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Book:   iMovie '08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
Subject:   Katrina Relief Mission DVD finally a reality.
Date:   2009-04-07 20:25:20
From:   MarySue Eckard
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

I believe I won this book back in November 2008.
I've been a Mac user since 2004. I learned to do a lot with photo's
and movies creating CD's and DVD's. I purchased a new computer in
February 2009. The changes from my old computer to the new one in
iMovie and iDVD, are phenomenal. My husband and I went to New Orleans
on a "Katrina Relief
Mission Trip" in 2007. I have a lot of video and photo's of the work
we did in gutting three houses so that the people, who owned them,
could some day rebuild. My dream was to be able to make a DVD to give
the 14 people who went on the trip. Last week I was able to make a 32
minute DVD. I added "credits", which included the title of the trip
and the names of the fourteen people who went. I created it in iMovie
with the scrolling credits, saved that segment as a quicktime movie
and dragged it to the DVD to play as it is inserted. It works great
on our DVD player plus other friends computers and DVD players. It's
never too late to put those photos and movies together of past trips.
We will have a reunion with the group and I plan on having this DVD
and maybe two more to give them. My husband and I had taken a trip to
New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina. I'll do a segment of the
"before" with Jazz music. What a treasure to have. And it's all
because of what can be done on iMovie and iDVD today. I am just
beginning to explore iMovie and iDVD. It would be fun to put a video
on YouTube or iWeb. These are things I've never been able to do.
This book is a wonderful tool that I will be using a lot.


Thank you
for donating it to the raffle.


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