Product Description
Need to learn iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6 fast? Try a Visual QuickStart!
This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with these great iLife applications in no time. Best-selling author and iLife expert Jeff Carlson uses crystal-clear instructions, full-color illustrations, and friendly prose to introduce you to everything from using themes, tools, and effects to timeline editing to video podcasts and blogs. You’ll also learn about everything new in iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6, including motion-graphics themes, real-time effects, audio enhancements, sharing options, and more!
I found this book to be useful but too much of an outline for my tastes. I would have preferred something more discursive.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this book “iMovie HD 6 & iDVD 6″, which is written by Jeff Carlson, because I was learning how to use iMovie HD 6. I also bought another book “iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual” which is written by David Pogue. This book by Jeff Carlson looks like it is quicker to go through where almost every page has a bulleted how-to-do-it with tips visual format. This would be an easy book for beginners. If you want a meatier book with much more details, then David Pogue’s missing manual book is better. If you want a basic how-to book, then this book by Jeff Carlson is for you. Although I got this for use with iMovie HD 6, I also actually have iMovie ’08 and I got the other book “iMovie ’08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual”. I may get the similar “visual quickstart guide” book for iMovie ’08. Anyways, having started with iMovie ’08, when I found out iMovie HD 6 had more sophisticated features than iMovie ’08 like the editing timeline and the ability to take plugins, I had to get iMovie HD 6. iMovie ’08 is so different from iMovie HD 6 that users complained about features that were missing in iMovie ’08. Apple relented and provided a free download of iMovie HD 6 to those who had iMovie ’08. However, when iMovie ’09 was released, Apple then later removed their official iMovie HD 6 download because the newly released iMovie ’09 included many of the features (but still no plugins) left out of iMovie ’08 that users of iMovie HD 6 wanted. Well, I don’t have iMovie ’09, but only had iMovie ’08. Although Apple removed their official download for iMovie HD 6 which I wanted, all I had to do is to use Google to search for the iMovieHD6.dmg file to find where other iMovie users had unofficially posted the file. So I downloaded the file and installed iMovie HD 6 on my Macbook. I had the editing timeline back that I was more familiar with when I was editing video under Windows. And I could do plugins. Yea! So, I’m using both iMovie HD 6 and iMovie ’08 along with QuickTime by going back and forth with the video because each does something that the other one doesn’t. As for this book, “iMovie HD 6 & iDVD 6″ by Jeff Carlson, I ordered a “used” version of the book for $6.72 plus $3.99 S&H from an Amazon marketplace seller who was selling the book here on Amazon. I received the book in a week’s time and it looked new except for a back bottom corner but otherwise in great condition. Used books are great purchases here on Amazon. Thanks for reading.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
Text laid out in dual columns per page with plentiful pictures making concepts easy to understand and very readable. I used this book to create a DVD of my daughter’s wedding, and it led me through the process each step of the way. A very good “how-to” guide that contains plenty of tips and the right amount of detail.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
The Visual QuickStart Guide series is an excellent series of books. I appreciate all the screen shots and the simple explanations in the use of the application. It covers all the basics and advanced features of the program in a way that anyone can understand.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
With this book you will be up and running in no time. The color picture are a great teaching aid. I have used Jeff Carlsons books before for a number of programs and all have been excellent.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5