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Summary: Best of Breed book
Review: Great for novices wanting to make their first iMovie (that was me) to those people wanting answers that don't come up until you start to really dig into iMovie and want more, more more (that is me now).I spent an hour reviewing 4 versions at the bookstore, took this home, and think it's great. Very simple, very short, very much to the point, this is a great reference as well as a beginning tutorial. So, it has depth, clarity, and brevity, admirable qualities all. iMovie seems a very simple application (with a wonderfully simple interface) but there are a lot of neat tips and tricks to create very cool movies, videos, whatever.Cheers,BilFish
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Summary: Lots of good stuff in a thin book
Review: I have read this and the "iMovie 2: The Missing Manual". I like the Visual Quickstart Guide a bit better because it is very concise but not lacking in information (true of the series). The thing with iMovie is that is seems like it should do more than it seems. While some of the techniques are not obvious, there are few of these (most presented in this book) that will definetly get your movies going. Get this book and look in the internet for additional sources of information.
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Summary: Lots of good stuff in a thin book
Review: I have read this and the "iMovie 2: The Missing Manual". I like the Visual Quickstart Guide a bit better because it is very concise but not lacking in information (true of the series). The thing with iMovie is that is seems like it should do more than it seems. While some of the techniques are not obvious, there are few of these (most presented in this book) that will definetly get your movies going. Get this book and look in the internet for additional sources of information.
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Summary: Brings into Focus
Review: The iMovie program is so cool. Alot of the instructions you can pick up from the program help menu, but this book fleshs it out, brings it all into focus.
The first 50 or so pages are how to take movies and capture sound, good information for a DIGITAL movie novice, which has some differences from video or film, which can make a difference when using the program (the information on composition, panning, etc, is all the same).
The next 80 pages are the how-to-do-it section of editing, importing, titles, effects; all the cool stuff, which the book explains quite well, in a not too complicated fashion.
The last 30 pages are on exporting, putting your newly created movie back on to a videotape or digital tape, sending it to the web or another program, or my favorite, making DVDs out of it.
It's amazing Apple does all this with a home computer, this book helps bring all the tools and tricks out in an easy to understand, helpful way.
Rating:
Summary: Brings into Focus
Review: The iMovie program is so cool. Alot of the instructions you can pick up from the program help menu, but this book fleshs it out, brings it all into focus.
The first 50 or so pages are how to take movies and capture sound, good information for a DIGITAL movie novice, which has some differences from video or film, which can make a difference when using the program (the information on composition, panning, etc, is all the same).
The next 80 pages are the how-to-do-it section of editing, importing, titles, effects; all the cool stuff, which the book explains quite well, in a not too complicated fashion.
The last 30 pages are on exporting, putting your newly created movie back on to a videotape or digital tape, sending it to the web or another program, or my favorite, making DVDs out of it.
It's amazing Apple does all this with a home computer, this book helps bring all the tools and tricks out in an easy to understand, helpful way.
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