a remarkably capable video editing package. (Oh, and passable web editing and DVD authoring programs, but nobody cares much about those, least of all Apple.) Easily five stars.

However, if I judge this as an upgrade from iLife '09, it's extremely weak. Here's what you get of any substance: the ability to better edit audio in iMovie, slightly better full screen modes in iPhoto, really impressive time warping facilities in Garage Band to fix timing, and some very nice guitar and piano lessons which actually show you where you making mistakes. All great features, to be sure. But are these worth $50 if you have '09? Probably not.

The frustrating thing is that the most major feature in this upgrade is just plain silly: they added the ability to make cutesy little fake "trailers" in iMovie. This is apparently their big innovation. You can now replace your boring home movies with one of eight or so two minute jokes that I guarantee you will get old very quickly. Very quickly. They also added a fake news program theme, and a fake sports theme. All very gaudy and over-the-top, even for iMovie standards. And not at all useful beyond just playing with them once.

It's pretty clear that Apple's focus has shifted away from Mac OS X and iLife and on to the greener pastures of iOS: the iPad and iPhone. In fact, from now on we'll likely see features come first to their consumer devices, and then later to their desktop computers. I'm afraid the days of getting truly major updates to iLife every two years is a thing of the past.

So, as an upgrade from '09, I give this one or two stars at best. If you're upgrading from '09, I hope I've saved you some money. Otherwise, this is a great software package, easily five stars, just not much of an improvement from what you could get two years ago. As such, I'll split the difference and give the package three stars.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not much new and big mistake on iWeb, November 12, 2010

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Ryan P. Ver Berkmoes (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: iLife '11 Family Pack [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

I've been with the iLife suite from the start and have found it to be a great resource for creative production that's easy to use. But this time I'm very disappointed: there's not a lot new here and worst of all, iWeb - the excellent website creation software - has been ignored, it's the same as the version in iLife 09. Big miscue by Apple as the software is overdue for an overhaul to keep it from becoming an also-ran. If you haven't used iLife, go for this version (although new Macs ship with iLife, so every Mac owner will have a version) - otherwise stick with 09.