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iMovie Start: • Launch iMovie from the applications folder
Step 1-Connecting a DV camcorder to your computer 4-pin FireWire port and connector
6-pin FireWire port and connector
IMPORTANT: The 4-pin connector is extremely fragile. Be careful when plugging it into the FireWire port of your DV camcorder. Do not attempt to force a connector into a port. Use the alignment notches on the connector and port as a guide. To connect your DV camcorder to your computer with a FireWire cable: 1 Turn off your DV camcorder. 2 Plug the 6-pin connector of the FireWire cable into the 6-pin FireWire port on your Macintosh. 3 Plug the 4-pin connector of the FireWire cable into the 4-pin port of your DV camcorder. 4 Turn on your DV camcorder.
Step 2-Importing video To import digital video into your movie: 1 Make sure the Mode Switch is set to Camera mode: 2 Use the Camera mode playback controls and rewind the tape to a few seconds before the point where you want to start importing. 3 Click the Import button to begin importing. 4 To stop importing, click the Import button again. Imported clips are stored on the shelf by default. To make clips part of your movie, drag them to the clip viewer or the timeline viewer. Media files, especially video files, tend to be very large, so monitor your available disk space when importing media.
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Step 3-Arranging video clips in a movie You change the order of video clips in the clip viewer. To rearrange video clips in a movie: • Drag a clip from the Shelf to a position before or after another clip in the clip viewer. Cropping video clips Some clips are longer than you need or have excess footage at the beginning or end. To remove part of the beginning and/or end of a clip, you crop it. To crop a video clip: 1 Click to select the clip. 2 Click and drag just below the scrubber bar to make the crop markers (also called Ghost Handles) appear. The secret: The ghost handles vanish whenever your arrow cursor touches the scrubber bar from below. You can bring them back by putting the cursor into the Monitor window, then back down to the handle area. Video crop markers Crop marker Crop marker (beginning) (end) 3 Select what you want to keep of the clip by dragging the crop markers to the desired beginning and end of the clip. The parts of the clip that are yellow will be removed when you crop the clip. Tip: For precise positioning of a crop marker, click the marker and use the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys to nudge the crop marker frame by frame.
Step 4-Adding and editing titles (text) Adding a title To add a title to your movie: 1 If you want the title to appear over a clip, click the clip in the clip viewer or the timeline viewer. 2 Click the Titles button. 3 Select a title style from the list in the middle of the Titles panel. 4 Type the text for your title into the text field or fields at the bottom of the Titles panel. For some titles, such as Centered Multiple, you can create more text fields by clicking the "+" button. You can reposition title fields by dragging them.
5 To speed up or slow down the titling effect, adjust the Speed and/or Pause sliders. If there is a pause in the title style you chose, use the Pause slider to control the duration of the pause. The Speed slider controls how many seconds the title lasts, and therefore how fast the title movement occurs.
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6 To put the title over a black background, select the Over Black checkbox. To make the title appear over the clip you selected in step 1, leave the Over Black box unchecked. Title on black bakground Transition
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customize the text: Click the Color box to choose a text color. Choose a font for your title from the font pop-up menu. Use the text size slider to adjust the text size.
8 If the title scrolls, you can change the direction it scrolls. To change the scroll direction, click a direction button: 9 Drag the title from the list in the middle of the Titles panel to the clip viewer. If you want the title to appear over a clip, place it before that clip. A title icon appears between the clips, and a small progress bar appears under it. When the progress bar disappears, the rendering is done. You can continue editing while a transition is rendering. If you want a title to appear in the middle of a clip: Titles must be placed before or after clips, so before you drag the title from the titles list, split the clip into two clips at the point where you want to insert the title. To delete the two extra text fields from the Titles panel when using the styles Centered Multiple, Rolling Credits, or Rolling Centered Credits: • Click the “ -” button.
• Splitting a video clip in two • You can split a single clip into two clips. This is particularly useful if you want to keep an unused section of a clip on the shelf for later editing, or if you need to insert a title in the middle of a clip. • To split a clip: • 1 Select the clip. • 2 Move the playhead to where you want to split the clip. • 3
Choose Split Video Clip at Playhead from the Edit menu.
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Step 5-Adding scene transitions Transitions smooth the cuts between scenes (clips) and add visual appeal. You can put a transition at the beginning or end of a movie, or between two clips. But not all clips require transitions. To add a transition to a clip: 1 Click the Transitions button. 2 Select a transition in the Transitions panel. 3 Use the Speed slider (in the Transitions panel) to modify the speed of the transition into or out of the clip. Slower transitions take more time to render. 4 Click an arrow to choose the transition direction. This option is not available for some transitions. 5 Drag the transition from the Transitions panel to the desired location in the Timeline Tab. A transition icon appears between the clips, and a small progress bar appears under it. When the progress bar disappears, the rendering is done. You can continue editing while a transition is rendering.
Adding video effects You can add effects to your movie, such as color adjustments or a sepia tone (a rust-tinted, old-fashioned look). To apply video effects to your movie: 1 Click the Effects button. 2 Select the video you want to apply the effect to. 3 Select a video effect in the Effects panel. 4 Adjust the effect by using any sliders that appear in the panel. (Some effects do not have sliders.) 5 Click Apply. Click Commit.
Extracting audio from a video clip (to edit it) If a video clip already contains audio when you import it, you can extract the audio from the clip, then edit the audio and/or reuse it elsewhere in the movie. To extract audio from a video clip: 1 In the timeline viewer, select the video clip that contains the audio you want to extract. 2 Choose Extract Audio from the Advanced menu. The extracted audio appears in audio track 1.
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Adding sound effects to a movie To add a sound effect: 1 Click the Audio button. 2 Drag a sound effect from the list in the Audio panel to the desired position on audio track 1 or 2 in the timeline viewer. You can reposition the sound effect by dragging it. To add your own sound effect clips to the list in the Audio panel: •Open the iMovie folder, open the Resources folder, and place AIFF or MP3 audio files in the Sound Effects folder. Tip: To prevent background sounds from overpowering important "foreground" sounds, such as voice narration, reduce the volume of background audio.
Recording audio CD music To record audio CD music into your movie: 1 Click the Audio button. 2 Insert the audio CD into your computer's CD-ROM drive. If your audio CD automatically starts playing through your computer's speaker, stop it by clicking the Play button on the Audio panel. Tip: To prevent audio CDs from automatically playing when they are inserted into the CDROM drive, open the QuickTime Settings control panel and choose AutoPlay from the popup menu, then deselect both boxes in the panel. 3 Select a track in the Audio panel and do one of the following: • Drag the audio CD track from the Audio panel to audio track 1 or 2 in the timeline viewer. • Click the Record Music button on the Audio panel to start recording music into your movie. To end recording, click the Stop button.
IMPORTANT: Copyright laws govern the use of third-party materials such as music tracks on audio CDs. Be careful that you don't violate any copyright laws associated with audio CDs.
Importing an audio file To import an AIFF or QuickTime-supported MP3 audio file into your movie: 1 Select where you want to insert the audio file by positioning the playhead in the timeline viewer. 2 Choose Import File from the File menu. 3 Select the file and click Import. The music clip appears on audio track 2 in the timeline viewer. If you cannot open an MP3 file: It probably isn't a QuickTime-supported MP3 file. MP3 files vary, depending on what application created them. In iMovie, you can only use MP3 files supported by QuickTime.
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Slow motion Changing the speed of video clips To adjust the speed of video: 1 Select the clip or clips in the timeline viewer (the tab with the clock on it). 2 Drag the clip speed slider to the desired setting
iMovie Still Clips The Dimensions of an iMovie Graphic • If you want an imported graphic to completely fill the screen, make its dimensions exactly 640 pixels wide, 480 high. Otherwise, you will have black bands on the sides and/or top of you graphic, depending on the original dimension of your graphic. If you enlarge or reduce your graphic size, you will loose some sharpness. • If you have Photoshop, Graphic Converter, or PhotoDeluxe, you should use one of them to manipulate your image. They allow you to manipulate a wider range of graphics than Appleworks. Using Appleworks:
• To resize a graphic: • • • • • • •
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Open a drawing document, change the orientation to landscape (in Page SetUp) Format--Rulers--Show Rulers Format--Rulers--Format Rulers (Choose Graphics and Points) File--Insert-- Your graphic Stretch or reduce to 640 across, and to 480 down Save As--File Format: Pict In iMovie, Import File and choose your saved graphic
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