Making Movies, Photos, Music & DVDs on Your Mac: Using Apple's Digital Hub

Enhance your life with an amazing array of Apple tools. This thorough treatment of four new and powerful technologies--iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, and iDVD--provides solid explanations, useful examples, and plenty of helpful references. Cover basics of the digital hub, such as digital photography, connectivity, .Mac, and other Internet features, as well as printing and more. Integrate applications and automate workflows with AppleScript. Learn to burn and mix your own music library. Direct movies and create DVDs with the ease of a Hollywood pro. With this book, digital hub tool users can take full advantage of the plug-and-play technologies, images and video, and the world-renowned Apple interface.

• Express yourself--make movies, photos, music, and DVDs on your Mac
  
• Tell visual stories effectively using professional techniques
  
• Reap the significant benefits of Quartz imaging and QuickTime technology
  
• Cover digital camera and camcorder basics--including resolution and pixels, lenses, filters, and batteries
  
• Utilize wired or wireless power, network, and local communication technologies
  
• Print your images on paper, transparencies, and T-shirts
  
• Capture and manipulate photos, create slide shows or albums
  
• Automate repetitive tasks or complicated processes with AppleScript
  
• Import and edit digital video, add effects and sound to your movies
  
• Back up and store data using software, CDs, and even the Internet
  
• Take advantage of Apple graphics--plus the Mac OS X kernel-based hardware
  

Contents           

   Part 1: Getting Started
    1: Introducing the Digital Hub
    2: Camera Basics
    3: Image Quality: Pixels and Resolution
    4: Connecting the Digital Hub
    5: .Mac: Apple’s Suite of Internet Tools for You
    6: Printing Your Photos
   7: Using Web Sites and Email for Sharing
    8: Using AppleScript Automation with the Digital Hub
    9: Storing and Backing Up Your Digital Hub Files

   Part 2: Making Movies, Photos, Music, and DVDs
    10: Making Movies with iMovie
    11: Using iPhoto
    12: iPod and iTunes: Music and Portable Disk
    13: Getting Started with iDVD
    14: Traveling with the Digital Hub

   Part 3: Making Better Movies, Photos, Music, and DVDs
    15: Advanced Movie and Photo Techniques
    16: Planning Your Project
    17: Art and Artifice
    18: Photographing Places and People
    19: Looking Good and Behaving Well on Camera
    20: Creating a Digital Studio

   Part 4: Case Studies
    21: Kids and Scrapbooks
    22: Instructional Materials
    23: Creating Portfolios
    24: Creating and Advertising Promotional Materials
    25: Creating Archives and Exhibitions