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There's more to learn. I also have the "Mac OS X Tiger: Missing Manual" book which I found useful in that other book's chapter(s) for learning more about the unixy side of the Mac. How do you do that in iMovie. Agh. These books are cool to flip through for if you want more in-depth how-to information because you really don't get any printed manuals with the Macbook. So, I have iMovie '08 here and I have to learn it. There's a whole chapter on transitions in this book. I know that Leopard and iMovie '09 (with iLife '09) are currently available right now at the time that I am writing this, but I don't plan on upgrading until Snow Leopard is out and probably iMovie '10 may be coming out by then.
I just received the book "iMovie '08 & iDVD" that I ordered here on Amazon from CollegeBooksDirect who sells here on Amazon. in this book. Yea. I know, I know. So I stopped peeking at what iMovie does on my Macbook. I was putting off learning iMovie since I still had the comfort of my windows pc-tv video system to edit with. I went with their cheaper price and they were on Amazon where I like to buy most of my online purchases of books, merchandise, products, etc. I know how to edit videos and burn DVDs under windows - I record TV, edit out commercials, and burn to DVD or make DivX videos, or I do home videos and edit those - but now I have to learn how to do all that on a Mac.
There's online tutorial stuff out on the net to search for, but having a book particularly these "missing manual" books by David Pogue are a great crutch to lean on and learn from when going over to the Mac side of the computer world. Double Yea. And there's also another whole chapter on titles etc. Well, not quite, but that's all I needed to know for now. So I got this book.
But with a Mac, maybe it's because it's a different world, I needed a book. Thanks for reading. But I didn't turn to a book to learn how to edit video with Nerovision on my windows machines. I have a Macbook running Tiger and it has iMovie '08. So I'm done.
Now about transitions and titles. The first thing that puzzled me was how to do transitions and how to do titles or running text on the screen. But I wanted to learn iMovie.
I had the basics down, but the in depth treatment of all the features of the software make it much easier to use. It sure saves time to quickly check the index for the topic and find great detail on how to to things.
The Mac came with iMovies and no manual for it. Get the book. However, if you don't want to waste your time with curse-filled hours of trial-and-error, get this book.
Great tool, life is much better, and the wife doesn't have to listen to the bitching anymore. If you're an expert, have fun with your trial-and-error. iMovies is a nice app, but for those of us with a mind organized by MS Wndows, it's not totally "intuitive" - one of the words I hate most when talking with computer geeks.
One reviewer suggested this was a good book for the beginner, and he is correct. I'm converting old analog VHS and 8mm tapes to digital using a Canopus ADVC-55 converter, and wanted to do some still photo splicing, voice over narration, add music soundtrack from a vast iTunes library, then burn to DVD, and was incredibly frustrated until I got this book. I've got better things to do with my time than flop on the deck like a fish.
I've used a PC for 25 years and made the switch to an iMac this year, most frustrating at times, because Microsoft and Apple don't use the same words to describe common procedures. Mac help is pathetic, and days of sifting through a Mac users forum is no fun.
contents has already been very helpful.A "must have" for all iMovie and iDVD project creators. Excellent book.
The manual is easyto read and follow, for even amateurs like me. I found the manual to be very helpful and it answered some questions for me that I had about iMovie that I hadn't foundanywhere else. I didn't like the answers, but it solved a longongoing problem I have had with using iMovie 08.
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