Easy Digital Home Movies [Paperback]

Jake Ludington (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 21, 2004

Your first holiday together. Your wedding. Your first baby. Life is full of special moments, which is why you bought a digital video camera to capture them. Being able to share them with people who are far away is even better, but converting videos to tapes and sending them in the mail is not very time or cost-efficient. Easy Digital Home Movies can show you how to use your digital video camera and your free Windows Movie Maker 2 software on your PC to edit and distribute your home movies via e-mail and the Internet. You can also learn how to archive your home movies on DVD and keep them safe for years to come. Make the most of your firsts, lasts and everything in between with Easy Digital Home Movies.

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Your first holiday together. Your wedding. Your first baby. Life is full of special moments, which is why you bought a digital video camera to capture them. Being able to share them with people who are far away is even better, but converting videos to tapes and sending them in the mail is not very time or cost-efficient. Easy Digital Home Movies can show you how to use your digital video camera and your free Windows Movie Maker 2 software on your PC to edit and distribute your home movies via e-mail and the Internet. You can also learn how to archive your home movies on DVD and keep them safe for years to come. Make the most of your firsts, lasts and everything in between with Easy Digital Home Movies.

About the Author

Jake Ludington is the publisher of the internationally recognized newsletter Jake Ludington's Digital Lifestyle, (http://www.jakeludington.com) which focuses on audio, video, and imaging content creation and entertainment for consumers. He is a Microsoft Windows Media MVP and contributes regularly to a variety of print and online magazines, including PC Today, Connected Home and MediaBlab. When he's not writing about creating multimedia, Jake can be found creating audio and video recordings of the world around him.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Que (June 21, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789731142
• ISBN-13: 978-0789731142
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,079,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jake Ludington is an online video expert and user experience evangelist with over 1,000,000 unique visitors to his digital media help sites (including JakeLudington.com and CamcorderAnswers.com). Jake frequently consults on video quality and video marketing for companies both large and small. He is passionate about making consumer software easier for regular people to understand and use effectively. Jake also speaks Mandarin with basic fluency and spends his free time entertaining his kids.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Provides able, step-by-step instruction, July 9, 2004

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This review is from: Easy Digital Home Movies (Paperback)

In Easy Digital Home Movies, computer expert Jake Ludington provides able, step-by-step instruction in just how to go about making flawless home movies with just a camcorder and a PC. Ludington utilizes a visual, four-color approach that is completely accessible to even the most novice student. Easy Digital Home Movies provides illustrative and detailed instruction on how to capture and edit home movies, how to e-mail movies, how to stream movies on the Web, and even how to transfer movies to DVD for later viewing. If you want to get into the fascinating and creatively rewarding field of digital movie making, then Jake Ludington's Easy Digital Home Movies is the ideal instructional reference book for you!

5.0 out of 5 stars Made Easy, August 14, 2010

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This review is from: Easy Digital Home Movies (Paperback)

Great step by step instructions, the book has been a great help to me with my editing, very happy with the book.