iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual, Third Edition

By David Pogue
Third Edition July 2003
Pages: 464
Series: The Missing Manuals
ISBN 10: 0-596-00507-5 | ISBN 13: 9780596005078
(Average of 2 Customer Reviews)

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In this funny, authoritative, updated guide, award-winning author David Pogue provides a complete course in Macintosh filmmaking. From the basics of moviemaking to mastering DVDs, iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual lets you marry the stunning quality of digital video with the power of your imagination.
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Apple's free iMovie software made history by tearing down the barriers to pro-quality filmmaking. In version 3, iMovie offers powerful audio enhancements, slick new photo effects, and integration with iTunes and iPhoto-- but it still comes without a single page of printed instructions. In this funny, authoritative, updated guide, award-winning author David Pogue provides a complete course in Macintosh filmmaking. The book includes:

Essentials of film technique. Using iMovie without a grounding in film technique is like getting a map before you've learned to drive. This book offers a friendly guide to making even home movies look professional.
Editing basics. Part 2 of this book bursts with clever workarounds, hidden features, and editing tricks from the Hollywood film world.
Finding an audience. You can export your finished masterpiece back to the tape for high-quality TV playback-- or save it as a QuickTime movie that you can post on a Web page, email to friends, or burn as a Video CD.
Mastering DVDs. If your Mac has a SuperDrive, you can distribute your movies at much higher quality than VHS tapes or QuickTime movies-- by creating your own Hollywood-style DVDs. Four all-new chapters cover iDVD 3 in detail, including dozens of undocumented secrets for extending the program's design tools.

Whether you plan to make the next Blair Witch Project or just better home movies, iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual lets you marry the stunning quality of digital video with the power of your imagination.

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iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual Review, August 26 2003

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Submitted by Jim Hill [Respond | View]

As usual for the Missing Manual series, this is an excellent book. Beginning with the basics of how to choose a camera and proceeding through some of the two software packages' fancier features, the readable style keeps the staggering amount of information presented from seeming overwhelming to the reader.

They take a one-star knock, though, because I'm a credit where credit is due kind of guy and there's nothing on the cover or promotional material to indicate that the iDVD portion of the book was written by Erica Sadun, not David Pogue.

iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual Review, August 08 2003

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Submitted by Blair Hardman [Respond | View]

"Pogue's new iMovie manual reads better than a Grisham novel"

The only problem I had with this manual was that I sat up in bed until 4:00 AM reading it, and then I couldn’t wait to get into my studio in the morning to get back on the program.

Pogue’s writing is engaging, concise, accurate, irreverent and very funny. And he leaves "trim handles" - little bits of knowledge on each side of the subject that you didn’t know you needed, but would come in handy later.

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Media reviews
"One of the beauties of the Missing Manuals is that there is always something new to discover and the research is quite thorough...I kept finding snippets of information, in the way of Tips or Notes, that would give just that bit extra."
-- Graham K. Rogers, Bangkok Post

"Pogue, the New York Times computer columnist, is among the world's best explainers."
-- Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired

"I have reviewed quite a number of Missing Manual books and I am always impressed with them. David Pogue is a Mac master and the depth of his knowledge shines through."
-- Roger Bernau, ACT Apple User Group Incorporated

"A practical tutorial-style manual that covers techniques in 'filming,' editing, and packaging digital movies. Comprehensive, good technical depth, and well-presented."
--Major Keary, Ausom News, February 2004

"Pogue offers you three things: a grounding in professional, filming and editing techniques; an iMovie manual covering each feature in depth; and a Missing Manual for iDVD3...Thorough, readable and bursting with tidbits of expert knowledge, this Missing Manual is ideal for those who want to stay within iMovie's spacious comfort Zone but still produce professional results."
--Keith White, Australian Macworld, November 2003

"Luke Skywalker needed Yoda and his light saber to defeat the Empire. For the next Blair Witch Project, you just need a Mac and this book."
--The Technologer, November 2003
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"One of the beauties of the Missing Manuals is that there is always something new to discover and the research is quite thorough...I kept finding snippets of information, in the way of Tips or Notes, that would give just that bit extra."
--Graham K. Rogers, Bangkok Post