Synopses & Reviews
iLife '04: The Missing Manual gives you everything you need to unleash your creative genius with iLife '04, a suite of five programs (available at the Apple store and preinstalled on all new Macs) that is revolutionizing the way we work--and play.Everybody's talking about Apple's unparalleled software package for digital music, photography, video, and DVD creation:
- iTunes 4.6 is digital jukebox software for Mac (and even Windows!) that rips songs from your music CDs onto your hard drive, organizes and plays your music collection, lets you buy songs from the iTunes Music Store, and syncs all your music with your iPod.
- iPhoto 4 pulls photos from your digital camera and then helps you organize and present them--as a slideshow, Desktop picture, screen saver, email attachment, Web page, DVD, printout, or hardbound photo book.
- iMovie 4 turns those old, seemingly endless home movies that bore everyone to tears into short, fun, tightly edited highlight reels that friends and family actually beg to watch.
- iDVD 4 transforms your iMovie productions and digital slideshows into Hollywood-style DVDs that play on everyday DVD players.
- GarageBand is the all-new program that turns your Mac into a digital music-recording studio.
David Pogue, computer columnist for the New York Times and creator of our Missing Manual series (you know, those indispensable books that should have been in the box), wants to make sure there's nothing standing between you and professional-caliber music, photos, movies, and more.His authoritative, witty, all-inclusive
iLife '04: The Missing Manual gives you the essentials of every program in the iLife '04 suite. Pogue highlights the newest features and improvements, covers the capabilities and limitations of each program, and delivers, in one volume, countless goodies you won't find anywhere else: undocumented tips, tricks, and secrets for getting the very best performance out of each and all of these life-changing new applications.
iLife '04: The Missing Manual: it's your guide to livin the iLife!
Synopsis
- The definitive iLife 04' book
- David Pogue, David Pogue, David Pogue
- The next bestselling Missing Manual
Synopsis
Bestselling author Pogue has done it again with his definitive treatment of the iLife '04 suite of applications that includes iTunes 4.2, iPhoto 4, iMovie 4, iDVD 4, and the newly minted GarageBand. This manual lets readers marry the stunning quality of digital media with the power of imagination.
About the Author
David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.
Table of Contents
Copyright; The Missing Credits; About the Authors; About the Creative Team; Acknowledgments; The Missing Manual Series; Introduction; iLife Integration; About This Book; The Very Basics; iTunes 4; Chapter 1: Getting Music Into iTunes; 1.1 A Quick Tour; 1.2 Music from CDs; 1.3 Importing Other Music Files into iTunes; Chapter 2: Getting Music Out of iTunes; 2.1 Playing Music; 2.2 Internet Radio; 2.3 Burning a CD or DVD; 2.4 CD Covers and Printed Playlists; 2.5 Playing Songs Across a Network; 2.6 AirPort Express and AirTunes; Chapter 3: Managing Your Music; 3.1 Deleting Songs; 3.2 Searching for Songs; 3.3 Ratings; 3.4 Song Information; 3.5 Converting Between File Formats; 3.6 Joining Tracks; 3.7 Start and Stop Times for Songs; 3.8 Playlists; Chapter 4: The iTunes Music Store; 4.1 Welcome to the Music Store; 4.2 A Store Tour; 4.3 Searching and Shopping; 4.4 What to Do with Music You've Bought; 4.5 Copy It to Your iPod; 4.6 Music Store Billing; 4.7 "Books on Tape" from Audible; Chapter 5: The iPod Connection; 5.1 Your Very First Sync; 5.2 Variations on the Auto-Transfer Theme; 5.3 The Unspeakable Act: iPod to Mac Copying; iPhoto; Chapter 6: Camera Meets Mac; 6.1 iPhoto Arrives; 6.2 Getting Your Pictures into iPhoto; 6.3 The Post-Dump Slideshow; 6.4 Where iPhoto Keeps Your Files; Chapter 7: The Digital Shoebox; 7.1 The Source List; 7.2 More on Film Rolls; 7.3 Working with Your Photos; 7.4 Titles, Dates, and Comments; 7.5 The Photo Info Window; 7.6 Rate Your Photos; 7.7 Deleting Photos; 7.8 Albums; 7.9 Smart Albums; 7.10 Keywords; 7.11 Customizing the Shoebox; Chapter 8: Editing Your Shots; 8.1 ; 8.2 One-Click Fixups: The Enhance Button; 8.3 Cropping; 8.4 Painting Out Freckles, Scratches, and Hairs; 8.5 Brightness/Contrast; 8.6 Red-Eye; 8.7 B and W, Sepia; 8.8 Rotate; 8.9 Customizing the Toolbar; 8.10 Beyond iPhoto; 8.11 Reverting to the Original; Chapter 9: The iPhoto Slideshow; 9.1 About Slideshows; 9.2 Setting Up the Show; 9.3 Running the Show; 9.4 Slideshows and iDVD; Chapter 10: Prints and Books; 10.1 Resolution and Shape; 10.2 Printing from iPhoto; 10.3 Ordering Prints Online; 10.4 Publishing a Photo Book; Chapter 11: Photos Online--And On Your Network; 11.1 Emailing Photos; 11.2 Publishing Photos on the Web; 11.3 The .Mac Slideshow; 11.4 Photo Sharing on the Network; 11.5 The QuickTime Slideshow; 11.6 Building a Custom Screen Saver; 11.7 One-Click Desktop Backdrop; Chapter 12: iPhoto File Management; 12.1 About iPhoto Discs; 12.2 iPhoto Backups; 12.3 Managing Photo Libraries; 12.4 Merging Photo Libraries; 12.5 Beyond iPhoto; 12.6 Exporting and Converting Pictures; iMovie; Chapter 13: Camcorder Meets Mac; 13.1 Meet Digital Video; 13.2 Connecting to FireWire; 13.3 Getting into iMovie; 13.4 Importing Camcorder Footage; 13.5 How iMovie Organizes Its Files; 13.6 Importing Footage from Non-DV Tapes; Chapter 14: Building the Movie Track; 14.1 Navigating Your Clips; 14.2 Shortening Clips by Dragging; 14.3 Three Ways to Trim a Clip; 14.4 Splitting a Clip; 14.5 The Movie Track: Your Storyboard; 14.6 Tricks of the Timeline Viewer; 14.7 Playing the Movie Track; 14.8 Full-Screen Playback Mode; Chapter 15: Transitions and Special Effects; 15.1 About Transitions; 15.2 When to Use Transitions; 15.3 Creating a Transition; 15.4 Transitions: The iMovie Catalog; 15.5 The Effects Pane; 15.6 Effects: The iMovie Catalog; 15.7 Installing More Effects; Chapter 16: Titles, Captions, and Credits; 16.1 Setting Up a Title; 16.2 Choose a Color for the Lettering; 16.3 Inserting and Rendering a Title; 16.4 The iMovie Titles Catalog; Chapter 17: Narration, Music, and Sound; 17.1 The Two iMovie Soundtracks; 17.2 Audio Clips; 17.3 Recording Narration; 17.4 Importing iTunes Music; 17.5 CD Music; 17.6 Sound Effects; 17.7 Editing Audio Clips; 17.8 Overlaying Video over Sound; 17.9 Extracting Audio from Video; Chapter 18: Still Pictures and QuickTime Movies; 18.1 Importing Still Images; 18.2 The Ken Burns Effect; 18.3 Creating Still Images from Footage; 18.4 Importing QuickTime Movies; 18.5 Grabbing Clips from Other Projects; Chapter 19: Finding Your Audience; 19.1 Exporting to Tape; 19.2 Exporting to a QuickTime Movie; 19.3 Posting Movies on the Web; 19.4 Movies on Your Phone; iDVD; Chapter 20: From iMovie to iDVD; 20.1 Why iDVD?; 20.2 What You're in For; 20.3 Phase 1: Insert Chapter Markers; 20.4 Phase 2: Hand Off to iDVD; 20.5 Phase 3: Design the Menu Screens; 20.6 Phase 4: Burning Your DVD; Chapter 21: iDVD Slideshows; 21.1 The iDVD Slideshow; 21.2 Extra Credit: Self-Playing Slideshows; Chapter 22: Advanced iDVD; 22.1 Designing Your Own Themes; 22.2 Editing and Positioning Text; 22.3 Changing Backgrounds; 22.4 Choosing Menu Audio; 22.5 Saving Favorites; 22.6 Buying Sound and Vision; 22.7 iDVD--The DVD-ROM Maker; 22.8 Archiving Your Project; 22.9 Duplicating a DVD; 22.10 Professional Duplicating; GarageBand; Chapter 23: Setting Up the Garage; 23.1 ; 23.2 Opening GarageBand; 23.3 Playback; 23.4 Cycling (Looping); 23.5 Navigating the Music; 23.6 Two Kinds of Music; 23.7 Tracks; 23.8 Muting and Soloing Tracks; Chapter 24: Loops; 24.1 Starting a New GarageBand Project; 24.2 The Loop Browser; 24.3 Placing a Loop; 24.4 More Loops; 24.5 "Save as Archive"; Chapter 25: Regions; 25.1 Selecting Regions; 25.2 Renaming Regions; 25.3 Dragging Regions; 25.4 The Grid; 25.5 Looping Regions; 25.6 Shortening Regions I; 25.7 Shortening Regions II; 25.8 Lengthening Regions; 25.9 Splitting Regions; 25.10 Joining Regions; 25.11 Copy and Paste; 25.12 Option-Drag; 25.13 Delete; 25.14 The Time Display; Chapter 26: Software Instruments (MIDI); 26.1 How to Feed a Hungry GarageBand; 26.2 Your FREE! Onscreen Digital Piano; 26.3 The Mac Keyboard as Piano; 26.4 MIDI Synths and Controllers; 26.5 Recording a MIDI Track; 26.6 Retakes; 26.7 Spot Recording (Punch In/Punch Out); 26.8 Cumulative Recording; 26.9 Mod Wheels and Other MIDI Fun; 26.10 Editing Software Instrument Parts; 26.11 Quantizing (Fix Timing); 26.12 Velocity, Pedaling, and Other MIDI Data; Chapter 27: Real Instruments (Live Audio); 27.1 The Setup; 27.2 Recording a Live Audio Track; 27.3 Editing Real Instrument Regions; Chapter 28: Effects, Guitar Amps, and Instrument Modules; 28.1 Instrument-Named Presets; 28.2 Save Instrument, Delete Instrument; 28.3 Effect Modules; Chapter 29: Mixing and Publishing; 29.1 Mixing Tracks; 29.2 The Master Track; 29.3 Publishing the Song; Troubleshooting; Chapter 30: Troubleshooting iTunes; 30.1 Rule 1: Get the Latest; 30.2 Rule 2: Back Up Your Library; 30.3 Store-Bought Songs Won't Play; 30.4 Playback Problems; Chapter 31: Troubleshooting iPhoto; 31.1 Importing; 31.2 Printing; 31.3 Editing; 31.4 General Questions; Chapter 32: Troubleshooting iMovie and iDVD; 32.1 Three Golden Rules; 32.2 General iMovie Troubleshooting; 32.3 Starting Up and Importing; 32.4 Title Trouble; 32.5 Photo Problems; 32.6 Exporting Troubles; 32.7 Project Corruption; 32.8 Problems with Sound; 32.9 Relinking Missing iDVD Files; Chapter 33: Troubleshooting GarbageBand; 33.1 The Speed Problem; 33.2 Trouble with Loops; 33.3 Recording and Editing Problems; 33.4 Mixing and Publishing Glitches; Colophon;