1. Seminar One: Professor Davis November 29, 2011 Amanda Favia ITF, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.edu

2.  Import Video  Start New Project  iMovie Tools  Basic Editing

3.  File>Import>Movie  Import formats that directly import into iMovie—3gp, m4v, avchd, mp4, mov, h.264, dv

4.  Connect camera to computer  Turn camera on & set to “PC Connect mode”  Select video clips to import:  For all clips: “Automatic” & Click “Import All”  For specific clips: “Manual”, Deselect the clips you don’t want to import & Click “Import Checked”

5.  Event Library—iMovie generates Events in the same way as iPhoto does—this is the footage you use to create movie projects  Allows you to group video into useful named categories

6.  Choose File > New Project  Project Themes>Select Theme (or No Theme)  Themes automatically insert titles & transitions

7.  Name your project  Aspect Ratio (width & height of your movie)  Widescreen (16:9)  Standard (4:3)  Frame Rate>same used to shoot video (30fps)  Click Create

8. Project Library View Video Build your Project iMovie Toolbar Event Library Browse your Source Video/Music

9.  Import Video  Project Window Zoom: increases thumbnail size & decreases length of the time increments to edit more precisely, frame by frame

10.  Music  Video & Photos  Titles  Transitions  Backgrounds

11.  Voiceover  Crop Video  Inspector: Edit Clips, Video & Audio*

12.  Select portion of clip: click once on clip to display yellow selection area  Expand or contract selection: click on edge of the selection area>cursor changes to a bar with a double arrow>drag & drop into project area

13.  Allows you to change the duration of a clip by removing unwanted frames  Adjust by dragging on the edges of the selection  Click on Done

14.  Video Effect  Speed & Direction of Footage  Stabilize Footage

15.  Smooth the shaky portions of your video  Marks the footage that contains people  For best results, use when project is complete

16.  iMovie & iLife Sound Effects  GarageBand  iTunes  Drag & drop audio file into Project Area  Trim sound>drag on edges of the green icon to resize

17.  Adjust Volume  Ducking: gives the selected audio priority over other audio tracks  Fade  Normalize: brings loudest part of audio clip to 100% w/o distortion

18.  Choose Clip>Edit>Detach Audio  Audio track (purple bar)  Select & Move  Select & Delete  Audio Adjustment & Duck

19.  Adjust image quality  Levels: B&W levels  Exposure: shadows & highlights  Brightness: overall light level  Contrast: relative contrast of light & dark tones  Saturation: color intensity

20.  Choose Title style> Drag & drop into video clip  Edit Title>Select blue bar above clip  Viewer>Click on placeholder text>Enter your own text  Click on Done

21.  Choose Transition>Drag & drop between two clips  Transition will display as a gray box between the two clips  Change duration> Transition Adjustments>Enter the desired duration>Click OK

23.  iMovie Tutorials: http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/ http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/  Contact me! amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.edu amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.edu

24. Amanda Favia amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.edu ITF, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College