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iLife Update: iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, iDVD get Lion fresh

12 July 2011 7,398 views 2 Comments

If you’re into reading tea leaves, here’s a nice sprinkling that cries out “Mac OS X Lion is almost here.” Whereas there’s nothing in the accompanying knowledge base articles, with Lion expected on Thursday (or Friday), we’ve got quite a bunch o’ big cat flavored bits, n’est pas?

iPhoto 9.1.5, 220.83MB
— The date range of each event now updates correctly to reflect changes made to photos using the Adjust Time and Date command
— Addresses an issue that could cause the Photos view to scroll incorrectly when Event Titles are displayed
— Fixes a problem that could prevent Ken Burns animations from being applied correctly on photos in a saved Classic slideshow
— Deleting photos from a web album using the contextual menu now removes them from the album without deleting them from the library
— Addresses an issue that could prevent a crop adjustment from being removed from a photo when using the Revert to Original command

iMovie 9.0.4, 76.20MB
— Support for opening projects imported from iMovie for iOS.
— Fixes an issue where some audio adjustments were not preserved.
— Addresses a performance issue when using large quantities of video clips with keywords.
— Resolves issue with slow application launch when working with large iPhoto libraries.

GarageBand 6.0.4, 53.72MB
— Corrects issues with some tempo-based effects falling out of sync with main song tempo.
— Resolves problems with Magic GarageBand project files not opening up correctly in the GarageBand tracks view.

iDVD 7.1.2, 36.12MB
— Improves reliability of imported iPhoto ’11 slideshows.
— Fixes a problem that could prevent files from re-linking.
— Addresses an issue that could cause iDVD to use all available CPU
capacity when searching for missing files.

iWeb 3.0.4, 178.57MB
— This update improves overall stability and addresses a number of minor issues.

See also: Going on a Lion hunt [OS X 10.7 ready apps]

According to TUAW, the updates bring fullscreen support, as well as tweaking some UI elements of iPhoto, etc. to match the upcoming UI Finder elements, found in OS X 10.7.

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