iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual - Softcover

Pogue, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596006934 ISBN 13: 9780596006938

Publisher: Pogue Press O'Reilly, 2004

Synopsis

Pogue, a computer columnist for The New York Times, provides a short course in the popular Macintosh-based video-editing software, which Apple packages without a thorough instruction manual. He covers essentials of film technique and producing a home video with professional quality; editing basics; exporting a finished movie to tape, the Web, e-mail, a CD, or even a cell phone; and mastering DVDs. Thoroughly illustrated with b&w photos and screen shots. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Review

You may not have paused (a pun!) to think about it, but we're living in the golden age of home movies. Forget dad's old Super-8 films and the stinky celluloid in grandma's basement: A reasonably priced digital video camera and a Macintosh computer give you the ability to not only record moving images, but modify and assemble them in order to tell stories more effectively than ever. David Pogue, Mac maven, shows you how to make movies using iMovie and iDVD, the video editing and burning software that ship with all modern iMacs. iMovie and iDVD: The Missing Manual documents its two eponymous programs fully, but without straying from the tone of lighthearted competence that characterizes Pogue's best work.

This book includes plenty of nods to total Mac novices--the author explains such terms as resolution and pixel--but appeals as well to competent Mac users who just happen not to be cinamatographers. Obvious stuff that authors often neglect--such as the approximate disk-space requirements of movies of various lengths--appears in this book. Plus, Pogue makes extensive use of a question-and-answer format (particularly in sidebars) that's simultaneously easy to read and extraordinarily fact-dense. This is the book you need if you're planning to do any video work with an iMac. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to use Apple iMovie and iDVD to record, edit, and publish digital video. It's a soup-to-nuts treatment, covering selection of a camera, filming (including lighting and composition), assembling clips into a meaningful narrative, adding special effects and titles, and burning the product to DVD for distribution.

About the Author

David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pogue Press O'Reilly
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0596006934
• ISBN 13: 9780596006938
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 484