imovie with Still Pictures

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1 imovie with Still Pictures Where to save Because movies use a lot of hard drive space, they cannot be saved on the server. 1. You must login to your personal file before you start working. When launching imovie for the first time, double click imovie. Under File, choose New Project. Name it with your last names and your class name. Place it in the Public User Folder. DO NOT save the movie in you personal file. To open your already saved project: DO NOT LAUNCH IMOVIE AS YOU DID THE FIRST TIME: 1. Go in the Public User Folder and open your project folder. Double click on the imovie icon which has your last names. Dimensions If you want an imported graphic to completely fill the screen, make its dimensions exactly 640 pixels wide, 480 high. Otherwise, you will have black bands on the sides and/or top of you graphic, depending on the original dimension of your graphic. If you do not have a lot of time, do not worry about the bands, you will not lose points on this. If you enlarge or reduce your graphic size, you will loose some sharpness. Using Appleworks: To resize a graphic: 1 Open a drawing document, change the orientation to landscape(in Page SetUp) 2 Format--Rulers--Show Rulers 3 Format--Rulers--Format Rulers (Choose Graphics and Points) 4 File--Insert-- Your graphic 5 Stretch or reduce to 640 across, and to 480 down 6 Save As--File Format: JPeG 7 In imovie, Import File and choose your saved graphic D. Amerongen and J. Lemire 1 imovie Stills and more

2 Importing image clips To import a still image: 1 Choose Import File from the File menu. 2 Select the file you want to import. 3 Click Import. Adding and arranging clips in a movie While holding the Option key, drag a clip from the Shelf to the clip viewer. To rearrange clips in a movie: You change the order of clips in the clip viewer by simply dragging and dropping a clip. Changing the duration of a still image clip The default duration of an imported still image clip is 5 seconds. To change the duration of a still image clip: Click the clip and type a new duration in the Time field at the top of the clip viewer or timeline viewer. Adding video effects You can add effects to your movie, such as color adjustments or a sepia tone (a rust-tinted, old-fashioned look). To apply video effects to your movie: 1 Click the Effects button. 2 Select the video you want to apply the effect to. 3 Select a video effect in the Effects panel. 4 Adjust the effect by using any sliders that appear in the panel. (Some effects do not have sliders.) 5 Click Apply. Click Commit. Adding scene transitions Transitions smooth the cuts between scenes (clips) and add visual appeal. You can put a transition at the beginning or end of a movie, or between two clips. But not all clips require transitions. D. Amerongen and J. Lemire 2 imovie Stills and more

3 To add a transition to a clip: 1 Click the Transitions button. 2 Select a transition in the Transitions panel. 3 Use the Speed slider (in the Transitions panel) to modify the speed of the transition into or out of the clip. Slower transitions take more time to render. 4 Click an arrow to choose the transition direction. This option is not available for some transitions. 5 Drag the transition from the Transitions panel to the desired location in the Timeline Tab. A transition icon appears between the clips, and a small progress bar appears under it. When the progress bar disappears, the rendering is done. You can continue editing while a transition is rendering. Adding and editing titles (text) To add a title to your movie: 1 If you want the title to appear over a clip, click the clip in the clip viewer or the timeline viewer. 2 Click the Titles button. 3 Select a title style from the list in the middle of the Titles panel. 4 Type the text for your title into the text field or fields at the bottom of the Titles panel. 5 To speed up or slow down the titling effect, adjust the Speed and/or Pause sliders. If there is a pause in the title style you chose, use the Pause slider to control the duration of the pause. The Speed slider controls how many seconds the title lasts, and therefore how fast the title movement occurs. 6 To put the title over a black background, select the Over Black checkbox. To make the title appear over the clip you selected in step 1, leave the Over Black box unchecked. Title on black background Transition D. Amerongen and J. Lemire 3 imovie Stills and more

4 7 To customize the text: Click the Color box to choose a text color. Choose a font for your title from the font pop-up menu. Use the text size slider to adjust the text size. 8 If the title scrolls, you can change the direction it scrolls. To change the scroll direction, click a direction button: 9 Drag the title from the list in the middle of the Titles panel to the clip viewer. If you want the title to appear over a clip, place it before that clip. If you want a title to appear in the middle of a clip: Titles must be placed before or after clips, so before you drag the title from the titles list, split the clip into two clips at the point where you want to insert the title. Splitting a video clip in two You can split a single clip into two clips. This is particularly useful if you want to keep an unused section of a clip on the shelf for later editing, or if you need to insert a title in the middle of a clip. To split a clip: 1 Select the clip. 2 Move the playhead to where you want to split the clip. 3 Choose Split Video Clip at Playhead from the Edit menu. Audio in imovie Adding sound effects to a movie To add a sound effect: 1 Click the Audio button. 2 Drag a sound effect from the list in the Audio panel to the desired position on audio track 1 or 2 in the timeline viewer. You can reposition the sound effect by dragging it. D. Amerongen and J. Lemire 4 imovie Stills and more

5 Recording audio CD music To record audio CD music into your movie: 1 Click the Audio button. 2 Insert the audio CD into your computer's CD-ROM drive. If your audio CD automatically starts playing through your computer's speaker, stop it by clicking the Play button in itune. 3 Select a track in the Audio panel and do one of the following: Click the Record Music button on the Audio panel to start recording music into your movie. To end recording, click the Stop button. IMPORTANT: Copyright laws govern the use of third-party materials such as music tracks on audio CDs. Be careful that you don't violate any copyright laws associated with audio CDs. Muting and adjusting the volume of clips and sound effects You can adjust the volume of individual audio and video clips and sound effects in a movie. Adjusting clip volume To adjust the volume of an audio clip or sound effect: In the timeline viewer, select an audio clip, a sound effect, or a video clip that contains audio, and adjust the clip volume slider. Muting all audio in a video or audio track To mute all audio in an audio track: Deselect the small checkbox at the right end of the track in the timeline viewer. When you export the movie, the muted audio is not saved or recorded with the rest of the movie. Making audio fade in or fade out You can make the volume of a clip gradually increase at the beginning and/or gradually decrease at the end of the clip. D. Amerongen and J. Lemire 5 imovie Stills and more

6 To make audio fade in and/or out: Select the clip in the timeline viewer and click the Fade In and/or Fade Out boxes. To adjust how long an audio fade lasts: Double-click the clip and specify the fade duration in the Clip Info dialog box. Exporting you imovie as a QuickTime file 1 Choose Export Movie from the File menu. 2 Choose QuickTime from the "Export to" pop-up menu. 3 Choose a movie format from the Formats pop-up menu. (CD-Rom Movie, Medium) 4 Click Export. 5 Name your movie (LastNamesClass, ex: LemireStewart6B) and choose your movie folder in the Public User Folder 6 Click Save. This format is much smaller than the imovie format. The screen will be smaller. You can place this version on your personal file by dragging and dropping it. You must place a copy in the Hand In folder. Let your teacher know your group has handed in their work. D. Amerongen and J. Lemire 6 imovie Stills and more