The imovie work space and using imovie in the Mac lab

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1 The imovie work space and using imovie in the Mac lab Identify the icon Labuser on the desktop this is where you need to save your movies while you are working on them. They are too big to save on the network, and they will disappear after the computers are shut down if you save them anywhere else locally. When you have completed your movie, you will compress it so that you can save it on the network or on a thumb drive. Identify the folder called servers on the desktop. This is where you can log on to your network folder. You can work in imovie and save to labuser without logging on, but if you want to move your movie to your network folder later, you will need to log on at some point. At the bottom of the screen, you will see the dock. This is where most frequently used applications are found. Identify the imovie icon. These are the beginning steps: 1. Open imovie from the dock along the bottom of the screen, or by navigating to go/home/applications 2. With imovie open, select File/new (or create new project from the opening screen 3. Select Create project and navigate to desktop/ labuser 4. IMPORTANT: in preferences (from the top menu bar, select imovie/preferences) make sure to uncheck the box for automatic letter-boxing! The imovie workspace Clip pane Time line viewer & clip viewer Preview pane Camera mode (import)/edit mode Choose editing to add titles & transitions

2 Importing video from your camcorder One of the first steps in creating a movie is copying the video from your camcorder to your computer. This process is called "capturing" or "importing." To import video from your camcorder: 1. Turn on your camcorder, and set the camcorder to VTR mode (some camcorders call this Play or VCR). 2. Connect your camcorder to your computer using a FireWire cable. 3. In imovie HD, click the mode switch to set imovie HD to camera mode (shown above). 4. 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 press the camera icon. 5. Use the capture controls (shown below) to review your tape in the imovie monitor. 6. Rewind the tape to a few seconds before the point where you want to start importing. 7. Click Play. 8. When you see the frame where you want to begin importing, click the Import button in the imovie monitor or press the Space bar. 9. Your imported video appears in the Clips pane or timeline viewer, depending upon how you set your Import preferences. imovie HD automatically creates a new clip at each scene break (wherever the recording was interrupted as the camera was set to standby). For information on how to turn off this feature, see Related Topics below. 10. Click Import again or press the Space bar when you want to stop importing. After you import your video, you can review your clips and crop them. Cropping allows you to edit a clip by keeping only the portion of video you like and removing the rest. You can also fine-tune where a clip begins and ends in the timeline viewer.

3 Cropping video clips Cropping allows you to edit a clip by keeping only the portion of video you like and removing the rest. It's a good idea to crop your clips before dragging them out of the Clips pane and into your movie. However, you can also crop a clip after you've added it to your movie by selecting it in the clip viewer or timeline viewer. To crop a clip: 1. Select the clip you want to crop by clicking it in the Clips pane, clip viewer, or timeline viewer. 2. Drag the playhead (A, shown above) to where you want your scene to begin. 3. Place your pointer (B, shown above) just below the playhead, and then drag to the right to include the footage you want to keep. 4. The gold portion of the scrubber bar (shown below) highlights the footage you've selected. 5. To precisely adjust where the selected footage begins and ends, click a crop marker (shown below) to select it, and then press the Left or Right Arrow key to move the crop marker one frame at a time. To move the marker in ten-frame increments, hold down the Shift key while pressing the arrow key. 6. Tip: You can see the duration of your selected footage in minutes:seconds:frames at the bottom edge of the imovie window. 7. Choose Edit > Crop to keep the portion of video you've highlighted and remove the rest. If you want to trim away only the beginning or end of a clip, drag the crop markers to highlight the portion you want to remove, and then choose Edit > Clear. When cropping, keep in mind that imovie HD only hides the footage you don't want to show and doesn't actually remove or delete it. If you trim away too much, you can always choose Edit > Undo to cancel your change, or extend the clip back to the desired length by dragging one of its edges in the timeline viewer.

4 Adding a dissolve or other transition between clips You can add transitions between clips to smooth or blend the change from one scene to another. You can have clips fade in or out, dissolve into another clip, push one scene aside as the new scene enters, and so on. Tip: When you add a transition to your movie, it may blur or hide some footage that you want viewers to see. Therefore, it's a good idea to add extra time to the end or beginning of clips that you plan to add transitions to. (The amount of footage in a clip that's used up by a transition equals about half the length of the transition.) To adjust the length of your clips, see "Fine-tuning where a clip begins and ends." To add a transition between clips: 1.Drag the playhead near the location where you plan to add the transition. 2.Click the Editing button, and then click Transitions at the top of the Editing pane. 3.Click a transition style in the transitions list to select it. You see a preview of the transition in the imovie monitor. 4.Set the duration of the transition using the Speed slider. 5.If necessary, set a direction for the transition using the arrow buttons. 6.To add the transition to your movie, drag it from the transitions list to the clip viewer or timeline viewer. When you drag the transition between the two clips you want joined, imovie automatically makes room for it. (Fade and Wash effects are the only transitions that can be added to the beginning or end of a movie.) A red progress bar indicates when the transition has finished rendering. To see how a transition looks in the clip or timeline viewer, move the playhead to a point in the movie before the transition (with no clip selected) and click the Play button. After you've added a transition to your movie, you can select the transition's clip to play it, change it, or delete it at any time. Tip: You can change multiple transitions in a movie with a single procedure. Just select the clips you want (or all the clips in the movie), set up the transition options you want, and click Update. To select all your transitions at once, select a single transition and then choose Edit > Select Similar Clips.

5 Adding titles or text With imovie HD, you can add a variety of text to your movie, including film titles, credits, subtitles, and much more. You can also select a font and color for your text and chose how you want it to move on and off screen. Tip: When creating a title, be sure its duration isn't longer than the duration of the video clip or color clip that it appears over. You can place a short title sequence on a longer clip, but you can't place a long title sequence on a short clip. IMPORTANT: To add titles to a clip that contains a transition, remove the transition first, and then add your text and reapply the transition. To create a title for a clip: 1.Click the Editing button, and then click Titles at the top of the Editing pane. 2.Select a title style from the titles list. 3.You see a preview of the title in the imovie monitor. 4.If necessary, set a direction for the title using the arrow buttons. 5.Type the text you want in the text fields. 6.Some title styles include Add (+) or Delete (-) buttons so you can add or delete lines of text. 7.To change the color of the text, click the Color box to select a color. 8.Choose a font style from the Family and TypeFace pop-up menus, and drag the size slider to change text size. 9.Drag the speed slider and pause slider to change the duration of the title. 10.The title's total duration is the sum of the speed and the pause durations, shown at the bottom of the Titles pane. 11.If you want the title to appear over a black background, select the "Over black" checkbox. 12.You can set the origination point of some title styles. If you see a position indicator in the imovie monitor, drag it to a location in the monitor where you want the title to begin. To add the title to your movie, do one of the following: 1. To have your title appear over black, make sure you selected the "Over black" checkbox in step 8 above, and drag the title from the titles list to where you want it to appear in the clip viewer or timeline viewer. 2. To have the title start over the beginning of a clip, make sure you did not select the "Over black" checkbox in step 8 above, and drag the title from the titles list to the left of the clip you want to play underneath the title. 3. To have the title start in the middle of a clip, move the playhead to where you want the title to start, and then click the Add button at the bottom of the Titles pane. (Because imovie titles can only start at the beginning of a clip, imovie creates a new clip at the spot where you want your title to begin by splitting the existing clip in two.) If the title you created is shorter than the video clip you added it to, imovie splits the clip in two, and the first of the two resulting clips contains the title. If the title is longer than the clip, the title automatically extends across the next clip or clips in your movie. If this is the case, the final clip on which the title appears will be split where the title ends.

6 Saving your movie for eport by sharing with QuickTime 1.Choose Share > QuickTime. 2.Choose web as the format from the pop-up menu but if the movie is more than 4 or 5 minutes, select . 3.Click the "Share selected clips only" checkbox if you only want to share clips you selected. (this is a way to save different segments as different movies) 4.Click Share. 5.Name your movie, select a location for the file, and click Save. Tip: It is a good idea to save your web movie into labuser. A file will be created with the extension.mov. It will be considerably smaller than your original movie and can be copied or dragged to your network folder or to public. The time it takes to save the movie depends on the movie's length and the format you choose.