Overview
Apple's iMovie is revolutionizing the home movie market, bringing professional quality digital video (DV) editing into the American household. Learning how to creatively edit digital video footage, and combine it with soundtracks, titles, and special effects, has never been easier! Movie-Making with iMovie 2 shows beginners how simple it is to create their own fun short films to document events, including birthdays, vacations, parties and more. An excellent introduction to digital film making, this book provides opportunities to gain firsthand experience in every aspect of the movie-making process - from purchasing equipment and gaining a working knowledge of photography and film basics through sketching a storyboard and developing an original movie idea. Starting with tutorials designed to guide readers through the steps required to produce movies, readers are then given instructions for transforming their own unedited home movie footage into entertaining and enjoyable movies. Fun and extraordinarily easy to use, this book inspires creativity while providing the technical know-how needed to launch into a rewarding new hobby or to take the first steps toward a professional digital film making career.
Synopsis
The tricks of digital video are described in clear, enthusiastic, well-organized prose for Macintosh users who wish to make their own movies. O'Neill and Muir, who founded a digital design lab at a major university, write with the assurance of first-hand knowledge, leading the novice through the steps of creating family movies, music videos, instructional movies, documentaries, and fictional movies. Full instructions are included for the use of the DV camera and how it works with the computer, with photos of both machines and their ports.
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