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June 30–July 10,2005 ® Baltic Blast:TM MacManiaTM 3.5 concurrent with TM Enrich your mind in the Northern Light glow of the midnight sun … permit yourself A Digital Camera Workshop to be pampered,body, mind,and soul … unwind in the romantic Baltic aboard a luxurious cruise ship … come along with us! ▼ We’ll be here,We’ll in Stockholm, on July 6. TOWARD MAC OS XX It took Apple 17 years to get us from System 1.0 to Mac OS X … from128K of Baltic Blast:MacMania3.5 memory to 128 megs … from a 400K disks to 40 gigabytes.What will the Mac look like in another 17 years? In this half-crazy,half-serious presenta- You may choose any combination of full-day, Creating Practical Projects with iMovie iMovie in Real Time (quarter day) tion,David Pogue takes af unny,whirlwind half-day,or quarter-day seminars for a total of (half day) Speaker:David Pogue look back at Apple’s greatest (and dimmest) two (2.5) days’worth of sessions.The conference Speaker:Christopher Breen moments … pauses to analyze the fee is $595 and includes all courses*,course This one is really a blast.Armed with a cam- promise and perils of Mac OS X … and materials,and the Bon Voyage Cocktail Party. iMovie is a terrific tool for making home movies, corder and a laptop,David Pogue (author of the then fast-forwards to 2020 to imagine but beneath its gentle exterior is a reasonably bestselling iMovie & iDVD:The Missing Manual) *NOTE: The Northern Light Digital Photography what Apple — and Microsoft — might- powerful video editor that’s capable of creating will attempt to make a complete digital movie, bring us on the road to Mac OS XX. Workshop (taking place in the evenings during professional-looking instructional videos.In complete with dialogue,characters,sound our crusie) is independent of Baltic Blast — this session you’ll learn how to put together effects,and music,using good-natured audi- Told through photos,movies,and even Northern Light Seminars (see adjoining page) such a video with the help of your camcorder, ence members as actors.In the process,you’ll songs at the piano,this is a tale you’ve cannot be counted toward your Baltic Blast 2.5- digital camera,iPhoto,iTunes,GarageBand,and learn the essentials of digital moviemaking, never before heard told quite this way. day conference total.But,in addition to the a couple of inexpensive third-party utilities. including music,effects,and,of course,techni- Baltic Blast offerings,Baltic Blast attendees may The session will cover planning and scripting, cal workarounds;the results can be exported opt to attend the Northern Light Digital asset acquisition and management,basic and as a QuickTime film,posted on the Web,or Photography Seminars,in the early evenings,for advanced iMovie editing techniques,proper burned onto an actual DVD.This session will More Mac DVD Magic (quarter day) a fee.Individual seminars can be taken for $149 use of effects and transitions,narration tips, focus not just on iMovie and your camcorder, Speaker: Jason Snell (per four-hour/two-day seminar).The confer- and preparation of your iMovie for distribution but the Hollywood techniques that separate ence fee for all three Northern Light Seminars is to the web,disc,and across a network. amateur camcorder and production work from The Mac’s the prime DVD-creation platform, $395.The Visby Fieldtrips are $149 each. polished,professional efforts.Be prepared to but what if you want to go beyond the basics be educated,entertained — and filmed. of iMovie and iDVD? Apple’s DVD Studio Pro iTunes, uTunes,We All Croon for iTunes lets regular people make Hollywood-class He’ll even post the finished movie on his (quarter day) Playing With the GarageBand (half day) Website for attendees to show off after their DVDs.This session will give you tips on video compression,designing interfaces and burning Speaker:Christopher Breen,w/ David Pogue Speaker:Christopher Breen return home! discs using DVD Studio Pro,choosing DVD-R This session will examine the core elements of In this session we’ll explore the many faces of media,and more. iTunes — music player,audio converter,music Apple’s entry-level music application, Inside iPhoto — and Way,Way Beyond manager,Internet radio receiver,and network GarageBand — loops,software instruments (half day) (MIDI),real instruments (digital audio),and jukebox.In addition to unraveling all that is effects.In this session,you’ll learn how to con- iTunes,we’ll take a side trip to the iTunes Music Speaker:David Pogue Store and cock a keen eye at utilities that can Working with Your figure your Mac to record with the built-in Maybe you’ve already mastered your digital enhance the iTunes experience — third-party instruments as well as capture your voice and camera,and even filled its memory card with Digital Photos and Photoshop music encoders and helpful AppleScripts. such real instruments as guitar and bass. photos from your cruise.Now what? Additionally,you’ll learn how to find your way around the GarageBand interface,create sim- In this tippy,tricky session,David Pogue,author iPod Supersession (quarter day) of iPhoto:The Missing Manual, takes you far ple arrangements with the included loops, Essential Photo Optimizing — deeper into iPhoto than you’ve thought it pos- muck with your music with the built-in editor, Speaker:Christopher Breen Getting it Right (half day) sible to go.He shows you how to master the mix your composition,export it to another The iPod is far more than this century’s Sony underlying folder structure of iPhoto’s digital Speaker:Jack Davis application,and incorporate your finished Walkman.Beyond its abilities to store and play shoebox on your hard drive,making it possible work into an iPhoto slide show and iMovie. The experienced user knows there are a million weeks of music,the iPod is a personal informa- to back up,split,and merge photo libraries; tools in Photoshop to adjust your images for max- tion manager and digital wallet.In this session how to use plug-ins and add-ons to bolster imum impact,but which ones work best,work we’ll look at all things iPod and examine its iPhoto’s printing,Web-page export,and email- fastest,and are most “photographer friendly”? GarageBand and Beyond (half day) ing features;how to modify the layouts of relationship with iTunes (and how to make the In this session you will learn all sorts of work- most of that relationship by constructing playlists iPhoto’s spectacular photo books;and enough Speaker:Christopher Breen flow-enhancing techniques including:101 uses for managing a massive music collection). additional tips and tricks to make give you the for Auto Levels,how to create nondestructive This session begins by offering techniques for We’ll offer techniques for getting the most life digital-photography bug worse than you’ve dodge and burn layers,advanced gray-scale tweaking your compositions within out of your iPod and discuss ways to deal with ever had it before. conversions,eyedropper color correcting, GarageBand.We’ll dive into the finer points of the device when the music inexplicably stops. MIDI- and audio editing,learn about the Best of all,he’ll show you how to use iPhoto stained-teeth whitening,red-eye neutralizing, advantages of editing controller data,and and Photoshop as springboards to do more blotchy-skin unifying,and the only way to use with your photos:edit and crop them for the mutate the built-in effects in musical (and Inside Mac OS X “Tiger” (half day) Photoshop’s healing brush — all with an not-so-musical) ways.We’ll also discuss meth- greatest impact,create Web-page galleries of emphasis on quality,flexibility,and speed. them,build musical slide shows on DVD for ods for overcoming GarageBand’s import and Speaker:David Pogue unforgettable gifts,and much more. • Which editing tools are best to use when export limitations — providing tips for Join this highly entertaining session as NY Times fixing images — and which ones to avoid. importing music files not originally intended columnist David Pogue makes Apple’s newest Mac • Quick tone and color adjustments that leave for GarageBand as well as adding third-party OS X operating system — Tiger version 10.4 Mac DVD Magic (quarter day) your original image intact loops and instruments to the program.We’ll — sing,dance,and walk on its head.Witness a • How to quickly fix under and over exposed step out of the garage to see how GarageBand parade of undocumented shortcuts,decipher Speaker:Jason Snell images using Photoshop features like the unfamiliar Mac OS X folder structure,and dis- can interact with other music applications Whether you’ve got a digital camcorder or just Shadow/Highlight. cover the power of the Unix system that powers such as Propellerhead’s Reason and Apple’s a stack of old videotapes,it’s time to make the • Creating nondestructive,fast,and flexible the whole thing.Based on his book Mac OS X: Logic Express and Logic Audio.Throughout the move to DVD — and no computer burns DVDs repair layers for fixing,dodging and burning, The Missing Manual,Tiger Edition,this session is, session you’ll learn something of what it takes better than the Mac.From the basics of con- and color correcting. in particular,a life preserver tossed to anyone to make a piece of music “musical.” verting old analog videotapes to digital format • Simplified levels,curves,and sharpening who’s interested in finding out which of the to getting pro-quality results out of Apple’s techniques 150 new Tiger features are worth learning,and low-cost iDVD,we’ll get you burning DVDs in • Advanced gray-scale conversions using which old features wound up in new places.