mac os x and ilife using itunes, iphoto, imovie, and idvd

Mac OS
®
X and iLife
™
:
Using iTunes
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, iPhoto
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,
iMovie
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, and iDVD
™
Brad Miser
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Acknowledgments iii
Acknowledgments
A book like this one is definitely a team effort. The following people were a criti-
cal part of this book’s team:
Stacy Hiquet, Publisher at Premier Press, for supporting this project and provid-
ing overall management from the publisher’s perspective.
Kevin Harreld, my acquisitions editor at Premier Press. Kevin made this project
possible and allowed me to write it. Kevin also made sure that the resources
needed to complete the project were available. Kevin, thanks for making this book

happen!
Marta Justak, the owner of Justak Literary Services. Marta is my agent and was
responsible for making the business arrangements needed to turn the project into
a reality. As if that wasn’t enough, Marta also was the book’s packager and man-
aged the production process that transformed a bunch of raw Word and TIFF
files into the book you are holding in your hands. Marta, I really appreciate your
great work (as usual!) on this project. Thanks!
Don Mayer, CEO and Founder of Small Dog Electronics; Hapy Mayer, CFO
and co-owner; and especially, Dawn D’Angelillo, VP of Marketing Small Dog
provided much of the hardware and software that I needed to write this book.
Small Dog is a great Mac-friendly retailer; check them out at
www.smalldog.com
or
call them at 802-496-7171. Also check out the ad at the back of this book. Many
thanks to Small Dog for being such an important part of this project!
Brown Partington, an up-and-coming iLife guru. Brown did a user review of this
book to make sure that the information I provided is actually useful. Brown, you
made this book much better, and I appreciate your work.
Jay Hilgenberg, who did the production of this book. Jay made this book some-
thing that is pleasing to read, and I am amazed at how quickly and accurately he
was able to make a book from the files I provided. Thanks, Jay!
Sharon Hilgenberg, who did the critical task of creating the index for this book.
After all, a computer book is only as good as its index. Sharon, thanks for creating
such a good index—I hope the book is worthy of it!
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Melba Hopper, who proofread this book. Melba helped catch many of my goofs
and made this book much better because of it. Thanks, I really appreciate your work
on this project!
Mike Tanamachi, who designed the cover of this book. Mike created a cover that
draws the eye to the book and entices people to pick it up—just what a cover is sup-

posed to do! Thanks!
Premier Press’s printing and sales team, who are responsible for getting this book
into your hands. Without their work, this project would have remained a pile of
electrons that never did anyone any good. I really appreciate the support of Premier
on this book!
Living with an author during a book project like this one is not an easy challenge,
so some thanks to important people in my life are also in order:
To Amy, thanks for putting up with the stress and busyness that this book brought
to our lives.
To Jill, Emily, and Grace who help me focus on what is really important—and who
make great subjects for iLife projects!
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About the Author v
About the Author
Brad Miser has written extensively about all things Macintosh, with his favorite
topics being the amazing “i” applications that empower Mac OS X users to
unleash their digital creativity. In addition to Mac OS X and iLife, Brad has writ-
ten many other books, including Final Cut Express Fast & Easy, iDVD 3 Fast &
Easy, Special Edition Using Mac OS X v10.2, Mac OS X and the Digital Lifestyle,
Special Edition Using Mac OS X, The iMac Way, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to
iMovie 2, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the iMac, and Using Mac OS 8.5. He has
also been a contributing author, development editor, or technical editor on more
than 50 other titles. He has been a featured speaker on various Macintosh-related
topics at Macworld Expo, user group meetings, and in other venues.
Brad is the senior technical communicator for an Indianapolis-based software
development company. Here, Brad is responsible for all product documentation,
training materials, online help, and other communication materials. He also man-
ages the customer support operations for the company and provides training to its
customers. Previously, he was the lead engineering proposal specialist for an air-

craft engine manufacturer, a development editor for a computer book publisher,
and a civilian aviation test officer/engineer for the U.S. Army. Brad holds a bach-
elor of science degree in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic
State University at San Luis Obispo (1986) and has received advanced education
in maintainability engineering and other topics.
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Part I iTunes: Burning Down the House . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 Touring Your iTunes Music Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 Making Music with iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3 Putting Your iTunes Music on the Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Part II iPhoto: Not Your Father’s Photo Album . . . . . . 99
4 Touring Your iPhoto Digital Darkroom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
5 Building Your iPhoto Photo Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
6 Editing the Images in Your iPhoto Photo Library. . . . . . . 147
7 Making the Most of Your Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Part III iMovie: The Swiss Army Knife of
Digital Video Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
8 Touring Your iMovie Movie Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
9 Building a Movie in iMovie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
10 Building a Better Video Track in iMovie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
11 Building a Soundtrack That Rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
12 Producing Your Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Part IV iDVD: The Power of a Movie Production
Studio in Your Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
13 Touring Your iDVD Production Powerhouse . . . . . . . . . . 345
14 Building a DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
15 Designing a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
16 Previewing, Fixing, and Burning a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

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Part V iLife: The Only Way to Live. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
17 Adding Video and Sound from Movies or
TV Shows to iLife Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
18 Creating Cool Soundtracks for iLife Projects . . . . . . . . . . 499
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Living the iLife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
The iLife Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
iTunes Rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
iPhoto Makes the Most of Your Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
iMovie Unleashes the Director within You . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
iDVD Puts It All on Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
The iLife Apps: So Happy Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
Mac OS X and iLife: Using iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie,
and iDVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Part I: iTunes: Burning Down the House . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Part II: iPhoto: Not Your Father’s Photo Album . . . . . . xxiv
Part III: iMovie: The Swiss Army Knife of Digital
Video Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Part IV: iDVD: The Power of a Movie Production
Studio in Your Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Part V: iLife: The Only Way to Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Special Features of This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Part I iTunes: Burning Down the House . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1 Touring Your iTunes Music Studio . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Understanding the Audio Formats of the iLife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Listening to CD Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Rocking with MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Moving Ahead with AAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Making the Most of AIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Catching the WAV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
iTuning Your Music Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
iTunes Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
iTunes Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The iTunes Source Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
The iTunes Browse Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
The iTunes Contents Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The iTunes Equalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Making Your iTunes Preferences Known . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Setting iTunes General Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Setting iTunes Effects Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Setting iTunes Import Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Understanding MP3 Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Configuring Standard Levels of MP3 Encoding . . . 26
Configuring Custom Levels of MP3 Encoding . . . . 27
Configuring AAC Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Configuring AIFF and WAV Encoding . . . . . . . . . . 28
Setting iTunes Burning Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Setting Sharing Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Setting Store Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Setting iTunes Advanced Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using iTunes in Your iLife Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 2 Making Music with iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Making Sweet Music with iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Listening to Audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Listening to Internet Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Building, Listening to, and Managing Your Music Library . . . . . . 50
Building Your iTunes MP3 Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Adding Audio CDs to Your iTunes Library . . . . . . . 52
Adding Audio from the Internet to Your iTunes
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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Adding Music from the Apple Music Store to Your
iTunes Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Browsing and Listening to Your Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Searching for Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Removing Songs from the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Classifying and Configuring the Music in Your Library . . 67
Playing with Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Making Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Making Your Music Smarter with Smart Playlists . . . . . . 76
Sharing Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Sharing Your Music on a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Listening to Music Being Shared with You . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 3 Putting Your iTunes Music on the Move. . . . . . 83
Burning Your Own CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Prepping Your Burner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Choosing a Burn Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Creating a Playlist to Burn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Burning a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Taking Your Digital Music on the Road with MP3 Players . . . . . 90
Choosing an MP3 Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Moving Your Music to an MP3 Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Mastering Your Mobile Music with the iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Moving Your Music Collection to an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Managing Your iPod Music Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Part II iPhoto: Not Your Father’s Photo Album . . . 99
Chapter 4 Touring Your iPhoto Digital Darkroom . . . . . . 101
Working in the iPhoto Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
The iPhoto Source Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
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The iPhoto Contents Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
iPhoto Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Using iPhoto Modes and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
The iPhoto Import Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
The iPhoto Organize Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
The iPhoto Edit Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
The iPhoto Book Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Making Your iPhoto Preferences Known . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Using iPhoto in Your iLife Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Chapter 5 Building Your iPhoto Photo Library . . . . . . . . 119
Importing Images into the Photo Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Importing Images from a Digital Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Importing Images from Other Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Labeling Your Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Adding Titles and Comments to Your Images . . . . . . . . 127
Associating Keywords with Your Images . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Defining Your Own Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Assigning Keywords to Images in Your
Photo Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Configuring the Information You See in the Organize Mode . . . 134
Viewing Detailed Information for Your Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Finding Images in the Photo Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Building Photo Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 6 Editing the Images in Your iPhoto
Photo Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Rotating Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Preparing to Edit Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Deciding to Edit a Copy or the Original . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Choosing How You Want to Edit Images in iPhoto . . . 150
Selecting Parts of an Image You Want to Edit . . . . . . . . 154
Zooming on Images for Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
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Cropping Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Enhancing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Removing Red-Eye from Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Retouching Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Making Images Black-and-White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Adjusting Brightness and Contrast of Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Restoring an Image to Original Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Chapter 7 Making the Most of Your Images . . . . . . . . . . 167
Printing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Viewing Slideshows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Emailing Your Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Ordering Prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Creating, Printing, and Ordering Photo Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Creating a Photo Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Previewing a Photo Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Printing a Photo Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Ordering a Photo Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Building a Photo HomePage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Creating .Mac Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Adding Images to the Desktop and as a Screen Saver . . . . . . . . . 192
Putting Images on DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Putting Images on CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Exporting Images Outside of iPhoto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Exporting Photos as Separate Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Exporting Images as a Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Exporting Images as a QuickTime Movie . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Part III iMovie: The Swiss Army Knife of
Digital Video Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Chapter 8 Touring Your iMovie Movie Studio . . . . . . . . . 205
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Working in the iMovie Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
The iMovie Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
iMovie Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
The Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
The Monitor in Edit Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
The Monitor in Camera Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
The Tools Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
The Clips Pane (aka the Shelf ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
The Photos Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
The Audio Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
The Titles Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
The Transitions Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
The Effects Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
The iDVD Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
The Clip Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
The Timeline Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
The Disk Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

The iMovie Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Making Your iMovie Preferences Known . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Using iMovie in Your iLife Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Chapter 9 Building a Movie in iMovie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Planning a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Deciding What Your Movie Will Be . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Preparing the iMovie Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Building a Basic Video Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Stocking the Shelf (aka the Clips Pane) with Clips and Images. . 244
Stocking the Shelf with Video Clips from a DV Camera 245
Stocking the Shelf with QuickTime Clips . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Stocking the Shelf with Still Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Hacking (aka Editing) Your Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Previewing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Deleting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
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Viewing and Changing a Clip’s Information . . . . . . . . . 253
Splitting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Editing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Building the Basic Video Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Adding Video Clips and QuickTime Movies to the
Video Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Adding Images from the Shelf to the Video Track . . . . . 263
Adding iPhoto Images to the Video Track . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Arranging the Clips in a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Chapter 10 Building a Better Video Track in iMovie. . . . . 269
Explaining Yourself with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Adding Opening Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Adding a Caption to a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Changing a Title Clip That Had Been Placed in a
Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Smoothing the Digital Flow with Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Adding a Fade Out Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Adding a Push Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Changing a Transition That Has Been Placed in a
Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Making Your Movie Special with Special Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Making New Clips Look Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Improving a Clip’s Brightness and Contrast . . . . . . . . . . 291
Changing a Special Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Restoring a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Using Cool iMovie Tricks to Liven Things Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Speeding Clips Up or Slowing Them Down . . . . . . . . . . 293
Changing the Direction Clips Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Adding Instant Replay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
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Creating a Freeze Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Pasting Over a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Chapter 11 Building a Soundtrack That Rocks . . . . . . . . . 299
Going Native (Native Sound That Is) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Muting Native Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Changing the Relative Volumes of Native Sound Clips . 302
Fading Native Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Extracting Native Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Livening Up Your Movie with Sound Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Adding iMovie’s Built-In Sound Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Adding Your Own Sound Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Making Your Movie Sing with Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Adding Music from Your iTunes Library . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Adding Music from an Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Recording Your Own Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Bringing All That Sound Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Changing the Location of Sound Within a Soundtrack . 321
Cropping Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Fading Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Adjusting Relative Volume Levels of Audio Clips . . . . . 323
Adjusting Relative Volume Levels Within Audio Clips . 323
Locking Sound in Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Chapter 12 Producing Your Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Polishing a Movie Until It Shines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Exporting a Movie to Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Recording an iMovie Project on a DV Camera . . . . . . . . 331
Recording from a DV Camera to VHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Exporting a Movie to DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Adding Chapter Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Moving a Movie to iDVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
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Exporting a Movie to QuickTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Exporting a Movie Using a Standard Format . . . . . . . . . 337
Exporting a Movie Using Expert Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Part IV iDVD: The Power of a Movie
Production Studio in Your Mac. . . . . . . . . 343
Chapter 13 Touring Your iDVD Production Powerhouse . . 345
Working in the iDVD Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
The iDVD Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

iDVD Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
The iDVD Drawer (aka the Customize Panel) . . . 349
iDVD Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Design Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Slideshow Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Preview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Burn Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
iDVD Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Making Your iDVD Preferences Known . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Making DVDs with iDVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Using iDVD for Your iLife Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Chapter 14 Building a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Planning a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Understanding a DVD’s Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Planning an iDVD Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Organizing and Outlining a DVD’s Content . . . . . . . . . 366
Creating an iDVD Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Creating the Menus on a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Building a Slideshow on DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Adding a Slideshow Button to a Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Adding Images to a Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
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Adding Images to a Slideshow from iPhoto . . . . . . 378
Adding Images from the Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Changing the Appearance of the Slideshow Window . . 382
Changing the Order of Images in an iDVD Slideshow . 382
Removing Images from an iDVD Slideshow . . . . . . . . . 384
Previewing an iDVD Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Setting the Playback of a Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Adding a Soundtrack to a Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Using iTunes Music as a Soundtrack for an iDVD
Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Adding Audio Files from the Finder as a Soundtrack
for an iDVD Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Naming a Slideshow Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Placing High-Resolution Images from a Slideshow on
a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Adding iMovie Movies to a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Adding iMovie Projects to the iMedia Browser . . . . . . . 394
Using the iMedia Browser to Add Movies to a DVD . . . 396
Importing Movies to a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Adding iMovies to a DVD from within iMovie . . . . . . . 399
Adding QuickTime Movies to a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Adding a QuickTime Movie on the iMedia Browser to
a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Importing a QuickTime Movie to DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Removing Movies from a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Understanding Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Adding Other Files to the DVD-ROM Portion of a DVD . . . . 405
Chapter 15 Designing a DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Understanding the Art of Designing a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Working with Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Working with Drop Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
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Working with Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Using the TV Safe Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Designing Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Naming Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Using Built-In Themes to Design Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Applying a Built-In Theme to a Menu . . . . . . . . . 415
Adding Content to Drop Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Applying a Standard Theme to Every Menu on
a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Using Custom Themes to Design Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Applying a Background Image to a Menu . . . . . . . 423
Applying a Background Movie to a Menu . . . . . . . 427
Applying Background Sound to a Menu . . . . . . . . 430
Setting a Menu’s Motion Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Formatting Menu Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Designing Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Naming Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
Designing Buttons by Applying Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Customizing the Buttons on a Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Setting Button Previews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Setting a Button Preview for Folder Buttons . . . . . 444
Setting a Button Preview for Slideshow Buttons . . 444
Setting a Button Preview for Movie Buttons . . . . . 446
Using an Image or a Movie as a Preview for
Any Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Saving and Applying Custom Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Saving Custom Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Applying Custom Themes to Other Menus . . . . . . . . . . 451
Chapter 16 Previewing, Fixing, and Burning a DVD . . . . . 455
Previewing a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Logging Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Previewing an iDVD Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
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Previewing Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Previewing Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Previewing Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
Previewing Slideshows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Fixing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Assessing a DVD Project’s Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Assessing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Finding Missing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
Burning an iDVD Project on DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Understanding the Burning Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Maximizing Burn Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Burning a DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Part V iLife: The Only Way to Live . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Chapter 17 Adding Video and Sound from Movies or
TV Shows to iLife Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Mining Sources of Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Capturing Content from VHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Obtaining VHS Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Connecting a DV Camera to a VCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Recording VHS Content on a DV Camera . . . . . . . . . . 486
Importing VHS Content into iMovie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Capturing Content from DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Recording Content from DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Ripping Content from DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Downloading and Using QuickTime Movie Trailers from
the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Downloading and Using Movie and TV Sound Clips from
the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Using Captured Content in Your iLife Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
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Chapter 18 Creating Cool Soundtracks for iLife
Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Designing a Soundtrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Selecting the Music for a Soundtrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Selecting Sound Effects for the Soundtrack . . . . . . . . . . 502
Using iTunes to Prepare Music and Sound Clips for the
Soundtrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Using iMovie to Create the Soundtrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Creating the iMovie Soundtrack Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Creating the Music Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Adding Sound Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Adding Recorded Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
Mixing the Soundtrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
Exporting the Soundtrack as an AIFF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
Creating Your Own Soundtrack CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
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Introduction
Living the iLife
From the moment its smiling face first appeared on a screen as it started up, the
Macintosh has been all about empowerment. The Mac was the first computer to
provide powerful tools that work the way you expect them to. It was the first com-
puter to provide the power to create documents and have them look like they do on
the screen when you print them. The Mac was the first, and is still the best, to pro-
vide the power to publish from the desktop. The Mac was the first, and is still the
best, to provide the power for regular people to surf the Internet and make their
own presence on the Internet felt. Apple’s Macintosh was created to make the

power of the personal computer available to the rest of us.
And now Apple has done it again.
With its iLife suite, Apple has made the Macintosh the premier computer platform
to empower you to create, view, and manage digital media. From digital images and
music to digital movies to your own DVDs, the Mac gives you the power to trans-
form your life from the analog to the digital.
The iLife Tools
The iLife suite includes a superb set of four “i” applications that are amazingly
powerful, and just like the Mac, they work in a way that the rest of us can under-
stand.
iTunes Rocks
iTunes is the Mac’s way-cool digital music application. Of course, iTunes enables
you to do the basics such as listening to CDs, MP3 music, and so on, but it does so
much more. You can create your own custom audio CDs, create and manage your
own playlists, interface with mobile music players, and more. With its innovative
Music Store, you can even buy individual tracks or entire albums with a few clicks
of the mouse. With iTunes, you can master the music in your life.
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iPhoto Makes the Most of Your Photos
If any application matches the cliché “last but not least,” iPhoto is it. While it is
the youngest “i” application, iPhoto more than matches its older siblings in power,
flexibility, and ease of use. iPhoto enables you to do many amazing things with
your photos, from the creative, such as making Web sites and slideshows, to the
practical, such as providing prints for the important people in your life. From
downloading images from a digital camera to publishing your own picture books,
iPhoto gives you the tools to take your photos to the limit of your imagination.
iMovie Unleashes the Director within You
If I had to pick only one iLife tool to take with me on a deserted island, iMovie
would be it. That’s because iMovie enables you to work with all types of digital

media, from still images to digital video to music and sound effects. You can use
iMovie’s incredible tools to build fantastic movies with which you will amaze even
yourself. And I’m not talking about boring home movies here—I’m talking about
movies that jump off the screen with titles, transitions, special effects, custom
music soundtracks, sound effects, and much more.
iDVD Puts It All on Disc
While iMovie is the one application I would take to a deserted island, iDVD is
the one that makes me say “Wow!” the loudest. There is something totally cool
about putting your own movies and slideshows on a DVD and then playing that
DVD on the same player you use to watch your favorite DVD movies. And, just
like those movies you rent from your local video store, your DVDs can have cool
menus that have motion and sound effects.
The iLife Apps: So Happy Together
Each of the “i” applications is totally cool and amazing in its own right, but the
true power of iLife comes when you realize that these tools work together just as
well as they work individually. Want to use some music from your iTunes Library
on your latest DVD creation? No sweat. Want to add that great picture you just
took to the iMovie you created last week? That will take you all of one minute to
do (if that long). Want to build a movie that really captures the great time you had
on the last vacation you took? Get into iMovie, add the video, import some iPhoto
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photos, and match it with the perfect iTunes music. Care to put that movie on a
DVD to send to a friend? No problemo, a few clicks of the mouse, and your wish
is the iLife’s command. And on it goes; there are no limits to what you can accom-
plish when you understand how to use each digital lifestyle application individu-
ally and, to an even greater extent, how to make them work together.
That is where this book comes in.
Mac OS X and iLife: Using iTunes, iPhoto,
iMovie, and iDVD
The genesis of this book came when I realized that, while there is some informa-

tion available on the various “i” applications, there isn’t much to help someone put
all the pieces together in a meaningful, practical, and fun way. When it comes to
iLife, the whole is definitely greater than the sum of the parts. This book will help
you understand each part and how to use these parts together in your own digital
projects.
To facilitate the stages of your own digital lifestyle, this book is organized into five
distinct parts.
Part I: iTunes: Burning Down the House
This part will teach you everything you need to know about the amazing iTunes.
Some of what you will learn here is how to do the following:
◆ Understand the various types of music files you can use.
◆ Listen to audio CDs, MP3, and other kinds of music.
◆ Build your iTunes Library by adding music from many sources, includ-
ing. your audio CDs, the Internet, and the Apple Music Store.
◆ Create custom playlists to listen to and to put playlists on your own CDs.
◆ Take your music on the road with the iPod.
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Part II: iPhoto: Not Your Father’s Photo Album
iPhoto is more than a match for today’s way-cool digital cameras. It gives you the
tools to do whatever you want to with the images that you capture, including the
following iTricks:
◆ Import images from a camera and other sources.
◆ Build photo albums and use iPhoto tools to label your images so you can
find them easily and at will.
◆ Use its editing tools to make poor photos into good ones and good ones
into great ones.
◆ Build custom photo books to display the results of your creativity.
◆ Display your images in prints, on Web pages, on DVD, and in many more

ways.
Part III: iMovie: The Swiss Army Knife of Digital Video
Software
iMovie is perhaps the most powerful of all the iLife applications. That’s because in
iMovie, you can bring the output of iTunes and iPhoto together with digital video
you capture with a camcorder, QuickTime movies, and more to create your own
digital movie masterpieces. In this part of the book, you will take iMovie through
its paces.
◆ Import video clips from a camcorder, from QuickTime movies, and so on.
◆ Edit those clips and build a movie from them.
◆ Add titles, transitions, and special effects, oh my!
◆ Create soundtracks that include music, sound effects, and audio that you
record.
◆ Move your movies to DVD, videotape, and the Web.
Part IV: iDVD: The Power of a Movie Production Studio in
Your Mac
There is something incredibly cool about viewing and hearing your content via a
DVD. It gets even cooler when you see the neat things you can create on those
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