By David Pogue
First Edition
April 2005
Pages: 528
Series: The Missing Manuals
ISBN 10: 0-596-10033-7 |
ISBN 13: 9780596100339
For both professional and amateur moviemakers, David Pogue's witty and entertaining guide not only details every step of iMovie HD video production--from choosing and using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs--but provides a firm grounding in basic film technique so that the quality of a video won't rely entirely on magic. It's your moviemaking-made-easy guide.
Full Description
- Capturing quality footage (including tips on composition, lighting, and even special-event filming)
- Building your movie track, incorporating transitions and special effects, and adding narration, music, and sound
- Working with picture files and QuickTime movies
- Reaching your intended audience by exporting to tape, transferring iMovie to QuickTime, burning QuickTime-Movie CDs, and putting movies on the Web (and even on your cell phone!)
- Using iDVD 5 to stylize and burn your DVD creation
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"All of Pogue's presses are well-done works of exhaustive technical detail, sniffing out and solving nuisances, and a good-humored enthusiasm for the creative drive...For the beginning filmmaker it has everything from choosing a camcorder to professionally-oriented grounding in film and editing techniques...Pros will appreciate the avenues to output covered, such as export to tape, QuickTime, video codecs, burning to discs, Web distribution and movies phone...Sure, this book is heavier than your camcorder, but don't leave home without it."
-- Tony Reveaux, Film/Tape World
"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
"There are a lot of good books, but I keep returning to the
Missing Manual series because they are inexpensive, easy to read and full of cool tricks and tips."
-- Bob Brooks, The South Bay Apple Mac User Group
"Whether you're just starting to work with iMovie HD and iDVD 5 or simply
want a comprehensive guide to either or both applkications, then iMOvie HD
& iDVD 5: The Missing Manual deserves a serious look."
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