iMovie 3 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Jeff Carlson

Book Overview

This guide provides a quick, easy way to learn filmmaking on the Mac. It provides tips and techniques and hundreds of screen shots - all updated to reflect iMovie 3's interface. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321193970
• ISBN13: 9780321193971
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.0"

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The iMovie 3 Visual Quickstart Guide is a thinner book than most others in the VQSG series. It has only 170ish pages and is labeled for the beginning to intermediate user. After looking through the book, though, I don't see any topic that is not covered (and I have used iMovie pretty extensively). So I think that maybe there isn't such a thing as an advanced iMovie user; advanced users are probably using Final Cut. For any iMovie 3 user, this book would seem to satisfy the need.iMovie is meant for the novice user; it is meant to give the average person the ability to produce videos that look semi-professional and can be easily burned to CD-ROM or emailed. This book undeniably meets this demand. OK, you say, but what about iMovie 4, the newest version of iMovie? Well, I chose this book for two reasons: first, there is not a good selection of iMovie 4 materials yet, and second, only buyers of iLife '04 and new Macs (since March 2004) would have that program whereas iMovie 3 is still a free download and usable by anyone with 10.1.5 and up.Although people argue that iMovie 4 is worth the upgrade, that is another discussion. My focus on the utility of this book is intended to reach a larger audience. This book contains EVERYTHING you need to know about iMovie 3 and has added sections on using a digital video camera and integration with iDVD 2 (only available on Macs with a Superdrive). The iMovie 3 VQSG is an excellent resource to have around and will likely find a home in my classroom where my students can benefit from it.