Errata

The third bullet used to read:

"...email to friends, or even burn as a Video CD."

It now reads:

"...email to friends, or even burn as a DVD disk (using Apple's iDVD
software)."

Burning a DVD with iDVD.......298

The text used to read: The next time you open iMovie by double-clicking its icon, the program will reopen whatever project document you were working on.

It now reads: The next time you open iMovie by double-clicking its icon, the program will reopen whatever project document you were working on. (In Mac OS X, the Quit iMovie command is in the iMovie menu instead.)

The text used to read: This command brings up the Preferences dialog box, as shown in Figure A-1. Here you?re offered a smattering of useful options, arranged on several tabs:

It now reads: This command brings up the Preferences dialog box, as shown in Figure A-1. (In Mac OS X, this command is in the iMovie menu instead of File.) Here you?re offered a smattering of useful options, arranged on several tabs:

The text used to read: superimposing titles, 193
It now reads: superimposing titles, 183

The text used to read:

As a bonus, these camcorders can also play back your old 8 mm and Hi-8
cassettes, making these cameras great transitional models.

It now reads:

As a bonus, most of these camcorders (but not the TRV130) can also play
back your old 8 mm and Hi-8 cassettes, making these cameras great
transitional models.

The text used to read:

running Mac OS 9.0.4 or later.

It now reads:

running Mac OS 9.0.4 or later (there's even a Mac OS X version of iMovie).

The text used to read:

for $50

It now reads:

for $50 (or free, if you have Mac OS X).

[The 2nd paragraph has been cut, and this paragraph has been added
just above the Tip]

(This feature relies on the use of the DV camera's internal clock.
Therefore, it doesn't work if you haven't set your camcorder's clock. It
also doesn't work if you're playing from a non-DV tape, using one of the
techniques described on page 112-114.)

The text used to read:

Sony Digital8 camcorders accommodate 8 mm, Hi-8, and Digital8 tapes (8 mm
cassettes recorded digitally).

It now reads:

Most Sony Digital8 camcorders accommodate 8 mm, Hi-8, and Digital8 tapes (8
mm cassettes recorded digitally). (Low-end models like the TRV130 may not
offer this feature, however; ask before you buy.)

The text used to read:

All of Sony's current DV and Digital8 camcorders offer a spectacular
solution to the "old tapes" problem: analog-to-digital passthrough
conversion. In other words, the camcorder itself acts as one of the media
converters described above. The footage never hits a DV tape; instead, it
simply plays from your older VCR or camcorder directly into the Macintosh.
(The models offering this feature are the TRV-11, TRV-20, TRV-900, PC5,
PC100, and VX2000, plus the Digital8 models-the TRV-120, 320, 520, 525,
720, and 820.)

It now reads:

Most of Sony's current DV and Digital8 camcorders offer a spectacular
solution to the "old tapes" problem: analog-to-digital passthrough
conversion. In other words, the camcorder itself acts as one of the media
converters described above. The footage never hits a DV tape; instead, it
simply plays from your older VCR or camcorder directly into the Macintosh.
(Ask before you buy; some models, such as the PC100, lack this feature. On
others, you must use the camcorder's on-board menu system to enable the
live passthrough.)

The text used to read:

error message shown at bottom right in Figure 6-6

It now reads:

error message shown at bottom right in Figure 6-5

The sixth item label in Figure 7-1 used to read:

Fontmenu

It now reads:

Font menu

The text used to read:

import it into your project as you would any graphics file, as
described on page 237

It now reads:

import it into your project as you would any graphics file, as
described on page 234

"... makes Hollywood computers seen even less like real-world computers."
should be:
"... makes Hollywood computers seem even less like real-world computers."

The text used to read:

I want to do a split edit, or a J-edit. You know, where the dialogue from
the next scene begins while we're still looking at the ?nal seconds of the
previous scene. Can you do that in iMovie 2?

[italicize this paragraph]

{This new section has been inserted before "Extracting Audio from Video."
The sidebars on pages 222 and 224 have been cut to make room.}

The Audio Pop: The Cockroach of iMovie Bugs

If you haven't found it yet, you will: When you paste video over existing
audio (in iMovie 2.0 through 2.0.3, at least), you sometimes hear a little
pop or lose part of a word. No amount of fiddling seems to get rid of it.

Apple admits that this is a doozie of a bug, and that a substantial rewrite
of the program would be required to fix it. There's no easy fix, but there
are workarounds.
For example, you can try to perform your paste-overs during momentary
silences in the underlying audio track (pauses in the speech, for example),
or to add very short audio fades at the ends of the affected clips.

If that's not practical, you can try this more elaborate trick, in which
you set aside a copy of clean, virgin audio before making the paste, and
then use it to replace the audio pop after the paste:

1. Before pasting, copy the clip you're cutting into (the one with the
audio you want to save). Paste it at the end of the Timeline Viewer.

You've just set aside a pure, uncorrupted copy.

2. Perform the video overlay. Turn off the sound for each of the
resulting clips.

There may be as many as three clips that resulted from the overlay: the
video you pasted and the "bookends" of original video on either side of it.
Click one of these clips; drag the volume slider beneath the tracks all the
way to the left. Repeat with the other clips involved in the overlay. The
entire section should now play back silently.

3. Click the clip at the end of the timeline. Choose Advanced ?Extract
Audio.
The audio now appears as an independent clip, as described on the next page.

5. Drag or copy/paste the extracted audio clip into sync with the silent
overlay clip(s).

The untouched copy of the original audio now provides the sound for the
paste-over sequence. (Delete the orphaned video clip at the end of the
Timeline Viewer.)

The text used to read:

these numbers have probably become engraved into your cerebellum).

It now reads:

these numbers have probably become engraved into your cerebrum.)

The text used to read:

That's a real problem if you intend to create moves

It now reads:

That's a real problem if you intend to create movies

The text used to read:

{insert this tip before the heading "The Protect-Tape Tab"}

It now reads:

Tip: If you have a Sony Digital8 camcorder, another option is open to you:
Buy 180-minute Hi-8 tapes, such as the Sony E6-180HME. You won't find them
at your local drugstore, that's for sure, but www.b&h.com, for example,
carries them. These tapes let you fit a full 90 minutes of high-quality
footage on a single cartridge, without the downsides of LP mode. (They're a
good way to return finished over-and-hour iMovies back to tape, too.)

The text used to read:

<add this note at the end of the chapter:>

It now reads:

Note: Digital8 (Hi8) tapes record lock works backwards from miniDV
cassettes; the little red slider covers the hole to prevent recording,
and must be open to record.

The text used to read:

At one time, the best-known MPEG-1 creation software was Astarte M.Pack. In
early 2000, however, Apple bought Astarte and took M.Pack off the market;
Apple will probably re-introduce the program under a new name, and with new
features, in 2001. (Visit this book's page at www.missingmanual.com to see
if this blessed event has occurred.)

It now reads:

At one time, the best-known MPEG-1 creation software was Astarte M.Pack.
In early 2000, however, Apple bought Astarte and took M.Pack off the market,
in order to use its technology for creating iDVD, described on page 299.

The text used to read:

{insert this before "iDiscWriter"}

It now reads:

? Toast Titanium. The latest versions of Toast (www.roxio.com) add a Toast
VCD option directly to the Export dialog box of iMovie, making this by far
the simplest and least expensive route to Video CD making.

The text used to read:

MPEG-1 format can take quite a bit of time--several per minute of
your movie

It now reads:

MPEG-1 format can take quite a bit of time--several hours per minute of
your movie

The text used to read:

EditDV

EditDV (Digital Origin, www.digitaloriginal.com)

It now reads:

EditDV (Cinestream)

EditDV (just renamed Cinestream by its maker, www.digitaloriginal.com)

DVDit, 299

To:

DVDs
burning your own, 298-300

iDVD, 299

The index entry used to read:

Mac OS X Server, 317

It now reads:

Mac OS X, 90, 317

SuperDrive, 299