iMovie 08 & iDVD: The Missing
Manual by David Pogue
Just Switched From A Pc To A Mac
Whether you consider yourself a pro or a hobbyist, you have to admit that
Apples iMovie 08 and iDVD 08 are amazing right out of the box.
Unfortunately, the box doesnt include much of a users guide, so learning
about these applications is another matter. iMovie 08 & iDVD: The Missing
Manual gets you up to speed on all of the themes, motion graphics, titles,
effects -- everything that lets you turn raw digital footage into highly
creative video projects. You get crystal-clear and jargon-free
explanations of all the iMovie 08 and iDVD 08 features, including the new
video library, how to view transitions, titles, and sound in real time as you
add them, and ways to publish your creations directly to YouTube.
Renowned author David Pogue -- tech columnist for the New York Times --
uses an objective lens to scrutinize every step of process, including how
to: Work on multiple iMovie projects at once and drag & drop clips
among them Output your creation to a blog, its own web page, or as a
video podcast with iWeb Use Magic iMovie to import your video and make

a movie for you Integrate with other iLife programs to use songs, photos,
and an original sound track And a whole lot more From choosing and
using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs, posting
it online, or creating versions for iPod and iPhone, iMovie 08 & iDVD: The
Missing Manual zooms right in on the details in a concise and
understandable manner. The book also provides a firm grounding in basic
film technique so that the quality of your video wont rely entirely on magic.
Personal Review: iMovie 08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by
David Pogue
I just received the book "iMovie '08 & iDVD" that I ordered here on Amazon
from CollegeBooksDirect who sells here on Amazon. I went with their
cheaper price and they were on Amazon where I like to buy most of my
online purchases of books, merchandise, products, etc. I know how to edit
videos and burn DVDs under windows - I record TV, edit out commercials,
and burn to DVD or make DivX videos, or I do home videos and edit those
- but now I have to learn how to do all that on a Mac. I have a Macbook
running Tiger and it has iMovie '08. I know that Leopard and iMovie '09
(with iLife '09) are currently available right now at the time that I am writing
this, but I don't plan on upgrading until Snow Leopard is out and probably
iMovie '10 may be coming out by then. So, I have iMovie '08 here and I
have to learn it. The first thing that puzzled me was how to do transitions
and how to do titles or running text on the screen. How do you do that in
iMovie. Agh! So I stopped peeking at what iMovie does on my Macbook. I
was putting off learning iMovie since I still had the comfort of my windows
pc-tv video system to edit with. But I wanted to learn iMovie. So I got this
book. Now about transitions and titles. There's a whole chapter on
transitions in this book. Yea! And there's also another whole chapter on
titles etc. in this book. Double Yea! So I'm done. Well, not quite, but that's
all I needed to know for now. I know, I know. There's more to learn. But I
didn't turn to a book to learn how to edit video with Nerovision on my
windows machines. But with a Mac, maybe it's because it's a different
world, I needed a book. There's online tutorial stuff out on the net to search
for, but having a book particularly these "missing manual" books by David
Pogue are a great crutch to lean on and learn from when going over to the
Mac side of the computer world. I also have the "Mac OS X Tiger: Missing
Manual" book which I found useful in that other book's chapter(s) for
learning more about the unixy side of the Mac. These books are cool to flip
through for if you want more in-depth how-to information because you
really don't get any printed manuals with the Macbook. Thanks for reading!
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