As promised, here is the conclusion of the iOS 4 walkthrough. As I covered the majority of the new features in the previous show, this first part of this week's show is a round up of some of the minor new features that may have missed your radar together with a look at the new iBooks application. I cover:

• Using a Bluetooth Keyboard
• Spelling Checker
• Inserting Special Characters
• Drop Pin in Maps
• IBooks

In the second part of this week's show, I take a look at the groundbreaking iMovie app on the iPhone 4.

Everyone expected HD video capture on the iPhone 4, but no one expected a fully featured video editing application on the iPhone as well. This little app really is a masterstroke by Apple, not only in its execution, but turning the iPhone into a portable video editing machine, allowing people to easily and quickly create movies form the various video clips and stills they take with their iPhone.

How many times have you have taken lots of video clips on your iPhone 3GS, only to have them sync'd to their Mac and then forgotten about. Now you can spend a few minutes to assemble a great HD movie and share it with friends and family directly from the iPhone 4 itself.

Although iMovie for iPhone is simple to use, it's not really very intuitive, at least, not until you’ve been shown the basics. This section of the show does just that, taking you from soup to nuts in creating, editing and sharing movies from your iPhone 4.

In detail, this section covers:

• iMovie Themes
• iMovie User Interface
• Adding Clips to the Timeline
• Working with the Timeline
• Editing Clips
• Applying Clip Settings
• Editing Transitions
• Adding Still Images
• Exporting & Sharing Movies

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Seeing as this show is going out over the Christmas period, I thought I'd give it a festive flavour with some hints and tips around getting the most out of your Mac for the holidays.

In detail. the show covers:

iTunes DJ : With the ever increasing numbers of iPhones and iPod touches in circulation, why not leverage the power of iTunes 9 and your wifi network to hand control of your Christmas or New year party playlist over to your guests! This section shows you how to set up iTunes DJ to allow guests to select, promote and demote songs from your iTunes playlist using the the free Apple Remote application directly from their hand held device.
Christmas Wallpaper & ScreenSaver: Why not spruce up your Mac with some gorgeous Christmas Wallpapers and a nice snowy screensaver. This section gives details of a superb resource of not just cool yule wallpapers, but also replacement icons and other such goodies. I show you how to install and configure some new wallpapers and screensavers with the addition of a fun time-lapse video of how one of the wallpapers was created.
PhotoBooth SlideShows with QuickTime Pro: One of the most popular applications, not just at Christmas time but all year round, is PhotoBooth. The source of endless hours of fun and probably the reason for a lot of Mac sales, PhotoBoot allows you to create literally hundreds of fun photos from the built in iSight camera on the Mac. But what to do with all those photos? Why not create a video montage of all the photos? THis section shows you how to create a standard Quicktime movie of all your photos at whatever speed you like. In addition, I show you how to use Garageband to add an audio track to your movie.
PhotoBooth SlideShows with iMovie 09: OK, so spending £20 to get the Pro version of Quicktime 7 may not be for you, so this section shows you how to do the same using iMovie 09 only better (and for free if you've already got iLife!) Using the relatively unknown feature of Beat Markers in iMovie 09, it's a breeze to cut still photos or even movie clips to the beat of your musical accompaniment. I use the PhotoBooth photos to demo but this is a fantastically powerful technique to use in your normally movie making, especially if you fancy your hand at becoming a music video producer!

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The third and final part of the mini series on "Managing Multiple Macs" (which may be continued at a later date!)

This week, I take at look at how I manage organising and moving my digital images and videos between my laptop and desktop Mac.

As well as the multitude of applications available to use to work on our digital assets, we are faced with an ever expanding number of gadgets and gizmos that enable us to create images and video too. So as well as how to move your digital images and video around, I also take a look at "Cameras" - a simple yet ingenious preference pane application that allows you to configure exactly what happens when you plug your digital devices into your Mac, albeit open iPhoto, Aperture, iMovie, automatically download or even, just do nothing at all.

I also take a look at using external hard drives as an option to swap iPhoto libraries between machines, as well as a third party application called "iPhoto Library Manager". This brilliant application allows you to copy images between separate iPhoto libraries using simple drag and drop, as well as allowing you to merge complete iPhoto libraries.

To finish off, there's even a short section on moving Aperture projects between machines.

Links:
Cameras,
iPhoto Library Manager (15% off using JVVDD0XTFLMIG1CN)
Duplicate Annihilator (25% off using CPN7756165310)

Recent Podcasts:
The Mac Roundtable (Episode #67),
The MacJury (Episode #910)

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A must have gadget for anyone doing HD video encoding (or any video encoding for that matter)

The new Elgato turbo.264 HD USB device has just been launched and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one of the first devices in the UK. This is a small USB stick containing a dedicated H264 encoding engine that allows your Mac to offload processor intensive video encoding, to the USB stick. This both frees up your main processor, but more importantly, supercharges the encoding process resulting in much faster encoding, even on underpowered machines.

I was hugely impressed by the original turbo.264 (as featured in SCO0100) and saw some pretty significant increases in video encoding speeds. The only downside was that the original turbo.264 was limited to standard definition with no support for HD.

Well that's been resolved with this new updated device as it now supports H264 video encoding at 720p all the way up to 1080p.

As the turbo.264 HD is accessible via Quicktime, any application that uses Quicktime can benefit for a huge increase in encoding speed. iMovie 09, Final Cut Express or even Final Cut Pro can all hook into the turbo.264 HD.

Not only that, but Elgato has also added in support for AVCHD, the defacto standard for video on most modern camcorders, allowing you to directly access, edit and encode your HD video directly off your video camera at stunning speeds.

With an even greater support for most standard video formats (including the direct conversion of MKV files) the Elgato turbo.264 HD allows you to re-encode virtually any video for most popular devices including the Apple TV, iPhone or iPod, Sony PSP and even supports conversion and direct upload to YouTube and YouTube HD.

Did I mention that it also speeds up encoding within EyeTV and it is fully AppleScriptable allowing you to setup scripts or folder actions to process your videos automatically, all under AppleScript control.

This weeks show shows you how to use the turbo.264 HD and gives you an insight into the potential performance increase by comparing various encoding tasks both with and without the turbo.264 HD. The show covers:

• Using the turbo.264 HD
• Exporting from iMovie 09 with and without the turbo.264 HD
• Directly accessing, editing and encoding your AVCHD files
• Converting other Video files
• Comparing Video Monkey and turbo.264 HD
• A quick look at AppleScript and turbo.264 HD

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The reaction to part 1 of the iMovie 09 update show was excellent, with lots of emails and twitters flying about, so thanks for that!


I really think Apple have invested a huge amount of time and resources to make this version of iMovie the best ever with respect to the ease at which you can create quite literally stunning effects. Part 1 of the iMovie 09 update focussed mainly on some of the new techniques required to master the clip editing features of iMovie 09. In this weeks show, we take a look at the stuff that give it the wow factor.

Apple have brought back themes to allow you to create some simply incredible openings, transitions and credits. Titles and transitions abound with real time previews and inspectors galore, giving you incredible control on how your final movie looks.

Brand new for this version is the inclusion of animated travel maps and globes allowing you to create gorgeous animated openings and transitions for your travelog movies. Effects that previously were out of reach of the average videographer.

And that’s before we even get onto the advanced topics!

Chapter marks are back allowing you to seamlessly integrate with iDVD, but also allowing you to add chapters into your quicktime movies intended for the iPhone, iPod touch or Apple TV. A new addition is the inclusion of comment marks, allowing you to place markers at strategic places in your movie enabling easy navigation during editing.

Apple have included some additional techniques to allow you to control exactly how your movies look, delivering advanced movie editing with a simple drag and drop approach. Advanced editing such as cutaways, picture in picture, even green screen effects are now available to you via drag and drop.
This weeks show looks at all these features in depth to allow you to understand how and when to use the multitude of new tools available to you. The show covers:

• Transitions - Selecting and Previewing
• Using Titles as Overlays
• Titles and Backgounds
• Selecting Themes
• Updating Multipane Theme Transitions
• Animated Travel Maps
• Advanced Tools - Selection
• Placing Chapter & Comment Markers
• Searching Chapter & Comment Markers
• Explaining and Demonstrating Advanced Tools
• Cutaway
• Picture in Picture
• Green Screen

In addition, this weeks show includes the results of the monthly members prize draw, together with the results of the recent prize draw for members purchasing a ScreenCastsOnline DVD - some top Apple swag all the way from Cupertino CA!

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One of the most anticipated shows this week and that's the new iMovie '09 update.

Apple really upset a lot of people back in 2007 (yes, it really was that long ago!) with the release of iMovie '08. The application was a complete re-write of the original iMovie HD application, re-engineered to make movie making quick and easy. Unfortunately, along the way Apple managed to leave out a ton of features from iMovie '08, generating a lot of bad press and even more bad feeling amongst the mac faithful.

So have Apple capitulated with iMovie '09 and gone back to a more traditional approach to movie making?

An emphatic NO!!

What they have done is to take the principles first introduced with iMovie '08 and make iMovie '09 even more powerful. As well as that, they've also started to add back in some of the features, so sorely missed from iMovie HD.

As there is so much to cover in iMovie '09, I'm publishing two tutorials, starting with part 1 this week. This first part covers some of the new features of iMovie '09 including one feature that will appease most of the nay-sayers and that's the brand new "Precision Editor", a great way to visually edit your project footage in what can only be described as a visual timeline.

This week show also covers:

• Introduction to iMovie '09
• Importing Footage
• Archiving Footage to Hard Disk
• Viewing Events & Projects
• Editing in iMovie 09
• Adjusting Clip Properties
• Image Stabilisation
• Video & Audio Inspectors
• Precision Editor - Basics
• Audio Editing using the Precision Editor
• Editing Transitions with the Precision Editor

To get the most out of this weeks show, I strongly suggest you re-visit the original iMovie '08 tutorials for a good grounding in some of the basic principals. Instead of starting from scratch, this weeks show assumes a level of knowledge of iMovie '08, which you can pick up from the original shows. Checkout the special section in the show describing the three ways to access the previous iMovie tutorials
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Rounding off the two part tutorial on Apples iMovie '08, this week's show looks at some of the more advanced aspects of movie creation using this unique software application.

The 30 minute show covers various topics including:

• Sound Adjustments to Project Clips
• Adding and Manipulating Background Music
• Pinned and Floating Music
• Adding Sound Effects
• Adding Voice Overs
• Adding Titles & Transitions
• Advanced Tools
• Keyword Management
• Sharing Your Video

Also in this weeks 30 minute show are some details about next weeks Podcast and New Media Expo which I'll be attending. If you're around, say hello!

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As promised, this week's show is an in-depth look at iMovie '08, the latest addition to the iLife '08 suite of applications from Apple.

Apple have re-written iMovie '08 from scratch and it shows! Ideal for new users or anyone who wants to edit video in record time.

But iMovie '08 is more than just a video editing package, it's a whole new way to organise, store and share video.

This week's show is Part 1 of what may turn out to be an extended series of tutorials on iMovie '08 and covers:

• iMovie '08 User Interface
• Understanding Clips & Storage
• Video Formats & Importing Video
• Basic Clip Organisation
• Creating & Assembling Projects
• Video Adjustments

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Well it's finally here, along with iWork 08, and surprise, surprise, you don't need Leopard!

Apple have released iLife 08 and I couldn't resist quickly running through some of the main changes to all the applications, even though I'd only had a few hours to play with it.

In this week's show, I take you through the installation with some extra tips for iWeb users. Once installed, there's a quick introduction to all of the apps with a little more in depth look at iMovie 08.

The good news is that there is tons of material here for new screencasts so expect to see more detailed screencasts on all the iLife 08 applications along with iWork 08 over the next few months!

This is a full free show (but only in 640x360 with no chapters for non members). As mentioned in the show, I'll try and do at least one show a month on one of the new versions of the iLife apps (and iWork) but they won't all be free shows. To get the full set, you'll need to be an Extra! member.

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It's the first week of the month again, so this weeks show is a special just for ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members.

Following on from last months Extra! members show covering iMovieHD, iDVD completes the video section of iLife allowing you to turn your iMovieHD movies into professionally produced DVDs.

In the show I cover...

OneStep DVD Creation
Magic iDVD
Extracting Video Clips from iMovieHD packages
Creating Slideshows
Adding Audio
IMovieHD integration with iDVD
Customising Menus and Buttons
Customising Projects
and much more....

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Well it's the first week of the month so this weeks show is for Extra! members.

I've decided to do a show on one of the most requested topics and that's iMovie HD, part of the iLife '06 suite.

iMovie and iDVD have long been two of my favourite applications on the mac and to be honest, if you've got a camcorder, it's worth buying a mac just for these two applications alone!

The show takes you through the basics of iMovie HD and uses HD footage to demonstrate the basic workflow and features. The latest version of iMovie HD can appear a little confusing especially with the new themes so the screencast takes you through these step by step. The Extra! show covers....

Introduction to HD and DV format
Capturing clips from your Camcorder
Basic Clip editing
Creating a Timeline
Adding Titles
Adding Transitions
Adding and Editing a Music Track
Exploring and Using iMovie HD Themes
Exporting your Finished Movie

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