iMovie HD Getting Started Includes explanations for importing video, editing footage, adding transitions, effects, titles, and more
1 Contents Chapter 1 6 6 7 Introduction Using This Document What’s New in iMovie HD Chapter 2 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 iMovie HD at a Glance iMovie HD Project Window Main Window Clip Viewer Timeline Viewer Clips Pane Photos Pane Audio Pane Titles Pane Transitions Pane Effects Pane iDVD Pane Chapter 3 21 21 22 25 Creating Your First Movie Steps for Creating a Movie Movies in Just Minutes A Quick Tour of Video Editing With iMovie HD Chapter 4 31 31 32 32 37 37 Bringing Video Into iMovie
44 44 44 45 45 46 Splitting a Video Clip Undoing an Edit About Gaps (Black Clips) Creating Still Images From a Video Clip Copying and Pasting Clips and Images Saving as You Work Chapter 6 47 47 49 49 50 51 Adding Transitions and Photos Adding a Transition Between Scenes Deleting and Editing Transitions Applying Transitions to Multiple Clips Adding Photos Adding Motion to a Photo Chapter 7 54 55 56 Using Special Effects Motion Effects Video Effects Chapter 8 59 59 61 62 62 63 Adding Titles and C
Appendix 77 79 Exporting for QuickTime Viewing Formats Sharing Your Movies Via Bluetooth Wireless Technology 80 Keyboard Shortcuts Contents 5
1 Introduction 1 Welcome to iMovie HD Getting Started. This document will get you on your way to having fun creating great movies that have both polish and impact. iMovie HD is the fastest and easiest way to turn your home video into your own motion picture. Now iMovie HD is the perfect companion for the latest high definition video cameras and the smallest and most affordable flash cameras.
• Chapter 6, Adding Transitions and Photos: In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use • • • • • transitions and place photos from iPhoto into a movie. Chapter 7, Using Special Effects: Learn to use special effects to change the look of motion in a video, perhaps speeding up or slowing down your video, or add visual effects such as electrical flashes or fog to a scene to increase visual impact.
More Special Effects: Enhance your movies with even more choices to add style and excitement to your movie with new video effects and additional new Skywalker Sound effects. Even Tighter iLife Integration: All your digital media—your songs and music, photos and movies—work together to create movies and slideshows that you can share via email, on the web or on DVD. • iDVD: iMovie HD automatically sends your Magic iMovie to iDVD. Even drag and drop video clips directly from iMovie HD to iDVD drop zones.
2 iMovie HD at a Glance 2 Welcome to the iMovie HD at a Glance. Here you’ll find a quick presentation of the iMovie HD interface and controls. Take a look at these pages to familiarize yourself with iMovie HD features and terminology. It’ll help you learn the names of the iMovie HD controls found in the instructions in iMovie HD Help. If you just want to get started creating a movie, skip to Chapter 3, “Creating Your First Movie,” which provides an overview of how to create a movie.
iMovie HD Project Window When you open iMovie HD, the Project window appears. You can use it to start a new project or open an existing one. A B C D 10 A Create a New Project button: Click this button to create a new project and import your footage. B Open an Existing Project button: Click this button to open and continue working on an existing project already saved on your computer. C Make a Magic iMovie button: Click this button to let iMovie HD create a new movie for you automatically.
Main Window Here’s the main iMovie HD window, your command console for movie editing. Here you can view your movie, arrange scenes, edit clips, and add professional polish to your movie. Let’s take a closer look. A B C D E F H G A iMovie monitor: Watch your clips play in this window. You can play clips that are in the Clips pane or the clip viewer. B Scrubber bar: Drag the playhead along the scrubber bar to move through a clip frame by frame.
G Trash: Drag unwanted clips to the Trash icon to delete them, or simply select a clip and press Delete. You can open the iMovie Trash and restore deleted video and audio from the iMovie Trash any time you want or permanently delete it. H Disk space indicator: Monitor your free disk space as you work. You should always have about 2 GB free disk space for optimal performance of iMovie HD. When the text turns yellow, you are starting to run low on disk space.
Timeline Viewer Use the timeline viewer, shown below, to edit your movie’s video and audio clips, and synchronize your audio and video. A E B G F C D A Timeline viewer button: Click the timeline viewer button to switch from the clip viewer to the timeline viewer. B Video track: Select clips in this track to edit or add effects or titles that play over your footage. C Audio tracks: Place and arrange audio clips in these tracks and drag them into position to synchronize audio with video clips.
Clips Pane Click the Clips button to open the Clips pane. The video footage and still images you import into iMovie HD first appear here. You can drag a clip from the Clips pane to the clip viewer to add it to your movie. You can also drag clips to the timeline viewer, to your desktop, into other applications, and even iDVD drop zones. A B 14 A Clip name: Each clip is assigned a unique filename. You can select the name to change it to something more meaningful to you.
Photos Pane Click the Photos button to open the Photos pane. Photos, drawings, or images you put in your iPhoto library automatically appear here. You can drag an image directly from the pane into the clip or timeline viewer. You can also use the Ken Burns Effect to add panning and zooming effects to an image, and choose how long the image appears in your movie. A B C G D E F H I A Ken Burns Effect: Use these controls to set up panning and zooming effects for your photos and images.
F iPhoto pop-up menu: Choose your iPhoto library or an iPhoto album from this menu to view and select your iPhoto photographs and images. You can drag an image from the Photos pane to the clip viewer to add it to your movie. G Preview monitor: Use this monitor to set up and preview effects for a selected photo or image. H Photo browser: Select the photos and images you want to add to your movie here. I Search field: Enter the name of a photo or image here to quickly locate it.
E Place at Playhead: Click to import a selected track into your movie. The imported track appears in one of the audio tracks in the timeline viewer. F Record/Stop: Click to record a voiceover or other sound through your computer’s built-in microphone or an external microphone. The input meter displays the sound level; sound quality is best if it stays within the yellow range. Click the button a second time to stop recording.
G Font controls: Choose a font, then move the slider left or right to adjust the font size. Choose a font color using the color box. H Over black: Select this option to make the title appear over a black video clip instead of one of your video clips. (You can also change the color of the title clip by double-clicking it in the clip viewer.) I QT Margins: Select this option if you plan to export the movie to QuickTime.
E Timing controls: Move the sliders to set the speed of the transition and make other adjustments, depending on the transition style. You can also select the timing settings that appear in the preview monitor and change them for precise control of transition timing. F Preview monitor: View a selected video clip and transition here. You can select and change the speed settings that appear here. G Transitions list: Select a transition in this list.
E Effects list: Select an effect in this list to change the appearance of clips in your movie. F Appearance controls: Move these sliders to make adjustments to the selected effect. These options will vary, depending on the effect you choose. iDVD Pane Click the iDVD button to open the iDVD pane. You can add chapter markers to your movie and export it to iDVD. Once in iDVD, your movie will appear in sections or “chapters” that can be selected and viewed individually.
3 Creating Your First Movie 3 This chapter presents the general steps for creating a movie and provides an overview of the major features of iMovie HD. If you have video ready to import into iMovie HD, you can try out making your first movie. Steps for Creating a Movie If you’ve never worked on a movie before, here are the general steps you take. You might follow a different order depending on your work preferences. 1 Film or capture your video.
12 Review the movie and make adjustments. 13 Save the movie in a format appropriate for distribution, or export the movie to an iDVD project to be burned on a DVD. The iMovie HD Share feature enables you to choose a method of distribution and selects the appropriate video format corresponding to your choice. You can choose to share a movie via email, a .Mac homepage or webpage, video camera tape, DVD disc created in iDVD, QuickTime movie, or Bluetooth wireless technology.
To set up your camera: 1 Insert the tape with your video footage, turn on the camera, and switch the camera to VTR mode. 2 Connect your video camera to your computer using a FireWire cable, as shown above. 3 Open iMovie HD. 4 Click Make a Magic iMovie in the iMovie HD project window. 5 Enter a project name and choose a location on your computer for the new project. iMovie HD is preset to import video from a standard digital video camera.
7 Choose the Magic iMovie options you want. • Enter a title for your movie in the Movie Title box. • Select the checkbox for adding transitions to have iMovie HD automatically use smooth transitions between scenes. For your first movie, use the preselected transition. • Select the music sound track checkbox and choose a song for your movie from those available in your iTunes library. • Deselect the “Send to iDVD” checkbox so iMovie HD won’t export your movie to iDVD.
A Quick Tour of Video Editing With iMovie HD When you play your video using the playback controls, the video appears in the iMovie monitor. Clips pane iMovie monitor Clip viewer The individual scenes or “clips” of a movie appear in the clip viewer. You can select and drag the clips into any order you want for your movie. As the movie plays, you see the playhead pass over the clips as frames are displayed.
You add photos to your movie by clicking the Photos button. The Photos pane appears showing images from your iPhoto library. Drag photos into your movie. Just like video clips, you can drag photos from the Photos pane into your movie. You simply drop them where they should appear in the clip viewer. There are also options that determine how long the photo appears on screen, and whether the photo moves or zooms in or out.
Text often appears at the beginning of a movie as the title of the movie, or at the end as credits. You can add titles to your movie by clicking the Titles button. You select a title style in the Titles pane and enter the text you want to appear. Drag a title style into your movie. Enter title text. Each title style displays text in a different way. For example, you can select the Bounce Across style to have the text bounce across the screen.
After you add video clips, photos, and titles to your movie, you can add transitions between clips so the scenes change smoothly from one to another, or change in interesting ways. For example, you might have one scene dissolve into the next. To add a transition between clips, click the Trans button. The Transitions pane appears. Drag a transition into your movie. Click a transition to select it and specify how long you want the transition to take.
You can also display your movie in a slightly different way by clicking the timeline viewer button. The timeline viewer appears and displays your video and any audio clips. Timeline viewer button Audio button Video track Audio tracks You can select and edit clips in the timeline viewer, and arrange and adjust the audio clips to go with your movie, too. Your video clips appear in the top track, and audio clips appear in the two audio tracks below.
For example, to add a song from your iTunes library, you drag a song title from the Audio pane into one of the audio tracks in the timeline viewer. You can then edit and position it as needed in your movie. iMovie HD also provides a list of interesting sound effects, and you can use a microphone to record a voiceover using the Record button. On occasion you may want to change a video clip with a special video effect. For example, you might want to show a sports scene in slow motion.
4 Bringing Video Into iMovie HD 4 This chapter explains how to bring your video into iMovie HD. The process of transferring video from your camera into iMovie HD is called importing. You can import video footage directly into your project from many commonly used video cameras using a FireWire cable. It’s quick and easy to import video using the controls in the iMovie HD window.
• If you have an Apple iSight camera, you can use a FireWire cable to capture live video in an iMovie HD project. You use the same procedure for importing video as you do with DV and HDV cameras, except your video is captured live. • If you have an MPEG-4 video camera or device, you can use a USB cable to connect your camera or device to your Macintosh.
Follow these instructions to connect your video camera and import your video manually. To import your video into iMovie HD: 1 Insert the tape with your video footage, turn on the camera, and switch the camera to VTR mode. 2 Connect your camera to your computer using a FireWire cable. 3 Open iMovie HD and click Create a New Project in the iMovie HD project window. 4 In the Create Project dialog, enter a project name.
If you have more than one camera or device connected to your computer, click the camera button and choose your camera from the pop-up menu. Camera mode Rewind Stop Pause Play Fast forward 7 Use the capture controls, shown above, to view the tape in the iMovie monitor. 8 Rewind the tape to a few seconds before the point at which you want to start importing. 9 Click the Play button. 10 Click Import when you see the start of the scene that you want to import.
About Automatic Scene Detection As you import your video footage from a standard or high defintion camera connected via FireWire, iMovie HD detects where you made a break in recording, and automatically divides the video into separate scenes or “clips.” Each sequence of recorded video is then made into a video clip that is stored in the Clips pane, shown below. You can also have iMovie HD automatically place clips in the timeline, if you prefer.
Did You Know? — About Video Formats and Frame Rates When you create a new project, you can specify whether the project is for standard definition DV, high definition, DV widescreen, MPEG-4 video, or the format for an iSight camera. iMovie supports the following video formats: • DV NTSC • DV PAL • DV NTSC Widescreen • DV PAL Widescreen • MPEG-4 • iSight • HDV 720p • HDV 1080i In most cases, you don’t need to specify anything for your video format.
Capturing Live Video With an Apple iSight Camera If you have an iSight camera connected to your computer, you can use it with iMovie HD to capture live video. Follow the instructions for connecting your camera via FireWire and importing video footage found in “Importing Video From a Digital Video (DV) or High Definition Video (HDV) Camera” on page 32. When you switch iMovie HD to camera mode, iMovie HD first looks for a video camera.
Editing Basics 5 5 After you import your video into iMovie HD, you can preview the clips to see what you have to work with. You can arrange clips in the order you want them to appear in your movie, and “clean up” your video footage, editing out the parts you don’t like and keeping only the best footage to include in your movie. You’ll find iMovie HD provides easy and efficient methods for cropping, trimming, and rearranging your clips within a movie.
Did You Know? — Easy Editing by Dragging Once you’ve placed clips in the clip viewer or timeline viewer, you can easily drag clips just about wherever you want. You can: • Drag clips to different positions forward or backward in the clip viewer or timeline viewer.
To play through a clip frame by frame: 1 Select the clip in the Clips pane, clip viewer, or timeline viewer. 2 Press the Right and Left Arrow keys on your keyboard to move forward or back one frame. You can also hold down the Shift key as you press the arrow keys to move forward or back 10 frames at time. To play through the entire sequence of clips in the clip viewer: 1 Choose Edit > Select None. 2 Move the playhead to the beginning of the movie. 3 Click Play.
Editing Clips with Direct Trimming You can trim and crop your clips using an editing technique called direct trimming. Click the timeline viewer button (it has a clock on it) to open the timeline viewer. You can then select a clip and drag either end to shorten it. There are some important points to understand before you start, however. Where You Grab Your Clip Matters In the timeline viewer, you get different results depending on where you place the pointer when you drag a clip.
Identifying Full and Cropped Clips Once you begin moving clips, you’ll notice a difference in the appearance of clips in the timeline viewer. Full clips have rounded corners. Clips that have been trimmed or cropped have straight edges where they’ve been shortened. You can always extend a clip with straight ends.
To trim a video clip: 1 Select a clip in the Clips pane, clip viewer, or timeline viewer. 2 Position the pointer over the scrubber bar to display the crop markers. 3 Drag the left crop marker until you see the first frame you want to remove displayed in the iMovie monitor. 4 Drag the right crop marker to the last frame that you want to remove. The selected frames in the clip appear yellow in the scrubber bar, as shown above.
Splitting a Video Clip When you split a video clip, you simply break it into two clips, preserving both parts. You can then delete the part you don’t want or save it to use elsewhere in your movie. To split a video clip: 1 Select a clip in the Clips pane, clip viewer, or timeline viewer. 2 Drag the playhead in the scrubber bar to the frame where you want to split the clip. 3 Choose Edit > Split Video Clip at Playhead. A new clip immediately appears.
To create a color clip: 1 In the timeline viewer, drag a clip to create a gap. 2 Select the black clip in the clip viewer and choose File > Show Info or double-click the clip. 3 Click the color box and choose a new color. 4 Click Set. 5 Close the Colors window. Creating Still Images From a Video Clip You can use photos and still images as backgrounds for titles or to hold a particular image on screen for a period of time. You can easily create a still image from any frame in a clip.
Did You Know? — Copying And Pasting Clips Between Projects You can easily transfer clips from one iMovie HD project to another. Select the clip you want and choose Edit > Copy. Open another iMovie HD project and paste the clip where you want it. It’s that easy. You can also drag a clip out of your movie to the Finder desktop, then drag it from the desktop into another iMovie HD project. Saving as You Work It’s a good idea to save your work periodically as you make changes.
6 Adding Transitions and Photos 6 This chapter explains how to use transitions and place photos from iPhoto into a movie. You’ve arranged your video clips in the order you want them. But the change from one scene to the next is abrupt, and you’d like to smooth things out. You can do this using transitions.
You select and set up transitions in the Transitions pane, shown below. When you click a transition in the list, you see what the transition looks like in the preview monitor. If you position the playhead where you want to add a transition, and then click a transition, you’ll have an idea of how it will look in the selected clip. To add a transition between scenes: 1 Click the Transitions button to open the Transitions pane. 2 Select a transition in the list.
5 Drag the title of the transition from the transitions list to the clip viewer, placing it between the two clips you want it to join. You can continue to work in your movie while the transition is rendered. In the clip viewer, a rendered transition is identified with an icon, shown below. Transition icon Deleting and Editing Transitions You can select and delete transitions, just as you can clips. If you delete a clip, the transitions before or after it are deleted automatically as well.
To select multiple clips: • Hold down the Shift key and select the first and last clips in a range. All the clips in between are also selected. • Hold down the Command key to select individual clips that aren’t next to each other (discontiguous clips). Keep in mind that rendering transitions for multiple clips takes longer than rendering just one transition.
To add a still photo to your movie: 1 Click the Photos button to open the Photos pane. 2 Choose an album from the pop-up menu. 3 Make sure the Ken Burns Effect checkbox is not selected. 4 Select a photo from the photos displayed and drag it to the clip viewer or timeline viewer. Remember to select the Ken Burns Effect checkbox when you want to add motion to a photo. Adding Motion to a Photo You can add motion to a photograph by panning across the image or by zooming in or out.
Panning a Photo Panning a photo makes the photo move across the screen. The camera appears to sweep across the face of the photo, adding interesting movement to still shots. To pan a photo: 1 Click the Photos button and make sure the Ken Burns Effect checkbox is selected. 2 Select a photo in your iPhoto library and click Start.
To crop a photo before you add it to your movie: 1 Click the Photos button and make sure the Ken Burns Effect checkbox is selected. 2 Select a photograph from your iPhoto library and use the pan and zoom controls to position your photo how you like it. 3 Click Start. 4 Press the Option key and click Finish. 5 Set the duration of the clip. 6 Click Apply or drag the photo to your project.
7 Using Special Effects 7 There are two general kinds of special effects that you can easily add to your movie: motion effects and video effects. Motion effects change the look of motion in a video, perhaps speeding up or slowing down your video, or making it play in reverse. Video effects change the look or tone of your footage. For example, a video effect might soften the focus or change the brightness or contrast. Use the Effects pane, shown below, to add effects to your video.
Motion Effects You can make a clip play backward, and you can make whole clips or parts of clips play in slow motion or fast motion. If you reverse the direction of a clip, you can also slow it down or speed it up in reverse. Making a Clip Play in Reverse You can apply the reverse-motion effect only to a whole clip. If you want to make only a few frames play backwards, separate those frames into their own clip by splitting the clip at the start and end of the desired frames.
To adjust the speed of a video clip: 1 Click the timeline viewer button (it has a clock on it) to open the timeline viewer. 2 Select the clip you want to speed up or slow down. 3 Click Effects. 4 In the Effects pane, choose the Fast/Slow/Reverse effect. 5 Move the speed slider left or right to adjust the speed of your video clip. 6 Click Apply. Move the slider one tick to the left to make it play twice as fast, or one tick to the right makes it twice as slow. Adjust the slider to the speed you want.
4 Drag the Effect In and Effect Out sliders to indicate how quickly you want the effect to fade in and out. Setting the sliders to 00:00 will make the effect appear and disappear suddenly, rather than fade in and out gradually. 5 Once you have the effect set up, click Preview to see what it will look like. You can continue adjusting the attributes until you see the results you want. 6 Click Apply to render the effect. You can apply more than one effect to the same video clip.
Applying an Effect to Part of a Clip or Multiple Clips You can apply video effects to multiple clips or to parts of clips, rather than to the whole clip. To apply an effect to part of a clip, you must first select a frame range, or a portion of the frames within the clip. (You can also select a frame range across a series of contiguous clips in the clip viewer.) To select a frame range: 1 Select the clip or series of clips that include the frames that you want to edit.
8 Adding Titles and Chapter Markers 8 Any text you place in your movie is called a title. You can add titles to introduce and end a movie, identify people, places, and dates; to add commentary; or anything you like. If you want to burn your movie on a DVD with iDVD, you might also want to set up your movie with chapters so that viewers can easily navigate to or select specific scenes, just like a Hollywood DVD. iMovie HD also lets you create chapter markers that export to iDVD.
Each title style has a different set of options, and each lets you put different amounts of text on the screen at once. Use the Titles pane, shown below, to add titles to your movie. To set up a title: 1 Click the Titles button to open the Titles pane. 2 Select a title style in the list. 3 Type the text you want to appear onscreen in the text fields. 4 Choose the font, text size, and text color. 5 Set the duration sliders. The Speed slider sets how fast the titles move into and out of the movie.
Placing Titles Over a Black or Colored Clip You can place titles over movie footage or over a black or colored background. To place a title on a black background: 1 Choose a title style and set up the title as you want it. 2 Select “Over black” and drag the title into the movie. Placing a title on a background adds a few seconds to your video. To place a title on a colored clip: 1 Add a black clip to your movie by dragging a clip to the right in the timeline viewer and then switch to the clip viewer.
To change a title’s background color: 1 In the clip or timeline viewer, select a title clip with a background color. 2 Press the Delete key once to delete the title. 3 Choose File > Show Info. 4 Click the Color box. Close the Colors window and then click Set. 5 Add the title to the clip again. Placing Titles Over Video Footage You can place a title over video footage by dragging a title in front of a clip. iMovie HD then renders the title over the clip.
Creating Chapter Markers for a DVD If you’re planning to create a DVD of your movie, you can designate chapters in your movie so that viewers can play specific scenes. You can quickly add chapter markers and chapter titles to your movie and then export them to iDVD. Use the iDVD pane, shown below, to create chapter markers. To create chapter markers: 1 Drag the playhead to the frame where you want to set a chapter marker. 2 Click the iDVD button to open the iDVD pane. 3 Click Add Chapter.
9 Working With Sound 9 Once you have all your video arranged the way you want it, you can then synchronize the audio clips with specific frames in your video and lock them into place. Your video is imported automatically into a iMovie HD project with its recorded sound. You can enhance the sound recorded with your own video footage by making it louder or softer, or having it fade in or fade out.
Adding Sound Effects iMovie HD comes with a selection of short sound effects that you can use to enhance your movie. Use the Audio pane, shown below, to add sound effects. To add a sound effect: 1 Click the timeline viewer button (it has a clock on it) to open the timeline viewer. 2 Click the Audio button to open the Audio pane. 3 Choose iMovie Sound Effects from the pop-up menu. A list of sound effects appears. 4 Drag the sound effect you want into one of the audio tracks in the timeline viewer.
Adding Music From a CD or iTunes You can add music to your movie from a CD or from your iTunes library. To add music from a CD: 1 Click the timeline viewer button to open the timeline viewer. 2 Click the Audio button to open the Audio pane. 3 Insert a CD into the disc drive. 4 Choose the CD from the pop-up menu. A list of CD tracks appears. 5 Move the playhead to the frame where you want the music to begin. 6 Select the track you want and click “Place at Playhead.
Adding a Voiceover You can record sound directly into iMovie HD if you have a built-in microphone or an external microphone connected to your computer. You can use this feature to create your own voiceover narrations or commentaries. Your microphone records at the input level set in the Sound pane of System Preferences. To turn the recording level of a mike up or down, use the “Input volume” slider in the Sound pane. To set the recording level of a microphone: 1 Open System Preferences and click Sound.
Working With Audio Clips Audio files, which are in MP3, WAV, or AIFF format, appear as audio clips in either of the two audio tracks in the timeline viewer, shown in the following illustration. Your video also contains an audio track that you can extract from video clips and edit like other audio clips. Extracted audio is placed in the first track and imported audio is placed in the second track. You can add more audio clips to any part of your movie by overlapping clips in the audio tracks.
Adjusting Sound Volume As you work on a video, you may want to temporarily turn the sound on your computer up or down. To change the volume in iMovie HD up or down while you’re working, use the Volume slider under the iMovie monitor. This slider changes the sound coming from your speakers within the volume range set in Sound preferences. Important: This slider doesn’t increase or decrease the level of sound that viewers of the video will eventually hear.
To adjust the volume of an audio clip: 1 Select the clip, clips, or portion of a clip in the timeline viewer. 2 Choose View > Show Clip Volume Levels. A volume level bar appears in all audio clips to show the current volume level of each clip. 3 Click the speaker icon of the clip volume controls and drag the slider to adjust the volume up or down. If you make an adjustment to the volume while you are playing a clip, iMovie HD pauses playback and then immediately plays the clip with your adjustment.
2 Click the bar at the point at which you want to begin increasing or decreasing the clip volume. A marker appears. 3 Drag the marker up or down to increase or decrease the volume from that point to the end of the clip. You can create as many markers as you need to adjust the volume as finely as you want. To make the volume adjustment more gradual, drag the small end of the marker to create more of a slope. m To delete a volume level marker: Select the volume level marker and press Delete.
To unlock audio from a video clip: 1 In the timeline viewer, select the audio clip. 2 Choose Advanced > Unlock Audio Clip. Extracting Audio From Your Video The video you import has an embedded audio track. Sometimes you may want to separate the audio track from your video and delete it or move it to a different place in the movie. With this technique, called extracting audio, you can move the sound or dialogue from one video clip to another.
3 Select the clip where you added the audio clip and click Play in the iMovie HD playback controls to preview your work. You can continue to adjust the position of the clip until you get it where you want it. Did You Know? — Play Audio as You Move the Playhead To help align sound with video, you can play the audio tracks as you drag the playhead. • Hold down the Option key as you drag the playhead.
Snapping Audio to Video When snapping is turned on in your movie, you’ll see a yellow snap line (shown in the illustration above) appear as you reach the end of video and audio clips or come within 3 or more frames of audio silence. When the yellow snap lines of your audio and video align, you’ll have a very precise fit that would be difficult to achieve without snap lines. To turn on snapping: 1 Choose iMovie HD > Preferences. 2 Click General and click the “Snap to Items in Timeline” checkbox.
Sharing Your Finished Movie 10 10 When you finish your iMovie HD project, you can determine how you want to watch your movie and share it with others. You can: • Send it in an email message. • Post it on your .Mac HomePage. • Save it to DV tape. • Burn it on a DVD with iDVD. • Save it as a QuickTime movie in a variety of formats. • Send it via Bluetooth® wireless technology to other computers, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, and more.
Tip: If you want to share just part of your movie, you can select the clip or clips you want to share and select the “Share selected clips only” checkbox. Sending Your Movie By Email You can send your movie as an attachment in an email message. When you click Email in the Share dialog, you can select your email program and specify the movie name, and your movie is automatically attached to a blank email. All you have to do is type an address and a message and click Send. Preparing Your Movie for a .
Exporting to iDVD iMovie HD can easily transfer your project to iDVD as a new iDVD project. You can export your project complete with chapter markers. To export a movie to iDVD using the Share dialog: 1 Choose File > Share. 2 Click iDVD. 3 Click Share. iMovie HD takes a little while to compress and export your movie. (The time it takes depends on the length of your movie.) It’s best not to use your computer for other tasks during the export process.
4 Type a name for your movie file and select a destination. 5 Click Save. iMovie HD takes a little while to compress and save your movie. It’s best not to use your computer for other tasks during the export process. How long it takes depends primarily on how long your movie is, but also on how small the final movie file will be. Smaller movie files take longer to compress. The exported movie is a QuickTime file. To watch the movie on your computer screen, double-click the movie file in the Finder.
• Set the number of key frames next. A low number (such as every 10 frames) creates a better quality movie with a larger file size. • Set the frame rate last. You may get choppy video playback if you set the frame rate to less than 12 frames per second. Sharing Your Movies Via Bluetooth Wireless Technology You can use Bluetooth technology to transfer movies wirelessly to other computers, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, and more.
Appendix Keyboard Shortcuts You can use your keyboard to quickly accomplish many tasks in iMovie HD. To find the shortcuts for common commands, look in the menus (or see the menu shortcuts below). To complete an action, press the shortcut keys indicated below.
Action Shortcut Move video clip to create ten black frames Click clip in timeline viewer, then Control-ShiftLeft Arrow or Right Arrow Move video crop marker Click marker, then Left Arrow or Right Arrow Move video crop marker ten frames Click marker, then Shift-Left Arrow or Right Arrow Accept/cancel Accept dialog (OK) Return Cancel dialog Esc Cancel rendering Command-period (.
Action Shortcut Crop Command-K Split Video Clip at Playhead Command-T Create Still Frame Shift-Command-S View menu Switch to Clip Viewer or Timeline Viewer Command-E Scroll to Playhead Option-Command-P Scroll to Selection Option-Command-S Zoom to Selection Option-Command-Z Show Clip Volume Levels Shift-Command-L Show Audio Wave Forms Shift-Command-W Markers menu Add Bookmark Command-B Delete Bookmark Shift-Command-B Previous Bookmark Command-[ Next Bookmark Command-] Add Chapter
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