Paperback
-
PICK UP IN STORECheck Availability at Nearby Stores
Available within 2 business hours
Related collections and offers
Overview
- Edit video like the pros. Import raw footage, add transitions, and use iMovie’s newly restored, intuitive timeline editor.
- Create stunning trailers. Design Hollywood-style "Coming Attractions!" previews for your movies.
- Share your film. Distribute your movie in a variety of places—on smartphones, Apple TV, your own site, and with one-click exports to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, CNN iReport, and MobileMe.
- Make DVDs. Design the menus, titles, and layout for your DVDs, and burn them to disc.
This book covers version 9 of Apple's iMovie software.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781449393274 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | O'Reilly Media, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 04/01/2011 |
| Series: | Missing Manual Series |
| Pages: | 540 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Aaron Miller is a part-time lawyer, part-time professor, and runs a software company serving nonprofit organizations. In all of his spare time, he authors the blog "Unlocking iMovie" (www.unlockingimovie.com), his own little way of trying to make the Mac world a better place.
Table of Contents
The Missing Credits; About the Authors; About the Creative Team; Acknowledgments; The Missing Manual Series; Introduction; The Difficult Birth of the New iMovie; iDVD; iMovie: What’s It Good For?; A Camcorder Crash Course; About This Book; The Very Basics; Online Resources; Safari® Books Online; Part 1: Editing in iMovie; Chapter 1: Importing Video; 1.1 iMovie: The Application; 1.2 Getting into iMovie; 1.3 Importing Footage from a Tape Camcorder; 1.4 Importing from Tapeless Camcorders; 1.5 Importing from an iPhone or iPod Touch; 1.6 Importing from DVD Camcorders; 1.7 Recording Live from a Camcorder or iSight Camera; 1.8 Importing Old iMovie Projects; 1.9 Dragging Video In from the Finder; 1.10 Importing with iMovie’s Drop Box Folder; 1.11 Importing Footage from Old Analog Tapes; Chapter 2: The Lay of the Land; 2.1 The Concept of Movie Projects; 2.2 The Project Library; 2.3 Aspect Ratios: The Missing Manual; 2.4 All About Events; 2.5 Five Ways to Remodel Your Workspace; Chapter 3: Building the Movie; 3.1 Phase 1: Review Your Clips (Skim + Play); 3.2 Phase 2: Select the Good Bits; 3.3 Phase 3: Build the Storyboard; 3.4 Phases 2 to 3 (Alternate): Paint-to-Insert; 3.5 Phase 4: Fine-Tune the Edit; 3.6 Storyboard Playback; 3.7 Full-Screen Playback; 3.8 Rearranging Video; 3.9 Copying and Pasting Video; 3.10 Shortening or Lengthening Clips; 3.11 Splitting a Clip; 3.12 Cutaways; 3.13 The Precision Editor; Chapter 4: Video Chunks: Keywords, People, Favorites, and Rejects; 4.1 Marking Favorites and Rejects: The Two-Step Method; 4.2 Marking Favorites and Rejects: The One-Step Method; 4.3 Unmarking; 4.4 Selecting Marked Footage; 4.5 Hiding and Showing Favorites and Rejects; 4.6 Keywords; 4.7 People; 4.8 The Keyword/People Filter; 4.9 Deleting Footage for Good; 4.10 Space Saver; Chapter 5: Transitions, Themes, Travel Maps, and Animatics; 5.1 About Transitions; 5.2 When Not to Use Transitions; 5.3 Two Ways to “Transish”; 5.4 Creating Individual Transition Effects; 5.5 A Long Discussion of Transition Lengths; 5.6 Automatic Transitions; 5.7 Transitions: The iMovie Catalog; 5.8 Themes; 5.9 Travel Maps; 5.10 Animatics; Chapter 6: Video Effects; 6.1 Video Effects; 6.2 Fast/Slow/Reverse; 6.3 Green Screen/Blue Screen; 6.4 Picture-in-Picture (PiP); 6.5 Side-by-Side; 6.6 One-Step Effects; Chapter 7: Stabilization, Color Fixes, Cropping, and Rotating; 7.1 Video Stabilization; 7.2 Color Fixes; 7.3 Cropping Video; 7.4 Rotating Video; Chapter 8: Titles, Subtitles, and Credits; 8.1 Setting Up a Title; 8.2 Font, Size, and Style; 8.3 Checking the Result; 8.4 Editing or Deleting a Title; Chapter 9: Narration, Music, and Sound; 9.1 Three Kinds of Audio; 9.2 Adding Audio to the Storyboard; 9.3 Background Music; 9.4 Sound Effects (Pinned Music); 9.5 Editing to the Beat; 9.6 Recording Narration; 9.7 Extracting Audio from Video; 9.8 Volume Adjustments; 9.9 Multiple Clip Adjustments; 9.10 Removing Audio Adjustments; 9.11 Audio Effects, Enhancements, and Equalizers; 9.12 Editing Audio in GarageBand; Chapter 10: Photos; 10.1 Importing Still Images; 10.2 The Photo Browser; 10.3 Two Ways to Add Photos; 10.4 The Dimensions of an iMovie Photo; 10.5 Crop, Fit, Rotate; 10.6 The Ken Burns Effect; 10.7 Creating Still Images from Footage; 10.8 Exporting a Still Frame; Chapter 11: Movie Trailers; 11.1 Trailers Basics; 11.2 The Trailers Catalog; 11.3 Building Your Trailer; 11.4 Customizing Your Trailer; Chapter 12: Advanced Editing; 12.1 The Power of Editing; 12.2 Popular Editing Techniques; 12.3 Back and Forth to iMovie 6; Part 2: Finding Your Audience; Chapter 13: Exporting to iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or Front Row; 13.1 Exporting the Movie to iTunes; 13.2 From iTunes to iPod, iPhone, and So On; Chapter 14: Exporting to YouTube and the Web; 14.1 iMovie to YouTube; 14.2 iMovie to MobileMe; 14.3 iMovie to Facebook; 14.4 iMovie to Vimeo; 14.5 iMovie to CNN iReport; 14.6 Custom Web Pages: Two Roads; Chapter 15: From iMovie to QuickTime; 15.1 Understanding QuickTime; 15.2 The Export Pop-up Menu; 15.3 The Video Codecs: A Catalog; 15.4 Saving a QuickTime Movie; Chapter 16: QuickTime Player; 16.1 QuickTime Player X; 16.2 QuickTime Player 7 (Free Version); 16.3 QuickTime Player Pro; 16.4 Advanced QuickTime Pro: Track Tricks; Part 3: iDVD ’11; Chapter 17: iDVD Basics; 17.1 Why iDVD?; 17.2 What You’re in For; 17.3 Phase 1: Prepare Your Video; 17.4 Phase 2: Insert Chapter Markers; 17.5 Phase 3: Export from iMovie ’11; 17.6 Phase 4: Design the Menu Screen; 17.7 Phhhhhhase 5: Add Your Movies; 17.8 Phase 6: Burning Your DVD; 17.9 OneStep DVDs and Magic iDVDs; Chapter 18: Dvd Menus, Slideshows, and the Map; 18.1 Adding Movies; 18.2 Submenus (“Folders”); 18.3 The DVD Map—and Autoplay; 18.4 DVD Slideshows; Chapter 19: Designing iDVD Themes; 19.1 iDVD’s Built-In Themes; 19.2 Editing Buttons; 19.3 Editing Text; 19.4 Editing Backgrounds; 19.5 Menu Audio; 19.6 Saving Favorites; Chapter 20: Advanced iDVD; 20.1 iDVD: The DVD-ROM Maker; 20.2 Uncover Your DVD Project File; 20.3 Automator and iDVD; 20.4 Archiving Your Project; 20.5 Disk Images; 20.6 Professional Duplicating; Part 4: Appendixes; iMovie ’11, Menu by Menu; iMovie Menu; File Menu; Edit Menu; Clip Menu; View Menu; Text Menu; Share Menu; Window Menu; Help Menu; Drag and Drop Menu; Troubleshooting; Two Golden Rules; General iMovie Troubleshooting; Starting Up and Importing; Editing; Exporting; Where to Get Help; Master Keyboard Shortcut List; Panes, Panels, and Windows; Event Browser and Storyboard; Playback; Editing; Working with Clips; Music and Audio; Editing Titles; Visual Cheat Sheet; Colophon;
David Pogue is the weekly personal-technology columnist for The New York Times and an Emmy-award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. With 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how-to authors. In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes more than 100 titles.
Aaron Miller is a part-time lawyer, part-time professor, and runs a software company serving nonprofit organizations. In all of his spare time, he authors the blog "Unlocking iMovie" (www.unlockingimovie.com), his own little way of trying to make the Mac world a better place.