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iMovie is a deceptively simple video editing application that does not come with a printed manual. Even the online help is insufficient. David Pogue, the wry and insightful columnist for Macworld, fills the void with another entry in his new Missing Manual series. Through many workarounds, "hidden" features and creative ideas, Pogue shows how you can use this powerful software to carry out ambitious film projects.This series is known for giving a lot of information at a bargain price, and this book is no exception. The text gets right to the point while leaving room for background info and tips that anticipate potential problems. Reading it is like listening to someone who has already worked through the steps.
The first three chapters show how to prepare your video before using iMovie and include lots of professional filmmaking advice. The chapters on editing are the heart of the book. They take you thoroughly through each feature and menu--working with clips; adding transitions, titles and sound; and saving and exporting your work. Since this isn't an official manual, Pogue is free to point out iMovie's shortcomings. In sidebars, he shows how to exploit features iMovie does have to mimic features you get only with more expensive software--for example, how to create multiple simultaneous superimposed titles (great for making wild typographic experiments) or how to "pot down" the soundtrack music to allow a voiceover.
To make better choices while saving your movie, the book discusses each of the save options, as well as how QuickTime works--in detail. Also, the book doesn't just suggest what software to use to burn a QuickTime movie onto a CD, it also shows how to make a video CD. There's even help with the HTML necessary to embed your movie into a Web page. In fact, this book contains an impressive amount of info. It's easy to jump in at any point in the text and discover some idea so exciting that you just have to boot up iMovie right away and get creative. --Angelynn Grant, Amazon.com
- Topics covered:
- Complete manual instructions for iMovie, including detailed descriptions of each menu, command and feature
- shooting and preparing video for capture (including professional filmmaking advice)
- editing clips
- adding transitions, sound and titles
- saving and exporting movies (including help choosing formats)
- advice on using professional video editing software and troubleshooting.
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Editing videotape, once upon a time, was outside the range of what home-movie buffs could hope to do. Now that iMovie 2 is around, Macintosh users have a much better option. iMovie 2 for Dummies explains how late-model Mac, iMac and iBook computer users can download video from their camcorders to their computers via a FireWire multimedia link, then edit the raw footage for remarkably professional results. Todd Stauffer is a long-time Mac writer and he communicates the fun of making films on the Mac in this book.As you would expect, iMovie 2 for Dummies does a super job of explaining how to accomplish tasks in the iMovie 2 environment--look for precise directions on adding titles, overlaying narration, chopping up audio clips and doing all the other technical work associated with assembling a film. The Dummies format emphasises text descriptions of what to do over the illustrations in the Visual QuickStart Guide series--both approaches are effective. Experienced film makers will appreciate the discussion of the iMovie interface; novices will like the ideas about how to make films more appealing and technically clean. --David Wall
Topics covered:
- The iMovie 2 editing program for digital video on computers running Mac OS
- Importing video
- Editing
- Transitions
- Audio
- Special effects
- Video exports
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