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GONE WITH THE BITS
A Day in the Park
Time: 03:59:01
Editing Clips
Most of your work in iMovie is done in the project
editor, where you arrange the sequence of video
clips, still photos, and title graphics that make up
your project. You click and drag to position clips
where you want them in the flow of your project.
You also click and drag to select the best region of
each clip so you can ignore the parts that are
uninteresting. You can crop a clip to focus tightly on
a subject or rotate a clip that was shot in the wrong
orientation. You can also open the Precision Editor to
zoom in on a transition between clips and fine-tune
where exactly the change between scenes occurs.
Movie Project Themes
When you start a new project in iMovie, you can
choose a theme to add a predefined set of graphics
and transitions to the clips that you add. For
example, you can apply a vacation theme that adds
colorful scenery around your movie or a photo
album theme that makes clips look like snapshots
mounted in an album. You can always change the
theme of a project later on, change the theme
transitions to other ones from the iMovie library, or
start with no theme at all and add special touches
on your own.
With iMovie, you can take video clips,
such as those shot with your camcorder,
and edit them into full-featured movies
with professional effects. You can apply
themes to help set the mood. You can
also complement your video clips with
still images and background music.
Introducing
iMovie ’09
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