iMovie ’08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
- ISBN13: 9780596516192
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Whether you consider yourself a pro or a hobbyist, you have to admit that Apple’s iMovie 08 and iDVD 08 are amazing right out of the box. Unfortunately, the box doesn’t include much of a user’s 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.
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iMovie ’08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
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Nick Mace said :
February 26, 2010 at 11:14 pm
let me begin by indicating that i have a graduate degree and i’ve read books like “moby dick” and “les miserables”. that aside, this book is wordy. pogue breaks down EVERY little thing that could conceivably occur before, during, and after use of imovie. look up “overkill” in the latest version of webster’s, this book will appear.
admittedly, there are some bright tips. the man appears to really know this animal and how it differs from its predecessors. describing in painful detail the difference between various transition effects is not necessary. trim the freakin fat and this would be a much better, more readable, if not less expensive, work.
Rating: 3 / 5
Anne V. Markham said :
February 26, 2010 at 11:58 pm
I seek out “how-to” books written By David Pogue they’re wonderful and funny.
I’ve bought his books for years because they are clear, step by step information.
His humor is an added plus and makes the reading fly
Rating: 5 / 5
Aleta Barth said :
February 27, 2010 at 2:00 am
This is an excellent reference taking you step by step from how to use a camcorder to producing a finished movie.
Rating: 4 / 5
ruel said :
February 27, 2010 at 2:24 am
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!
Rating: 5 / 5
J. Manz said :
February 27, 2010 at 2:56 am
The book I ordered,although used, was like brand new. Very impressed. Shipping was right on time. Very good experience.
Rating: 5 / 5