Basic tutorial how to use imovie

HOW TO USE

IMOVIE 9.0.4 VERSION?

Overview

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iMovie 09 is consumer-level

digital video editing software for Macintosh.

You can use to edit the footage

you film


with digital video cameras

and HD video cameras.


The sections will

help you use


iMovie to edit your

video efficiently.




01. Project Library - where all movie projects on computer are displayed


02. iMovie Project - shows current position in clip and for editing


03. Monitor Window - views clips or your final iMovie project


04. Play Project -


play selected movie project either in viewer or full screen


05. New Project - allows you to start a new movie project


06. Frame Adjustment - allows you to see


thumbnails of clips by amount of frames per thumbnail


07. Import -


where you import footage from your webcam or video camera


08. Flip Switch - swaps the


Source Video and the iMovie Project from top to bottom


09. Adjusts size of thumbnails used in iMovie


10. Event Library - where


all the events (groups of clips) on computer are displayed


11. Add selection – allows to add clips to your project


12. Favorites Tab - allows you to select


favorite clips, parts of clips, or remove clips all together.


13. Options Tab – where you can work on


voiceovers, cropping images, to adjust audio, or adjust video


14. Turns on/off Audio Skimmer


15. Edit browsers - Different editing browsers such as


adding music, photos, text, transitions, and animations.


16. Source Video - shows all events from


a particular source that can be used for editing



To begin adding photos,


you will need to create a new project.


To do this,


Click Applications folder on your dock screen


Click on the iMovie icon


When the iMovie screen appears,


Click “File” on the menu bar


Click “New Project”


The screen appear like this:


Enter the title of the new project on the box


Select the “Aspect ratio” for your project, either :


4:3 Standard or 16:9 widescreen



Fullscreen footageis

shaped more like a square.


Widescreen footage is

shaped more a like a rectangle.

You can select also the Frame rate you want


Either :


30 fps – NTS25 fps – PAL24 fps - Cinema

By clicking the “Frame Rate” box


Once you done entering and selecting the :



Name of Project

Aspect Ratio

Frame Rate

Click the “Create” button


Select photo on your file


And drag them to this area


After dragging all the photos you want,


The screen will appear like this:


Click “Play” button to view the output

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Click the “File” from Menu bar


Click the “Import”


Click the “Movies”


Find the video / movie in your folder


I choose from the “Desktop folder”


Then I choose “preteens activity.mp4”


Click “ Create new event”


Click “Optimize video”


Click or Choose Full-Original Size


Click “Copy files”


Click “Import”


Rename the new event by double click “new event”


Then I Rename “new event” to “Popping balloon”


The output will be like this”


Name of the event

Click play under the Event Library to preview entire movie



Click on any of the clips within the “Event Library”


A yellow box will appear on the thumbnail


Adjust the edges of the box so that all of


the footage you want to add to your project is


within the yellow box.


After you have done, your mouse pointer appear as hand.


Grab the thumbnail within the yellow box and drag it


to the Project Browser to add it to your movie.


A confirmation box appear, click “OK”


The clip adjustment bar


alters how many frames of each

clip appear as a thumbnail.

Adjusting this can


make selecting larger or smaller portions of clips easier.



Before adjusting

After adjusting


Once you have placed a photo into your project..


You have a variety of options for adjusting the clip.



These options include:

TRIM

CROP


To TRIM a photo:

Click the clock icon

that appears when you hover


your mouse over a clip in your project


Just like when inserting a clip, just drag the sides


of the yellow box to manipulate what portion of the


video is included in your project.



A confirmation box appear, click “OK”

Press the play button to preview your clip;


To CROP a clip:


Click on the cropping icon in the thumbnail of clip


On the option tab, click on the clip you’d like to crop.


You can then resize the green box that appears on


the clip to control how much of the footage will be visible.


Click “Crop” button


Click “Done”




To add a sound file click the music note icon

Then simply browse for the sound file that you would


like too add and drag it into your project.



The output should be like this:

To add an image file, click the camera icon,


browse for the photo,


and then drag it into your project.


The output should be like this


Adding Titles


To add titles to a clip,

Click the “T” icon on the Edit Browser


Select the type of title you would like to add


Drag the title on top of the clip you would


like to add it to.


Select background you want


Type the title text you want in the box


Click the play button to preview


Click “Done ” once finish


Adding transitions

To add transitions to your project,


Click the “Transition” icon on right of the Edit Browser


Select “Theme” from the Transitions box


Then drag the type of transition you would like to


the place in the timeline that you choose.


Adding Animations

To add animations to your project,


Click the Animation icon on far right of the Edit Browser


Select from the animation themes


Then drag it into the timeline in the appropriate area.



After you have made the finishing touches to your video


it is time to share it with the

World.


iMovie gives you different

options for

exporting your video.


Click the “Share” tab


Then choose from the following:



Saving in iMovie is very different.


The program automatically saves your project to the


computers hard drive as you are

working.


To see where it saves automatically,


Click “Finder” on your computer dock


Click the “Movie” folder


In the “Movies” folder, you should see 2 folder :



iMovie Projects

iMovie Events

GO AHEAD

AND MAKE YOUR

FIRST IMOVIE PROJECT

IT’S FUN …. ENJOY ! !


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