Pre-MW Expo rumors: iMovie HD, iDVD 5

Think Secret is reporting that Apple will introduce iLife ’05 at next week’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco: Road to Expo: iLife ’05, Keynote 2 to debut.

iDVD 5, code-named Maui, will include a number of new features, including one-step DV-to-DVD creation. For users wanting to simply take the contents of a DV tape and burn it to DVD without any editing, iDVD 5 will be able to accomplish this in a single click that rewinds the DV tape and then burns its contents to DVD on the fly. iDVD 5 will also support dual-layer (8.5GB) DVD media, enabling users to burn DVDs up to 4 hours long or shorter movies at higher quality.

iDVD 5 will also, of course, work well with new features of iMovie 5, code-named Storm. iMovie 5 is expected to be renamed iMovie HD with its new support for HDV, panoramic 16:9 aspect ratios, and MPEG-4. iDVD 5 will also be able to burn sharp looking photo albums directly from iPhoto 5, code-named Spellbound.

I don’t have any inside information either way; Apple continues to be tight-lipped about new products. But you can bet that I’ll be all ears at Steve Jobs’s keynote address on Jan. 11 to see if I’m going to be updating the books!

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