Comments about oreilly iMovie: The Missing Manual:

iMovie: The Missing Manual by David Pogue is a straight forward, easy-to-understand, and fully comprehensive text that neither bored me nor overwhelmed me. The most helpful aspects of this book for me have been the "work arounds" and advice (pros and cons) for adding a firewire storage drive. I carried this book around with me until I read it from cover-to-cover. It continues to be a helpful guide as I try new techniques.

Comments about oreilly iMovie: The Missing Manual:

An excellent book. As easy as iMovie is to use, this book pulls together the basics of movie making and the technical end of digital video editing. Only one problem: Mr. Pogue needs to immediately update the book for iMovie2, particularly for its improved audio capabilities.

Comments about oreilly iMovie: The Missing Manual:

Apple's release of iMovie for all promted me to buy a DV camera. Well, that and the fact that an important wedding was going to take place. With access to a G4 coupled with Cinema Display, what more could I want ? Well, a whole lot of tips.

I shot the wedding with couple of hours of DV camera preperation. I made all the beginner mistakes. My personal gaffes and a feeling of "there must be a better way" lead me to buy the book.

What a great read!

Not only did this book reinforce my personal beliefs in the greatness of DV tehnology, it gave me all the little clues I needed. I'm almost bubbling over with ideas and plans to experiment and shoot lots of DV.

Thanks for the book, hope to see something on iMovie 2.0 :)

Comments about oreilly iMovie: The Missing Manual:

David Pogue has done it again. I was first introduced to his work through his other MAC series, and found his instructions clear and fun to read as well.

I'd been extolling the value of iMovie to a fellow videomaker, who just wasn't listening. He, like many others, saw it as something merely for the average consumer to use.

Browsing for this book in a store, I showed him the passages about how Professional people are using iMovie to create on-air content. Before I could read further, he muttered, "If any book has at least ONE piece of information in it that you didn't know before, it's worth buying."

I bought the book, and savored each page during a recent vacation (makes a great plane book from CA to NY!). And he bought one and is finally using iMovie as well.

Thanks for the info, Mr. Pogue. I look forward to future volumes.

Comments about oreilly iMovie: The Missing Manual:

Happy to be the first to do a review.

This book is just plain fun—clearly written and informative. Just what I was looking for, having already gotten my feet wet with some iMovie productions.

Introductory chapters are on target—even covered basics of sound, reinforcing my RadioShack lavelier microphone purchase of earlier this week. (Use it with my Canon Ultura).

...I'll be back after I've read the whole thing. Thanks.