While the last version of iMovie gave moviemakers the ability to capture and edit widescreen High Definition Video (HDV) from the new generation of camcorders, iMovie 6 is all about the ease of moviemaking itself. iMovie 6 includes five professionally designed themes with backgrounds, motion graphics, titles, and effects that act as building blocks for your projects. You can preview transitions and stunning new video effects–such as time-lapse video–in real time using the full screen. Or edit audio and add sound effects with a new built-in sound studio. For presenting your movie, Magic iDVD offers easy-to-use themes, including new widescreen options.

Whether you’re a professional or an amateur moviemaker, this is amazing stuff. But if you want to learn the full capabilities of these applications, Apple documentation won’t make the cut. Instead, iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual is the ideal third-party authority that covers all of these changes through an objective lens. This witty and entertaining guide from celebrated author David Pogue details every step of iMovie 6 and iDVD production. The book shows you how to:

• Work on multiple iMovie projects at once and drag & drop clips among them
• Output your creation to a blog, its own web page, or as a video podcast with iWeb
• Use “Magic iMovie” to import your video and make a movie for you
• Integrate with other iLife programs to use songs, photos, and an original soundtrack
• And a whole lot more

From choosing and using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs, posting it online, or downloading it to an iPod, iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual zooms right in on the details in a clear, concise, and understandable manner. The book also provides a firm grounding in basic film technique so that the quality of your video won’t rely entirely on magic.

Customer Review: Worthy Update in the iMovie Series
I want to concentrate mostly on the differences between this edition (iMovie 6) and the previous (iMove HD (5)). Physically, the book is solid. As other reviewers mentioned, the pages are no longer the glossy kind, but they are thick and smooth, and I can’t see any loss in detail in the graphics or screen shots. In addition, since the pages are no longer glossy, they don’t reflect light when the book is sitting on my desk. So, it is easier to read. For my money, this is an improvement. The book is about half a dozen pages lighter, but physically it is slightly thicker, so you know the pages still feel solid not thin or flimsy. One final note, the front cover did separate from the binding after reading it for a couple days. It did not detach in the back. This doesn’t bother me, but I wanted to mention it.

That’s probably way too much on the physical. What’s inside? Pogue and Sadun (who writes the iDVD chapters) have thoroughly updated the book. I’m impressed with the small changes through out to make the entire book better. The book is slightly shorter, as I mentioned, but it is the same font type and size. Obviously, some material has been deleted. Pogue spends less time reviewing the older camcorder technologies. Also a few minor features that have disappeared from iMovie are gone too, like importing songs into your movies directly from CD. Some sections are streamlined, like how the trash (and disk space usage) works. This topic, in particular, used be in various places, but the new book represents a consolidation of that material. In the iDVD section, they’ve eliminated the section on how to customize iDVD and also the themes catalog. The latter was a disappointment to me. I like having a reference all in one place where I can review the various iDVD themes. I also liked the short advice associated with each theme, regarding when to use the theme and when not to (sometimes that advice was “never”).

There is, of course, plenty of new material. All the new features of iMovie 6 are included: a new section on time-lapse recording and importing of footage, the graphic iMovie themes, GarageBand integration and movie scoring, audio “fx” (like reverb, etcetera), new sections on volume adjustments and locking audio clips to video (though these are not new features). Of course, creating video for the iPod is covered. This is new, since the video iPod is new within the last year. He has a small section on video sharing sites (”youtube” anyone?). And, the new “Share” menu is covered, although little on that menu is new, it’s new that it is now in a menu. Finally the appendix on Troubleshooting has been reorganized and updated, although, understandably, much of the advice is the same.

Other new features are covered like full-sized previews or the ability to open mutltiple projects simultaneously, but these are covered as part of existing sections and not new sections. In addition to missing the catalog of iDVD themes, there is no catalog of iMovie themes either. Admittedly, there are only five of them, but why not have these catalogs when the book includes a catalog of the iMovie titles, effects, transitions, and even a list of the new audio effects.

I found a few typos, but they are minor. No mistakes in the actual coverage of the material and that’s a big positive for this book.

Overall, a great improvement on the series. I probably should disclose that this is the fourth book in the iMovie Missing Manual series that I bought (five if you count that I bought two of the last edition), so I guess I would have liked this book regardless … I found each new edition to be extremely helpful in getting me up to speed on Apple’s latest version of iMovie and iDVD. This one is no different. It’s a safe buy. Buy It Now At Amazon!
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Type and Image The Language of Graphic Design Philip B. Meggs What is the essence of graphic design? How do graphic designers solve problems, organize space, and imbue their work with those visual and symbolic qualities that enable it to convey visual and verbal information with expression and clarity? The extraordinary flowering of graphic design in our time, as a potent means for communication and a major component of our visual culture, increases the need for designers, clients, and students to comprehend its nature. In this lively and lavishly illustrated book, the author reveals the very essence of graphic design. The elements that combine to form a design— sings, symbols, words, pictures, and supporting forms—are analyzed and explained. Graphic design’s ability to function as language, and the innovative ways that designers combine words and pictures, are discussed. While all visual arts share common spatial properties, the author demonstrates that graphic space has unique characteristics that are determined by its communicative function. Graphic designs can have visual and symbolic properties which empower them to communicate with deep expression and meaning. The author defines this property as graphic resonance and explains how it occurs. After defining design as a problem-solving process, a model for this process is developed and illustrated by an in-depth analysis of actual case histories. This book will provide insight and inspiration for everyone who is interested or involved in graphic communications. While most materials about form and meaning in design have a European origin, this volume is based on the dynamic and expressive graphic design of America. The reader will find inspiration, hundreds of exciting examples by many of America’s outstanding graphic designers, and keen insights in Type and Image.
Customer Review: best for beginners
Although this text is a vital first step in design education, it falls short for an experienced designer; basic juxtaposition, etc. Get it out of a library and spend your money on any of the Looking Closer series by Michael Beirut… they will infinitely expand your perceptions of what design is and explores contemporary issues facing designers today. Buy It Now At Amazon!

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The business card has long been a staple at conventions and cocktail parties, and experts say technology is expanding the function of the business card rather than hindering it. While Treos and BlackBerrys make exchanging contact information simpler than ever, some say there’s nothing more personal than a card-in-hand.
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Technology adds to business-card uses (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
BOSTON - D.A. Mlynek’s double-sided business cards are busy with facts about himself, his military outfitting and equipment company, and his website. When turned at an angle, the cards show a sequence of images of a man in camouflage climbing a boulder. “Everybody looks at it and hands it back to me,” said Mlynek, of Oceanside, Calif. “When I tell them I’m giving it to them, they say, ‘Oh wow, I …
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Technology poses no threat to the business card (San Jose Mercury News)
BOSTON - D.A. Mlynek’s double-sided business cards are busy with facts about himself, his military outfitting and equipment company, and his Web site.
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Low-tech business cards still hanging on (The Bellingham Herald)
Lumyr Derisier of Milton, Mass., displays a business card he designed Monday, Aug. 20, 2007, in Boston. Experts say business cards technology is expanding the function of the cards rather than hindering it.
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By ERIN CONROY Associated Press Writer Article Last Updated:08/30/2007 01:03:06 AM PDT BOSTON—D.A. Mlynek’s double-sided business cards are busy with facts about himself his military outfitting and equipment company and his Web site.
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Business cards fuse with technology Some carry computer chips that can be plugged into a PC By Erin Conroy The Associated Press Article Last Up
Lumyr Derisier of Milton Mass. displays a business card he designed. Experts say business card technology is expanding the function of the cards rather than hindering it.
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BusinessWeek: By partnering with online communities and building a geek-chic brand, an online printing startup sells business cards to people without businesses
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The moving image is a significant part of graphic design, even discounting motion graphics on-line. But now this world is in turmoil. ‘Transitions’ is the theme that runs through this book, which deals not only with technical and creative innovations at the cutting edge of this branch of graphic design, but the challenges facing the industry and the changes ahead. Moves and changes are the stock in trade of the motion graphic designer from one image or scene to the next and this book neatly takes the analogy and applies it globally to the discipline.

The availability of cheap, easy to use digital video equipment has enabled graphic designers to move into the world of film; On Screen In Time arrives at the point where digital media design and film making meet. Through interviews with leading practitioners across the world, the book focuses on transitions across the range of motion graphics, from Hollywood titles to experimental films on digital video, to interactive interfaces for digital TV. There is also a practical tutorial section.
Customer Review: not the way I accepted
Got the book in bad condition, the cover was ripped, the pages were crumpled . Another thing is my fault of not noticing that it is an old book (in design years, so I wasnt updated as I hoped fo)

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