Wiley iMovie '09 & iDVD '09 For Dummies 978-0-470-50212-9 ユーザーズマニュアル

In This Chapter

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Introducing iMovie

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Finding your way around the iMovie interface

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Planning your movie

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Finding what’s where in iDVD

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Implementing your plan

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Movie and iDVD, parts of the iLife ’09 suite (which includes iTunes, iPhoto, 
iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb), form the digital video spoke of 

Apple’s so-called “Digital Hub.” iLife is bundled with new Macintosh comput-
ers and available separately for a $79 list price. iDVD is unchanged from the 
very mature version shipped in iLife ’08 (other than a couple of minor 
updates). iMovie, on the other hand, has dozens of new fea-
tures, a few of which are the new Precision Editor; chapter, 
comment, and beat markers; and themes.

This chapter details the steps along the way that 
brought iMovie and iDVD to their current incarna-
tions. You also get a brief tour of the iMovie and 
iDVD Workspaces. Additionally, we cover topics 
you should keep in mind when planning and creat-
ing your movies so that you can achieve the best 
end result.

Getting to iLife ‘09

In 1999, Apple introduced the iMac DV (Digital Video), the 
first consumer computer to come with a FireWire port as 
standard equipment. To demonstrate FireWire’s speed and capability, 
the iMac DV included a new application named iMovie. iMovie was a 
groundbreaking introduction of home video editing to the masses (or, as 
Apple prefers to say, “the rest of us”), geared to use the early generation of