User manual APPLE IMOVIE HD 6 GETTING STARTED

[. . . ] 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. [. . . ] 2 Drag the playhead to the frame where you want the clip to begin or end. 3 Position the pointer over the end of the clip until you see the pointer change shape. 4 Drag the end of the clip to the "ghosted" playhead (shown above) to remove the frames that you want trimmed. A yellow line appears and the edge of the clip automatically "snaps" against the edge of the "ghosted playhead" when you reach the frame you selected in step 2. Once you begin trimming clips, you'll notice a difference in the appearance of clips in the timeline viewer. In the illustration below you can see that 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. Chapter 2 iMovie HD Tutorial 25 You get different results depending on where you place the pointer when you drag a clip. Dragging from the end shortens or lengthens a clip, while dragging from the center moves the clip to a different location in your movie. When 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. You can drag other clips to fill the gap, or you can leave a gap as a handy background for text or to add an extra dimension to a transition or effect. The illustration below shows what a gap looks like in the timeline viewer. Gap Tip: A fast way to close up a gap is to view it in the clip viewer, where it appears as a black clip. You may want to split a clip so that you can insert titles, add other clips or images, or reorder the sequence of clips. You can split clips that are in the Clips pane, clip viewer, or timeline viewer. You can also split audio clips in the timeline viewer. To split a clip: 1 Click a clip to select it. 3 Choose Edit > "Split Video Clip at Playhead. " Did You Know?--Adding Special Effects You can add interesting effects to your movies to lend them special appeal, focus, or a sense of fun. iMovie HD offers a range of video effects that can make clips shake as if during an earthquake, fling sparkling fairy dust across the screen, filter a scene with passing fog, or add a streak of electricity to an image. Other effects change the brightness or contrast of the video, add slow motion, change colors, soften the focus, and more. To find out more about adding special effects to your movie, see iMovie HD Help. 26 Chapter 2 iMovie HD Tutorial Step Eight: Add Transitions 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. 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. In this step, you'll add transitions between clips in your movie. [. . . ] Timing controls: Move the sliders to set how quickly you want the titles to appear and how long to pause before disappearing. Update button: Click to apply changes to a title you've already added to your movie. You can also drag the title or text to where you want it in the movie. H I 42 Chapter 3 iMovie HD at a Glance Transitions You can add transitions to smoothly change scenes in your movie. To see transition settings, click Transitions at the top of the Editing pane. A C B D E A B Transitions list: Select a transition style in this list. [. . . ]