Whether you're an accomplished musician or a student, GarageBand is the most rewarding way to create, perform, and record your own music. In the only Apple-certified guide to GarageBand, composer Mary Plummer starts by teaching you the interface and basic recording techniques and moves on to arranging a song, editing and mixing tracks, adding effects, and distributing your music files. Using ...

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Garage Band 2 turns your Mac into a full-featured recording studio. This book/DVD combo offers a self-paced course in various aspects of Garage Band 2. It teaches you tasks ranging from mastering the interface and basic recording techniques to the secrets of arranging songs, editing and mixing tracks, adding effects, and distributing the files.

Garageband helps you to create, perform, and record your own music. This work shows you just how easy it is to turn your Mac into a recording studio. It offers a self-paced course in various aspects of Garageband - from mastering the interface and basic recording techniques to the secrets of arranging a song, adding effects, and more.

Soundtrack Pro, Apple's sound design software, is a member of the Final Cut Pro Studio digital video suite. This title provides a self-paced course in various aspects of Soundtrack Pro. It guides you through the secrets of editing, repairing, mixing, and arranging multi-track audio files, as well as how to create original soundtracks, and more.

Introduces you to motion graphics aesthetics helping you learn the program. This work discusses the interface, building projects, and adding behaviors as you learn what makes Motion tick and how to use it effectively.

Teaches you how to create titles for your projects. This work provides a kind of elements of style, explaining design principles such as size, color, speed, placement, and font choice. It accompanys a DVD which has Quick Time movies showing examples constructed using After Effects, Motion, LiveType, Photoshop, and Flash.