Garageband Basics for Music Dummies #1: Interface

You know what Garageband is. It’s a free music mixing application that comes with Mac OS X. It’s like iMovie and iDVD, so Garageband is not a professional application.

Mixing music is astonishingly easy with Garageband. But if you don’t know anything about music, you may wonder if you are actually on the right track, right? With this ‘Garageband Basics for Music Dummies’ series, we are hoping to help you get to know Garageband more closely. This series is designed only for music dummies who are not very familiar to the music theory but want to learn how music mixing works. Don’t get us wrong. MacHouse is not an expert in music mixing. Continue reading →

A few months ago, we showed how to use Windows versions of freeware titles plus Microsoft’s Virtual PC to convert a WMV file into iMovie-readable MOV file.
In this VTC, we revisit this subject and explore a few options to decode WMV files. We then use a shareware title to re-encode a video file compressed in WMV3 into MP4 (compressed in H.264). Continue reading →

In the previous VTC, we created a simple slideshow with QuickTime Pro. In this video tutorial, we use the same slideshow and show how to embed it in PDF, using Adobe Acrobat Professional. Continue reading →