iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual 
by  David Pogue

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated November 15, 2007.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 

{1} 1;
This isn't an error listing. It's a suggestion for your trouble shooting section. 
My I-mac is a 20" core 2 duo with 1 gig of memory and with an entire hdv tape imported 
and stored to hard drive, about 90 gigs free hard drive space. So I think it has enough 
ummph to do the job. Still, when I try to copy a whole hdv tape from my camcorder 
(Canon XH-A1) I-movie 6 freezes up after importing about 30-40 minutes of video. I then 
have to force quit the program and start over. Once I reopen the program, I can import 
the rest of the video from the same tape and also drag the previous video clips, which 
I found in the I-movie trash, back into the area with the new clips that I just imported.

I still had 90 gigs of free hard drive space after doing all of this, so as fas as I know, 
I have a fast enough computer (it imports the video in real time)and enough hard drive space. 
I'm not sure about the ram. 

(4, 87) p. 87: lower third;
Letterboxing was taking 2 1/2 hours per tape on my G5, downloading from my Canon ZR 830 with a widescreen aspect. Sometimes it ground to a halt with one or two clips not processed and I started over. Much easier to tell iMovie to use DV Widescreen in the opening window where the project is named. Contrary to your book, iMovie does not automatically assign widescreen, at least not from this camera.

[257] Last "tip" at the bottom of the page 257.;
The "Tip" at the bottom of page 257 does not work or else your explanation of when to press the option key is not clear. I have tried several times to get the Ken Burns effect to to alternate zooming direction when moving about 250 photos to the Clip Viewer. Each time, the zoom is the same. That means I will have to vary the zooms one-by-one to avoid the same boring effect. 

(311) first paragraph;
The number "3." in front of the list item should be "2."

[380/381] entire page on 380 and top of 381;
It seems to me you have Best Performance and Best Quality backwards.

You say the best performance option gives a max of 60/74 minutes of video, and the
best quality gives you 120 minutes. Wouldn't the lesser amount of video be of higher
quality?

The thoughts you attribute to the logic involved also seem to be backwards.... you
highlight there's not much compression in best performance so it renders faster, but
lots of processing time calculating the compression required for the best quality
option. Again, that seems backwards to me. Compression costs processing time and
results in lower quality, not higher.

On the top of page 381, you state that longer playing DVDs use a lower bit rate to
allow more data. It's not stated, but the inference is that more data on a DVD =
lower quality. This logic contradicts the logic on page 380.

{429} Figure 18-3;
The caption for Figure 18-3 states that "This column-view shot shows..." while the
actual picture shows the Resources folder in "icon" view.

{475} Figure B-3;
In step #9, it states to "Set the Rate to 48.00 kHz, size..." and that "The resulting
summary box should look like Figure B-3." But Figure B-3 shows the sample rate of
44.1 kHz (Should be 48.00 kHz).