If you?ve ever wanted to make a movie, publish your own podcast, create gorgeous coffee-table books, produce a Hollywood-style DVD, state your views in a daily blog, make beautiful music, or any combination of the above, you?ve definitely come to the right place.
To iLife to be exact. A suite of stellar applications, iLife consists of iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, GarageBand, iTunes, and iWeb. Every one?s a winner. And everyone can perform magic with them. What?s that, you say? On the PC, you can find any number of photo applications, music software, DVD authoring packages, jukebox programs, and web creations tools. And if you don?t like the wares of one developer, another one has a package with just as many features. Maybe more.
And therein lies the problem. You can purchase lots of separate programs from different PC developers, and any one of them may have similar features to those you?ll find in one of the iLife applications. But how many of those applications work hand in glove together? How easily can you transfer photos you used in a photo book to burn onto a DVD or incorporate as a still in a movie or quickly add to a blog? They may work pretty well apart. But how well do they work together?
Seamless integration. That?s the telling difference between iLife and all the great pretenders out there. Independently superb, the iLife applications work together to let you easily create practically anything you can imagine.
For example, thousands of people just like yourself have created movies using iMovie HD. They may never have edited a movie prior to using iMovie, but iMovie put all the necessary tools at their disposal and made the entire editing process drag-and-drop easy. Once bitten with the movie-making bug, those filmmakers are now screening movies shot in high definition and showing them on widescreen displays. How many PC applications do you think can do that?
That?s not all. Thanks to the integration built into the iLife suite, those filmmakers are also incorporating voiceovers recorded in GarageBand; effortlessly plucking high-res photos from their iPhoto libraries; scoring their movies with tracks out of iTunes; adding chapter markers that iDVD uses to create scene selection buttons; and with a single click, using iWeb to publish those movies online for the world to enjoy.
In iLife, creativity rules the day.
