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iMovie 3 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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by Jeff Carlson
Sales Rank: 1054915
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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press June 19, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321193970
ISBN-13: 978-0321193971
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
Product Description
Crammed with new features--but lacking any documentation to speak of--iMovie 3 is a tool just waiting to be tapped, and this Visual QuickStart Guide provides the key. If you're already familiar with Apple's video editing software, you'll welcome the easy-to-find coverage of all of iMovie's new features--including seamless integration with other iLife applications, added visual effects, powerful new audio controls and effects, chapter markers, and instant DVD export. If you're using iMovie for the first time, the accessible, step-by-step format will have you making movies in no time. Using hundreds of screen shots (all updated to reflect iMovie 3's new interface) and tips gleaned from personal experience, noted Mac author Jeff Carlson covers all the bases here--from shooting and capturing footage, viewing clips, and working in the iMovie timeline to using special effects and transitions and adding sound, music, titles, and narration. New in this edition is a chapter focusing on working with still images, thorough coverage of interoperability between the other iLife applications, a valuable troubleshooting section, and much more.
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Crammed with new features-but lacking any documentation to speak of-iMovie 3 is a tool just waiting to be tapped, and this Visual QuickStart Guide provides the key. If you're already familiar with Apple's video editing software, you'll welcome the easy-to-find coverage of all of iMovie's new features-including seamless integration with other iLife applications, added visual effects, powerful new audio controls and effects, chapter markers, and instant DVD export. If you're using iMovie for the first time, the accessible, step-by-step format will have you making movies in no time. Using hundreds of screen shots (all updated to reflect iMovie 3's new interface) and tips gleaned from personal experience, noted Mac author Jeff Carlson covers all the bases here-from shooting and capturing footage, viewing clips, and working in the iMovie timeline to using special effects and transitions and adding sound, music, titles, and narration. New in this edition is a chapter focusing on working with still images, thorough coverage of interoperability between the other iLife applications, a valuable troubleshooting section, and much more.
Customer Reviews & Comments
The iMovie 3 Visual Quickstart Guide is a thinner book than most others in the VQSG series. It has only 170ish pages and is labeled for the beginning to intermediate user. After looking through the book, though, I don't see any topic that is not covered (and I have used iMovie pretty extensively). So I think that maybe there isn't such a thing as an advanced iMovie user; advanced users are probably using Final Cut. For any iMovie 3 user, this book would seem to satisfy the need. iMovie is meant for the novice user; it is meant to give the average person the ability to produce videos that look semi-professional and can be easily burned to CD-ROM or emailed. This book undeniably meets this demand. OK, you say, but what about iMovie 4, the newest version of iMovie? Well, I chose this book for two reasons: first, there is not a good selection of iMovie 4 materials yet, and second, only buyers of iLife '04 and new Macs (since March 2004) would have that program whereas iMovie 3 is still a free download and usable by anyone with 10.1.5 and up. Although people argue that iMovie 4 is worth the upgrade, that is another discussion. My focus on the utility of this book is intended to reach a larger audience. This book contains EVERYTHING you need to know about iMovie 3 and has added sections on using a digital video camera and integration with iDVD 2 (only available on Macs with a Superdrive). The iMovie 3 VQSG is an excellent resource to have around and will likely find a home in my classroom where my students can benefit from it.
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