O'Reilly Releases "iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual" by David Pogue

This all-inclusive, step-by-step book covers:

• Essentials of film technique: Pogue provides readers with the know-how
  they need to give home movies professional polish.
  
• Editing basics: These pages burst with clever workarounds, hidden
  features, and editing tricks from the Hollywood film world.
  
• Finding an audience: With this guide, readers can export their finished
  masterpieces back to tape for high-quality TV playback--or save them as a
  
• QuickTime movies for posting on a web page, emailing to friends, burning
  as a video CD, or even uploading to a Bluetooth cell phone.
  
• Mastering DVDs: With a Mac equipped with SuperDrive, people can
  distribute their movies at much higher quality than VHS tapes or QuickTime
  movies by creating Hollywood-style DVDs. The book-within-a-book on iDVD
  includes dozens of undocumented secrets for extending the program's design
  tools.
  

For more information about the book, including table of contents, index,
author bio, and samples, see ths O'Reilly web page. [iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue ISBN: 0596-00693-4, 504 pages, $24.95 US, $36.95 CA]