This provides 15 pre-set templates into which you can plug your own videos and have iMovie spit out something vaguely resembling a movie trailer. There are a number of basic options to tweak, in addition to wide range of visual effects to add, but the tends to end up looking pretty similar. We found ourselves much more appreciative of the new audio editing options, which let you tweak the sound accompanying your video footage without needing to venture into a separate editing program.
Similarly simple to get to grips with is the range of video effects that can be applied. GarageBand is still something of an anomaly, in that although the majority of Mac users are likely to want to edit photos of movies at some point, music editing and creation is a much less common activity.
This version of GarageBand comes with even more free, starter lessons, making the only hard part of learning an instrument the requirement that you put in the requisite practice. Instruction from Sting might equally be construed as appealing directly to those picking up a guitar as a cheaper alternative to the mid-life crisis sports convertible.
You could easily find a book full of tutorials for less than that and the Internet as ever offers an almost limitless source of free options. As the name alludes, this mode enables you to have your attempt at replicating the lesson recorded, and provides feedback as to how well you did.
We can see the improved web-integration being of much greater use and appeal to the majority of iPhoto users, letting you push photos from iPhoto to the likes of Facebook and Flickr. It's not a complete professional music studio like Ableton Live, Pro Tools, or Reason, but unlike those high-end apps, Garageband doesn't cost hundreds of dollars.
For your 15 bucks, not only do you get respectable and intuitive recording and mixing software, but you also get a full set of piano and guitar lessons that rival a living teacher and a Magic Garageband that lets you try your chops with a virtual band. The mixing software can be augmented with downloads of more samples, loops, and tools, and you can buy lessons taught by pop stars who show you exactly how to play their hits.
There are also 18 new basic lessons, and now you can track lesson progress with a history chart showing your performances' accuracy over time. Garageband's Flex Time feature lets you correct or improve performances by stretching or compressing waveforms to better fit your tune. Groove Matching aligns all members of a group's tempo with that of the most rhythmic member. New virtual amps and stomp boxes give guitar players more acoustic possibilities and effects. As with the other suite members, output options included sending to iTunes, creating an iPhone ringtone, or producing a podcast.
For some upward mobility, you can open projects in Apple's pro-level Logic app, but not with the more widely used Pro Tools, Reason, or Ableton Live. This version comes a year and nine months off that cycle.
The big question you're probably wondering is whether it was worth the wait? The short answer is yes, but if you were itching for updates to iDVD or iWeb, you'll be disappointed. Just three of the applications--iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand--were given new features in iLife ' Company News.
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