imovietutorialseminar_1_2012
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Seminar One: Professor DavisNovember 29, 2012
Amanda FaviaITF, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch
College [email protected]
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.
