imovietutorialseminar_1_2012

Seminar One: Professor DavisNovember 29, 2012

Amanda FaviaITF, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch

College amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.edu

Import Video

Start New Project

iMovie Tools

Basic Editing

Advanced Editing 

File>Import>Movie

Import formats that directly import into iMovie—3gp, m4v, avchd, mp4, mov, h.264, dv

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”

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

Choose File > New Project

Project Themes>Select Theme (or No Theme) Themes automatically insert titles &

transitions

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

Project Library View Video

Build your Project

iMovie Toolbar

Event Library

Browse your Source Video/Music

Import Video

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

MusicVideo & PhotosTitlesTransitionsBackgrounds

Voiceover

Crop Video

Inspector: Edit Clips, Video & Audio*

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

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

Allows you to do frame by frame editing

Modify the point at which one clip transitions into the next, trimming or extending frames at the end of one clip and at the beginning of the next clip

Video Effect

Speed & Direction of Footage

Stabilize Footage

Rolling Shutter

Smooth the shaky portions of your video

Marks the footage that contains people

For best results, use when project is complete

iMovie & iLife Sound Effects

GarageBand

iTunes

Drag & drop audio file into Project Area

Trim sound>drag on edges of the green icon to resize

Adjust Volume

Ducking: gives the selected audio priority over other audio tracks

Fade

Enhance

Equalizer

Normalize: brings loudest part of audio clip to 100% w/o distortion

Choose Clip

Original Audio track (purple bar) Select & Move Select & Delete Audio Adjustment & Duck

Add Additional Audio Track (green bar)

Detaching Audio

Increase/decrease the volume for an entire clip by dragging the volume line up or down.

Adjust image quality

Levels: B&W levels

Exposure: shadows & highlights

Brightness: overall light level

Contrast: relative contrast of light & dark tones

Saturation: color intensity

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

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

Split Screen Drag a selected

clip onto a shot in the Project window.

The advanced contextual menu features new options like Side by Side.

This creates a split screen effect.

Bluescreen/Greenscreen Shoot a subject against colored backdrops Drag the clip onto an existing project clip and choose

Blue (or Green) Screen. The colored background will vanish.

iMovie Tutorials: http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/

Contact me! amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.edu

Amanda Favia amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.edu

ITF, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College