Synopses & Reviews
Enjoy stunning digital audio on your Mac, edit your digital pictures, create compelling videos, burn DVDs, and compose music--all with iLife and the help of this step-by-step resource.
How to Do Everything with iLife04 shows you how to get started, and then brings you up to expert level with iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand so that you can use their powerful features to explore your multimedia dreams. Whether you want to learn the iLife applications sequentially or jump directly to a specific task or feature, youll find the information you need in this comprehensive reference.
- Transfer your entire music collection to your Mac--and take it with you on your iPod
- Use your iPod to carry contacts, calendars, notes, and books--even to boot your Mac
- Download music seamlessly from Apples iTunes Music Store
- Compose, record, and mix professional-sounding music
- Import pictures from your digital camera or scan them from hard copies
- Crop, edit, and enhance your pictures, and remove red-eye from flash pictures
- Create photo albums and publish them to CDs, to the Web, or to books
- Import video from your camcorder or from videotape onto your Mac
- Edit your video footage into movies and export them to tape or to digital formats
- Burn CDs and DVDs containing music, movies, slide shows, or data
About the
Synopsis
- Primary Market: Anyone who has bought a Macintosh computer with OS X - the iLife suite of applications (iTunes, iMovie &iPhoto) ships free with each Mac. If you buy a Mac with a SuperDrive (Apple's DVD Burner), you also get iDVD included. (If you add on a DVD burner, the iLife Suite Sells for $49)
- Audience Size/Install Base: Apple is selling 2.5 to 3 million new computers/year with OS X installed. (40% notebooks and 60% desktop). Of the Macs already in use today, 7 million users are running OSX, according to Apple. Apple is using the free iLife applications as an incentive to get users over to Mac OS X.
- Technology/Product Information: iLife and Mac OS X are the key Mac topics at the moment. With iLife, Apple has tapped neatly into consumers' desire to enjoy, create, and manipulate digital media.
- Market Conditions: iLife is the key consumer area in which Apple enjoys a compelling lead over Microsoft. With Windows Media Player and Windows Movie Maker, Microsoft is following in Apple's footsteps, but Microsoft currently has no built-in MP3 or AAC support, poor tools for working with digital photos, and no support for creating DVDs. By releasing the new versions of the iLife applications only for Mac OS X, Apple is using iLife to drive recalcitrant users from System 9 to Mac OS X.
Synopsis
Find out how to get the most out of iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD and use all these applications together to create customized content with your own digital media. Learn to burn MP3s, organize and edit your digital photos, shoot a movie and add effects, create your own DVDs, and much more.
Table of Contents
Part I: Understand the Point of iLife and Apples iVision
1: Understand iLife, the Digital Hub, and i-Everything
2: Choose Hardware for the iLife Applications
3: Understand Enough Copyright Law to Keep You Safe
Part II: Enjoy Stunning Audio with iTunes and the iPod
4: Get Started with iTunes
5: Create High-Quality AAC and MP3 Files
6: Download Audio Files and Use the iTunes Music Store
7: Connect Your iPod or iPod mini and Transfer Music to It
8: Burn Audio, MP3, and Data CDs-and Data DVDs
9: Load Your Contacts, Calendar, Notes, and Other Text on Your iPod
10: Use Your iPod as a Hard Drive
Part III: Edit and Manage Your Digital Pictures with iPhoto
11: Navigate the iPhoto Interface and Import Your Pictures
12: Organize and Edit Your Pictures
13: Export, Print, Publish, and Share Your Pictures
14: Create and Enjoy Slideshows from Your Pictures
15: Manage and Back Up Your Photo Library
16: Go Beyond iPhotos Limits with Utilities and Further Software
(and more...)