The Macintosh ILife: An Interactive Guide to ITunes, IPhoto, IMovie and IDVD |
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Jim Heid
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Pages: 208 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0321170113
Pub: Peachpit Press
Pub date: 2003-04-09
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 769815
Editorial Review:
A DVD/book combo--what a great idea! Think of The Macintosh iLife: An Interactive Guide to iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD as "iReading". You get a 90-minute movie that allows you to peer over author Jim Heid's shoulder as he demonstrates all the essentials of the four iApps. In iTunes, he shows how to create playlists, change the info tags for a batch of songs, burn a compilation CD, and more advanced features such as choosing equaliser settings for each tune. In iPhoto, he shows how easy it is to organise even the largest collection of family pictures, and even how to make minor touch-ups. In iMovie, he shows how to create a home movie that won't put your friends to sleep by incorporating cross fades, an audio track of both ambient sounds and MP3s from iTunes, still images from iPhoto and titles. He then shows how to use iDVD to create custom menus and chapter openings.
You can watch the book's DVD on the computer and hit pause whenever you feel like practicing something for yourself. The book goes into even greater detail on each iApp, for example, covering cross fades in iTunes, working with multiple libraries in iPhoto and tweaking variations of the Ken Burns effect in iMovie. In bonus chapters and sidebars, Heid goes in-depth on related topics like the inner workings of an iPod, tips for taking better digital photos and movies, and how to hook up a TV for improved playback while editing in iMovie.
Anyone working in OS X, even seasoned Mac users, will learn new techniques, time-saving tips and lots of ideas on how to get the most out of everything the iLife promises. And it may even turn skeptics who thought this was just another advertising gimmick into giddy converts. --Angelynn Grant, Amazon.com
Reader Reviews:
Good book, but the DVD is the real killer (8/8 people found this helpful)
Having to start my first commercial DVD project, and never having used iMovie or iDVD in anger before, I was looking around for a good book to get me up to speed really quickly, with a particular emphasis on why things are done as well as how. What convinced me to buy this one (rather than waiting for David Pogue's book to be published) was my deadline, and the fact that this one came with a DVD showing how to use the tools.
Not a great fan of books supplied with cover CDs, I've found watching the step-by-step instructions on using these tools extremely useful - I've just watched the iMovie section for the third time - and the demonstrations of how the various tools link together confirms my admiration for Apple's software engineers ingenuity and dedication to ease-of-use.
A good book, but it's a cracking DVD, though Jim Heid's hair cut and hand movements are a little disquieting. I'm now ready to make my own DVD.
Categories
Amazon.co.uk places this book into the following categories:
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> New to Computing -> Digital Music, Photography & Video -> MP3 & Music
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> Mac OS -> ITunes
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> Mac OS -> IMovie
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> Mac OS -> IDVD
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> Mac OS -> IPhoto
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> Mac OS -> General AAS
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> Digital Photography -> Digital Photography Software -> iPhoto
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> Digital Photography -> Digital Photography Software -> General AAS
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> Digital Photography -> Beginners -> Software for Beginners
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> Digital Video -> By Software -> IMovie & iDVD
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> Digital Music -> iPod & iTunes
Books -> Subjects -> Computing & Internet -> Digital Music -> MP3 Software
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