User manual APPLE IMOVIE HD - GETTING STARTED

iMovie HD Getting Started Includes explanations for importing video, editing footage, adding transitions, effects, titles, and more 1 Contents Chapter 1 6 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 21 22 25 31 31 32 32 37 37 38 38 39 40 41 Introduction Using This Document What's New in iMovie HD 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 Creating Your First Movie Steps for Creating a Movie Movies in Just Minutes A Quick Tour of Video Editing With iMovie HD Bringing Video Into iMovie HD About Importing Video From Your Camera Before You Begin Importing Video From a Digital Video (DV) or High Definition Video (HDV) Camera Capturing Live Video With an Apple iSight Camera Importing Video from an MPEG-4 Camera or Device Editing Basics Building Your Movie From Video Clips Previewing Your Video Clips Removing Unwanted Video Editing Clips with Direct Trimming Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 3 44 44 44 45 45 46 Chapter 6 47 47 49 49 50 51 54 55 56 59 59 61 62 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 68 69 69 70 71 72 72 73 75 76 76 76 77 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 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 Using Special Effects Motion Effects Video Effects Adding Titles and Chapter Markers Adding Titles Placing Titles Over a Black or Colored Clip Placing Titles Over Video Footage Editing an Existing Title Creating Chapter Markers for a DVD Working With Sound Adding Sound Effects Adding Music From a CD or iTunes Adding a Voiceover Working With Audio Clips Positioning and Trimming an Audio Clip Adjusting Sound Volume Adjusting the Volume of Your Movie Fine-Tuning Volume Levels in Clips Locking Audio Clips in Place Extracting Audio From Your Video Aligning Audio With Video Getting Well-Synchronized Sound Sharing Your Finished Movie Sending Your Movie By Email Preparing Your Movie for a .Mac HomePage Exporting to Your Video Camera Exporting to iDVD Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 4 Contents 77 79 Appendix 80 Exporting for QuickTime Viewing Formats Sharing Your Movies Via Bluetooth Wireless Technology 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. Magic iMovie gives you a helping hand to get started with any new movie project by importing and organizing your video, adding transitions and even a soundtrack --all automatically. And with faster, easier editing and a wealth of new video and audio effects iMovie HD makes it a snap to create an award-winner to share on the Internet or on DVD. Using This Document This document is organized into ten chapters and a Keyboard Shortcuts appendix, allowing you easy access to the information you'll need. · Chapter 1, Introduction: In this chapter you'll get a brief description of the major new features of iMovie HD. · Chapter 2, iMovie HD at a Glance: This chapter shows you the various views and controls in the iMovie HD window. Looking through these pages will enable you to easily follow the steps in the chapters that follow. You can also use the At a Glance for handy reference as you create your own iMovie HD projects. · Chapter 3, Creating Your First Movie: Learn the basics for using iMovie HD to create your first movie. This chapter introduces iMovie HD in a broad overview, and provides just enough information and tips to help you get started. The chapters that follow provide the step-by-step procedures and details you need as a reference for using iMovie HD features. · Chapter 4, Getting Your Video Into iMovie HD: Follow these instructions to connect your camcorder and import your video. · Chapter 5, Editing Basics: After you import your video into iMovie HD, learn to how to "clean up" your video footage, editing out the parts you don't like and keeping only the best footage to include in your movie. 6 · 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. Chapter 8, Adding Titles and Chapter Markers: Learn to add titles, credits, and other text to your footage to identify people, places, and dates, add commentary, or anything you like. For movies that you want to share on a disc with iDVD, learn to set up your movie in chapters so that viewers can play specific scenes. Chapter 9, Working With Sound: Learn to add sound effects, music, and voiceovers to your videos to give them a professional flare. Chapter 10, Watching Your Finished Movie: Learn to export your project into a finished movie format so that it can be viewed on the web, on DVD, as a QuickTime movie, or with format options used by experts. Keyboard Shortcuts: Common keyboard shortcuts are presented for easy reference in the appendix. What's New in iMovie HD iMovie HD adds many new features that make movie making faster and easier, with more professional results than ever: Support for High Definition (HD): iMovie HD continues to lead with support for the most advanced standards and cameras. Import high definition widescreen video (HDV 720p and 1080i) from the latest HD cameras. Do everything you expect from iMovie HD with HD content; edit, add effects, and share. Support for More Video Formats and Devices: More choices to use even the smallest and most affordable video cameras, including support for MPEG-4 from flash media video devices. Natively capture from iSight without converting formats. iMovie HD also supports 16:9 widescreen standard definition DV. Automated Movie Making with Magic iMovie: Just plug in your camcorder and iMovie HD automatically imports and arranges your video on the Timeline, creating a movie from start to finish--optionally adding titles, transitions, chapter markers, and even a soundtrack. Even send to iDVD, automatically. Editing Is Faster and Easier: Creating even the most advanced projects in iMovie HD is fast and easy with dramatically increased overall performance, including launching, editing, and saving--no matter how large or complex your project. Copy and paste clips between iMovie HD projects, and even drag and drop clips to and from the Timeline. Even rearrange your clips in the Timeline. Chapter 1 Introduction 7 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. · iPhoto: Browse and select video clips and photos directly from the iPhoto browser. · iTunes: iTunes playlist support gives you the ability to use any of your custom playlists in iMovie HD. To take a look at the windows and controls of iMovie HD, go to Chapter 2, "iMovie HD at a Glance." 8 Chapter 1 Introduction 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. 9 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 A B C Create a New Project button: Click this button to create a new project and import your footage. Open an Existing Project button: Click this button to open and continue working on an existing project already saved on your computer. Make a Magic iMovie button: Click this button to let iMovie HD create a new movie for you automatically. Just hook up your video camera, click this button, and find out how easy moviemaking can be. Quit: Click Quit to close iMovie HD. D 10 Chapter 2 iMovie HD at a Glance 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 B iMovie monitor: Watch your clips play in this window. You can play clips that are in the Clips pane or the clip viewer. Scrubber bar: Drag the playhead along the scrubber bar to move through a clip frame by frame. The number near the playhead indicates how far (minutes:seconds:frames) the selected frame is into the movie. Mode switch: Click to switch between camera mode and edit mode. Use camera mode to choose an input device and transfer your raw video into the computer. Use edit mode to work on your movie. Playback controls: Use these controls to skip to the beginning of a selected clip, play or pause the clip in the iMovie monitor, or play the clip full screen on your computer's monitor. Volume slider: Slide this control to change the volume of the computer's speaker while you work in iMovie HD. This won't change the recorded volume levels of your video or audio clips. You make that kind of adjustment using the controls in the timeline viewer. Pane buttons: Click these buttons to see the different panes of the iMovie HD window. See a description of each pane later in this chapter. C D E F Chapter 2 iMovie HD at a Glance 11 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. 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. When it turns red, you must free up some space to continue working on your movie. H Clip Viewer Use the clip viewer, shown below, to add clips to your movie and arrange them in the order you want them to appear in your movie. When you create titles and transitions, or add photographs from your iPhoto library, drag them to the clip viewer. A B C A B C Clip viewer button: Click the clip viewer button to switch from the timeline viewer to the clip viewer. Clip: Each section of video footage and any still images you import are called clips. Transition marker: Transition markers indicate that two clips are linked by a transition. 12 Chapter 2 iMovie HD at a Glance Timeline Viewer Use the timeline viewer, shown below, to edit your movie's video and audio clips, and synchronize your audio and video. A B C D E G F A B C Timeline viewer button: Click the timeline viewer button to switch from the clip viewer to the timeline viewer. Video track: Select clips in this track to edit or add effects or titles that play over your footage. Audio tracks: Place and arrange audio clips in these tracks and drag them into position to synchronize audio with video clips. Use these tracks to add sound effects, music, and voiceover recordings. Deselecting the checkbox to the right of the track mutes all the audio clips in that track. Zoom slider: Move the slider to make clips appear larger or smaller in the timeline. Enlarging or reducing the size of clips can make them easier to select and edit. Volume level bar: When you choose View > Show Clip Volume Levels, you see a volume level bar appear as a line across your clips. Select a clip, clips, or a portion of a clip, and click the clip volume control icon under the audio tracks to display a volume slider. Drag the slider to raise or lower the volume of a selected clip, clips, or clip segment. Or directly change the clip volume by dragging the volume level bar up or down. You can also click the bar to add markers, then drag the markers to adjust the volume for sections of audio clips. You can use this to make audio fade in or fade out. Audio waveforms: You can choose View > Show Audio Waveforms to display representations of audio intensity in audio clips. Use audio waveforms to align video to audio events such as a certain drumbeat or the exact beginning or end of the audio. Audio checkboxes: Select a checkbox to hear the audio in a track. Deselect it to mute the track. D E F G Chapter 2 iMovie HD at a Glance 13 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 A B Clip name: Each clip is assigned a unique filename. You can select the name to change it to something more meaningful to you. Duration: The length of a video or audio clip is read as minutes:seconds:frames. For example, 01:08:15 is 1 minute, 8 seconds, and 15 frames into the movie. 14 Chapter 2 iMovie HD at a Glance 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 D E F G H I A Ken Burns Effect: Use these controls to set up panning and zooming effects for your photos and images. Turn the effect off or on by selecting or deselecting the Ken Burns Effect checkbox. Click Start and set how an image should first appear, then click Finish and set how the image should appear at the end of the effect. Drag the image in the preview monitor to the positions you want. Use the Zoom slider (below the monitor) to set the zoom. The Ken Burns Effect then smoothly changes the image size and location on screen as the image is displayed in your movie. Reverse: Click to reverse the direction of the pan and zoom effect. Preview: Click to see how the effect looks in the preview monitor. Apply: When you have the effect the way you want, click this button to apply the effect to the photograph. This creates a new clip in the Clips pane that you can drag to the location you want in your movie. You can also drag an image into your movie and then select it and apply changes later. Duration: Move the slider to set how many seconds the image remains in view. B C D E Chapter 2 iMovie HD at a Glance 15 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. Preview monitor: Use this monitor to set up and preview effects for a selected photo or image. Photo browser: Select the photos and images you want to add to your movie here. Search field: Enter the name of a photo or image here to quickly locate it. G H I Audio Pane Click the Audio button to open the Audio pane. You use this pane to add sound effects, record a voiceover, or import music from a CD or your iTunes music library. A B C E D F A Audio pop-up menu: Use this pop-up menu to display lists of music and sound effects that you can add to a movie. You can choose a track from your iTunes library or a music CD, or an iMovie HD sound effect. You can drag an audio clip from the list to one of the two audio tracks in the timeline viewer to add it to your movie. Eject button: Click the button to eject a CD from the optical drive. Play: Click the button to play or pause a selected track. Search field: Type some words from a title to search for a particular audio file in your iTunes library. You can search by title or artist. B C D 16 Chapter 2 iMovie HD at a Glance E F 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. 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. The newly recorded audio clip appears in the audio track where you can select and edit it. Titles Pane Click the Titles button to open the Titles pane. You can add opening titles, rolling commentary, end credits, and more. You can also choose a title style, font, and text color. A B C D E F G H I J A B C D E F Preview: Click to see how the title will look. Update: Click to apply changes to a title you've already added to your movie. Arrow buttons: For some titles you can click the arrow buttons to set the direction you want the title to move. Preview monitor: Use this monitor to view title styles and preview your settings. Timing controls: Move the sliders to set how quickly you want the titles to appear and how long to pause before disappearing. Other options may be available, depending on the title style. Titles list: Select a title style for the text you want to add to your movie. Click the disclosure triangle next to a title to see more titles in that category. When you're done setting options for the title, drag the title style from this list to the timeline viewer to place the title in your movie. Chapter 2 iMovie HD at a Glance 17 G H 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. 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.) QT Margins: Select this option if you plan to export the movie to QuickTime. This option adjusts the size of the text to display within the TV safe area of the screen. Deselect it if you want to show the movie on a television screen. Text fields: Type your text in these fields. If the style you choose allows multiple lines of text, use the plus and minus buttons to add or remove additional lines. I J Transitions Pane Click the Transitions button to open the Transitions pane. You can add transitions to smoothly change scenes in your movie. A B C D E F G A B C D Preview: Click to see how the transition will look in the preview monitor. Update: Click to apply changes to a transition already in a movie. Apply: Click to apply the transition to a selected transition in your movie. You can also select and change multiple transitions all at once. Arrow buttons: For some transitions, you can click an arrow button to set the direction you want the transition to move. For example, a transition might "push" a scene from right to left or left to right. 18 Chapter 2 iMovie HD at a Glance 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. Preview monitor: View a selected video clip and transition here. You can select and change the speed settings that appear here. Transitions list: Select a transition in this list. When you're done setting options for the transition, drag the transition from this list to where you want it to appear in the clip viewer. F G Effects Pane Click the Effects button to open the Effects pane. Here you can add special effects to change the look of your movie clips. For example, you can change color video to black and white, adjust the image brightness and contrast, or add playful effects like fairy dust. A B D C E F A B C D Preview: Click to see how the effect will appear in the selected clip. Apply: Click to apply the effect to the selected clip in your movie. Effect In/Effect Out: Move these sliders to the points in the selected clip where you want the effect to appear and disappear. Preview monitor: Use this monitor to preview the effects you set up. With some effects, you can position the pointer over the preview monitor to change the location of an effect. You can also select the timing settings that appear in the preview monitor and change them for precise control of effects. Chapter 2 iMovie HD at a Glance 19 E F Effects list: Select an effect in this list to change the appearance of clips in your movie. 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. A B C A B Chapter titles: A new chapter appears in the list each time you add a marker. Type a name for each chapter that you want to use in your iDVD scene selection menu. Add Chapter/Remove Chapter: Click to add or remove a chapter marker in your movie. If you export your movie to iDVD to create a DVD, the markers you add are used to create scene selection menus in iDVD. Create iDVD Project: Click to export your movie directly to iDVD. This opens iDVD and your movie appears as a project in the iDVD window. C 20 Chapter 2 iMovie HD at a Glance 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. 2 Add any photos, designs, or images you might want in your movie to your iPhoto library. 3 Add any music for your movie to your iTunes library or select the CD you'd like to import music from. You can also create your own music clips with GarageBand and export them into iTunes. 4 Import your video footage into iMovie HD. 5 Review the imported clips, deleting those you don't want, and naming clips to make them easily identifiable. 6 Make rough edits of your clips to cut them to approximate sizes. 7 Plan the order of your clips, and plan transitions and any special effects you'll need. 8 Drag your rough cut clips, photos, or other images into the clip or timeline viewer in the order you want. 9 Add titles where appropriate to your rough cut. 10 Polish the timing of your video clips and add transitions. 11 With the clip sequence of your movie in good shape, add audio clips to your sound track. Record any voiceover, add music, and position any sound effects. 21 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. Next, let's take a look at how you accomplish these tasks in iMovie HD. Movies in Just Minutes Whether this is your first movie or you've made many, you can let iMovie HD make the movie for you to create a complete video or to give you a headstart on editing. The Make a Magic iMovie feature can automatically import video from your video camera, compose it into a movie, and put it into iDVD so you can burn it on a DVD disc. You can optionally specify for Magic iMovie to add a title, transitions between scenes, and a soundtrack, and iMovie HD sits in the director's chair and does the rest. Once your movie is created, you can explore and try out other iMovie HD features to learn how they work. To create a Magic iMovie, you need: · Your video camera and footage you want in an iMovie HD. · A FireWire cable to connect your camera to the computer. Note: You can't use the Make a Magic iMovie feature with MPEG-4 video cameras and devices that connect to your computer using a USB cable. For information about importing video from such devices, see "Importing Video from an MPEG-4 Camera or Device" on page 37. After importing your video, return to the overview section, "A Quick Tour of Video Editing With iMovie HD" on page 25. 22 Chapter 3 Creating Your First Movie 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. If your camera is a high definition or widescreen camera, click the Video format disclosure triangle and choose the video format of your camera. 6 Click Create. The Make a Magic iMovie dialog appears. Here you can select how iMovie HD creates your video. Chapter 3 Creating Your First Movie 23 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. For now, you'll leave the video in iMovie HD so you can explore iMovie HD features. 8 Click Create. Your camera rewinds and iMovie HD begins importing your video and creating your first movie. Easy as that. After importing your video (the length of time it takes depends on the length of your video footage), iMovie HD's main window appears showing your new movie. Use the playback controls to watch the movie. Rewind Show full screen Play/Pause 24 Chapter 3 Creating Your First Movie 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. When you import video yourself using a FireWire connection, iMovie HD first stores the clips in the Clips pane. You compose your movie by dragging clips from the Clips pane into the clip viewer, arranging them as you want. You can also select an individual clip in the Clips pane or in the clip viewer and view it with the playback controls. When a clip is selected you can edit it, cropping or trimming footage you don't need or deleting entire clips. Chapter 3 Creating Your First Movie 25 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. 26 Chapter 3 Creating Your First Movie 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. Each title style has different options that allow you to determine how long the text will appear, what direction it moves, font size and color, and other options depending on the specific title style. To add a title to the movie, drag the title style name into the clip or timeline viewer where the title should appear. If you select "Over black," iMovie HD adds a black clip and your title appears over the clip. If "Over black" is not selected, iMovie HD places the title over the video clip you dragged the title to. Chapter 3 Creating Your First Movie 27 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 then drag the transition to the clip viewer and place it between two clips. Transition iMovie HD may take a few moments to create, or "render," the transition, during which time you see a red line moving on the transition. Once the transition is rendered, you can play the movie and see how your scenes change. You can select and change your transitions later, too. 28 Chapter 3 Creating Your First Movie 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. To add audio clips to your movie, click the Audio button and the Audio pane appears. You use this pane to add sound effects, record a voiceover, or import music from a CD or your iTunes music library or GarageBand music. Choose the type of audio you want to use from the pop-up menu at the top of the Audio pane. Drag a song or sound effect into your movie. Chapter 3 Creating Your First Movie 29 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. To add a special effect, select the clip you want to change and then click the Effects button. The Effects pane appears. Select an effect. The Effects pane shows a list of professionally mastered video effects you can use. Select an effect and then choose the options you want. You can preview the effect by clicking the Preview button. Once the effect is set up just right, click Apply to add the effect to the selected clip. When your movie is finished, you save your project and select a method of distribution. iMovie HD has a Share command that allows you to share your movie on the web, burn it on DVD, send it via email or Bluetooth wireless technology, record it on video tape, and distribute it as a QuickTime movie in many advanced formats. You now know the major features of iMovie HD for creating a great-looking movie. In the following chapters, you'll find step-by-step procedures for creating and editing a movie. With a little practice, you'll quickly be making movies that really impress. 30 Chapter 3 Creating Your First Movie 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. You can also import video footage from MPEG-4 cameras or devices that use a USB cable by dragging the footage either into your iMovie HD project or onto your hard disk for later importing. iMovie HD supports the most advanced video standards and cameras. You can import high definition video (HDV 720p and 1080i) from the latest HD camcorders and edit stunning HD video projects. iMovie HD also supports capturing 16:9 Widescreen Standard Definition DV, MPEG-4 video, and capturing native footage from Apple iSight cameras. If you have transferred video files of different formats to your computer, you can also import or drag video files from your hard disk into an iMovie HD project. About Importing Video From Your Camera The method you use to import your video may differ depending on your type of camera or device. · If you have a digital video (DV) video camera, you can use a FireWire cable to directly import your footage into an iMovie HD project. iMovie HD can read the video directly from your camera and break it up into "scenes" or clips ready to use in a movie. The video on your camera is not changed or deleted, so you can always import footage again. You can also drag or import DV video clips into a iMovie HD project. · If you have a high definition (HDV) video camera, you can use a FireWire cable to directly import your footage into iMovie HD just as you can with a DV video camera. You can also drag or import your video clips into a iMovie HD project. 31 · 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. Your MPEG-4 device will appear as a hard disk on your desktop and you can open it and drag the video into an iMovie HD project or onto your hard disk for later importing. When you import footage by dragging it into your project , the footage is brought in as a single clip which you can edit and break up into smaller clips later. Before You Begin In many tasks shown in these chapters and in iMovie HD Help, you are asked to choose menu commands, which look like this: Choose Edit > Clear. This type of command means "Click the Edit menu in the iMovie HD menu bar and choose the Clear command." Importing Video From a Digital Video (DV) or High Definition Video (HDV) Camera iMovie HD uses the same procedure to import video from many different types of cameras and in different video formats, including standard definition DV cameras (including those that support widescreen) and high definition (HDV) cameras. In most cases, you'll find iMovie HD can automatically recognize and import the video you're using, so you don't have to pay attention to video formats. Note: You can also use the Make a Magic iMovie feature to automatically import your footage and create a complete movie that you can edit and change later. You'll find it provides a fast head start to creating any movie. 32 Chapter 4 Bringing Video Into iMovie HD 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. In most cases, iMovie HD automatically detects the type of camera you've connected and selects the appropriate video format. You can also specify the video format of your project by clicking the Video Format disclosure triangle and choosing a format from the pop-up menu that appears. 5 Click Create. 6 In the main iMovie HD window, set the mode switch under the iMovie monitor to camera mode, as shown below. Chapter 4 Bringing Video Into iMovie HD 33 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 Pause Stop 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. 11 When you're done importing, click Import again to stop. If you're having trouble getting your video camera to communicate with iMovie HD, click the Connection Help button in the iMovie monitor. It connects you to useful information in iMovie HD Help. 34 Chapter 4 Bringing Video Into iMovie HD 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. To have clips placed automatically in the timeline: 1 Choose iMovie HD > Preferences. 2 Click Import. 3 Select the "Movie Timeline" radio button. If you prefer, you can turn off automatic scene detection and manually create the breaks between video clips as you import. To turn off automatic scene detection: 1 Choose iMovie HD > Preferences. 2 Click Import. 3 Deselect the checkbox labeled "Start a new clip at each scene break." To manually create scene breaks, click the Import button to start or stop importing as you import each scene. Or, you can import long scenes and then split them in the Clips pane using the "Split Video Clip at Playhead" command in the Edit menu. Chapter 4 Bringing Video Into iMovie HD 35 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. iMovie HD is preset to import standard definition digital video (DV), and it can automatically detect whether you have connected a high definition video camera or an Apple iSight camera and switch your project to the appropriate settings. However, with standard video formats, you may at times want to specify a particular format, such as DV widescreen. To specify a video format for a new project, choose File > New Project or click the Create a New Project button in the iMovie HD project window. In the Create Project dialog, click the "Video format" triangle to display format options. Choose the video format options you want. Different video formats use different frame rates. Most video formats, including standard definition, high definition, and widescreen, use either 29.97 frames per second or 25 frames per second. For example, NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) and PAL (Phase Alternating Line) are two common digital video (DV) formats. NTSC format, which is used in North America and Japan, has a frame rate of 29.97 frames per second (fps). PAL format, which is used in most of the world outside North America, has a frame rate of 25 fps. When you first import video into a project, iMovie HD automatically detects the correct frame rate of the incoming footage. 36 Chapter 4 Bringing Video Into iMovie HD 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. If it doesn't find one, it looks for an iSight and displays your iSight video in the iMovie monitor. If you have both a camera and iSight connected to your computer, set the mode switch to camera mode and choose iSight from the pop-up menu. Your iSight video is directly imported into iMovie HD project. You can edit and use it just as you would any other iMovie HD footage Importing Video from an MPEG-4 Camera or Device MPEG-4 video cameras or devices may use a USB connection to connect the device to your computer. When you connect an MPEG-4 camera or device, it appears as a hard disk icon on your desktop. You can open the device's icon and drag the footage directly into an iMovie HD project, or to your desktop for later importing. When you drag MPEG-4 video into an iMovie HD, project, iMovie HD imports the video as a single clip which you can then break up into scenes and edit, if you want. If your device uses a USB connection, you cannot directly import video into a project using the import controls and procedure used for cameras connected via FireWire, or use the Make a Magic iMovie feature to import video and automatically create a movie. Did You Know? -- Importing Clips From Your Hard Disk If you already have digital video or still images on your computer's hard disk, or an external hard disk, you can import them into your iMovie HD project. You can drag video clips from your desktop into iMovie HD or choose File > Import. Choose the images you want to import and click Open. When you import clips in a format different from your project, they are converted to the video format of your movie. For example, if you have created a movie using high definition video format throughout, any standard definition clips that you import are converted to the project's high definition format. Tip: If you want to use clips from another iMovie HD project, open the project and select the clips you want, and copy and paste them into your new project. You can also drag the clips to your desktop and then open another project and drag them into it. Chapter 4 Bringing Video Into iMovie HD 37 5 Editing Basics 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. Building Your Movie From Video Clips Once your footage has been imported to the Clips pane, you need to move it to the clip viewer to start creating your movie. In the clip viewer, you put the clips in the sequence you want them to appear in your movie. m To add a clip to your movie: Drag the clip to the clip viewer and position it where you want it to appear. 38 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. · Drag clips out of the clip viewer or timeline viewer into the Clips pane for later use · Select several clips at once and drag them to new positions · Drag clips into the iMovie Trash and drag them out of the iMovie Trash to the clip viewer, timeline viewer, of Clips pane, if you change your mind · Drag clips out of a movie to your desktop or to another application, or into iDVD drop zones · Drag clips from the desktop into your iMovie HD project Sometimes you may want to use a clip several times in a video. In this case, you can drag a copy of the clip into your movie and leave the original in the Clips pane. m To move a copy of the clip to your movie: Hold down the Option key while you drag a clip from the Clips pane. Adding copies of clips is useful because you always have an untouched clip to go back to if you make mistakes in editing that you can't reverse. Previewing Your Video Clips Each second of video is made up of many separate pictures, or frames. To find the exact moments that you want to keep or delete from your clips, you can play through each clip at normal speed, or move through it frame by frame. You can select and play clips in the Clips pane, clip viewer, and timeline viewer. To move through a clip at normal speed: · Select the clip and click Play in the iMovie HD playback controls. · Click Rewind to move to the beginning of your movie or sequence of clips. · Click Play Full Screen to play the video in full-screen mode. (Click anywhere on the screen to return to normal view.) Rewind Play Full Screen Play/Pause Chapter 5 Editing Basics 39 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. Removing Unwanted Video After importing your video, you can select clips in the Clips pane and delete any you don't want. Click an unwanted clip to select it and press the Delete key or drag it to the iMovie HD Trash. The clip remains available in the Trash until you empty it or drag it back out. To create a polished movie, you also trim and crop individual clips so that they show only the footage you want to include. There are three ways to get rid of unwanted frames in a video clip: · Trimming: Removes the frames you select. Use this when you want to delete frames from one end or another. · Cropping: Preserves the selected part of a clip and removes the frames before and after your selection. Use this when you want to keep most of the clip, but you want to delete the beginning and the end. · Splitting: Breaks a scene into two separate clips. Use this when you want to separate a clip into two pieces. You can then delete one of the pieces or use it elsewhere in your movie. Depending on how you like to work, you can review and make rough cuts to clips in the Clips pane, or do all your editing in the clip viewer or timeline viewer. Fine adjustments to the timing and duration of clips are usually made in the timeline viewer, where you can also use a method of editing called "direct trimming." 40 Chapter 5 Editing Basics 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. Dragging from the center of the clip moves the clip to a different location in your movie. As you move the clip to the right, a gap is created. You can drag other clips to fill the gap, or you can leave a gap for your own artistic reasons (they're handy backgrounds for text or can add an extra dimension to a transition or effect). Gap Drag pointer Tip: A fast way to get rid of a gap is to view it in the clip viewer, where it appears as a black clip. Select the black clip and delete it. Dragging from the end of a clip toward the center of the clip shortens the clip. The trimmed video is still present, but it won't appear in your movie. If you decide to lengthen the clip later, you can drag the end to lengthen the clip again and the hidden footage is restored. Direct trimming pointer Rippling and Overwriting Clips If you move a clip over an empty space in the timeline viewer, the clip replaces, or overwrites, the empty space. If you move a clip over another clip, the clip you're moving pushes aside the clip and all the adjoining clips, moving them all in the direction you're dragging. If you decide that you want to overwrite a clip with another clip, you can hold down the Command key as you drag. The clip you're moving overwrites (or trims) the other clip. Chapter 5 Editing Basics 41 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. Trimmed clip Full clip Did You Know? -- Selecting Multiple Clips at Once · To select a range of video clips in the clip viewer or timeline viewer, hold down the Shift key as you select the first and last clips in the range you want. · To select a range of video clips in the clip viewer or timeline viewer, drag to create a selection box around the clips you want to select. · To select clips that aren't adjacent to each other, hold down the Command key as you select the clips you want. · To select all the clips of a certain type, such as all the transitions in a movie, select a clip of the type you want to change and choose Edit > Select Similar Clips. · To select all the clips in the timeline viewer or clip viewer, select a clip in the viewer, then press Command-A. · To select all the clips in the Clips pane, select one and press Command-A. To select a subset of clips in the Clips pane, hold down the Shift key as you click the clips, or click an empty spot in the Clips pane and drag to encompass the clips. · To select all the audio clips in a track, select one clip and choose Edit > Select All. Trimming a Clip Using Crop Markers You can also trim clips using crop markers that appear under the iMovie HD monitor and scrubber bar. You can use the crop markers to trim clips selected in the clip viewer, timeline viewer, or Clips pane. To trim a clip, you drag the crop markers to select the frames in the clip that you don't want to keep. 42 Chapter 5 Editing Basics 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. 5 Choose Edit > Clear (or press the Delete key) to trim the selected frames from the clip. Cropping a Video Clip Using Crop Markers To crop a clip, you select the frames that you want to keep and delete the rest of the clip. Cropping is often the easiest method when you want to preserve the middle part of a clip and delete the beginning and the end. To crop a clip: 1 Select a clip in the clip viewer or timeline viewer. 2 Position the pointer over the scrubber bar to display the crop markers. 3 Drag the right crop marker along the scrubber bar until you see the last frame that you want to keep. 4 Drag the left crop marker along the scrubber bar until you see the first frame that you want to keep. 5 Choose Edit > Crop to delete the frames outside the range of frames you selected. The selected frames are preserved. Chapter 5 Editing Basics 43 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. Undoing an Edit If you make a mistake as you work, you can always undo your action. m To undo an action: Choose Edit > Undo. You can choose Undo multiple times to undo your changes one after the other. Did You Know? -- Undoing Your Changes When you trim a clip, the footage you delete is not lost. You can choose the Undo command multiple times to cancel your changes one after another. You can also undo all your changes to a clip at once by selecting the clip and choosing Advanced > Revert Clip to Original. If you trimmed too much from a clip, you can also bring back the trimmed footage using the direct trimming method, explained next. About Gaps (Black Clips) When you drag clips to the right in the timeline viewer, you can create a gap between clips. The gaps, or empty spaces, are called "black clips" When you switch to the clip . viewer, you see a black clip has been added to the project. When you view your movie, you see only black video where gaps appear. You can change these black clips to any color you want by creating a "color clip" . You can use color clips as spacers or placeholders in your movie, or you can use them as background for text or titles. You can't select or move them in the clip viewer. 44 Chapter 5 Editing Basics 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. For example, you might want to show a title over a still image of a dog and then show that image coming to life as a real dog. To do so, you create a still image from first frame of your dog clip. The new image appears as five-second clip in the Clips pane. You can then place that still image before your video clip and add the title you want. To create a still frame from your movie: 1 Select a clip and position the playhead to display the image you want. 2 Choose Edit > Create Still Frame. After a still image appears in the Clips pane, you can rename it and change its duration to match the needs of your movie. Copying and Pasting Clips and Images You can cut, copy, and paste selections of your video as you edit. For example, you can copy an image or clip and paste it into different places in a movie. You can replace a section of video by selecting it and pasting another clip over it. You can delete video or move it to different locations in the movie. You can also copy a video clip from a different iMovie into the one you're working on. To edit your video, you drag clips to different locations or use the Copy, Cut, Paste, and Clear commands, much as you do to edit text in a word-processing application. To copy a clip to a new position in the movie: 1 Select the video clip or frame range you want to cut or copy, then choose Edit > Cut or Copy. 2 Move the playhead where you want the chosen clip to appear. 3 Choose Edit > Paste. Chapter 5 Editing Basics 45 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. Because iMovie HD saves your original footage even after trimming, you can still retrieve trimmed footage after you save. m To save your project: Choose File > Save Project. At times you may want to open your project as it was last saved and start over, cancelling any unsaved changes. m To revert to the last saved version of your project: Choose File > "Revert to Saved" . Did You Know? -- Creating Different Versions of Your Project You can save a copy of your project, giving it a different name. You can then create a different version of the movie or use parts of the movie in a new project. Saving multiple copies of a project can be extremely useful, but can use large amounts of disk space. To save a copy of your project with a different name, choose File > Save Project As. Enter a name and choose a location for the copy of the project and click Save. 46 Chapter 5 Editing Basics 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. Transitions blend the ends of clips together in a variety of ways--for example, fading one scene into the next, dissolving one scene into another, or "pushing" the last scene offscreen as the next scene comes on. You can also add great photos to your movie and add movement to them for visual impact. Adding a Transition Between Scenes You can place a transition between any two clips in your movie, or at the beginning or end of the movie. Keep in mind that some transitions, like Cross Dissolve and Push, will cut a few seconds from the length of your movie. For instance, if you put a 2-second cross dissolve between two clips, iMovie HD overlaps 2 seconds from the first clip and 2 seconds from the second clip to create the transition. This shortens your movie by 2 seconds. Note: You can't place a long transition between two short clips that don't provide enough footage to make the transition. As a rule of thumb, when planning the length of clips used with transitions, extend the time of the clip by half of the transition. For example, when using a 2-second transition, leave an extra second (1/2 the transition) at the beginning of the clip so that when the transition is over, the clip shows the footage you want. 47 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. 3 Set the length of your transition using the Speed slider under the preview monitor. The transition length is shown in the lower-right corner of the preview monitor. The duration is read as seconds:frames, so a timecode reading "15:08" means "15 seconds and 8 frames." Tip: You can select the timecodes in the preview monitor and change them to the precise timing you want. Some transitions provide additional settings. For example, if you select Push, you can also use the arrow buttons to choose the direction from which the next scene enters. Other transitions, such as Scale Down, allow you to set where the transition originates. If the pointer changes to a crosshair when you click in the preview monitor, you can click again to select the origination point of the transition. 4 Click Preview to see how the transition will look with the settings you made. You can continue to make adjustments and preview them until you have the effect you want. 48 Chapter 6 Adding Transitions and Photos 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. m To delete a transition: Select the transition and press the Delete key, or choose Edit > Clear. When you delete a transition, your clips are restored to their original length. You can then move them, apply video effects to them, or add a different transition between them. If you change your mind about the length of a transition you have already added, you can edit it. To edit a transition: 1 Select the transition in the clip viewer. 2 In the Transitions pane, adjust the length of the transition using the Speed slider. 3 Click Update. Applying Transitions to Multiple Clips If you want to use the same transition for more than one clip--or all your clips--you can select the clips, set up the transition settings you want, and click Apply. Depending on the size of your project, this can be a big time saver. You can also delete or edit multiple transitions in the same way. Chapter 6 Adding Transitions and Photos 49 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. If you chose a duration that is too long for some of your clips, you'll see a message asking you if you want iMovie HD to automatically adjust the duration for the short clips. If you agree, the duration for the shorter clips is up to half the clips' duration. Adding Photos iMovie HD lets you easily add photos from your iPhoto library to your movie. You can add photos as still shots that linger for as long as you like, or you can pan and zoom in or out with the Ken Burns effect. Use the Photos pane, shown below, to select photos and add motion to them. Note: To see photos in the Photos pane, you must have iPhoto installed, and you must have at least one photo in your iPhoto library. 50 Chapter 6 Adding Transitions and Photos