Apple sure has been keeping busy in the days leading up to WWDC 2011, leaking their own iCloud announcement in a press release, offering universal updates for their iWork apps and even updating iMovie and GarageBand for iOS with more output options and bug fixes.
Apple pushed out new updates for both iMovie and GarageBand for iOS on Wednesday afternoon, although many users couldn’t get to them due to some issues with the App Store that appear to be cleared up now. Both updates offer some new options when using the Apple Digital AV Adapter with the apps, as well as a number of other tweaks and bug fixes.
iMovie 1.2.1 for iOS follows up on its big universal update last time around to take care of a few nagging issues including:
- Audio plays from your HDTV when using the Apple Digital AV Adapter.
- Video plays full screen from Marquee to your HDTV when using the Apple Digital AV Adapter.
- Resolves some cases of missing media in projects.
- Provides more accurate clip grouping by date in Video browser.
- Fixes an issue where a project's background music would not fade in or out.
- Additional performance and reliability improvements.
Meanwhile, the iPad-only GarageBand 1.0.1 gets its own assembly of tweaks:
- Support for audio output over AirPlay, Bluetooth devices and HDMI with the Apple Digital AV Adapter.
- Import of AIFF, WAV, CAF audio files and Apple Loops (16 bit, 44.1 kHz).
- Allows copy and paste of audio from supported apps into GarageBand.
- Addresses occurrences of GarageBand freezing while playing Smart Instruments.
- Improves overall stability and addresses a number of minor issues.
Unfortunately, the new GarageBand update hasn’t addressed our biggest complaint with the app, which is the relatively low volume output from both the iPad and iPad 2, even with the slider at full blast. Sigh… maybe next time.
In the meantime, both updates are available now in the App Store. iMovie is compatible with the iPhone 4, fourth-generation iPod touch and iPad 2 running iOS 4.2.6 or higher, while GarageBand requires an iPad running iOS 4.2 or later.
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