Publisher Description

With iMovie '11, Apple upped the bar for fast,effortless, versatile video editing. Packed with newfeatures, iMovie '11 lets you create your own movietrailers, apply one-step effects like Instant Replay,edit audio tracks with intuitive tools, use themes fornews and sports videos, and seamlessly upload yourfinished movies to sites like Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook,or CNN. But while iMovie '11 packs a lot in, it doesn'tinclude any printed instructions. In this gorgeous, full-colour book, award-winning author David Pogue and AaronMiller provide a complete course in film editing and DVDdesign. Whether you plan to create the next indie hit,keepsake home movies, or on-the-fly YouTube videos,iMovie '11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual gives you theguidance and insight you need to exercise the power ofyour imagination.

Author Biography

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. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "For Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music). In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles. David and his wife Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut with their three young children. His web site is Aaron Miller is a part-time lawyer, part-time professor, and runs a software company serving nonprofit organizations. In all of his spare time, he authors the blog "Unlocking iMovie" , his own little way of trying to make the Mac world a better place. If he's not at his computer, he's probably playing Ultimate Frisbee or "tickle monster" with his kids.

Table of Contents

The Missing Credits; About the Authors; About the Creative Team; Acknowledgments; The Missing Manual Series;Introduction; The Difficult Birth of the New iMovie; iDVD; iMovie: What''s It Good For?; A Camcorder Crash Course; About This Book; The Very Basics; Online Resources; Safari

Long Description

With iMovie '11, Apple upped the bar for fast,effortless, versatile video editing. Packed with newfeatures, iMovie '11 lets you create your own movietrailers, apply one-step effects like Instant Replay,edit audio tracks with intuitive tools, use themes fornews and sports videos, and seamlessly upload yourfinished movies to sites like Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook,or CNN. But while iMovie '11 packs a lot in, it doesn'tinclude any printed instructions. In this gorgeous, full-colour book, award-winning author David Pogue and AaronMiller provide a complete course in film editing and DVDdesign. Whether you plan to create the next indie hit,keepsake home movies, or on-the-fly YouTube videos,iMovie '11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual gives you theguidance and insight you need to exercise the power ofyour imagination.

Promotional "Headline"

iMovie '11 is the long-anticipated update to Apple's highly regarded iMovie '09. This book will show readers, through expert advice and guidance from bestselling author and New York Times personal technology columnist David Pogue, how to use iMovie to turn raw digital footage into highly creative video projects.

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