Making Movies, Photos, Music & DVDs on Your Mac: Using Apple's Digital Hub

Enhance your life with an amazing array of Apple tools. This thorough treatment of four new and powerful technologies--iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, and iDVD--provides solid explanations, useful examples, and plenty of helpful references. Cover basics of the digital hub, such as digital photography, connectivity, .Mac, and other Internet features, as well as printing and more. Integrate applications and automate workflows with AppleScript. Learn to burn and mix your own music library. Direct movies and create DVDs with the ease of a Hollywood pro. With this book, digital hub tool users can take full advantage of the plug-and-play technologies, images and video, and the world-renowned Apple interface.

• Express yourself--make movies, photos, music, and DVDs on your Mac
  
• Tell visual stories effectively using professional techniques
  
• Reap the significant benefits of Quartz imaging and QuickTime technology
  
• Cover digital camera and camcorder basics--including resolution and pixels, lenses, filters, and batteries
  
• Utilize wired or wireless power, network, and local communication technologies
  
• Print your images on paper, transparencies, and T-shirts
  
• Capture and manipulate photos, create slide shows or albums
  
• Automate repetitive tasks or complicated processes with AppleScript
  
• Import and edit digital video, add effects and sound to your movies
  
• Back up and store data using software, CDs, and even the Internet
  
• Take advantage of Apple graphics--plus the Mac OS X kernel-based hardware
  

Contents           

   Part 1: Getting Started
    1: Introducing the Digital Hub
    2: Camera Basics
    3: Image Quality: Pixels and Resolution
    4: Connecting the Digital Hub
    5: .Mac: Apple’s Suite of Internet Tools for You
    6: Printing Your Photos
   7: Using Web Sites and Email for Sharing
    8: Using AppleScript Automation with the Digital Hub
    9: Storing and Backing Up Your Digital Hub Files

   Part 2: Making Movies, Photos, Music, and DVDs
    10: Making Movies with iMovie
    11: Using iPhoto
    12: iPod and iTunes: Music and Portable Disk
    13: Getting Started with iDVD
    14: Traveling with the Digital Hub

   Part 3: Making Better Movies, Photos, Music, and DVDs
    15: Advanced Movie and Photo Techniques
    16: Planning Your Project
    17: Art and Artifice
    18: Photographing Places and People
    19: Looking Good and Behaving Well on Camera
    20: Creating a Digital Studio

   Part 4: Case Studies
    21: Kids and Scrapbooks
    22: Instructional Materials
    23: Creating Portfolios
    24: Creating and Advertising Promotional Materials
    25: Creating Archives and Exhibitions

增強您的生活，使用一系列令人驚嘆的蘋果工具。這本書詳細介紹了四種新的強大技術 - iMovie、iPhoto、iTunes和iDVD，提供了深入的解釋、有用的示例和大量的參考資料。涵蓋數位中樞的基礎知識，如數位攝影、連接性、.Mac和其他網際網路功能，以及打印等。使用AppleScript整合應用程式並自動化工作流程。學習燒錄和混音您自己的音樂庫。像好萊塢專業人士一樣導演電影並創建DVD。這本書讓數位中樞工具的使用者能充分利用即插即用技術、圖像和視頻，以及世界知名的蘋果界面。

- 表達自己 - 在您的Mac上製作電影、照片、音樂和DVD
- 使用專業技巧有效地講述視覺故事
- 獲得Quartz影像和QuickTime技術的顯著好處
- 涵蓋數位相機和攝像機的基礎知識 - 包括解析度和像素、鏡頭、濾鏡和電池
- 利用有線或無線電源、網絡和本地通信技術
- 在紙張、透明膠片和T恤上打印您的圖像
- 捕捉和操作照片，創建幻燈片或相冊
- 使用AppleScript自動化重複性任務或複雜流程
- 導入和編輯數位視頻，為您的電影添加效果和聲音
- 使用軟體、光碟甚至互聯網備份和存儲數據
- 充分利用蘋果圖形 - 以及基於Mac OS X核心的硬體

目錄:
- 第一部分：入門
- 1. 介紹數位中樞
- 2. 相機基礎知識
- 3. 影像品質：像素和解析度
- 4. 連接數位中樞
- 5. .Mac：蘋果為您提供的網際網路工具套件
- 6. 打印您的照片
- 7. 使用網站和電子郵件進行分享
- 8. 使用AppleScript自動化數位中樞
- 9. 存儲和備份您的數位中樞檔案

- 第二部分：製作電影、照片、音樂和DVD
- 10. 使用iMovie製作電影
- 11. 使用iPhoto
- 12. iPod和iTunes：音樂和便攜式磁碟
- 13. 開始使用iDVD
- 14. 在數位中樞上旅行

- 第三部分：製作更好的電影、照片、音樂和DVD
- 15. 高級電影和照片技巧
- 16. 計劃您的項目
- 17. 藝術和技巧
- 18. 拍攝地點和人物
- 19. 在攝影機上表現出色並行為良好
- 20. 創建數位工作室

- 第四部分：案例研究
- 21. 兒童和剪貼簿
- 22. 教學材料
- 23. 創建作品集
- 24. 創建和宣傳宣傳材料
- 25. 創建檔案和展覽