iLife ’09 announced at Macworld, GarageBand ’09 coming late January! January 12, 2009
Posted by PJ in : Chit Chat, Digital home recording studios, GarageBand, General Announcements , trackbackI had a feeling this would be announced this week and now it is confirmed for release in late January.
Apple announced Tuesday an update to the media suite iLife during their Macworld 2009 keynote presentation. Here is an early list of some of the new features announced.
iPhoto ’09 – Support for GPS geo-tagging (with Google Maps), face recognition, built in uploading to Facebook and Flickr. The face recoginition will actually remember faces that you’ve tagged in Facebook and tag photos automatically!
iMovie ’09 – Advanced and easier to use editing, true drag and drop controls, image stabilization, more video effects and Indiana Jones style animated travel maps! Apple actually acknowledged the uproar over iMovie ’08 (the majority of users considered it a downgrade from iMovie ’06) by stating “it was missing some features.”
GarageBand ’09 – Built in video lessons for piano and guitar and downloadable “Artist Lessons” for $4.99 each where the artist teaches you how to play their song (for example Sting will show you how to play guitar on “Every Breath You Take”).
Hopefully we’ll see some other additions to GarageBand ’09 such as more software instruments and improvements to the interface. Stay tuned to the Studio Files for information on GarageBand ’09 as its released.
-PJ
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