Synopses & Reviews
Ready for prime time? With the help of this indispensable manual you'll learn everything about iMovie 2 from click-and-drag, cut-and-paste, beginning editing to professional filmmaking and editing techniques. Answer critical questions about memory, hardware, and operating system compatibility, then follow a step-by-step approach to movie-making fundamentals. Learn about lenses, lighting, and capturing sound. Use timeline editing, and incorporate transitions and effects. Create compelling digital movies from existing digital and analog media--even TV broadcasts, photographs, and vinyl albums. Regardless of your experience level,
How to Do Everything with iMovie 2 will prove a ready resource for your iMovie 2 productions.
- Set up hardware and peripherals to optimize your digital video productions
- Plan your movie using storyboards, scripts, and animatics
- Discover shooting tools and techniques like panning, tracking, and dollying
- Incorporate vintage footage and create professional quality videos
- Discover how to edit videos in Mac OS X
- Record your voice and add narration and commentary to your movie
- Edit, crop, cut, and use the timeline
- Add finishing touches such as transitions, special effects, titles, and captions
- Share your work with QuickTime movies for the Web, and transfer video to DVD
- Get coverage of iDVD 2, Apple's powerful consumer DVD authoring tool
Synopsis
Now you can make exciting digital movies using this easy-to-use and information-packed resource. Covering all editing basics, as well as serious film-making techniques, you will be able to successfully apply visual effects and control sound with pinpoint accuracy-- and deliver digital stories you never thought possible.
Table of Contents
PART I: Getting Started
1: Making iMovies that Work for You
2: Setting Up Your DV Studio
3: Looking at Camcorders
PART II: Creating iMovies
4: Planning, Plotting, and Producing
5: Supporting and Moving Your Camera
6: Capturing the Shot
7: Working with Exposure and Lighting
8: Recording Sound
PART III: Editing Your iMovies
9: Working With iMovie 2
10: Importing Video
11: Editing to the Timeline
12: Editing Video and Sound
PART IV: Advanced Editing Techniques
13: Adding Effects and Transitions
14: Adding Text and Titles
15: Expanding Your Sources
PART V: Sharing iMovies
16: Making Copies of Your iMovies
17: Making iMovies for the Web
A: Troubleshooting
B: Web References