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iTunes - Classic Visualizer Configurations
Continued - Read More Tollett/Williams, LITTLE MAC IAPPS BOOK, © 2003 John Tollett and Robin Williams. Reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Peachpit Press. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Click Here to buy this book at a 30% discount
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From The Macintosh iLife 09 by Jim Heid "iDVD lets you burn movies and photos to DVDs, complete with menus you can fully customize. Designers and photographers can use iDVD to assemble digital portfolios that they can hand out like brochures. Filmmakers and advertising professionals can distribute rough cuts of movie scenes and commercials to clients and colleagues. Businesspeople can create in-house training discs and video archives of corporate meetings. Videographers can offer DVDs of weddings and other events. And home-movie buffs can preserve and share family videos and photographs. Creating a DVD involves choosing and customizing a menu design and adding the movies and photos you want to include on the DVD. You can perform these steps in any order and preview your work along the way. When youve finished, you can commit the final product to a shiny platter." Read More...Essential Mac Skills for the IT Professional
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The iTunes Visualizer can be even more fun if you know how to interact with it. The Visual Effects Generator uses three different configurations to create visuals. You can see these listed at the top-right of the screen if you press the C key while visual effects are playing. The three configurations listed change randomly and morph into one another as music plays. You can change any, or all, of these configurations while music is playing.
. "This is a project-based, get-it-done-without-a-lot-of-fuss guide to using a Mac--not a tedious and boring manual," said No Starch Press Publisher Bill Pollock, "because who wants to read those anyway?"