Bursting with new features, Apple's iMovie '09 is vastly more usable and complete than iMovie '08 -- amazing right out of the box. But the box doesn't include a good user's guide, so learning these applications is another matter. iMovie '09 and iDVD: The Missing Manual gets you up to speed on everything you need to turn raw digital footage into highly creative video projects. You get crystal-clear, jargon-free explanations of iMovie's new video effects, slow & fast motion, advanced drag & drop, video stabilization, and more. Author and New York Times tech columnist David Pogue uses an objective lens to scrutinize every step of process, including how to: * Organize your videos just like your photos, and precisely edit with ease * Work on multiple iMovie projects at once and drag & drop clips among them * Integrate with other iLife programs to use songs, photos, and an original sound track * Output your creation to a blog, its own web page, or as a video podcast with iWeb * Understand basic film techniques to improve the quality of the video you bring to iMovie From choosing and using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs, posting it online, or creating versions for iPod and iPhone, iMovie '09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual helps you zoom right in on the details.

David Pogue is the anchor columnist for Yahoo Tech, having been groomed for the position by 13 years as the tech columnist for the New York Times. He's also a monthly columnist for Scientific American, host of science shows on PBS's "NOVA," and two-time Emmy-winning correspondent for "CBS Sunday Morning." With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the world's bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "for Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes 120 titles.

Inhaltsverzeichnis div id="toc"> * The Missing Credits * About the Authors * About the Creative Team * Acknowledgments * The Missing Manual Series * Introduction * The Difficult Birth of iMovie '08 and '09 * iDVD * iMovie: What's It Good For? * A Camcorder Crash Course * About This Book * The Very Basics * Safari Books Online * Editing in iMovie * Chapter 1Importing Video * iMovie: The Application * Getting into iMovie * Importing from a Tape Camcorder * Importing from Tapeless Camcorders * Importing from DVD Camcorders * Recording Live from a Camcorder or iSight Camera * Importing Old iMovie Projects * Dragging Video In from the Finder * Importing Footage from Old Analog Tapes * Chapter 2The Lay of the Land * The Concept of Movie Projects * The Project Library * Aspect Ratios: The Missing Manual * All About Events * Four Ways to Remodel Your Workspace * Chapter 3Building the Movie * Phase 1: Review Your Clips (Skim + Play) * Phase 2: Select the Good Bits * Phase 3: Build the Storyboard * Phases 2-3 (Alternate): Paint-to-Insert * Phase 4: Fine-Tune the Edit * Storyboard Playback * Full-Screen Playback * Rearranging Video * Copying and Pasting Video * Shortening or Lengthening Clips * Splitting a Clip * Cutaways * The Precision Editor * Chapter 4Video Chunks: Keywords, Favorites, and Rejects * Marking Favorites and Rejects: Two-Step Method * Marking Favorites and Rejects: One-Step Method * Unmarking * Selecting Marked Footage * Hiding and Showing Favorites and Rejects * Keywords * The Keyword Filter * Deleting Footage for Good * Space Saver * Chapter 5Transitions, Themes, and Travel Maps * About Transitions * When Not to Use Transitions * Two Ways to "Transish" * Creating Individual Transition Effects * A Long Discussion of Transition Lengths * Automatic Transitions * Transitions: The iMovie Catalog * Themes * Travel Maps * Chapter 6Video Effects, Slo-Mo, Green Screen, and Picture-in-Picture * Video Effects * Fast/Slow/Reverse * Green Screen * Picture-in-Picture (PiP) * Chapter ...