Synopses & Reviews
7 books in 1–your key to success with iLife ’04Release your creativity with this one-stop guide to the digital iLife style
Living the iLife may mean creating a slide show with your own digital photos, adding original music from your GarageBand, and posting it on the Web. Or blending purchased songs with clips from your digital camcorder to make a music video DVD. Or just keeping your iPod loaded with the latest iTunes. Find out how, now!
The Dummies Way
- Coverage of the essentials and beyond
- Explanations in plain English
- "Get in, get out" information
- Thumbtabs and other navigation aids
- Tear-out cheat sheet
- A dash of humor and fun
Discover how to:
- Rip songs and create playlists
- Edit photos and create SmartAlbums
- Manage video clips, create movies, and edit soundtracks
- Burn multipurpose DVDs
- Record musical instruments using GarageBand
Synopsis
What the book covers: the key features of each application including: ripping songs and working with a playlist, editing and saving digital photo files, assembling picture and video clips into a home movie, creating, editing and burning DVD slide shows and movies, setting up and recording in your digital music studio, bonus coverage on Apple’ s market leading iPod, and much more. Updated coverage of the new version: Revised throughout to cover the latest updates and enhancements made to iLife. Series features: Information presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the "Dummies series for over ten years.
Synopsis
- Updated to cover the latest iLife features and enhancements, including the new GarageBand application
- Seven minibooks on iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iPod, and iLife Extras get readers quickly up to speed with all of Apple's digital media applications
- Covers the key features of each application, including ripping songs and working with a playlist (iTunes), editing and saving digital photo files (iPhoto), assembling picture and video clips into a home movie (iMovie), creating DVD slide shows and movies (iDVD), and setting up and recording in a digital music studio (GarageBand), plus bonus coverage of Apple's market-leading iPod
About the Author
Tony Bove and
Cheryl Rhodes have kicked around the computer industry for decades. They edited the influential newsletter, “Bove & Rhodes Inside Report on New Media,” and wrote weekly and monthly columns and feature articles for computer-industry magazines including
Computer Currents (for computer users),
Nextworld (for computer professionals), and
NewMedia (for multimedia professionals). They also co-founded and edited
Desktop Publishing/Publish magazine (for publishing professionals).
Tracing the personal computer revolution back to the ’60s, Bove and Rhodes produced a CD-ROM interactive documentary in 1996, Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties (featuring music from the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and the Jefferson Airplane). Bove and Rhodes have written over a dozen books on computing, desktop publishing, and multimedia, including at least one bestseller, The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam); a series of books about Macromedia Director that includes Macromedia Lingo Studio and Official Macromedia Director Studio (Random House); the long-running Adobe Illustrator: The Official Handbook for Designers (Random House) now in its fourth edition; Desktop Publishing with PageMaker and PageMaker 4: The Basics (Wiley Publishing, Inc.); and The Well-Connected Macintosh (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich).
Tony Bove has been a director of enterprise marketing for a large software company, as well as a communications director and technical publications manager. He also developed the Rockument music site, www.rockument.com, with commentary and radio programs focused on rock music history. In addition, he is a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers band (www.flyingotherbros.com).
Cheryl Rhodes is an education specialist, researcher, and advocate. She founded and served as director of the Pacific Community Charter School, and worked as a professional courseware designer for ComputerTown USA (a National Science Foundation project) and the Lawrence Hall of Science, as well as an instructor in computer courses at elementary and high schools.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Book I: iTunes.
Chapter 1: iTunes — The Digital Jukebox.
Chapter 2: Organizing Your Library.
Chapter 3: Enhancing the Audio.
Chapter 4: Burning CDs.
Book II: iPhoto.
Chapter 1: Getting to Know iPhoto.
Chapter 2: Importing Photos.
Chapter 3: Organizing Photos.
Chapter 4: Improving Photos.
Chapter 5: Making Slideshows.
Chapter 6: Printing and Publishing Photos and Books.
Book III: iMovie.
Chapter 1: Digital Moviemaking.
Chapter 2: Importing Video, Audio, and Photos.
Chapter 3: Organizing and Improving Video Clips.
Chapter 4: Editing Movies and Sound.
Chapter 5: Viewing and Sharing Movies.
Book IV: iDVD.
Chapter 1: Instant iDVD Authoring.
Chapter 2: Making Menus and Buttons.
Chapter 3: Burning DVDs.
Book V: GarageBand.
Chapter 1: Getting in Tune with GarageBand.
Chapter 2: Adding Loops and Audio Files.
Chapter 3: Recording and Arranging Music.
Chapter 4: Getting the Best Mix.
Book VI: iPod.
Chapter 1: Have iPod, Will Travel.
Chapter 2: Getting Wired for Sound.
Chapter 3: Managing Life on the Road.
Book VII: iLife Extras.
Chapter 1: Understanding Your iEnvironment.
Chapter 2: Enhancing Your iLife Environment with Other Tools.
Chapter 3: Taking a Cue from the Media Pros.
Index.