iMovie HD Getting Started Shows you how to import video; edit footage; and add transitions, effects, titles, and more 1 Contents Chapter 1 4 4 5 6 6 6 8 9 9 10 14 16 19 22 24 27 29 29 30 31 32 34 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 40 41 Welcome to iMovie HD Using This Document What's New in iMovie HD 6 Before You Begin What You'll Learn What You Need Finding Out More iMovie HD Tutorial Step One: Start a New Project Step Two: Import Video Into iMovie HD Step Three: Choose the Video You Want to Keep Step Four: Build Your Movie Step Five: Add Photos to Your Movie Step Six: Add Titles and Text Step Seven: Make Adjustments to Clips Step Eight: Add Transitions Step Nine: Add a Soundtrack Adding Audio to Your Movie Adjusting the Length of Audio Clips Adjusting the Volume of Audio Clips Step Ten: Share Your Movie iMovie HD at a Glance iMovie HD Project Window Main Window Clip Viewer Timeline Viewer Clips Pane Themes Pane Media Pane Audio Photos Chapter 2 Chapter 3 2 42 42 43 44 45 46 Editing Pane Titles Transitions Video Effects Audio Effects Chapters Pane Contents 3 1 Welcome to iMovie HD 1 Welcome to iMovie HD 6. This document will get you on your way to 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. iMovie HD is the perfect companion for the latest high definition camcorders and the smallest and most affordable flash cameras. The many new features of iMovie HD make it a snap to create an award-winning movie to share on the Internet or on a DVD. Using This Document iMovie HD Getting Started is organized into three chapters, making it easy to find the information you'll need.  Chapter 1, "Welcome to iMovie HD": In this chapter, you'll get a brief description of the major new features of iMovie HD and find out where to get more information about iMovie HD.  Chapter 2, "iMovie HD Tutorial": Follow the instructions in this chapter to learn how to capture video and make a basic movie that you can share in a variety of ways.  Chapter 3, "iMovie HD at a Glance": This chapter shows you the views and controls in iMovie HD. You can use the chapter as a quick reference as you create your own iMovie HD projects. 4 What's New in iMovie HD 6  Improved performance: iMovie HD 6 harnesses the power of Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger and QuickTime 7 to give you quicker effects rendering and pristine video quality. Experiment with stunning new video effects and see the results instantly. From importing footage to sharing your finished movie, iMovie HD is faster and more responsive every step of the way.  Enhanced user interface: The improved editing panes and controls in iMovie HD make building and editing your movie easier than ever. You can even preview transitions, titles, and effects live and in the large iMovie monitor to see exactly how they'll look in your movie.  Multiple open projects: You can open more than one iMovie HD project at a time to copy individual video and audio clips--or even a whole movie or a portion of a movie--from one project to another. You can even open multiple versions of a project to compare different "cuts."  Apple-designed movie themes: iMovie HD 6 makes it easier than ever to add Hollywood-style polish to your movie. Just select the theme you want to use and choose from its subset of titles and visual effects to get incredible-looking results. Themes use advanced motioning and compositing that even combine your video and photos with stunning backgrounds and animated graphics.  New audio enhancements: Want to remove wind noise or camera hum? Adjust the bass or treble in a particular video or audio clip? You can now use the graphic equalizer in iMovie HD to change the levels of individual audio frequencies. You can also change the pitch of your audio and add reverb, delay, and other audio effects to make your movies sound better than ever.  Magic iMovie enhancements: Performing magic with iMovie HD has never been easier. Just use the "Magic iMovie" feature to have iMovie HD import your video and make a great-looking movie for you. Now, with iMovie HD 6, you can choose whether to have iMovie HD rewind your tape before import, and even specify the moment you want it to stop capturing footage.  More flexible web publishing: iMovie HD integrates key elements of iWeb, Apple's new web-publishing application, to give you more flexibility to present your movies the way you want. Whether you choose to display your movie on its own webpage, use it in a blog, or publish a video podcast made in iMovie, iWeb offers creative options and allows you to easily put your movies on the web.  Even tighter iLife integration: All your digital media--your songs and music, photos and video clips--work together to create video slideshows and movies. From iMovie HD 6, you can even compose a soundtrack for your movie project right in GarageBand.  Time lapse video: The new time-lapse import feature in iMovie HD lets you show the progression of an event (such as a blooming rose) in a fraction of the time it took in real life. Chapter 1 Welcome to iMovie HD 5 Before You Begin To make it easier to do the tasks in the tutorial, print this document before you start. In many tasks shown here and in iMovie HD Help, you need to choose commands from the menus in the menu bar. Menu commands look like this: Choose Edit > Copy. The first term after Choose is the name of a menu in the iMovie HD menu bar. The next terms are the items you choose from that menu. What You'll Learn If you follow all the steps in the tutorial, you will learn how to use your own video to create a basic movie that includes a title, transitions between clips, and a soundtrack. You'll also learn to do the following:  Crop and trim video footage  Add motion to photographs using the Ken Burns Effect  Trim audio clips  Adjust sound volume  Synchronize audio and video  Share your finished movie with others What You Need To complete all the parts of the tutorial, you need the following:  iMovie HD 6 installed on your computer  Digital video footage on a camcorder or on your hard disk. The tutorial tells you how to capture digital video from your camcorder and import it directly into iMovie HD using a FireWire cable. If you have digital video on a flash device or want to capture video directly from an iSight camera, open iMovie and choose Help > iMovie HD Help. Then type "importing" in the search field. You'll find instructions for importing video from other locations or devices.  Music files in your iTunes library  Photographs in your iPhoto library If you don't have photographs or music in iPhoto or iTunes, you can still do the tutorial. You can skip the related steps or read through them for future reference. Most importantly, experiment and have fun as you learn how to get started with iMovie HD. 6 Chapter 1 Welcome to iMovie HD Did You Know?--Using Magic iMovie to Create a Movie in Minutes Whether this is your first movie or you've made many, you can use Magic iMovie to create a complete movie or to get a head start on editing. Magic iMovie can automatically import video from your FireWire camcorder (DV or HDV), compose it into a movie, and send it to iDVD so you can burn it on a DVD disc. You can even choose a title, transition style, and soundtrack, and iMovie HD sits in the director's chair and does the rest. To make a movie with Magic iMovie, click the "Make a Magic iMovie" button in the iMovie HD opening dialog, or choose File > "Make a Magic iMovie" when iMovie HD is open. For more information about making a movie with Magic iMovie, look in iMovie HD Help. Chapter 1 Welcome to iMovie HD 7 Finding Out More Your computer comes with a built-in help system for iMovie HD. When iMovie HD is open, choose Help > iMovie HD Help. When iMovie HD Help opens, type a word or phrase in the search field at the top of the page or click one of the topic areas to find out information about a certain topic. You'll find links to other helpful resources listed on the iMovie HD Help page, such as an online multimedia tutorial, Hot Tips website, and the Apple Support website. For the latest news and information about iMovie HD, go to the iMovie HD website at www.apple.com/ilife/imovie. 8 Chapter 1 Welcome to iMovie HD 2 iMovie HD Tutorial 2 This chapter takes you step by step through the process of building your own movie in iMovie HD. You can use video from a variety of sources and devices to create a movie in iMovie HD. If you have some digital video in your camcorder or digital video footage on your computer, you can follow the steps in this chapter to automatically transfer it to iMovie HD, edit the clips, add transitions and a title, and lay down a soundtrack. Step One: Start a New Project The first time you open iMovie HD, you see the Project window, shown below, which gives you several options for creating a movie. In this step, you will select one of these options to create a new project. To start a new iMovie HD project: 1 Click the iMovie HD icon in the Dock. If you don't see the icon in the Dock, open the Applications folder and double-click the iMovie HD icon. 2 Click the "Create a New Project" button. 3 Type a name for your project in the Project field. 9 4 Click the pop-up menu labeled "Where" and choose a folder to store your movie project. The default location is the Movies folder in your home folder. Saving your movie in this folder will allow other iLife applications, such as iDVD or GarageBand, to find it easily. 5 Click Create. A new project file for your iMovie HD project is created in the location you chose. Eventually it will contain all the video clips, transitions, effects, and audio used in your movie. Step Two: Import Video Into iMovie HD iMovie HD can transfer, or import, video in many video formats and from many different types of camcorders, including DV camcorders (including those that support widescreen) and high definition (HDV) camcorders. In most cases, iMovie HD can automatically recognize and import the video you're using, so you don't have to pay attention to video formats. In this step, you will import your own video into your iMovie project. If you have a camcorder with a FireWire connection, follow the instructions to connect your camcorder and import the video using the capture controls in iMovie HD. If you have another type of digital video device or have footage in a file on your computer, see the instructions on page 13. To import video from a camcorder: 1 Set the camcorder to VTR mode (some camcorders call this Play or VCR) and turn it on, if necessary. 2 Connect your camcorder to your computer using a FireWire cable. 10 Chapter 2 iMovie HD Tutorial If your camcorder uses a dock, connect the dock to the computer and place the camcorder in the dock. The illustration below shows how to connect a camcorder to an iMac using a FireWire cable. 3 In iMovie HD, click the mode switch (shown below) to set iMovie HD to camera mode. Note: You must have a camcorder connected and turned on to be able to switch to camera mode and see the capture controls. If you're having trouble getting your camcorder to communicate with iMovie HD, click the Connection Help button in the iMovie monitor. It connects you to useful information in iMovie HD Help. If you have more than one camcorder, or a camcorder and iSight are connected, choose your camcorder from the pop-up menu that appears when you switch to camera mode. Chapter 2 iMovie HD Tutorial 11 4 Use the capture controls shown below to review your tape in the iMovie monitor. Import Rewind Fast forward Stop Play Pause 5 Rewind the tape to a few seconds before the point where you want to start importing. 6 Click Play. 7 When you see the frame where you want to begin importing, click Import (shown above) or press the Space bar. During the import process, the footage plays in the iMovie monitor. You can import all the footage, or just parts that you choose. 8 Click Import again or press the Space bar when you want to stop importing. Tip: To adjust the volume of your computer while you're working in iMovie, use the volume slider below the iMovie monitor. This slider doesn't increase or decrease the level of sound that viewers of the video will eventually hear. It only changes the volume on your computer as you play and listen to your audio. 9 When the footage you want is captured in the Clips pane, turn off your camcorder and disconnect it from your computer. 12 Chapter 2 iMovie HD Tutorial As you import your video footage from a camcorder 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. Tip: You can use iMovie HD Preferences to change import settings, such as where impor ...