Making iMovies

Edition:
Release: 2000-04-21
Publisher: Pearson Education
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0201704897



Making iMovies

Now it's as easy to make professional-quality movies and showcase them over the Internet as it is to use e-mail or surf the Web. Free download Making iMovies books collection in PDF, EPUB, FB2, MOBI, and TXT formats. Using clear, simple, jargon-free language, Making iMovies for the Web offers step-by-step instructions, and guides readers through the unique features of Apple's easy-to-use iMovie software (integrated with the new iMac DV models). On top of that, the disc provides all the necessary elements-lesson files, video clips, sound effects, music scores, illustrations, still photographs-for completing sophisticated tutorial projects, inspiring readers by giving them a sense of confidence and competence. Apple's introduction of the low-cost iMac DV computers will transform desktop video production in the same way Macintosh computers sparked the desktop publishing revolution. It put creative movie production capabilities in the hands of anyone who has the simple tools, but it also leaves wide open the kinds of movies they can produce. Best deals ebooks download Making iMovies on amazon.ust as digital cameras revolutionized still photography, digital motion-picture devices are sure to have a big effect on the home and amateur video scenes. Making iMovies shows how you--the owner of a video camera, and with an interest in digital movie production--can make professional-quality video sequences on your personal computer. Author Scott Smith's editing platform of choice? The Apple iMac DV, or any other Macintosh computer with a FireWire interface for external devices. Smith presents a beautifully illustrated guide to the techniques of telling stories and eliciting emotions via digital video. As you'd expect, Smith covers his bases in terms of explaining iMovie's essential capabilities. More valuably, he takes readers beyond the basics of connectivity and clip splicing. A typical example: While makers of traditional film-based movies can depict characters against a brick-wall background with no worries, bricks can cause jitter and compression problems in digitally recorded sequences. Therefore, Smith says, digital video producers need to zoom closer to subjects that are backed by a complicated surface. Not all of his advice is as explicitly technical. He also offers advice on orienting elements in the video frame, choosing subtle but effective music, selecting costumes, and storyboarding. He's written (and, no less importantly, helped lay out) a superb book that balances the technical and artistic sides of digital video production on the Macintosh. --David Wall Topics covered: Digital video production, with emphasis on the tools and resources available on the iMac DV and other editing platforms based on Mac OS and FireWire. Using the iMovie application as his prime tool, the author explains story planning, visual design, time management, and other technical aspects of videography. Sound, lighting, music, costumes, and the like receive ample coverage, as do editing techniques, titling, transitions, and narration. Making iMovies with free ebook downloads available.

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