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iMovie HD and iDVD 5 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
- By Jeff Carlson
- Published May 23, 2005 by Peachpit Press. Part of the Visual QuickStart Guide series.
- Copyright 2005
- Dimensions: 7 X 9
- Pages: 304
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-33542-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-33542-5
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Bestselling author Jeff Carlson is back with a fully updated revision of the iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide. Completely overhauled for iMovie HD and iDVD 5, this book uses step-by-step instructions and loads of illustrations to get readers up to speed quickly in the process of making movies with iMovie and creating Hollywood-quality DVDs on which to share them (as well as photos, music, and more). First-time movie and DVD makers will find all the basics covered here--from shooting and capturing footage, viewing clips, and working in the iMovie timeline to dragging and dropping iMovies into new iDVD projects and adding GarageBand-created songs to their newly created DVDs. Readers will find coverage of both of the programs' niftiest new features, including iMovie's new HD compatibility, dozens of new video effects, sound effects, and transitions, more powerful editing features, and the new "Magic iMovie" feature, which automatically creates a simple iMovie for you with the existing footage in your camcorder. iDVD 5 offers 15 new Apple-designed themes and OneStep DVD, which exports a movie into a finished DVD automatically.
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Jeff Carlson's Visual Quickstart Guides for iMovie are the best software manuals I've ever used. I've been dipping into the Visual Quickstart Guides for a number of programs for 5 years and I find them easy to read, direct, and clear as a bell. It's a great series and for people who are slow learners like me, they're a pleasure. I also teach iMovie and this is the book I recommend to my students.
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IMOVIE HD and The Amature Professional, By AlaskaMAC (Alaska) - See all my reviews
This review is from: iMovie HD and iDVD 5 for Mac OS X (Paperback)
So Here I am once again everyone. Hello, this is Chris, and I first started my review project with my video camera, a JVC GDR-270 purchased at Best buy for $299 and iMovie HD, The missing manual, and started to record everything I saw. Using the camera was not difficult but iMovie HD was at first. When opening the application, seemed almost intuitive. But any assisted guidance sure helps in the production process. Having said this, I used the book as I did my work following the guided pictures. I imported my video and began my personal version of a Hollywood production studio (Watch it Warner or Paramount, I think I found my niche,) and edited my movie for final output. During the process, there are tools in iMovie HD that will help make your movie look a bit more professional. What is not there is someone to help in which the book did well. Using the iMovie HD help file can be tedious, and can be very time consuming going back and forth, but with this book in one hand and a mouse in...
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Another Mac Success,
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This is a vast improvement over previous versions. I can't wait to get six when it comes out. I volunteer at a local TV studio and we use iMovie to edit all of our productions. We are just learning Final Cut Pro, but iMovie is just as good.
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Errata
iMovie HD and iDVD 5 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
ISBN 0-321-33542-2
Errata
Page 196, sidebar, 2nd paragraph
" However, you cannot burn a project to an external DVD-writing drive - iDVD will not recognize it..."
Should be:
" However, you may not be able to burn a project to an external DVD-writing drive - iDVD might not recognize it..."
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