iMOVIE TUTORIAL denisse andrade, ITF Seminar 3,Baruch College (Adapted from a tutorial by Amanda Favia)

THE BASICS (or what do to after turning on your computer) Find iMovie, looks like this Import Video (source can be your phone, or the camera from your mac) Start New Project iMovie Tools (more on this in other slides)

IMPORT VIDEO File > Import > Movie Import formats that directly import into iMovie: 3gp, m4v, avchd, mp4, mov, h.264, dv

USING A CAMERA TO IMPORT Connect camera to computer Turn camera on & set to “PC Connect mode” Select video clips to import: For all clips: “Automatic” & Click “Import All” For specific clips: “Manual”, Deselect the clips you don’t want to import & Click “Import Checked”

IMPORT VIDEO Import Video: Event Library Event Library—iMovie generates Events in the same way as iPhoto does—this is the footage you use to create movie projects Allows you to group video into useful named categories

PROJECTS VS. EVENTS EVENT is how Apple organizes clips, typically by date. Clips shot on the same day appear under the same event and titled with the date they were imported—New Event 10–10–15, for example. Events are listed in iMovie’s Event Library pane. When selected, event, contents appear in the Event Browser, which you can find to the right of the Event Library. (I’ll cover the topography of the iMovie interface shortly.) A project is the movie that you’ll assemble from your clips. So, using a baking analogy, events and their clips are the movie’s flour, salt, water, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, almond extract, and chocolate chips. A project is the resulting big cookie

NEW PROJECT Project: Getting Started  Choose File > New Project  Project Themes>No Theme (Themes automatically insert titles & transitions)

NEW PROJECT  Name your project  Aspect Ratio (width & height of your movie) Widescreen (16:9) Standard (4:3)  Frame Rate>same used to shoot video (30fps)  Click Create

iMOVIE WORKSPACE Project Library View Video Build your Project iMovie Toolbar Event Library Browse your Source Video/Music

iMovie Toolbar: Import & Edit Import Video Project Window Zoom: increases thumbnail size & decreases length of the time increments to edit more precisely, frame by frame

iMovie Toolbar: Import & Edit Music Video & Photos Titles Transitions Backgrounds

iMovie Toolbar: Editing Voiceover Crop Video Inspector: Edit Clips, Video & Audio*

EDITING Select portion of clip: click once on clip to display yellow selection area Expand or contract selection: click on edge of the selection area>cursor changes to a bar with a double arrow>drag & drop into project area

CLIP TIMMER Allows you to change the duration of a clip by removing unwanted frames Adjust by dragging on the edges of the selection Click on Done

INSPECTOR ADJUSTING CLIPS Video Effect Speed & Direction of Footage Stabilize Footage

CLIP ADJUSTMENT - STABILIZATION Smooth the shaky portions of your video Marks the footage that contains people For best results, use when project is complete

SELECTING AUDIO iTunes iMovie & Sound Effects GarageBand Drag & drop audio file into Project Area Trim sound>drag on edges of the green icon to resize

Inspector: Audio Adjustment Adjust Volume Ducking: gives the selected audio priority over other audio tracks Fade Normalize: brings loudest part of audio clip to 100% w/o distortion

ADJUSTING AUDIO Choose Clip>Edit>Detach Audio Audio track (green) – Select & Move – Select & Delete – Audio Adjustment

VIDEO ADJUSTMENT Adjust image quality Levels: B&W levels Exposure: shadows & highlights Brightness: overall light level Contrast: relative contrast of light & dark tones Saturation: color intensity

ADDING TITLES Choose Title style> Drag & drop into video clip Edit Title>Select blue bar above clip Viewer>Click on placeholder text>Enter your own text Click on Done

ADDING TRANSITIONS Choose Transition>Drag & drop between two clips Transition will display as a gray box between the two clips Change duration> Transition Adjustments>Enter the desired duration>Click OK

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