- Final Cut Pro X: Visual QuickStart Guide: Marking Clips
- Jan 19, 2012
- This chapter will cover different ways of identifying, selecting, and highlighting bits of clips in Final Cut Pro X.
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- Final Cut Pro: First Things First
- Mar 14, 2003
- Follow Michael Rubin through a personal tour of Final Cut Pro and get comfortable with its interface and navigation.
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- Five Cool and Useful Techniques for iMovie '09 and iDVD
- Jul 6, 2009
- It would be easy to overlook some video-editing and DVD-creation features in iMovie '09 and iDVD, as they aren't immediately apparent to a new (or even longtime) user. But these tips from Jeff Carlson are immediately useful, and loads of fun.
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- GarageBand for Audiophiles (and Audio files)
- Nov 11, 2005
- Jaemi Loeb offers tips for professional-quality digital editing (copy/paste, filtering, and DSP's) of pre-recorded audio files using GarageBand 2 (part of iLife '05).
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- Gathering and Editing Video in Final Cut Pro
- Jan 13, 2006
- With the advent of nonlinear editing systems, editing is as much a technical art as it is aesthetic. Understanding some basic video approaches will not only improve your technical aptitude, but also allow you the freedom to concentrate on the art of editing. In this lesson, you'll observe the workflow of a typical video. Your project specifications may vary, but the principles of video workflow still hold. And since Final Cut Pro is adaptable, it will accommodate different approaches seamlessly.
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- Getting Started With GarageBand
- Mar 22, 2004
- In this tipsheet, author Mary Plummer takes you
on a quick interface tour and shares a few keyboard shortcuts sure to have you're
making beautiful music in no time.
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- Getting Video Onto Your iPod
- Jan 27, 2006
- Get an iPod for Christmas? Music is great, but what about the video? In this article Matthew David shows you where to go to fill your iPod to the max with video.
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- Hacking iTunes: Programming iTunes on the Windows Platform
- May 6, 2005
- In his continuing series on hacking your iPod, Matthew David gives you the skinny on developing the plugins and extensities you need to make iTunes for Windows rock.
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- Hacking Your iPod: Building Windows Solutions to Load Content onto Your iPod and iTunes
- Mar 18, 2005
- Like your iPod? But don't you wish it could do just one more thing? Stop complaining and start programming! Matthew David exposes you to the fundamentals of programming iTunes to store more on your iPod.
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- How To Buy and Rent Media To Play on Your Apple TV
- May 2, 2008
- In this excerpt from The Apple TV Pocket Guide, Second Edition, author Jeff Carlson tells you how to buy cool stuff to watch on your Apple TV using either your computer or the Apple TV itself.
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- How To Create Final Cut Pro Effects Using iMovie
- Oct 22, 2004
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- How to Make iLife '06 Seem Like '07: Ten Tools that Take iLife to a New Level
- Jul 6, 2007
- It's been a year and a half since Apple updated its iLife software. Even though iLife '07 isn't on the horizon, there are plenty of ways to upgrade and enhance all the iLife apps to make everything from photo management to movie making easier and more impressive. Here are Ryan Faas' 10 picks for the best ways to make iLife '06 seem new and improved.
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- How to Produce a Virtual Drum Track in Logic Pro X 10.1
- Jun 25, 2015
- In this lesson from Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro X 10.1: Professional Music Production, you will produce virtual indie-rock, hip-hop, and electro-house drum tracks. After selecting a genre and choosing the best drummer for your project, you will adjust the drummer’s performance, making her play busier patterns or simpler ones, louder or softer, and changing the feel, almost like a producer would communicate with a real drummer in a recording session.
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- I Heart iMovie: Why Apple's iMovie HD Beats Windows XP Movie Maker 2
- Aug 19, 2005
- Apple's easy-to-use iMovie software turns your home movies into slick productions, often comparable to those of professional editors. Jeff Carlson explores the features that will make Windows users sick with envy.
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- iDVD: Putting it All Together
- Jun 25, 2009
- Jim Heid shows you how to create a DVD by choosing and customizing a menu design and adding the movies and photos you want to include on the DVD.
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- iLife Basics: Shooting Good Digital Snapshots and Putting Them in Your Mac
- Jun 23, 2006
- This lesson will demystify the way a computer can talk to (and control) a digital camera. It will give you some basic guidelines for handling your camera and creating impressive snapshots, as well as dealing with less-than-ideal lighting and subject orientation. It will also introduce you to iPhoto, the iLife tool for moving those photographs from camera to Mac, and ultimately organizing and sharing them.
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- iMovie 09 and iDVD for Mac OS X: Lighting
- Jun 4, 2009
- Learn how basic lighting works, and how to take advantage of it to ensure that the objects you’re shooting don’t turn out to be dark, talking blobs when you’re editing.
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- iMovie Beyond the Basics
- Jun 21, 2011
- iMovie includes many tools for dealing with special situations, as well as for improving what you've already shot. Jeff Carlson shows you how to use them.
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- iMovie HD: Making Movies
- Nov 20, 2006
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- iMovie HD: The Camera in Motion
- Sep 30, 2005
- One of the advantages of a small camera is that it easily moves with you. However, when you're shooting, motion can become a character in its own right. Slowly moving across a scene imparts a different feeling than quickly scanning your surroundings, for example. This chapter addresses the most common ways of moving the camera to add motion to your movie, including the number one rule: don't move.
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