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iMovie 2 Fast & Easy (Fast & Easy (Premier Press))

Kevin Harreld

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iMovie is the very popular consumer digital video editing application that allows you to create stunning home movies with footage captured with your DV camcorder and digital camera. Use this fast and easy VISUAL guide to learn iMovie 2..

Imovie 3 (Diseno Y Creatividad)

Erica Sadun

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iMovie Fast & Easy

Kevin Harreld

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

BEST iMOVIE BOOK YET! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

iMovie Fast & Easy is just that...FAST AND EASY! Kevin Harreld does an incredible job of breaking down the information for the beginning user and helps them turn bad video into entertainment. The easy-to-read format and helpful tips create a great "beginner's guide," and a book that even the seasoned user will refer to over and over!

INCREDIBLE!

Editorial Review:

iMovie Fast & Easy is the missing manual for this digital editing software from Apple. This book provides screen-by-screen instruction on editing, polishing, and reorganizing movies. It also covers adding special effects like cross-dissolves and scrolling titles, as well as musical soundtracks and sound effects. iMovie Fast & Easy is perfect for beginners and those who want to get a jump-start using iMovie.

Making iMovies

Scott Smith

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Excellent iMovie guide with a *great* DVD-ROM 5 out of 5 stars.
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I'm sure you've seen the Apple TV commercials: make digital home movies, including professional-standard fades, cuts and credits, on your iMac DV! Enticed by these dramatic TV commercials, I bought an iMac DV, but of course there was no iMovie instruction manual included. One of the only laments I have about Apple these days is the lack of documentation and instruction books included with their new computers (and their online help features are frequently confusing, anemic, and infuriating to use), but luckily a whole new range of books are being published to cope with this lack. This is one of the first iMovie instruction manuals published, and though I can't make any comparisons yet with the many that will likely follow, this is a great instruction and idea manual. This largish-format paperback (9 x 9 inches) takes you step-by-step through planning your iMovie, storyboarding, filming on your digital camera, editing, scoring, and adding sound and credits. Lots of color illustrations show you examples as well as screen-shot menus that make the process clear and easy-to-follow. There's an excellent general theory section on storytelling on film, many examples of how to make your shots more dramatic, how to get around the basic limitations of shooting digitally or showing your iMovies on a computer screen, troubleshooting, things to avoid, and much more. Among the great tips it offered that I didn't know and *needed* to know is how to convert Quicktime files into iMovie format. Most important, this book contains a DVD-ROM with all the files you need for three separate project exercises in editing, scoring, adding sound and credits. Most "exercises" provided with computer manuals are usually pretty lame, but *not* these...they're entertaining, well-shot short-short film segments (you put `em together into three films), with a tongue-in-cheek quality and twist endings that make them fun to work on, *not* laborious. So, in short, this a great introduction and beginner's manual to a user-friendly but very detailed Macintosh program in specific and novice filmmaking in general. While the page count (138 pages) may seem anemic for $39.95, the large amount of color and the DVD-ROM featuring imaginative projects to use as exercises and source material go a long way to making this a good buy. I'm eagerly awaiting a competing book: David Pogue's "iMovie: The Missing Manual" (ISBN 1565928598)--Pogue is one of the recognized experts on all things Mac and *always* entertaining to read--but *this* book is a great way to start out making your own iMovies. Narration by Jeff Goldblum not included.

Editorial Review:

This book shows you how to make movies using nothing more than a DV camcorder and an iMac computer. A primer on moviemaking for the Internet, this book demystifies the process by eliminating technical mumbo-jumbo and infusing the reader with a sense of confidence. By illustrating the features of Apple's iMovie software, the author guides the reader through the process of making short movies for delivery over the WWW; includes lesson files, video clips, sound effects, music scores, illustrations, and still photos to enhance the tutorial projects.

A night at the Opera: A HOLLOW MAC OS X AND COMPETITION FOR IMOVIE. (MAC).(Adobe Premiere 6.0 desktop video software and Opera 5.0 for Mac Web browser)(Product ... An article from: Computer User

Christy Mulligan

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This digital document is an article from Computer User, published by MSP Communications on May 1, 2001. The length of the article is 503 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A night at the Opera: A HOLLOW MAC OS X AND COMPETITION FOR IMOVIE. (MAC).(Adobe Premiere 6.0 desktop video software and Opera 5.0 for Mac Web browser)(Product Announcement)
Author: Christy Mulligan
Publication: Computer User (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2001
Publisher: MSP Communications
Volume: 19 Issue: 5 Page: 16(1)

Article Type: Product Announcement

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Sams Teach Yourself iMovie and iDVD in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself)

Todd Kelsey

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People are starting to make their own digital movies like never before, and what better way to deliver them than on DVD. The sales of digital camcorders have been explosive, and DVD is established firmly as a consumer medium, with some retailers no longer carrying VHS tapes. But typical video editing or DVD authoring can involve some complex and intimidating topics, such as MPEG-2 encoding, frame rates, and file size considerations.

Enter Apple, with the powerful yet friendly iMovie program, which ships with every Mac. Apple makes the process of making movies fun, and after establishing a reputation with iMovie, Apple has raised the bar with iDVD, bringing the power of DVD to the home.

Sams Teach Yourself iMovie and iDVD in 24 Hours teaches readers new to digital movies and DVD everything they need to know to begin making their own digital productions. It provides them a solid foundation in the concepts of digital video and DVD, giving them a sense of satisfaction to understand the process. And it equips them with the skills they need, without confusing them or hitting them over the head with complexity.