Whether you want to fix up your home movies, put together a video for a corporate presentation, or create a DVD slide show of your photos, your Mac is up to the task.

 iMovie 

Apple’s iLife suite comes with iMovie, a powerful and easy-to-use video-editing application . You can import camcorder video, apply scene transitions, add titles, credits, and a soundtrack, and even export your movie to iTunes, YouTube, Facebook, or a DVD. iLife’s iMovie application is an excellent video editor. 

iDVD 

iLife also comes with iDVD , a program that enables you to set up and burn your own DVDs (assuming your Mac has a DVD burner attached). You can add movies and create photo slide shows. iDVD offers lots of fun themes, and you can even set up menus and submenus just like the pros.iLife’s iDVD application lets you create and burn your own DVDs. 

Final Cut 

Apple’s top-of-the-line video editor is Final Cut Studio, which offers every possible bell and whistle you can think of for managing, editing, and publishing digital video. Of course, with a price tag of $999, it should! If your needs (and pocketbook) are more modest, consider Final Cut Express, a scaled-down version of Final Cut Studio that, for the much more comfortable price of $199, still offers amazingly powerful features.
 See www.apple.com/finalcutexpress. 

Adobe Premiere 

Adobe Premiere was once the most popular and the most full-featured of the Mac video editors. However, Adobe stopped making Premiere for a while, and that allowed Final Cut to become the king of the Mac video-editing hill. Premiere is back once again, and it remains an excellent product. The high-end version is Premiere Pro , which, as the name suggests, is aimed at professional video editors. The price is high end, too: $799! If your needs aren’t so grandiose, you’ll want to stick with Premiere Elements, which will set you back $99, but still offers plenty of powerful features. Mac video-editing applications don’t get any more full featured than Adobe Premiere Pro.

 Other Mac video editors 

Here are some other Mac video-editing programs to look into:

Popcorn. www.roxio.com  

FastCut. www.timesforfun.de

MediaEdit. www.miensoftware.com  

SimpleMovieX. www.aeroquartet.com

 
If you use Quick Look to view any files that feature text—such as PDFs or Word documents—you’ll notice that you can’t click and drag to highlight text. Clicking anywhere on the Quick Look window simply moves it around. However, a secret setting will let you click and drag as usual to highlight text, and you can use the standard key combination of Command + C  to copy text . 

The Quick Look window can still be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging its title bar, as with any other program window. To activate the setting, open a Terminal window (Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and type the following:

 defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE;killall Finder 

The changes take effect  immediately.  To deactivate the setting,  open a Terminal window and type the following: 

defaults delete com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection;killall Finder

 

Call me a cynic, but it feels like OS X is a little showy with its visual effects. Dialog boxes and some program windows pop onto the screen from nowhere. This design mirrors the iPod and iPad user experience. On a larger screen, however, the effect can be unsettling.

 Wouldn’t it be nice if things just appeared on screen with no fuss, like they did in the good old days? Here’s how you can turn off the majority of OS X’s visual effects. Pop-Up Windows and Dialogs To turn off dialog boxes and windows that spring out from the middle of the screen, open a Terminal window (FinderApplicationsUtilitiesTerminal) and type the following: 

defaults write -g NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool FALSE 

Then log out and back in again for the changes to take effect. To restore the effect, open a Terminal window and type the following, logging out and back in again afterward to make the changes take effect:

 defaults delete -g NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled 

 Quick Look windows appear when you select a file and hit Space . They show a preview of the file’s contents. You can stop Quick Look windows from springing up from the file in question by typing the following into a Terminal window (this change will also remove the effect of the Quick Look window shrinking back into the file): 

defaults write com.apple.finder QLPanelAnimationDuration -int 0;killall Finder 

The change will take effect immediately. To restore the effect, open a Terminal window and type the following (again, the change will take effect immediately): 

defaults delete com.apple.finder QLPanelAnimationDuration;killall Finder

 Mission Control 

To turn off  the Mission Control  zoom effects that  appear whenever it’s activated and deactivated, open a Terminal window and type the following:

 defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -int 0;killall Dock 

The changes take effect immediately. Note that this also removes the animated effect of windows zooming out of the way when Show Desktop is activated (usually via the “finger spread” trackpad gesture). To revert to the default animated Mission Control effects, open a Terminal window and type the following: 

defaults delete com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration;killall Dock 

File and Print Dialog Boxes

 To stop the Save and Print dialog boxes from sliding out and down from the title bar of each application, open a Terminal window and type the following:

 defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.01

You’ll need to log out and in again for the changes to take effect. If you wish to reintroduce the visual effects at a later date, type the following, logging out and back in again afterward for the changes to take effect:

 defaults delete -g NSWindowResizeTime 

Launchpad 

 A hidden setting can be tweaked to make Launchpad appear and disappear instantly. To activate it, open a Terminal window (FinderApplications UtilitiesTerminal) and type the following two lines, hitting Return  after each: 

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-show-duration -int 0

 defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-hide-duration -int 0;killall Dock

The changes take effect instantly. To revert to the previous animated effect, open a Terminal window again and type the following two lines:

 defaults delete com.apple.dock springboard-show-duration 

defaults delete com.apple.dock springboard-hide-duration;killall Dock

 You can also reduce the amount of time the individual app list pages of Launchpad take to scroll in and out. Open a Terminal window and type the following if you want the pages to slide in and out instantly: 

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-page-duration -int 0;killall Dock 

The changes take effect immediately. To revert back to the default, open a Terminal window and type the following:

 defaults delete com.apple.dock springboard-page-duration;killall Dock 

Dock 

The Dock can be hidden so that it slides off the screen when not being used. This saves a little screen space. Nudging the cursor against the edge of the screen where the Dock is normally positioned will make it slide back into view again. To turn this feature on or off, right-click the dashed lines between the main Dock icons and the stacks and select Turn Hiding On or Turn Hiding Off. 

To make the Dock instantly leap back into view when it’s needed, rather than slide, open a Terminal window and type the following:

 defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0;killall Dock

To revert back to the default sliding effect, open a Terminal window and type the following:
 
defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier;killall Dock

Here’s a handy little tweak for the Dock that will cause a pop-up window to momentarily appear each time iTunes begins playing a new track (see Figure above). It’s so useful that it’s hard to believe it isn’t activated by default or is at least an official preference option. But it isn’t. 

Quit iTunes if it’s open, then open a Terminal window (Finder >Applications >Utilities >Terminal) and type the following:

 defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE;killall Dock 

Then start iTunes and try playing a track. Neat, eh? The pop-up fades away after a few seconds.
                                 
 To add the iTunes icon to the pop-up window, type the following into a Terminal window: 

defaults write com.apple.dock notification-always-show-image -bool TRUE; killall Dock 

To deactivate the pop-up at a later date, quit iTunes again, then open a Terminal window and type the following two lines:

 defaults delete com.apple.dock itunes-notifications 
 defaults delete com.apple.dock notification-always-show-image;killall Dock


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Apple has been busy: Lion adds more than 250 new features to Mac OS X! But it’s not the quantity of features that impresses — it’s the quality. Let’s check out some of the more prominent Lion goodies:  

Accessibility

 Features in Lion are unmatched. VoiceOver (a utility that allows your Mac to speak to you) now supports 23 languages. There is also built-in support for 80 braille tables. 

 FaceTime video calling

You can now talk to your favorite pals with a true video phone using your Mac and FaceTime.  

AutoSave

Applications developed with AutoSave automatically save any changes you make to your documents. There’s no longer any need to constantly press Ô+S to save your files after each change. 

 Lion is now distributed online

You can download the entire Mac OS through the Mac App Store and install with just a few clicks.  

Full-screen applications

You can run many of your applications in full-screen mode, which cuts down on external distractions and keeps you focused. 

 Recovery mode

You no longer need discs to reinstall or restore Mac OS X because Lion includes a built-in restore partition on your hard drive. Just press Ô+R during a restart to boot into Recovery mode.  

Launchpad

This literally launches all of the apps on your Mac. You can see most (if not all) of them with a click of your mouse or a swipe of your trackpad. You can also organize your applications into folders, a process with which iPhone and iPad users are already familiar.

  Mission Control

 Mission Control allows you to see everything that’s happening on your Mac in one window.  


Multi-Touch gestures

 Multi-Touch gestures make your Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, or your laptop trackpad absolutely rock! Properly orchestrated finger swipes instantly scroll through web pages, open Launchpad, zoom in, and much more.  

Versions

 Lion saves versions of all of your documents once an hour while you work. You can browse between versions of your documents if you mistakenly remove an item and need to restore it. You can restore parts of older versions or you can restore the entire document. Lion saves only the information that has changed from version to version so your hard drive space won’t be eaten up with duplicate information.  

Resume

Resume allows you to open an application in the exact same state you left it when you last closed it. Any windows that were open, any palettes that were on-screen, and even the position of the cursor, remain exactly as they were when you last used the application. You can also restart your Mac, and any applications or windows that were open before you restarted are restored upon reboot.