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 ...