iLife 2010 hopes
Ok, here are my iLife 2010 hopes, and I hope these are read by influencial apple staff,
iPhoto -
-The ability to edit / modify files right from the OS's directory structure, not having to go through their database
-fancier movie / transition abilities, such as those shown in apple demos using core animation, with a large black screen with all your photos stacking up into buildings, etc, then the ability to add music, to make a presentation.
-General speed improvement, and the ability to clean up your library of images that haven't been used for years, such as a compressing / archiving feature,
iMovie
-Additional Codec support, additional transitions, maybe the ability to purchase add-on transitions / codecs from the iTunes store, or an iLife equivalent store
-More controls for lighting, sound, advanced multi track sound support, the ability to handle / control different camera angles along the same timeline
-Faster rendering speeds, and the ability to harness a server farm, or share the CPU / Ram / Hard drive space of the other macs on the network, so that rendering happens much faster, similar to how distcc shares the compiling load across multiple machines in Linux.
iWeb
-More Themes, including the ability to design your own themes, in an easier way than what exists now, including importing themes from sites like oswd.org, etc, so you can import existing css sets into the system
-The ability to purchase additional themes / updates / plugins from the iTunes store, similar to how Rapidweaver has plugin support that you can purchase
-Additional SEO tools, for marketing your site, and making sure it's standards compliant (integrate the iWeb SEO Tools features into the program itself)
-A standard place to put google analytics code
-The ability to switch to raw html mode, so you can see the code and make manual changes if necessary
-A good form builder, to create forms for input on sites
-integrated e-commerce capabilities, to sell things from an iWeb site
(some of these could also be sold as an iweb-pro tool, because apple to my knowledge doesn't have a professional equivelant to iWeb. I know most people would probably move to Rapidweaver, or Dreamweaver, but I'd like to see iweb Pro, etc)
iDVD
-More themes,
-the ability to design your own themes,
-the ability to purchase new themes from the iTunes store,
-faster rendering, shared processing load of the systems,
-tighter integration with iPhoto and iMovie so that you can create the movie with the DVD menu all in 1 step, then click the render / publish button once, then walk away and come back with a DVD sticking out of your tray
Garage Band
-More instrument Training, such as string instruments, etc
-perhaps a way to import sheet music from other sources like PDF files, then have that music be played to you, or have a way that the system could teach you how to play that song
-more cross importing support from other music editing programs (this might already be in there, I don't know if it is, I don't use Garage Band that much)
Those are my thoughts, what do you all think?
Chris
