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The iDVD '09 Workspace
Get to know your way around the iDVD '09 workspace and you'll be on your way to making, customizing, and sharing your favorite photos, movies, and music. [more…]
iMovie '09 & iDVD '09 For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Understanding the workspace of iMovie '09 allows you to arrange and edit your home videos. Knowing your way around the iDVD workspace lets you create, customize, and share your photos, movies, and music [more…]
Different Types of Video and Audio That You Can Play on iTunes
iTunes, which comes with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, is a media player that plays audio and video files. These files can be in any of many different formats. Some of the more common file formats that iTunes [more…]
How to Use the iTunes Visualizer
By now, you know that iTunes is a feast for the ears, but did you know that the Snow Leopard’s iTunes Visualizer provides you with eye candy as well? With just a click or two, Snow Leopard lets you view [more…]
An Overview of iPhoto on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Macintosh has been the choice of professional photographers for working with digital images. Apple continues this tradition with iPhoto, Snow Leopard’s photography tool for the home user that can help [more…]
How to E-Mail Photos from iPhoto 09
iPhoto 09 can help you send your images through e-mail by automating the process. The application can prepare your image and embed it automatically in a new message. To send an image through e-mail, select [more…]
How to Start a Movie Project with iMovie 09
Mac OS X with Snow Leopard offers a video application called iMovie — a feature-packed tool for serious movie production. The iMovie controls work the same as many top-notch movie-editing tools that professionals [more…]
How to Add Still Images to Movies in iMovie 09
When you're making a movie with iMovie 09, still images come in handy as impressive-looking titles or behind ending credits. (Make sure you list a gaffer and a best boy to be truly professional.) However [more…]
How to Import Audio into iMovie 09 Projects
Using iMovie on your Mac, you can pull in background music and sound effects for your movie by dragging them to the iMovie’s Project pane. You can add audio from a number of sources: [more…]
How to Add Transitions to Your iMovie 09 Project
iMovie 09 allows you to add transitions to your iMovie projects. iMovie includes a surprising array of transitions, including old favorites (such as Fade In and Dissolve) and some nifty stuff you might [more…]
How to Use QuickTime to View or Listen to Media
QuickTime is the media player that comes with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. QuickTime was created by Apple to perform all sorts of multimedia functions. Although normally associated with movie playback, QuickTime [more…]
How to Customize Mac OS X Snow Leopard's DVD Player
Mac OS X Snow Leopard's DVD Player offers several extra functions for exploring the features and content provided with a DVD movie, such as changing languages, customizing subtitles, and controlling [more…]
How to Change Snow Leopard’s CD and DVD Preferences
In Mac OS X Snow Leopard, you have control over hardware settings. For example, you can specify what happens when you load a CD or DVD. CD and DVD preferences are located in system Preferences. [more…]
How to Rip Audio Files with Mac OS X Snow Leopard
You don’t have to rely on Internet downloads to get audio files. Mac OS X Snow Leopard lets you create your own MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV files from your audio CDs with iTunes. The process [more…]
How to Crop Photos in iPhoto
With iPhoto, you can remove unwanted portions of an image by cropping with iPhoto’s image editing tools. The first step in any editing job is to select the image you want to fix in the Viewer. Then click [more…]
How to Create a Photo Book with iPhoto 09
Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes iPhoto 09 for all your image needs. iPhoto’s Book mode lets you design and print a high-quality bound photo book based on the images in an iPhoto album. After you format [more…]
How to Import Video Clips into iMovie
iMovie is a great way to create your own movies from your Mac, but it won't do the filming for you. You have to import the video you record with a digital video camera or camcorder. Here’s the drill if [more…]
How to Add Narration to Your iMovie Project
With iMovie, Mac's movie creation and editing application, you can add voiceover narration to your iMovie project. In fact, you can record your voice while you watch your movie playing, allowing perfect [more…]
How to Add Clips to Your iMovie Project
iMovie is Mac OS X Snow Leopard’s movie creation and editing software. You can add clips to your iMovie project via the Project pane, which displays the media you’ve added to your project so far, allowing [more…]
How to Edit iMovie Clips in Mac OS X Snow Leopard
After you add clips to your iMovie project, you may need to edit them. If a clip has extra seconds of footage at the beginning or end, you don’t want that superfluous stuff in your masterpiece. The iMovie [more…]
How to Add Titles to Your iMovie Project
With Mac OS X Snow Leopard’s iMovie application, you can complete your movie project by adding titles. iMovie offers a Titles Browser; you’ll find it by clicking the Title button [more…]
How to Access Movie Info in QuickTime on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes QuickTime as its media player. QuickTime contains information about your media files. To see more information about the files that you’re playing, ask the expert: QuickTime [more…]
How to Change Song Information in iTunes
If iTunes can’t find your CD in the online database, or someone gives you an MP3 with incomplete or inaccurate information, iTunes lets you edit the information yourself. Most people want at least the [more…]
How to Use the iTunes Equalizer in Mac OS X Snow Leopard
iTunes is the default audio player in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. In addition to the standard volume controls, iTunes offers a full equalizer. An equalizer [more…]
How to Add a Radio Station to Your iTunes Playlists
The iTunes application in Mac OS X Snow Leopard offers a list of popular radio stations on the Web, but it’s by no means comprehensive. iTunes lets you add [more…]
