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by Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes

by Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes

iLife ® ’04 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies ®

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About the Authors

Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes have kicked around the computer industry for

decades They edited the influential newsletter, “Bove & Rhodes Inside Report

on New Media,” and wrote weekly and monthly columns and feature articles

for computer-industry magazines including Computer Currents (for computer users), Nextworld (for computer professionals), and NewMedia (for multimedia professionals) They also co-founded and edited Desktop Publishing/Publish

magazine (for publishing professionals)

Tracing the personal computer revolution back to the ’60s, Bove and Rhodes

produced a CD-ROM interactive documentary in 1996, Haight-Ashbury in the

Sixties (featuring music from the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and the Jefferson

Airplane) Bove and Rhodes have written over a dozen books on computing,

desktop publishing, and multimedia, including at least one bestseller, The Art

of Desktop Publishing (Bantam); a series of books about Macromedia Director

that includes Macromedia Lingo Studio and Official Macromedia Director Studio (Random House); the long-running Adobe Illustrator: The Official Handbook for

Designers (Random House) now in its fourth edition; Desktop Publishing with PageMaker and PageMaker 4: The Basics (Wiley Publishing, Inc.); and The Well- Connected Macintosh (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich).

Tony Bove has been a director of enterprise marketing for a large software

company, as well as a communications director and technical publicationsmanager He also developed the Rockument music site, www.rockument.com,with commentary and radio programs focused on rock music history In addition, he is a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers band (www.flyingotherbros.com)

Cheryl Rhodes is an education specialist, researcher, and advocate She

founded and served as director of the Pacific Community Charter School, and worked as a professional courseware designer for ComputerTown USA (a National Science Foundation project) and the Lawrence Hall of Science, aswell as an instructor in computer courses at elementary and high schools

This book is dedicated to our sons, John Paul Bove and James Eric Bove,both of whom contributed tips and spent considerable time testing exampleswhile turning a vacation into a book project These kids truly live the iLifeand should probably get a raise in their allowances, now that you bought thisbook Let’s send them to college — tell your Mac friends to buy this book!Thank you

Authors’ Acknowledgments

We want to thank our Wiley project editor, Beth Taylor, for having the patience

of a saint while pulling this project through the process on time We also thankWiley copy editor Jean Rogers for her skills that made our job so much easier.Many thanks to our technical editor, Lisa Spangenberg , for helping to makethis book both more useful and accurate Thanks as well to Dennis Cohen forcontributing material to this book We also thank Rich Tennant for his highlyamusing cartoons A book of this size places a considerable burden on a pub-lisher’s production team, and we thank the Composition Services crew atWiley for diligence beyond the call of reason

We owe thanks and a happy hour or two to Carole McLendon at Waterside,our agent And we have acquisitions editor Bob Woerner at Wiley to thank forcoming up with the idea for this book and helping us to become professional

dummies — that is, For Dummies authors

Finally, our heartfelt thanks to members of the Flying Other Brothers (PeteSears, Barry Sless, Jimmy Sanchez, Bill Bennett, Bert Keely, and Roger andAnn McNamee) as well as Stacy Parrish, Howard Danchik, Vickie Garwacki,Chris Flum, Paul Dulany, and DuCharme for letting us use their photographs

of the band

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Contents at a Glance

Introduction 1

Book I: iTunes 7

Chapter 1: iTunes — The Digital Jukebox .9

Chapter 2: Organizing Your Library .31

Chapter 3: Enhancing the Audio 53

Chapter 4: Burning CDs .71

Book II: iPhoto 83

Chapter 1: Getting to Know iPhoto .85

Chapter 2: Importing Photos .97

Chapter 3: Organizing Photos .107

Chapter 4: Improving Photos .137

Chapter 5: Making Slideshows 153

Chapter 6: Printing and Publishing Photos and Books .173

Book III: iMovie 201

Chapter 1: Digital Moviemaking 203

Chapter 2: Importing Video, Audio, and Photos .215

Chapter 3: Organizing and Improving Video Clips .231

Chapter 4: Editing Movies and Sound 253

Chapter 5: Viewing and Sharing Movies .287

Book IV: iDVD 307

Chapter 1: Instant iDVD Authoring .309

Chapter 2: Making Menus and Buttons 325

Chapter 3: Burning DVDs 341

Book V: GarageBand 353

Chapter 1: Getting in Tune with GarageBand .355

Chapter 2: Adding Loops and Audio Files .373

Chapter 3: Recording and Arranging Music .385

Chapter 4: Getting the Best Mix 413

Book VI: iPod 431

Chapter 1: Have iPod, Will Travel 433

Chapter 2: Getting Wired for Sound .459

Chapter 3: Managing Life on the Road 473

Book VII: iLife Extras 495

Chapter 1: Understanding Your iEnvironment .497

Chapter 2: Enhancing Your iLife Environment with Other Tools .509

Chapter 3: Taking a Cue from the Media Pros .535

Index 553

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

About This Book 2

Conventions Used in This Book .2

Foolish Assumptions .3

How This Book Is Organized 4

Book I: iTunes .4

Book II: iPhoto 4

Book III: iMovie .4

Book IV: iDVD .4

Book V: GarageBand 5

Book VI: iPod 5

Book VII: iLife Extras .5

Icons Used in This Book 5

Where to Go from Here 6

Book I: iTunes 7

Chapter 1: iTunes — The Digital Jukebox .9

Setting Up iTunes .10

Playing CD Tracks .12

Rearranging and repeating tracks .13

Skipping tracks .14

Repeating a song list .14

Displaying Visuals .14

Fine-Tuning the Sound 16

Using an equalizer preset .16

Cross-fading and controlling volume .16

Buying Music Online from Apple .17

Visiting the iTunes Music Store .17

Setting the music store preferences .22

Importing Music into iTunes .23

Ripping music from CDs .23

Importing music files from other sources 25

Importing Audio Books .27

Listening to Web Radio 27

Streaming music from the Internet .28

Saving your favorite stations .29

Adding Web broadcasts 30

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Chapter 2: Organizing Your Library .31

Been Searching Browsing, and Sorting, Too .32

Browsing by artist and album 32

Understanding the song indicators 33

Changing viewing options .34

Sorting songs by viewing options .35

Searching for songs .36

The Singer, Not the Song: Adding and Editing Information .37

Retrieving information from the Internet .37

Editing artist and band names 38

Speed editing multiple songs .39

Adding liner notes and ratings .40

Play It Again, Sam: Using Playlists .43

Creating a playlist of multiple songs 43

Creating a playlist of multiple albums .44

Generating a Smart Playlist 45

Viewing and editing a smart playlist 45

Setting up a new smart playlist .45

Gimme Shelter: Consolidating and Backing Up 47

Sharing Music (Legally) 49

Copying songs to other computers 49

Sharing music in a network 51

Chapter 3: Enhancing the Audio 53

Deciding Your Encoding Format 54

Changing Encoders and Settings 57

Using the AAC encoder .57

Using the MP3 encoder 59

Using AIFF or WAV encoders .61

Import settings for voice and sound effects .62

Converting songs to other encoders .63

Equalize It! 65

Adjusting the preamp volume .66

Using presets 67

Adjusting frequencies .68

Assigning equalizer presets to songs .69

Chapter 4: Burning CDs .71

Using Recordable CDs .71

Where you can play CD-Rs .72

What you can fit on a CD-R 72

Creating a Burn Playlist 73

Calculating how much music to use .74

Importing music for an audio CD-R 75

Importing music for an MP3 CD-R .76

Setting the Burning Preferences 76

Setting the sound check and gaps 76

Setting the format and recording speed 78

Burning a Disc 78

Exporting song information for liner notes .79

Dealing with trouble in CD-R paradise 80

Book II: iPhoto 83

Chapter 1: Getting to Know iPhoto .85

Living in the Digital World 85

Why digital is better: Instant pictures .86

Resolution — the image quality factor .87

Modifying and enhancing your photos 87

Storing, printing, and sharing your photos 88

Opening Images in iPhoto .90

Starting iPhoto .90

Changing your display settings .91

Getting around in iPhoto .92

Viewing photos .93

Chapter 2: Importing Photos .97

Importing Photos from Digital Cameras 97

Connecting a digital camera .97

Importing from memory card readers .100

Transferring Images from Other Sources 102

Using a photo service .102

Importing images from your hard drive .104

Using a scanner .104

Chapter 3: Organizing Photos .107

Photo Albums for All Occasions .107

Creating albums and adding photos .108

Arranging photos in albums .110

Removing photos from albums .112

Using an album for desktop and screen effects .112

Creating a smart album .117

The Digital Contact Sheet 118

Displaying photo information .119

Adding and editing titles .120

Keeping track of film rolls .123

Arranging and sorting photos 125

Adding comments .125

Adding and using keywords .126

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Searching by keyword 128

Adding ratings to photos 130

Maintaining a Photo Archive .130

Backing up your library 131

Moving and switching between libraries .132

Burning a CD or DVD 133

Sharing Photos in a Network .135

Chapter 4: Improving Photos 137

Modifying Photos .137

Cropping and Rotating Photos .138

Rotating photos .139

Cropping photos 140

Constraining cropping for print sizes .142

Fine-Tuning Photos .146

Improving brightness and contrast .146

Removing red-eye and red tint .148

Retouching and enhancing photos .150

Converting to sepia or black and white .151

Chapter 5: Making Slideshows .153

Playing a Slideshow .153

Pausing and playing .154

Advancing manually and controlling the speed .155

Assembling a Slideshow .155

Arranging a photo album for a slideshow .156

Choosing photos that display well 156

Changing Playback Settings .158

Setting slide transitions .159

Timing your slideshow .160

Changing the music 160

Using iTunes music .161

Saving your settings .163

Sharing and Exporting Slideshows .163

Sharing slideshows online 164

Exporting to a QuickTime movie 167

Exporting a slideshow to iDVD .170

Chapter 6: Printing and Publishing Photos and Books .173

Setting Up Your Printer .174

Picking a desktop printer and paper .174

Setting up pages for your desktop printer .175

Printing Photos 176

Printing standard prints .178

Printing greeting cards .179

Printing contact sheets for albums .180

Ordering Prints .181

Making Photo Books .184

Choosing a book layout theme .184

Fine-tuning page layouts 186

Editing titles and captions .188

Previewing and printing books .190

Ordering professionally printed books .191

Sharing Photos Online .193

Sending photos as e-mail attachments .193

Exporting to a photo service .195

Publishing photos on Web pages .197

Book III: iMovie 201

Chapter 1: Digital Moviemaking .203

What You Can Do with iMovie .203

What you need for iMovie .205

Why you need a digital video camcorder 206

Touring iMovie 208

Starting iMovie 208

Understanding the iMovie window elements .210

Video Shooting Techniques .212

Chapter 2: Importing Video, Audio, and Photos .215

Using a DV Camcorder 215

Connecting a DV camcorder .216

Recording video directly to a hard drive .217

Recording video from the iSight camera .219

Importing clips from DV tape 219

Automatic scene detection .221

Playing Your Clips .222

Importing Video from Other Sources .223

Importing QuickTime movies .223

Converting from film and video formats .225

Importing Multimedia Elements 226

Using photos and graphics in iPhoto 226

Using music and sounds in iTunes 227

Chapter 3: Organizing and Improving Video Clips .231

Organizing a Project 232

Creating and saving a project .232

Copying a project .233

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Organizing Clips .234

Arranging clips in the Clips pane .234

Renaming a clip .235

Importing clips from different projects .236

Deleting and Restoring Clips .237

Restoring a clip to its previous form .237

Deleting clips and emptying the Trash 238

Editing Individual Clips .239

Trimming and cropping clips 239

Splitting a clip .241

Cutting out the middle of a clip .242

Reversing the direction of a clip .242

Adding Motion and Picture Effects .243

Adding the Ken Burns Effect to photos .244

Applying effects to video clips .248

Chapter 4: Editing Movies and Sound 253

Assembling an Oscar-Winning Sequence .254

Arranging clips in the clip viewer .254

Working in the timeline viewer .255

Slowing down or speeding up video clips 257

Overlaying and trimming clips directly .258

Bookmarking clips in the timeline 259

Transitioning Between Scenes .259

Adding transitions between clips 260

Fading in and out .262

Editing the Sound Track .265

Controlling video clip volume levels .265

Importing music from iTunes .266

Arranging sound clips in the track 269

Adjusting the volume of an audio track .270

Trimming sound clips .270

Splitting sound clips .271

Separating sound from video .271

Adding sound effects .272

Laying video over sound .274

Adding a voice-over or narration .275

Locking audio to video .277

Adding Post-Production Elements .277

Creating titles and credits .278

Adding a black clip .282

Creating chapter markers for DVD 284

Chapter 5: Viewing and Sharing Movies .287

Playing Your Movie in Full-Screen Playback .287

Sharing Movies .288

Sharing by e-mail .290

Sharing with Bluetooth devices 290

Sharing on the Web 291

Choosing QuickTime expert settings 293

Exporting to a DV Camcorder 295

Exporting Still Images .296

Copying Movies to VHS Tape 297

Exporting to iDVD .299

Publishing Movies on the Web .300

Book IV: iDVD 307

Chapter 1: Instant iDVD Authoring 309

What You Can Do with iDVD .310

Touring iDVD .312

Importing Digital Video into iDVD 314

Importing from iMovie .314

Importing QuickTime movies .316

Assembling Photo Slideshows 317

Importing slideshows from iPhoto into iDVD .318

Creating a slideshow in iDVD 319

Rearranging the photo order .320

Setting the slide transition and duration .320

Importing images and graphics files into slideshows .321

Adding sound to a slideshow 322

Chapter 2: Making Menus and Buttons .325

Creating DVD Menus 325

Selecting menu themes 326

Changing a menu background .328

Changing the sound of a menu .330

Adding drop zones to the menu .330

Adding text to the menu .333

Creating Buttons .334

Adding buttons .334

Fine-tuning motion buttons 335

Customizing buttons .336

Adding Submenus .337

Turning chapter markers into submenus 338

Customizing submenus .338

Navigating menus in Map view .339

Copying an iDVD Project .340

Chapter 3: Burning DVDs 341

Previewing the DVD .341

Using the Motion and Preview buttons .341

Using the remote control 342

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Adding Project Files to the DVD 343

Putting photos on DVD-ROM .343

Putting any digital files on DVD-ROM .345

Setting Up Autoplay and Looping .346

Adding an autoplay introduction .346

Looping movies and slideshows .347

Burning a DVD .347

Testing Your DVD-R 350

Troubleshooting DVD Problems 350

Book V: GarageBand 353

Chapter 1: Getting in Tune with GarageBand .355

Getting Started with GarageBand 355

Opening an existing song .356

Playing songs .358

Adjusting the volume of each track .359

Starting a new song project .361

Setting Song Parameters .362

Setting the tempo .363

Setting the time signature .363

Setting the key .364

Changing the tempo, time signature, and key .364

Using Your Mac as an Instrument .366

Using the on-screen keyboard .366

Using MidiKeys .368

Connecting a USB MIDI keyboard 368

Using an audio interface for MIDI 369

Chapter 2: Adding Loops and Audio Files .373

Selecting Apple Loops .373

Using the Loop Browser .375

Using column view .376

Limiting choices by scale and key .377

Arranging Loops in the Timeline 378

Creating tracks 378

Looping loops in the track .381

Adding an Audio File 382

Chapter 3: Recording and Arranging Music .385

Recording Software Instruments 385

Recording into a Software Instrument track .386

Changing the Software Instrument 388

Setting the instrument sound and effects .389Saving a customized Software Instrument .392Recording Real Instrument Tracks .393Using the line-in connection .393Using an audio interface .395Using the internal microphone .397Creating a Real Instrument track 398Recording a Real Instrument performance .399Changing the Real Instrument sound .400Setting Real Instrument effects 401Arranging Music Tracks .404Working with regions in the timeline .405Moving regions .405Selecting, copying, and pasting regions .406Looping and resizing regions .408Splitting and joining regions .410Recording into a cycle region .411

Chapter 4: Getting the Best Mix 413

Mixing Tracks .413Setting the track volume curve .414Setting the pan position .415Using special effects with tracks .416Using the Track Editor 418Editing Real Instrument tracks .420Editing Software Instrument tracks .422Using the Master Track Controls .424Controlling the master volume .424Setting the master volume curve .426Setting master track effects .427Moving Your Song to iTunes .428Setting up song and playlist information .428Exporting to iTunes 430

Book VI: iPod 431

Chapter 1: Have iPod, Will Travel .433

Getting Started with Your iPod 434Thinking inside the box .435Powering up your iPod .436Setting the language .437Connecting to the Mac 439

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Playin’ in the Hand .440Thumbing through the menus .440Using the buttons .441Locating and Playing Songs .443Repeating and shuffling songs .445Creating On-The-Go playlists .446Adjusting the sound volume .447Updating Automatically 448Updating from the library automatically 449Updating automatically by playlist .453Updating selected songs automatically 454Updating Manually .454Setting the iPod to update manually 455Copying music directly to the iPod 455Deleting music from the iPod only .456Editing Songs on the iPod .457Editing playlists .457Editing song information .457

Chapter 2: Getting Wired for Sound .459

Making Connections .460Playing through the Mac .462Connecting to a home stereo .463Connecting headphones and portable speakers 465Listening aboard Planes, Trains, and Automobiles .465Playing car tunes .466Connecting by wireless radio .468Taking music abroad .469The Sound of Music .470Using the iPod equalizer 470Using the iTunes custom EQ presets .471Using sound check .472

Chapter 3: Managing Life on the Road .473

Getting the Most from Your iPod .473Setting date, time, and sleep functions .474Setting the alarm clock .475Putting a bookmark in an Audible title .476Customizing the menus and display .477Playing games with your iPod .478Adding Personal Information 478Using iCal for custom calendars 478Using Address Book .481Not N’Sync? Try iSync 482Sorting your contacts .484

Using the iPod as a Hard Drive 484Mounting the iPod as a hard drive 485Adding addresses from other sources 487Adding calendars from other sources .488Adding notes and text documents .488Saving photos and voice recordings 490Taking your system on the road .490Resetting Your iPod .492

Book VII: iLife Extras 495

Chapter 1: Understanding Your iEnvironment .497

Knowing What You Need 497Helping iPhoto run smoothly 498Optimizing iMovie and GarageBand performance .500Getting the most from iDVD .501Leveraging iMovie and iDVD 501Backing up an iMovie Project .503Backing up an iDVD project .503Surfing the Apple Web Site 504Calling for Help .505Troubleshooting Problems .507

Chapter 2: Enhancing Your iLife Environment with Other Tools .509

Plugging In 510iTunes plug-ins 510iMovie plug-ins 511iPhoto plug-ins .513iDVD plug-ins 514GarageBand loops and instruments 516Enhancing iLife with AppleScript 516Scripting iTunes 517AppleScripting iPhoto 517AppleScripting iDVD .519Supplementing iLife with Other Programs 521Freeware and shareware 521Commercial enhancements 529Supplementing iLife with Hardware 534

Chapter 3: Taking a Cue from the Media Pros 535

Taking Better Photos and Movies .535Obeying the rule of thirds .536Simplifying the background .537

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Adjusting the altitude .539Stabilizing the camera .539Throwing some light on the subject .540Shooting more than you need 541Watching the zoom 541Reading the fine manual .543Enhancing the sound with an extra mic .543Finding out more on the Internet .544Capturing Better Audio .545Using the right hardware and software .545Recording narrations .547Preparing the Shoot .547Planning the scope .548Filling in the details .550Budgeting time and money .550Planning for the DVD .551

Index 553

Remember the Nowhere Man from the Beatles classic animated movie,

Yellow Submarine? He was the nerdy little fellow always going round in

circles, writing books, composing music, taking pictures, directing plays,and making movies, always so very busy But he was also very sad, because

no one could see his work; the Blue Meanies had taken art away from the

people (and if we speculate on who the Blue Meanies are, we might really

get in trouble ) Nowhere Man is just “sitting in his nowhere land /making all his nowhere plans for nobody.” But as John Lennon pointed out,

“Isn’t he a bit like you and me?”

With the iLife suite of software tools, you won’t be like Nowhere Man — iLifeputs the world at your command All your digital assets — your photos,your songs, your videos, everything — are at your fingertips The iLife soft-ware brings together all your digital assets so that you can use them for cre-ative projects and manage them for the rest of your real life

A day in the iLife might include ripping some music CDs with iTunes to usewith your iPod on the road, or perhaps transferring the photos from yourdigital camera into your iPhoto library to share them with friends by e-mail.You might want to assemble a slideshow of the photos in iPhoto and set it tooriginal music that you can create in GarageBand by just jamming with pre-recorded loops and saving it in your iTunes library You can then post theslideshow with your music on the Web You can even bring video footagefrom your digital camcorder into iMovie and make a music video with allthese elements Finally, you can use iDVD to put together eye-poppingmenus and buttons to show off the music video and slideshow and anythingelse you may have, and burn a DVD-R that your friends can play on theirMacs or on everyday DVD players You can find out how to do all of this andmore in this book

Now you’re getting somewhere, man

About This Book

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About This Book

We designed this book as a reference You can find the information you needwhen you need it easily — this book even has thumbtabs to locate subjectsquickly We organize the information in a linear fashion into seven minibooks.You can read each minibook from beginning to end to find out how to usethe software from scratch You can also dive in anywhere and begin reading,because you find all the info you need to know for each task in each section

or step list

We don’t cover every detail of every function of the software, and we tionally leave out some detail so that we don’t spook you with technospeakwhen it’s not necessary (Really, engineers can sometimes provide too manyobscure choices that no one ever uses.) For this book, we wrote brief butcomprehensive descriptions and included lots of cool tips on how to be pro-ductive with iLife

inten-Conventions Used in This Book

Like any book about computers, this book uses certain conventions

When we write, “Choose iTunes➪Preferences,” you should open the iTunesmenu from the toolbar (in iTunes) and then select the Preferences menuitem Some menus have selections that are submenus with more choices,such as View➪Arrange Photos➪By Date If we wrote out each command thelong way, this book would be bigger In an effort to save paper, ink, and yourmoney, we use the command arrows

It’s a relief that we’re mostly beyond having to type commands into a puter, even if we have to use something rodent-like in appearance as well asname You can use a one-button mouse to do just about everything on a Mac.When we write, “Click the Import button,” you should move the mousecursor to the button on-screen and click the mouse button

com-Clicking once is not the only way to use a mouse When we write “Drag thephoto over the name of the album” we mean click the photo, hold the mousebutton down, and drag the mouse pointer over to the name of the albumbefore lifting your finger off the mouse button

Sometimes we abbreviate the instruction, “Click the name of something” to

“select something.” For example, when we say, “Select a photo album,” wemean click the name of the photo album Other times, we combine the click-and-drag function — we say, “Scroll the Source list,” when we mean clickingand dragging the scroll bar for the Source List window

Foolish Assumptions

Contrary to popular belief (and rumors circulated by the Blue Meanies), you

don’t need the following to use any of the applications (or this book):

✦ A pile of cash for extra equipment and software: Yes, you need a digital

camera for iPhoto, a digital camcorder for iMovie, a DVD-R drive for iDVD,and the iPod for portable music playing, but you can get all of this, includ-ing an iMac with a SuperDrive for burning DVD-Rs, for under $3,500, which

is about one-tenth of what it cost to do the same in 1998 And you don’tneed any extra software — every important piece of software we describe

in this book is either already on your Mac or available for free from theApple Web site at www.apple.com

✦ A better education: Courses in film, photography, and music can’t hurt,

but iLife is designed for the rest of us air-guitar players that barely knowthe difference between a video clip and a still image You won’t need anyspecialized knowledge to have a lot of fun with this software while build-ing your digital assets

✦ A tech support hotline: Not once do we ever feel the need to contact

the Apple technical support Everything works as it should We pinchourselves daily for this apparent miracle We never have to wade throughinscrutable documentation, either — the built-in help is informative anduseful (which you certainly won’t need if you have this book)

The iLife software is free, supplied with every Mac That’s really all the ware you need

soft-However, we do make some honest assumptions about your computer skills:

✦ You know how to use the Mac Finder: You should already know how to

use the Finder to locate files and folders, and how to copy files and ers from one hard drive to another

fold-✦ You know how to select menus and applications on a Mac: You should

already know how to choose an option from a Mac menu, how to findthe Dock to launch a Dock application, and how to launch an application

in the Application folder

For more information on either topic, see that excellent book by Mark L

Chambers, Mac OS X All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley).

How This Book Is Organized

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How This Book Is Organized

We organized this tome into seven minibooks The first five minibooks sent the five parts of iLife (iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand);the sixth minibook covers the iPod, and the last minibook delves into extraiLife information

repre-Book I: iTunes

This minibook begins with the revolution in digital music and what iTunesdoes You find out how to play music CDs like a professional DJ, buy musiconline from the Apple Music Store, rip CDs and import music from manysources, and organize your music library The minibook covers everythingyou need to know about sound quality and hard drive space trade-offs, aswell as how to get the best sound from your computer or CDs you burn yourself

Book II: iPhoto

This minibook provides all you need to know about using digital camerasand organizing your photos to produce prints, photo albums, and even professional-looking photo books It shows you how to improve and retouchdigital photos, create slideshows, and share photos online and by e-mail

Book III: iMovie

This minibook introduces digital video and tells you everything you need toknow about using digital camcorders with your Mac to create videos of allkinds, even professional videos This minibook shows you how to managevideo clips, create movies with photos and clips, and even edit soundtracksand special effects It also covers sharing movies online and saving movies inprofessional formats

Book IV: iDVD

This minibook describes how to bring all your digital assets together tocreate exciting DVDs that can play in DVD players as well as computers Youfind out how to create interactive menus and buttons and special effects,such as video backgrounds Burn DVDs like the pros and back up all yourprecious digital assets — photos, music, movies, slideshows — at their high-est quality

Book V: GarageBand

This minibook describes how to create your own music by building songswith prerecorded loops, recording a performance using your Mac as a syn-thesizer that can simulate musical instruments, and recording performanceswith real musical instruments (such as guitars) or live singing with vocalmicrophones You find out how to create and edit separate tracks, mix thetracks with volume and panning controls to create stereo sound, employsound effects and simulated amplifiers, and export the finished song toiTunes

Book VI: iPod

This minibook tells how to take your entire music library with you on theroad with an iPod You also discover how to use the iPod to look up contacts(addresses and phone numbers) and your calendar and to-do lists, as well ashow to use the iPod as a portable hard drive

Book VII: iLife Extras

This minibook talks about integrating the various components of iLife andincludes some helpful third-party stuff

Icons Used in This Book

The icons in this book are important visual cues for information you need.The Remember icons highlight important things you should commit tomemory

The Technical Stuff icons highlight technical details you can skip unless youwant to bring out the technical geek in you

The Tip icons highlight tips and techniques that save you time and energy,and maybe even money

The Warning icons save your butt by preventing disasters Don’t bypass aWarning icon without reading it This is your only warning!

Where to Go from Here

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Where to Go from Here

Feel free to begin reading this book anywhere or skip particular sections orchapters (or go really wild and start on page 1 and continue reading to theIndex) If you want to know how to tackle a particular task, look it up in theIndex or Table of Contents and flip to the page you need Or if you want tostart finding out about one of the products, start with that minibook This isyour book; dive right in

Book I

iTunes

Contents at a Glance

Chapter 1: iTunes — The Digital Jukebox 9 Chapter 2: Organizing Your Library 31 Chapter 3: Enhancing the Audio 53 Chapter 4: Burning CDs 71

Chapter 1: iTunes — The Digital Jukebox

In This Chapter

Starting iTunes

Playing music tracks

Setting visual effects

Perfecting the sound

Shopping for music online

Importing into iTunes

Listening to Web radio streams

More than half a century ago, jukeboxes were the primary and most venient way for people to select the music they wanted to hear andshare with others, especially newly released music Juke joints were hoppingwith the newest hits every night; however, you still had to insert coins everytime you played a song Possibly, you could afford records and a turntable,but you had to throw a party to share the music with others

con-Today, using a computer, you can create a digital jukebox and convenientlyclick a button to play a song Connect your Mac to a stereo amplifier in yourhome, or connect speakers to your Mac, and suddenly your Mac is the bestjukebox in the neighborhood

You can listen to a new song on the Internet and download it immediately.You can also buy music online at the iTunes Music Store iTunes downloadsmusic from the store and puts it in your library, making it immediately avail-able for playing, burning onto a CD, or transferring to an iPod You can evenlisten to Web radio stations using iTunes and add your favorite stations toyour music list

Transferring songs from a CD to your computer is called ripping a CD (to the

chagrin of the music industry old-timers who think we intend to destroy thedisc or steal the songs) Ripping an entire CD’s worth of songs is quick andeasy, and track information including artist name and title arrives automati-cally over the Internet

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iTunes gives you the power to organize songs into playlists and burn (record)CDs of any songs in your library, in any order You can even set up dynamicsmart playlists that reflect your preferences and listening habits iTunes offers

an equalizer with preset settings for all kinds of music and listening ments, and it gives you the ability to customize and save your own personal-ized settings with each song

environ-This chapter explains how iTunes changes your music playing and buyinghabits for the better You can preserve your music virtually forever with-out depending on the viability of the media (such as CDs that can becomescratched), and you can also use your music in a variety of creative projectsmade possible by iLife

Setting Up iTunes

You need to set up iTunes so that it can use your Internet connection to load song information such as artist name and song titles This happens auto-matically when you first start iTunes Follow these steps:

down-1. Launch iTunes.

Double-click the iTunes application, or click the iTunes icon in the Dock

2. If this is the first time you’ve used iTunes, click the Agree button for Apple’s License Agreement.

Apple’s License Agreement appears only when you start iTunes for thefirst time You can click Save to save the license agreement as a docu-ment, Print to print it, Decline to quit iTunes immediately, or Agree tomove on to iTunes Setup Assistant No lawyers will be present when you

do this; it’s all up to you

The Setup Assistant takes you through the process of setting up iTunesfor the Internet

3. Click Yes or No for the following options:

• “Yes, use iTunes for Internet audio content,” or “No, do not modify

my Internet settings”

We suggest clicking Yes to allow iTunes to handle audio content,because iTunes offers more features than you typically find withbrowser plug-ins from other companies On the other hand, if you arehappy with your plug-ins and helper applications, you can click Noand leave your Internet settings untouched

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if your Internet service charges when you use it, you probably don’t

want this connection to be automatic — you can click No to makeiTunes ask first To go to the next screen, click Next

The Setup Assistant also asks if you want iTunes to search your homefolder for music files You may want to click the No button for now,because iTunes may find files you don’t want to add to your library(such as music for games)

4. Click Next to go to the iTunes Music Store screen of the Setup Assistant.

The assistant asks if you want to go straight to the iTunes Music Store

We suggest clicking No for now, until you get to know iTunes

5. In the Setup Assistant window, click Done.

The iTunes window appears, as shown in Figure 1-1 You can drag thebottom-right corner of your iTunes window to make it larger or smaller

on your screen

If your computer shares a phone line or you pay Internet connection charges

by the minute, you probably don’t want to connect automatically If you’restuck with a dial-up modem, you may not want your modem to make a phonecall every time you slip a CD into the computer On the other hand, if yourInternet cost isn’t based on usage and you’re always connected, connectingiTunes automatically is convenient

Figure 1-1:

LaunchingiTunes

Playing CD Tracks

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Whether or not you set iTunes to automatically connect to the Internet, youshould at some point connect to the Internet with iTunes, not only to buymusic online and listen to Web radio, but also to retrieve the track informationwhen you insert a CD new to iTunes so that you don’t have to type the infor-mation yourself

Playing CD Tracks

To start playing music, just insert a music CD (or even a CD-R disc thatsomeone else may have burned for you) The music tracks appear in theiTunes song/detail list, as shown in Figure 1-2

You can play CDs without importing the music to your iTunes library if youwant to use iTunes as a CD player only To find out how to get digital musiconline or import music from CDs, see the sections, “Buying Music Onlinefrom Apple” and “Importing Music into iTunes,” later in this chapter

If your Mac is connected to the Internet, and you clicked Yes to the matically connect to the Internet” question in Setup Assistant, iTunes pres-ents the track information from the Internet for each song automaticallyafter you insert the CD, as shown in Figure 1-3

“auto-To play the CD from the first track — which is already selected if you justinserted the disc, but may not be if you clicked somewhere else after insertingthe disc, in which case you should click the first track to select it — click thePlay button The Play button turns into a Pause button, and the song plays

Figure 1-2:

The tracks

of an audioCD

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on your keyboard, or by clicking the Forward or Back button next to the Playbutton You can press the the spacebar of your keyboard to perform thesame function as clicking the Play button; pressing the spacebar again is justlike clicking the Pause button

The status display above the list of songs tells you the name of the artist andsong (if known), and the elapsed time of the track Click the artist name, andthe name disappears and the song title is displayed; click the title, and it isreplaced by the artist name If you click the Elapsed Time status, the statuschanges to the remaining time and then, with another click, to the total time(one more click brings you back to the elapsed time)

Rearranging and repeating tracks

You can rearrange the order of the tracks to automatically play them in anysequence you want — similar to programming a CD player Click the upward-pointing arrow at the top of the first column in the song list, and it changes

to a downward-pointing arrow, with the tracks in reverse order

Forward

PlayBackVolume slider

Status DisplayShuffle Repeat Visual Effects Eject

Figure 1-3:

CD trackinfo appearsafter iTunesconsultswith theInternet

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You can change the order of tracks played in sequence Just press and holdthe mouse button on the track number in the first column for the song, anddrag it up or down in the list You can set up the tracks to play in some com-pletely different sequence

Skipping tracks

To skip tracks so they don’t play in sequence, click the box next to the songname to remove the check mark iTunes skips deselected songs when youplay the entire sequence

To remove all check marks from a list simultaneously, hold down the Ô keywhile clicking a check mark Click an empty check mark box while pressing

Ô to add check marks to the entire list

Repeating a song list

You can repeat an entire song list by clicking the Repeat button at thebottom of the Source list on the left side of the iTunes window (or by choos-ing Controls➪Repeat All) The Repeat button icon changes to show bluehighlighting Click the Repeat button again to repeat the current song (or choose Controls➪Repeat One) — the icon changes to include a blue-highlighted numeral one Click it once more to return to normal playback (or choose Controls➪Repeat Off)

The Shuffle button, to the left of the Repeat button, plays the songs in thelist in a random order, which can be fun You can then press the arrow keys

or the Back or Forward button to jump around in random order Eject a CD

by clicking the Eject button or by choosing Controls➪Eject Disc

Displaying Visuals

Visual effects can turn your Mac display into a lightshow for your ment You can watch a cool visual display of eye candy while the music plays — or leave it on like a lava lamp Click the Visual Effects button on the bottom right side of the iTunes window (or choose Visualize➪TurnVisualizer On) The visual animation appears in the iTunes window and coordinates with the music

amuse-In addition to the animation replacing the iTunes song list, an Optionsbutton replaces the Import button in the upper-right corner of the iTuneswindow You can click the Options button to open the Visualizer Optionsdialog, as shown in Figure 1-4

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✦ Cap frame rate at 30 fps: Keeps the frame rate at 30 fps (frames per

second) or lower, which is the speed of normal video

✦ Always display song info: Displays the song name, artist, and album for

the song currently playing, along with the animation

✦ Faster but rougher display: The animation plays faster, with rougher

graphics Choose this option if your animation plays too slowly

The Visualizer menu in iTunes gives you even more control over visual effects

You can choose Visualize➪Small or Visualize➪Medium to display the visualeffects in a rectangle inside the iTunes window, or Visualize➪Large to fill theiTunes window Choosing Visualize➪Full Screen sets the visual effects totake over the entire screen With full-screen visual effects, you can click themouse or press the Escape key on your keyboard to stop the display andreturn to iTunes

While the animated visual effects play, press Shift+/ (the keystrokes you use

to type a question mark) to see a list of keyboard functions Depending onthe visual effect, you may see more choices of keyboard functions by press-ing Shift+/ again

To turn off visual effects, click the Visual Effects button again You can leavethe effects on (except when in full-screen mode) even while opening theequalizer, because you still have access to the playback controls See the following section to find out how to change the equalizer settings

Figure 1-4:

Set youroptions forvisualeffects