Essential Books
Apple Training Series : iLife '06
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Apple Training Series : GarageBand 3
by Mary Plummer
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Making Real Life Videos: Great Projects for the Classroom And the Home by Matthew Williams
An amazing resource!
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An phenomenal book and indespensible guide for teachers and students. Highly recommended! |
iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue
This is the thorough and informative
book you've been waiting for. A must for all
iLife users!
David Pogue also authored fantastic books about Garageband and other applications.
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Mac iLife '06 in the Classroom
By Jim Heid
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Digital Video Production Cookbook : 100 Professional Techniques for Independent and Amateur Filmmakers by Chris Kenworthy
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Unbelievably cool, cheap & easy special effects and camera techniques! |
Digital Video Hacks: Tips & Tools for Shooting, Editing, and Sharing by Joshua Paul
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A phenomenal assortment of wisdom and cool tricks! |
DV Filmmaking : From Start to Finish by Ian Aronson
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A great book for Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, Avid and Premiere users. |
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iMovie
3 Solutions: Tips, Tricks, and Special Effects
by Erica Sadun
A fantastic source of incredibly
clever ways to use iMovie, QuickTime Pro and Adobe
Photoshop Elements to create sophisticated video
productions.
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Radio:
An Illustrated Guide by Ira Glass
This short comic book by the host of NPR's This
American Life somehow manages to inspire children of all
ages to conduct great interviews and produce radio programs for
the web and traditional radio. This is the best $4 you will ever
spend!
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Indispensable! Every student should own a copy! |
How
to Photograph Your Life: Capturing Everyday Moments
with Your Camera and Your Heart
by Nick Kelsh
An incredibly beautiful, practical
and easy-to-use source of inspiration for anyone
interested in snapping great photos.
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Brilliant book! |
The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby
Want to know how to make someone look slimmer, loose freckels or fix red-eye automatically? How about simple color correction, photo repair or adding a watermark? if you answered, "yes," to any of these questions, then this book is for you. The book is organized around "how-to" topics with crisp clean photos detailing each step. It is an excellent reference for non-experts.
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Older stuff still worthy of consideration
Photoshop
Elements 4 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography
by Mikkel Aaland
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Digital
Photography Essentials: Point, Shoot, Enhance,
Share
By Erica Sadun
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Digital Photography Pocket Guide by Derrick Story
The Digital Photography Pocket Guide gives you the tools, the knowledge, to take the kind of pictures you've always wanted. Consider it your quick-reference photo mentor that explains each of the camera's components, shows you what they do, then helps you choose the right settings to accomplish your goal. When you want to ask an expert, "How can I get that picture?", simply pull this handy guide out of your camera bag, backpack, or back pocket, and you'll find the answer quickly.
The book covers everything from image resolution, flash modes, action photography, close ups and portraits, to memory cards, emailing images, and archiving.
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iMovie 3 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart
Guide)
by Jeff Carlson |
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Quicktime
Pro 6 for MacIntosh and Windows
by Judith
Stern, Robert A. Lettieri
Learn a lot more about the hidden
secrets of QuickTime in this book for novices
and experts alike. This book contains lots of
great tips and tricks for editing with QuickTime
Player.
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QuickTime
for the Web : A Hands-On Guide for Webmasters,
Site Designers, and HTML Authors
by Steven W. Gulie
This expansive volume contains
a great deal of information needed by folks planning
to produce QuickTime movies for the web and other
forms of mass distribution. It's the bible of
QuickTime on the video-based web publishing.
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Revolutionary
QuickTime Pro 5 & 6
by Bradley Ford, Andy Grogan , Frank Lowney, Manuel Minut, Jonathan
Puckey, Jurgen Schaub , Francesco Schiavon, Barb Roeder
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iLife
Bible
By Dennis R. Cohen & Bob LeVitus
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iLife
Zero to Hero: iMovie 3, iPhoto 2, iTunes 3 and
iDVD 3
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Making
iMovies
by Scott Smith
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iMovie
Fast & Easy
by Kevin Harreld
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Complete
Idiot's Guide to iMovie
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The
Little Digital Video Book
by Michael Rubin
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Producing
Great Sound for Digital Video
by Jay Rose
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Final
Cut Express Editing Workshop
by Tom Wolsky
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Making
Movies with Final Cut Express
by Michael Rubin
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Beginner's
Final Cut Pro: Learn to Edit Digital Video
by Michael Rubin
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Final
Cut Pro 3 and the Art of Filmmaking
by Jason Cranford Teague, David Teague
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Final
Cut Pro: Visual QuickPro Guide
by Lisa Brenneis
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