May 2006
Beginner
512 pages
16h 43m
English
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Chapter 4. Camcorder Meets Mac
Phase 1 is over. You’ve captured the raw footage on your camcorder, you’ve now assembled the ingredients you need, and you’re ready to enter the kitchen. Now it’s time for Phase 2, the heart of this book: editing your footage on the Mac using iMovie. This chapter introduces you to both iMovie and FireWire, the highspeed cable system that transfers footage from the camcorder to the Mac; gives you a tour of the iMovie window; and walks you through your first transfer.
iMovie: The Application
So far in this book, you’ve read about nothing but hardware—the equipment. In the end, however, the iMovie story is about software, both the footage as it exists on your Mac and the iMovie program itself.
iMovie on a New Mac
If you bought a new Mac since January 2006, iMovie 6 is probably already on your hard drive. Open the Macintosh HD icon → Applications folder. Inside is the icon for iMovie itself (called iMovie HD).
Its icon is probably in your Dock, too.
iMovie for an Existing Mac
If your Mac didn’t come with iMovie HD, you’ll have to buy it as part of the $80 iLife ’06 software suite, a DVD containing the latest versions of GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, and iDVD. (It’s available from Apple’s Web site, or popular Mac mailorder sites like http://www.macmall.com and http://www.macwarehouse.com.)
Apple says that iMovie requires a Mac OS X machine (10.3.9 or later, or 10.4.3 or later) with at least 256 MB of memory; a G4, G5, or Intel processor; QuickTime 7.0.4 ...
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