Digital Film Editing With iMovie
Outline
- Capturing footage
- Building and editing a project
- Break
- Adding photos, music, titles, transitions, and effects
- Exporting and Sharing
- Capture your footage
- You will need to import your footage to iMovie, if you have not already done so.
- If your clips are quicktime movie files, from the top pull down menu select FILE----IMPORT----MOVIES. Select your clips and import them.
- If your clips are on a camera, connect your camera, select file from the top menu, then select IMPORT FROM CAMERA. You can also click the camera icon on the middle left.
- Build your project.
- If you have not done so, you may need to create a new project file in iMovie, to do this select “File” from the top menu, then “new project”.
- Your library of clips will be on the bottom half of the screen. You can use the mouse to highlight the clips or parts of clips that you want, then drag them up to your project which is the top window.
- To edit parts of clips that you do not want, highlight the parts of the clips that you do not want, then hit “delete (where backspace is)” on the keyboard.
- Adding Titles, Music, Photos, and effects.
- To add photos, you can find some online, drag them from your web browser to the desktop, then drag them from the desktop to iMovie.
- To add Titles, Music, and Transitions, you will see a menu on the middle right of iMovie that looks like this. The music notes are for music, the camera is to access your iPhoto Library, the T is for titles, and the Hourglass is for transitions.
- If you click the music icon, you will bring up a music menu. You can drag the music or sound effect from the list into your project.
d. Titles work the same way, you can click the T to bring up the list and drag what you want in your project. You can drag them over pre existing clips or in between clips and they will appear over a generated background. To edit a title just click them in the screen and type what you want.
e. Transitions work the same way, you can drag them in between your clips to make them fade in, dissolve, warp, etc.
f. To add a special effect, double click a clip in your project, you can choose from a variety of filters or adjustments
4.Exporting and Sharing
- When you have completed your film it is now time to convert your project file to a quicktime movie so that you can share and watch it with ease.
- To do this select “Share” from the top menu, then “export using quicktime”. By default iMovie wants to save to the “Movies” folder, change this to “desktop”.
- Exporting may take awhile, when done, you can then drag your movie from the desktop to a USB device or something else.
