September and October are good months for working our Macs and our brains. MacLearn had a series of workshops on iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD and iWork that did just that. Three excellent instructors made it happen! Here’s the run down.
iMovie and iDVD 09 Hands-on Workshop September 5, 2009
Joe Zaret, Apple Solutions Consultant from Best Buy Iwilei presented iMovie and iDVD. He began with a bonus Snow Leopard sneak preview. Then he demonstrated how you can select movie clips, add transitions, create titles and rolling credits and add music with drag and drop ease. You can send your movie to iDVD to create a one click DVD or use one of many templates to easily add a menu, music and graphics.
iPhoto 09 Hands-on Workshop September 12, 2009
Gregg Kamei, one of our skilled and patient HMAUS members presented iPhoto. Participants created albums, edited photos with a palette full of tools, created slideshows, and added titles and keywords to images. If you store your photos in iPhoto you can easily grab them from any other iApp.
iWork 09 Presentation September 26, 2009
Colin Murphy, Apple Solutions Consultant from Best Buy, Aiea presented iWork, Apple’s productivity suite of Pages, Numbers and Keynote. The interface is consistent across all three products, making it easy to know where to look for things. Controls for customizing text, objects and animations are tucked neatly into 10 Inspector palettes. Seven of the 10 Inspectors are the same in all three programs. You learn one, and the others are easy to navigate and use. Colin gave away a copy of iWork ‘09 to lucky Dorothy Hallet and Everett Young won a copy of Snow Leopard which he already had. He donated it to the upcoming Mactoberfest on October 24, 2009!
Pages 09 Hands-on Workshop October 3, 2009
Colin Murphy presented a second great workshop, this time a hands-on Pages session. Participants used one of Pages’ 44 templates to type or drag images into. They learned to easily put a border or picture frame around an image, make columns, and create charts and tables. Pages can open, save to and email files in Microsoft Office Word format.
Mahalo to Joe, Gregg and Colin for taking the time to prepare and present these excellent session! Thanks also to those of you who took the time to join us, and to our photographer Norm Hallett.
Here are Dwayne and Ellen Dorschu, Susan Saka, Junie Hayashi, Lisa Oi, Cliff Young and Barbara Lusch at Gregg’s iPhoto workshop. Kimo Sutton, Everett Young and Mike Brein are involved in Colin’s Pages workshop.
Handouts for these products can be downloaded from http://drop.io/hmaus_maclearn. We recommend you print from the PDF file rather than directly from this website. These handouts link to Apple’s iLife and iWork video tutorials.
Watch the hmaus.org site for more HMAUS events!
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This post was written by jomats on October 5, 2009
Ross Rasmussen introduced two robust iApps, iMovie and iDVD ‘09 to save your memories in an entertaining and professional looking way. In a two hour MacLearn session on August 22nd he took the process from start to finish. He shot some video clips of traffic on Kalakaua Avenue and of Richard Sato dancing, well, gesturing, in front of the green wall upstairs at the ING Direct Café. He imported them as iMovie Events, and from those Events, selected and dragged clips into an iMovie project. Built-in templates, titles and effects made it easy to stitch the clips into a movie. He turned Richard upside and had traffic driving through him on Kalakaua. Howz that?!
