Apple and Macintosh Books, DVDs and related instructional stuff - Video Editing, Web Design, etc Apple iMovie and iDVD - everything you need to know about making movies and DVDs using your Mac
Apple Final Cut Pro
Apple Final Cut Express
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Search for the books or information you need at Amazon or at Google.... Apple Final Cut Pro | Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent Studio Handbook is a vital reference tool for every postproduction house. It describes appropriate postproduction workflows, team roles and responsibilities, and required equipment for some of the most common media productions. Combining the wisdom of traditional roles and responsibilities with an understanding of how FCP facilitates a new flexibility where these roles/responsibilities can be redistributed, this book sheds light on workflow processes and responsibilities, and includes 7 real-world workflows from a diverse range of projects. The book also provides access to a companion website that features additional electronic chapters focusing on Final Cut Server, Apple's powerful new media asset management and workflow automation software.
| | The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 6. Targeted to experienced final cut pro users as well as first timers, covers only the key features and essential workflow to get you up and running in no time. With this book you can start cutting immediately, whatever you edit, whatever the format. This is an ideal introduction whether you are a professional moving over to Final Cut Pro from another package or system, a new user, or just someone who wants to get the best results from Final Cut Pro, fast! Save time, learn all you need to know to edit professionally with FCP5 in a few hours! Concise full-color coverage, written for FCP5 but relevant to all versions | | Are you ready to step up from iMovie? Without a lot of flash or color, this book shows you how to use the tool - Final Cut Express - to make movies.
This workshop give you firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing. Its eleven tutorials cover the essentials, including:
* setting up your system and understanding the interface
* getting your material into FCE and organizing it
* slicing, dicing, and organizing clips
* editing to build and trim a sequence of shots
* adding transitions
* using sound to refine your edit
* titling with FCE and Photoshop
* animating images to create engaging scenes
* adding special effects filters
* compositing to enhance your projects
* outputting your material
The companion DVD contains a video introduction to FCE that is especially designed for iMovie users. It compares and contrasts the two applications to ease the transition. The DVD-ROM portion contains project media, demo software, and free plug-ins for your use.
| | Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials
by Tom Wolsky - This updated guide gets to the heart of editing with Final Cut Pro 5. Eight tutorial lessons cover the essentials: capturing material, organizing it, editing, adding transitions, basic titling and sound techniques, and outputting from the application. The author covers new features of the software including native HDV capture and editing, interface enhancements, an improved Log and Capture window, and the new Reconnect Media interface. Bugs and gotchas are also revealed with workarounds and practical advice to get readers up to speed quickly. What's on the DVD-ROM:
The DVD contains raw video material for readers to use in performing the tutorials. Highlights include footage from the motion picture Heartwood, documentary footage shot on location in Japan, and a multicamera shoot of a live jazz performance. | | Final Cut Pro On the Spot, 2nd Edition by Richard Harrington and Abba Shapiro is packed with more than 400 expert techniques, to clearly illustrate the essential methods that pros use to get the job done with Final Cut Pro. Experienced editors and novices alike will discover an invaluable reference filled with ways to improve efficiency and creativity. This edition includes dozens of new tips and shortcuts.
Title: Final Cut Pro On the Spot - Price: $27.95
Format: Trade paper, 9-1/4” x 7-3/8”, 259 pp. | | Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro by Michael Wohl Strongly recommended by many of our professional editors (even if you don't use FCP), "Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro" is an excellent handbook features over 425 pages and 9 chapters covering everything from the basics of production and what an editor does, the language of film and editing, the planning needed when preparing to edit, and the use of Final Cut Pro itself, from beginning through advanced techniques and effects like ramping the speed of a clip, compositing computer animation over a clip, picture-in-picture, color correction, creating titles, and much more.
This is a solid handbook for beginners who intend to get serious. Offering far more information than just how to use Final Cut Pro for editing, Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro is almost misnamed. While the focus of the book is editing, there is so much useful information here on pre-production and production that it is simply a wonderful handbook on how to make a good digital video film. | | | |
iPod Books and Manuals | How are you and your iPod getting along? Have you truly mastered all the features and capabilities that your new little friend can deliver? iPod: The Missing Manual, 5th Edition- thoroughly covers the redesigned iPod Nanos, the video iPod, the tiny Shuffle and the overhauled iTunes 7. Each custom-designed page sports easy-to-follow color graphics, crystal-clear explanations, and guidance on the most useful things your iPod can do. | | | |
Apple Final Cut Express | Final Cut Express - Editing Workshop by Tom Wolsky provides readers with firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing. You develop a working knowledge with nineteen tutorials that cover each and every essential, including: * setting up your system and understanding the interface * ingesting and organizing your material including drive-based and disc-based camera data * slicing, dicing, and organizing clips * editing to build and trim a sequence of shots * adding transitions * using sound to refine your edit * titling with FCE and Photoshop * animating images to create engaging scenes * adding special effects filters * compositing to enhance your projects * outputting your material The companion DVD contains project media, demo software, and free plug-ins for your use. read the review | | Making Movies with Final Cut Express, is for those considering making the move to Final Cut Express (or thinking about why you should) and want an expert personal trainer. Author Michael Rubin lays out everything you need to know to start producing entertaining and informative videos with Apple's new Final Cut Express. With many illustrations and a friendly writing style, this handy book makes it easy for even complete novices to become skilled and comfortable at digital video editing. Rubin explains Final Cut Express' important tools and fancy features using specially prepared video that is included on the books companion DVD. In no time you'll be using the timeline, inserting and adjusting shots, and working with picture and sound separately to create professional results. Once you've mastered the basics, Rubin goes on to explain how to add music, titles, and special effects to your video and encourages you to think of new ways you can apply this powerful software to your personal and business projects. Its the perfect first book for someone just getting into Final Cut Express. Get Final
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Apple iMovie & iDVD | iMovie '09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual Editing Basics. iMovie '09 teems with speed tips, hidden features, and powerful shortcuts. This book covers them all--even the alpha-channel title trick. Stunning Effects. iMovie '09 can take shaky, boring footage and make it look smooth and professional. Learn how to make the most of your movie's potential. Finding an audience. Export your masterpieces to the Web (YouTube, MobileMe, or your own site), an AppleTV, an iPod, or even your iPhone. Mastering DVDs. iDVD lets you distribute your movies on Hollywood-style DVDs up to four hours long--in widescreen, if you like.
Read the Book Review | | From Home Video to Pro Video - O'Reilly Releases "iMovie 6 and iDVD: The Missing Manual"This book covers all the big-ticket improvements in iMovie 6 (full-size previews, themes, time-lapse recording, automated Magic iMovies, and more) and the unheralded but fantastic smaller tweaks that make it better than ever. Along with step-by-step video editing guidance, there's an invaluable book-within-a-book on iDVD for making home DVDs look as slick as commercial Hollywood productions. "iMovie 6 and iDVD: The Missing Manual" contains hundreds of undocumented secrets. |  | Making Awesome iMovies (CD-ROM) $29.95
This CD package has been updated to include iMOvie2. Targeted to beginners, home videographers and business people who want to use their camcorder, Mac computer and the "free" bundled iMovie software, the CD starts with the basics of planning and pre-production, camcorder use and shooting, lighting and composition. It then moves into how to use iMovie to actually create video productions that can be shared on a computer, via the Internet or even burned onto a DVD or CD-ROM. Each section starts basic and then works its way up to more detailed, more sophisticated techniques, The CD is easy to follow - the language is clear, concise and even funny at times. In addition to providing a good quality intro to how to create your own movies, the CD also include s a few cool freebies like a storyboard design template for drawing out your movie before you start shooting. The DV Creators web site also includes a bunch of other instructional materials, as well as additional CDs and accessories for sale. Definitely worth the $29.95! .By the way, even though iMovie only works with Mac OS, the instructional CD plays on both Windows and Mac machines. www.dvcreators.net | | Bestselling author Jeff Carlson is back with a fully updated revision of the iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide. Completely overhauled for iMovie HD and iDVD 5, this book uses step-by-step instructions and loads of illustrations to get readers up to speed quickly in the process of making movies with iMovie and creating Hollywood-quality DVDs on which to share them (as well as photos, music, and more). First-time movie and DVD makers will find all the basics covered here--from shooting and capturing footage, viewing clips, and working in the iMovie timeline to dragging and dropping iMovies into new iDVD projects and adding GarageBand-created songs to their newly created DVDs. Readers will find coverage of both of the programs' niftiest new features, including iMovie's new HD compatibility, dozens of new video effects, sound effects, and transitions, more powerful editing features, and the new "Magic iMovie" feature, which automatically creates a simple iMovie for you with the existing footage in your camcorder. iDVD 5 offers 15 new Apple-designed themes and OneStep DVD, which exports a movie into a finished DVD automatically. | |
iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual is the objective authority on iMovie HD and iDVD 5. Even if you own a previous version of iMovie, the new feature-rich iMovie HD may well be impossible to resist. This video editing program now enables users to capture and edit widescreen High Definition Video (HDV) from the new generation of HDV camcorders, along with standard DV and the MPEG-4 video format. iMovie HD also includes "Magic iMovie" for making finished movies automatically. The feature does everything in one step--imports video into separate clips and adds titles, transitions, and music. The finished video is then ready for iDVD 5, which now includes 15 new themes with animated drop zones that can display video clips across DVD menus, just like the latest Hollywood DVDs. This witty and entertaining guide from celebrated author David Pogue not only details every step of iMovie HD video production--from choosing and using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs--but provides a firm grounding in basic film technique so that the quality of a video won't rely entirely on magic | | | |
The much-anticipated hardcover book "The Cult of Mac" by Leander Kahney is arriving in stores nationwide. Find out the lengths to which people will go to personalize their hardware and adopt a Mac-centric lifestyle, as documented in The Cult of Mac's 280 full-color pages and more than 500 original photos. It's full of people doing innovative, bizarre and artistic things with their computers (such as the guy who makes furniture out of cardboard Mac boxes and many who express their love with tattoos), as well as interesting tidbits and trivia about the company, its history and its personalities. | Making Music on the Apple Mac" - All Mac computers are suitable for recording music, but which one you choose depends very much on what you want to do. Whether you're a singer/songwriter, a band member, a dance music producer, a composer or a music educator, this book will point you in the right direction.
There's a section on setting up your studio and configuring your audio and MIDI interfaces for optimum performance. Step by step projects show you how to record with GarageBand, an easy-to-use package with hundreds of instruments and loops, that's free with every Mac. more | | | The Mac GarageBand program is a powerful tool that enables almost anyone to create professional sounding recordings and use the Web to publish and distribute to a broad audience. The latest GarageBand 2 update includes even more of the sophisticated musical instruments found in the first version, powerful new tools, and professional features for recording, editing, mixing, and publishing songs. Unfortunately, the best techniques aren't covered in the "manual" you get with GarageBand or in its electronic help screens. Read GarageBand 2 - The Missing Manual read the review | | Written by a longtime musician and choral conductor, this to-the-point guide uses simple step-by-step instructions, loads of screenshots, and plenty of of time-saving tips to show readers how to transform their Macs into audio production studios using GarageBand 2 (included free on all new Macintosh computers, or for $79 as part of the iLife '05 suite). Budding musicians will learn how to turn their Macs into any of the dozens of included instruments; record with any MIDI keyboard, guitar, or microphone; tune their guitar or bass with GarageBand's new built-in tuner; mix their hits with professional effects and settings; take advantage of GarageBand's eight-track recording capabilities; explore more than a thousand prerecorded music loops (or create their own), and more. |
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