How to Do Everything with iLife '04 (How to Do Everything) [Paperback]

Guy Hart-Davis (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072232056 | ISBN-13: 978-0072232059 | Publication Date: March 31, 2004 | Edition: 1

Find out how to get the most out of iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD and use all these applications together to create customized content with your own digital media. Learn to burn MP3s, organize and edit your digital photos, shoot a movie and add effects, create your own DVDs, and much more.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Enjoy stunning digital audio on your Mac, edit your digital pictures, create compelling videos, burn DVDs, and compose music--all with iLife and the help of this step-by-step resource. How to Do Everything with iLife’04 shows you how to get started, and then brings you up to expert level with iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand so that you can use their powerful features to explore your multimedia dreams. Whether you want to learn the iLife applications sequentially or jump directly to a specific task or feature, you’ll find the information you need in this comprehensive reference.

• Transfer your entire music collection to your Mac--and take it with you on your iPod
• Use your iPod to carry contacts, calendars, notes, and books--even to boot your Mac
• Download music seamlessly from Apple’s iTunes Music Store
• Compose, record, and mix professional-sounding music
• Import pictures from your digital camera or scan them from hard copies
• Crop, edit, and enhance your pictures, and remove red-eye from flash pictures
• Create photo albums and publish them to CDs, to the Web, or to books
• Import video from your camcorder or from videotape onto your Mac
• Edit your video footage into movies and export them to tape or to digital formats
• Burn CDs and DVDs containing music, movies, slide shows, or data

About the author: Guy Hart-Davis is the author of How to Do Everything with Your iPod, three books on MP3 and digital audio, and about 20 other computer books.

About the Author

Guy Hart-Davis (Richmond, England) is the author of three books on MP3 and digital audio and 20 other computer books on subjects as varied as Windows XP, Microsoft Office and Visual Basic for Applications

Product Details

• Paperback: 476 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (March 31, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072232056
• ISBN-13: 978-0072232059
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,445,038 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #48 in Books > Computers & Technology > Apple > iLife

More About the Author

I'm now writing a free e-mail newsletter called The Useful Geek (website above).

I'm updating my iPod book to cover the latest features, the latest iPods... and the iPhone when it arrives

I'm also writing a book called Do-It-Yourself PC Upgrade Projects, which shows you 24 ways to get more out of your computer -- without buying a new computer. (Or not yet...)

Happy reading -- and computing!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a practical guide to iLife'04 including Garage Band, April 29, 2004

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Donald L. Koller "dkoller13" (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Do Everything with iLife '04 (How to Do Everything) (Paperback)

Good tips on all the parts of iLife'04, including intro to Garage Band, which I had just taken a look at. E.g., a tip tells which formats iPhoto can use, including BMP and PDF files, as well as my old PICT files. Good cautions and helpful points for both iPhoto and iMovie 4. Even some non-iLife software is mentioned (such as for audio recording). I'm glad to have this book next to my Mac.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Working with Guy Hart-DavisÃ* iLife Ã"04 book, June 29, 2004

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paul gerstenbluth (East Greenwich, RI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Do Everything with iLife '04 (How to Do Everything) (Paperback)

The Guy Hart-Davis iLife book was my next logical choice to further my Apple computer education. Also, I wanted the most out of my recently purchase iPod.

iDVD allows you to create DVDs containing movies, slideshows or data with themes. IDVD works only with Apple Superdrive computers, and you can archive your work.

iMovie allows you to edit your home movies. You can import, assemble, cut and edit your movies. In addition, you can apply titles and effects with your own sounds or import the iTunes.

iPhoto allows you import digital photos from your digital camera, scanner and photo files. Edit and organize your pictures into albums and add sound for your own QuickTime movie.

iTunes allows you to make compressed digital copies of your CDs and other audios on your hard drive. You can load compressed files onto your iPod or MP3 player.

GarageBand is your application for composing, recording, and mixing your own music.

Guy Hart-DavisÕ iLife book, the chapters and pages I found interesting:

Part I Understanding the Point of iLife

Part II Enjoy Stunning Audio with iTunes and iPod

Part III Edit and Manage Your Digital Pictures with iPhoto

Part IV Create Your Own Movies with iMovie

Part V Burn Your Own DVDs with iDVD

Part VI Compose, Record, and Mix Original Music with GarageBand

Page Turners

Page 6, Get Acquainted

Page 49 iTunes Screen. This shows all the detailed controls of iTunes.

Pages 52-53 AIFF and WAV sound formats explained

Page 59 Rip and Encode Music

Page 61 Join Songs using Advanced settings in iTunes

Page 66 Rating Your Songs

* Page 92Ê Caution. Do not put AIFF uncompressed audio files on your iPod. You can ruin your iPod by making your iPod battery wear out much more quickly since the iPod's hard drive has to work harder with AIFF uncompressed files.

* Page 101 Eject Discs from stuck Powerbooks, iBooks, G4 Cubes that do not have manual eject holes.

* Page 145 Information on iPodÕs Battery Life

Page 147 Sound Check

Page 157 Burning CDs or DVDs.

Page 164 ScreenSaver

* Page 166 AIFF Files for Highest Quality Sound

* Page 416 Salvation for those Mac computer users that do not have a Superdrive in their computer. Guy Hart-Davis showed me how to transfer my DVD project to a Mac with Superdrive.

* Important pages for further reading.

BookÕs Pro Reaction

Back cover inside has the essential keyboard shortcuts for iLife applications. The book has a very good description of iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand programs with an indepth usage of the Apple iPods and mini iPods. The iLife book has many illustrations and photos throughout the book.

BookÕs Con Reaction

'What Does This Book Cover?' pages should have been retitled: 'Contents at a Glance' and put in the front of the book. All the illustrations in the iLife book are in black and white and could have had color illustrations for the iPhoto and iMovie sections. iLifeworks only with Mac OS 10.2.6 or greater.

Final Remarks

Guy Hart-Davis provided me with important information on how to best use my iPod. I learned that putting AIFF sounds into my iPod could ruin my iPod's hard drive. Also, I learned how to use iTunes sound compression for MP3, AAC and WAV formats.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars how to do what i know to do w/ i-life 04, September 6, 2004

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anti-tek "vidiot" (NJ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: How to Do Everything with iLife '04 (How to Do Everything) (Paperback)

i bought this book along w/ 2 other "how (not) to video editing books specializing in FCXpress-i'm sorry i did-if the dog hadn't p'd on them i'd send them back-why?- I used to be a pogue fan till the repetion started-jim heid's guide is why i got into the mac & imovie in the 1st place-simple to learn & to the point with immediate results( highly reccomended). I found Guy's book lacking in some of the most important sound upgrades-strange since his claim to fame was in audio (i-pod) i also don;t like to be told to go look for imfo somewhere else-at least J. heid gives you a link to goto-as for the FCXpress-after reading 101 tricks- i can already do them w/ 3rd party plugins & still have the ease of imovie. No put downs intended-just dissapointed-when will a video guy 1st / computer challenged-how to book be written ?