Any computer can play movies. But only one comes with all the software you need to make blockbusters. Every new Mac features iMovie HD, iDVD, and iWeb ? three easy-to-use essentials for importing, editing, and sharing mouth-watering masterpieces. Part of the iLife ?06 software suite, these applications work seamlessly together. Try finding that on a PC.
No matter what you shoot ? from MPEG-4 to HDV video formats ? you can import everything to the Mac smoothly. How smoothly? They call it ?plug-and-play? for a reason. Just connect your standard or 16:9 video camera to the Mac via FireWire and iMovie goes to work.
iMovie gives you moviemaking power you never imagined. Each iMovie theme contains consistent design elements, including backgrounds, motion graphics, titles, and effects. Acting as building blocks for your project, professionally produced scenes with drop zones allow you to easily add videos by drag-and-dropping them. Then just type in your titles and select optional visual or audio effects. iMovie does the grunt work. And thanks to iMovie?s seamless integration with the entire suite of iLife applications, it?s a snap to add photos from iPhoto and music from iTunes or GarageBand, too.
When you?re ready to share your jaw-dropping movies with friends and family, iDVD and iWeb have you covered. Make professional-looking widescreen DVDs with ease. The beautiful themes, polished menus, and smooth transitions in iDVD will dazzle and delight your toughest critics. Your friends will hardly realize they sat through vacation photos and home movies.
The sharing doesn?t stop there. Get your movies online. Fast. Just drag, drop, and design web pages using your choice of templates in iWeb. Access all your iLife content ? movies, photos, music ? without leaving iWeb. Drag an iMovie project into the template and with one click publish to .Mac. It?s that simple. You can even use iMovie and iWeb to create video podcasts, complete with chapter markers and live web links.
If you decide you want to move onwards and upwards to more complex video projects, only the Mac gives you a smooth transition from iMovie to Final Cut Express HD. You?ll be thanking the Academy in no time.
