Apple in addition to update your iWork applications on OS X with the intention of improving support, compatibility, and redesigning its interface to match the aesthetics of OS X Yosemite, now turning its attention to iMovie, iPhoto, and GarageBand with similar user interface changes and technical improvements to take advantage of Yosemite features such as Mail Drop and iCloud Drive storage. Furthermore, the company issued that it is likely to be the latest update to Aperture, giving it simply Yosemite compatibility beyond any other improvement.
The changes to the iLife applications vary in characteristics, iPhoto reaches version 9.6 with new features when it comes to managing the user interface and cloud storage that adapts to the changes inherent within Yosemite, to which they join already the usual bug fixes and stability improvements. On the other hand, iMovie in its version 10.0.6 and GarageBand in version 10.0.4 get less news from Apple but quite interesting, that is, one of them allows, for example, users to share projects that use Mail Drop.
Garageband includes a new tool to create your own bass equipment as well as access to the different audio modules mixing virtual microphones with a selection of classic and modern amp brands and models. It also offers new controls such as "vertical zoom" that automatically adjust the height of the recorded tracks.
The most important new feature comes from the hand of iMovie where the new export options have been thought by and for amateur filmmakers, including a ProRes option A long-standing demand for a customizable H.264 implementation. Another new feature for iMovie is an "audio only" option to export projects. Users can have the audio and video tool setting bar always open t just like with Garageband, now use the Mail Drop feature to send large movie files.
Another novelty is that users can now also choose to share any frame in image format and they can also import their iPhone or iPad screen recordings via QuickTime, along with animated titles and a method to export previews to the App Store. To this must be added the typical and bug fixes and stability improvements.