Chapter 7. iMovie Overview

Being a fan of the moviemaking process, I enjoy reading “behind the scenes” articles about how films are produced. In nearly all cases, the reporter interviews cast and crew at the movie set during shooting (and invariably makes it sound more exciting than it usually is). But filming is only one part of the production.

Getting iMovie ’08

If you bought a Mac after August 2007, iMovie ’08 should already be installed. Otherwise, you need to purchase iLife ’08, Apple’s $79 suite of digital hub applications (www.apple.com/ilife/), which includes iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, iTunes, GarageBand, and iWeb.

If iMovie HD 6 is already installed, the iLife ’08 installer does not overwrite it; earlier iLife installers would simply nuke the ...

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