New to making movies

[Hustle]

Hey.

I got my Macbook on Monday. I got the Core 2 Duo 1.83Ghz 1GB Ram etc etc....

Moving on, i've started to work with the imovie hd to make films which i want to do. I have a few questions about the software.

Whats the main difference between imovie hd and idvd (I havn't used idvd).
What does the .dv format mean. Is it for HD as i notice when i save a movie i have made, it takes up a lot of space (gb's).

Also, can you download more themes and affects for imovie hd as there isn't a huge deal of themes and effects etc etc ....

Also, whats other programmes that are similar to imovie hd or better that would be good to look into.

Also, whats a good photo editing software programme for Mac as i noticed it didn't come with anything that can be used to edit pictures.

Thanks.

P.S This was my first Mac and i must say, so far, it's beating Windows by a lot. It's hard to explain why Mac is better, but as the saying goes ''It just works''. It's hard when i use a Mac at home all week and have to go to school and use PC's all day. I'm like *** get some Macs.

 

[surfwax95]

I'll try to answer these as you asked them:

1. iMovie edits the video - iDVD is used to make the DVD menu and burn the video to DVD.

2. .DV is an uncompressed audio and video stream that can be played with Quicktime. It's only HD if the source is HD. I'm guessing not in your case. As for the file size, welcome to digital video...even standard definition video (uncompressed) is around 300MB per minute.

3. I'm sure you can find some themes on the net somewhere (try Google), but I've never seen any.

4. Final Cut Express is much more powerful than iMovie, but has a decently steep learning curve as well.

 

[Hustle]

Here is my first attempt to make a video in imovie hd. I made it from the pictures and videos i took when i took a trip to Holland to watch Motorcross.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxlZy-C1kzc

 

[rman]

You can serach www.versiontracker.com for iDVD themes. There are a few free one out there.

 

[Hustle]

I use imovie.

 

[rman]

I don't recall iMovie having themes. I know there are some iMovie effect plug-ins, but most I have seen are either demos or commercial.

 

[Hustle]

I mean like the starup bits you can do with the different affects etc.