iMovie HD Getting Started
Shows you how to import video; edit footage; and add transitions, effects, titles, and more

Contents

Chapter 1
Welcome to iMovie HD Using This Document Whats New in iMovie HD 6 Before You Begin What Youll 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

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Editing Pane Titles Transitions Video Effects Audio Effects Chapters Pane

Welcome to iMovie HD

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 youll need. Chapter 1, Welcome to iMovie HD: In this chapter, youll get a brief description of the major new features of iMovie HD and find out where to get more information about iMovie HD. Chapter 2, iMovie HD Tutorial: Follow the instructions in this chapter to learn how to capture video and make a basic movie that you can share in a variety of ways. Chapter 3, iMovie HD at a Glance: This chapter shows you the views and controls in iMovie HD. You can use the chapter as a quick reference as you create your own iMovie HD projects.

Whats New in iMovie HD 6

Improved performance: iMovie HD 6 harnesses the power of Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger and QuickTime 7 to give you quicker effects rendering and pristine video quality. Experiment with stunning new video effects and see the results instantly. From importing footage to sharing your finished movie, iMovie HD is faster and more responsive every step of the way. Enhanced user interface: The improved editing panes and controls in iMovie HD make building and editing your movie easier than ever. You can even preview transitions, titles, and effects live and in the large iMovie monitor to see exactly how theyll look in your movie. Multiple open projects: You can open more than one iMovie HD project at a time to copy individual video and audio clipsor even a whole movie or a portion of a moviefrom one project to another. You can even open multiple versions of a project to compare different cuts. Apple-designed movie themes: iMovie HD 6 makes it easier than ever to add Hollywood-style polish to your movie. Just select the theme you want to use and choose from its subset of titles and visual effects to get incredible-looking results. Themes use advanced motioning and compositing that even combine your video and photos with stunning backgrounds and animated graphics. New audio enhancements: Want to remove wind noise or camera hum? Adjust the bass or treble in a particular video or audio clip? You can now use the graphic equalizer in iMovie HD to change the levels of individual audio frequencies. You can also change the pitch of your audio and add reverb, delay, and other audio effects to make your movies sound better than ever. Magic iMovie enhancements: Performing magic with iMovie HD has never been easier. Just use the Magic iMovie feature to have iMovie HD import your video and make a great-looking movie for you. Now, with iMovie HD 6, you can choose whether to have iMovie HD rewind your tape before import, and even specify the moment you want it to stop capturing footage. More flexible web publishing: iMovie HD integrates key elements of iWeb, Apples new web-publishing application, to give you more flexibility to present your movies the way you want. Whether you choose to display your movie on its own webpage, use it in a blog, or publish a video podcast made in iMovie, iWeb offers creative options and allows you to easily put your movies on the web. Even tighter iLife integration: All your digital mediayour songs and music, photos and video clipswork together to create video slideshows and movies. From iMovie HD 6, you can even compose a soundtrack for your movie project right in GarageBand. Time lapse video: The new time-lapse import feature in iMovie HD lets you show the progression of an event (such as a blooming rose) in a fraction of the time it took in real life.

For more information about making a movie with Magic iMovie, look in iMovie HD Help.

Finding Out More

Your computer comes with a built-in help system for iMovie HD. When iMovie HD is open, choose Help > iMovie HD Help. When iMovie HD Help opens, type a word or phrase in the search field at the top of the page or click one of the topic areas to find out information about a certain topic. Youll find links to other helpful resources listed on the iMovie HD Help page, such as an online multimedia tutorial, Hot Tips website, and the Apple Support website. For the latest news and information about iMovie HD, go to the iMovie HD website at www.apple.com/ilife/imovie.

iMovie HD Tutorial

This chapter takes you step by step through the process of building your own movie in iMovie HD.
You can use video from a variety of sources and devices to create a movie in iMovie HD. If you have some digital video in your camcorder or digital video footage on your computer, you can follow the steps in this chapter to automatically transfer it to iMovie HD, edit the clips, add transitions and a title, and lay down a soundtrack.
Step One: Start a New Project
The first time you open iMovie HD, you see the Project window, shown below, which gives you several options for creating a movie. In this step, you will select one of these options to create a new project.
To start a new iMovie HD project: 1 Click the iMovie HD icon in the Dock. If you dont see the icon in the Dock, open the Applications folder and double-click the iMovie HD icon. 2 Click the Create a New Project button. 3 Type a name for your project in the Project field.
4 Click the pop-up menu labeled Where and choose a folder to store your movie project. The default location is the Movies folder in your home folder. Saving your movie in this folder will allow other iLife applications, such as iDVD or GarageBand, to find it easily. 5 Click Create. A new project file for your iMovie HD project is created in the location you chose. Eventually it will contain all the video clips, transitions, effects, and audio used in your movie.
Step Two: Import Video Into iMovie HD
iMovie HD can transfer, or import, video in many video formats and from many different types of camcorders, including DV camcorders (including those that support widescreen) and high definition (HDV) camcorders. In most cases, iMovie HD can automatically recognize and import the video youre using, so you dont have to pay attention to video formats. In this step, you will import your own video into your iMovie project. If you have a camcorder with a FireWire connection, follow the instructions to connect your camcorder and import the video using the capture controls in iMovie HD. If you have another type of digital video device or have footage in a file on your computer, see the instructions on page 13. To import video from a camcorder: 1 Set the camcorder to VTR mode (some camcorders call this Play or VCR) and turn it on, if necessary. 2 Connect your camcorder to your computer using a FireWire cable.

Chapter 2 iMovie HD Tutorial
If your camcorder uses a dock, connect the dock to the computer and place the camcorder in the dock. The illustration below shows how to connect a camcorder to an iMac using a FireWire cable.
3 In iMovie HD, click the mode switch (shown below) to set iMovie HD to camera mode. Note: You must have a camcorder connected and turned on to be able to switch to camera mode and see the capture controls. If youre having trouble getting your camcorder to communicate with iMovie HD, click the Connection Help button in the iMovie monitor. It connects you to useful information in iMovie HD Help. 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 switch to camera mode.
4 Use the capture controls shown below to review your tape in the iMovie monitor.

Import

Rewind

Fast forward

Play Pause
5 Rewind the tape to a few seconds before the point where you want to start importing. 6 Click Play. 7 When you see the frame where you want to begin importing, click Import (shown above) or press the Space bar. During the import process, the footage plays in the iMovie monitor. You can import all the footage, or just parts that you choose. 8 Click Import again or press the Space bar when you want to stop importing.
Tip: To adjust the volume of your computer while youre working in iMovie, use the volume slider below the iMovie monitor. This slider doesnt increase or decrease the level of sound that viewers of the video will eventually hear. It only changes the volume on your computer as you play and listen to your audio.
9 When the footage you want is captured in the Clips pane, turn off your camcorder and disconnect it from your computer.
As you import your video footage from a camcorder connected via FireWire, iMovie HD detects where you made a break in recording and automatically divides the video into separate scenes, or clips. Each sequence of recorded video is then made into a video clip that is stored in the Clips pane, shown below.
Tip: You can use iMovie HD Preferences to change import settings, such as where imported clips go, whether iMovie creates new clips at scene breaks, and more. To see the settings you can adjust, choose iMovie HD > Preferences and click Import. In addition to transferring video from your camcorder, you can import video from a CD or DVD, or from other locations on your computers hard disk.

To import video from a disc or other location: 1 Choose File > Import. 2 Locate and select the file you want to import. 3 Click Open.
You can also drag files from your desktop or from applications like iTunes or iPhoto to the Clips pane. In iMovie HD 6, you can also drag, copy, and paste clips from one iMovie HD project to another.
Did You Know?Importing Video From a Flash Device
MPEG-4 camcorders may have a USB connector instead of a FireWire connector. To transfer video from one of these devices, connect the device to your computer using the USB port. Your MPEG-4 camera or device appears as a hard disk on your desktop. You can open the hard disk icon and drag the video footage into your iMovie HD project or to your desktop for importing later. When you import footage from an MPEG-4 device, your video is imported as a single clip, iMovie HD does not break it up into clips automatically. You cannot use the capture controls to import your video or control your camera, nor can you use the Magic iMovie feature to import video automatically.
Step Three: Choose the Video You Want to Keep
To pare down your video to the best shots, youll play through each clip and cut, or crop, the footage. Each second of video is made up of many separate pictures, or frames. You can play each clip all the way through, or play frame by frame to find the exact moments where you want to crop. In this step, you will preview the clips you imported and crop or delete unwanted footage. Use the iMovie playback controls, shown below, to preview clips.

Rewind Play Full Screen

Play/Pause
To play a clip, you can do any of the following: Select the clip and click Play in the iMovie playback controls. Click Rewind to move to the beginning of your movie or sequence of clips. Click Play Full Screen to play the video in full-screen mode. (Click anywhere on the screen or press the Esc key to return to leave full-screen mode.) Shots of the floor, blurry action, and unflattering poses can be disposed of right away, so only the footage you want remains. You may want to delete some clips completely.
To delete a clip: m Select the clip, then choose Edit > Cut or press the Delete key. The clip disappears from the Clips pane. Notice that the iMovie Trash at the bottom of the window now has something in itthe clip you just cut. It will remain there until you empty the iMovie Trash. The remaining clips can be cropped so that only the good parts remain. When you crop a clip, you select the frames that you want to keep and delete the rest of the clip. Cropping preserves the middle part of a clip and deletes the beginning and the end. To crop a clip: 1 Select the clip you want to crop by clicking it in the Clips pane. 2 Drag the playhead in the scrubber bar below the iMovie monitor (shown below) to where you want your scene to begin.

Playhead Pointer

3 Place the pointer just below the playhead and then drag to the right to include the footage you want to keep. (When you move the pointer to the right, the crop markers appear.) The gold portion of the scrubber bar (shown below) highlights the footage youve selected.

Crop marker

4 Choose Edit > Crop to keep the portion of video youve highlighted and remove the rest.
Tip: To precisely adjust the position of the crop markers, click a crop marker (shown above) 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 crop marker in 10-frame increments, hold down the Shift key while pressing the arrow key.
Did You Know?Undoing an Edit
If you make a mistake or dont like the changes youve made, you can undo them. Choose Edit > Undo to remove your last change. Continue choosing Undo to cancel your previous changes one by one. Choose Advanced > Revert Clip to Original to undo all of the changes made to a selected clip. Choose File > Revert to Saved to undo all of the changes made to a project since the last time you saved it.
Step Four: Build Your Movie
Now that your video footage is transformed into a collection of cropped video clips, you can begin to use them to build your movie. In this step, youll move the clips in the Clips pane to the video track in your movie and begin to organize them into a sequence. To build your movie, you work in the area below the iMovie monitor. This area has two views you can work in: the clip viewer and the timeline viewer. The clip viewer, shown below, displays clips in the order that they will appear in your movie, just like video building blocks. It gives you a simple, straightforward view of the clip sequences and transitions used in your movie. Its also the easiest view to use when you want to rearrange clips.
The timeline viewer, shown below, displays the elements of your movie in more detail, letting you zoom in on sections of the movie. It also displays the movies video track and two audio tracks. The three tracks allow you to add and manipulate multiple layers of sound, including the sound contained in the video clips. Use the timeline viewer for precise video and audio editing.

Timeline viewer button

When you build a movie from clips in the Clips pane, youll find it easier to start by working in the clip viewer. To add clips to your movie: 1 Click the clip viewer button below the iMovie monitor. 2 Select a clip in the Clips pane and drag it to the clip viewer. 3 Repeat step 2 for all the clips you want to add. You can drag clips between other clips, placing them in the order you want. As you drag a clip in front of or behind other clips, they move aside to make room, as shown in the illustration below. 4 Drag clips in the clip viewer to rearrange them into the order you want. 5 Choose File > Save Project to save your movie project.

Did You Know?Saving While Building Your Movie
Its a good idea to save your work periodically as you make changes. Because iMovie HD saves your original footage even after cropping, you can still retrieve cropped footage after you save. To save your project: m Choose File > Save Project. At times you may want to go back to the last saved version of your project, canceling any unsaved changes. To revert to the last saved version of your project: m Choose File > Revert to Saved. You can also save a copy of your project and give it a different name. You can then create a different version of the movie or use parts of the movie in a new project. Saving multiple copies of a project can be extremely useful, but can also use large amounts of disk space. To save a copy of your project with a different name: m Choose File > Save Project As. Then enter a name, choose a location for the copy of the project, and then click Save.
Step Five: Add Photos to Your Movie
iMovie HD lets you easily add photos from your iPhoto library to your movie. You can add photos as still shots that linger for as long as you like, or you can pan and zoom in or out with the Ken Burns Effect. In this step, youll add still photos to your movie and apply the Ken Burns Effect to others. Use the Media pane, shown below, to select photos and add motion to them.

Search box

Reset button
Note: To see photos in the Media pane, you must have iPhoto installed, and you must have at least one photo in your iPhoto library. To add a still photo to your movie: 1 Click the Media button, and then click Photos at the top of the Media pane. 2 Select your entire iPhoto library, an album, or a folder in the list. The photos in the selected item appear at the bottom of the pane. You can scroll through the photos to find the ones you want.
Tip: You can also search for a photo by typing text in the search field (shown above). As you type, photos that contain the text you entered appear in the Media pane. To see all photos again, click the Reset button (an x in the search field).
3 Select the photo you want to add to your movie.
The Photo Settings window (shown below) appears. You can drag the Photo Settings window anywhere on your computer screen to move it out of the way.

Zoom slider Duration slider
4 Click the Ken Burns Effect checkbox to deselect it and turn off motion for the photo. 5 Drag the duration slider to change the display duration for your photo. When you add a photo to your movie, iMovie automatically sets it to appear for 5 seconds unless you change it. 6 Drag the photo from the Media pane to the clip viewer. If you want to place the photo at the end of your movie, you can also click the Apply button.
Tip: To select several photos at once, press the Command key as you select photos. You can also drag an entire album to add all the photos in the album. If youd like to add some motion to the photos in your movie, you can use the Ken Burns Effect to pan and zoom. Panning makes the camera appear to sweep across the face of the photo. Zooming makes a photo appear as if the camera is moving in to or away from the photo, adding interesting movement to still shots.
To zoom a photo: 1 In the Photo Settings window, select the Ken Burns Effect checkbox. 2 Select a photo in your iPhoto library and click Start. 3 Move the zoom slider to the left or right until you find the point where you want to begin the zoom. 4 Click End. 5 Move the zoom slider until you see where you want to end the zoom. 6 Move the duration slider to set the length of time you want the zoom to take. 7 Click Apply when the effect looks the way you want. The photo appears as a clip at the end of your movie. You can drag the clip to where you want it to appear.
To pan a photo: 1 Select a photo in your movie or in the Media pane. 2 In the Photo Settings window, select the Ken Burns Effect checkbox. 3 Click Start. 4 Click the image in the iMovie monitor, then press the mouse button and drag the image until you see the place in the image where you want to begin the pan.

Pan control

5 Click End. 6 Drag the image to where you want to end the pan. 7 Move the duration slider to set the length of time you want the pan to take. 8 Click Play to see how the effect looks. Repeat the steps above, if necessary. 9 Click Apply when the effect looks the way you want. The photo appears as a clip at the end of your movie. You can drag the clip to where you want it to appear.

Ghosted playhead

To precisely trim a video clip: 1 Click the clip you want to edit in the timeline viewer. 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. 5 Repeat the procedure on the other end of the clip, if you want. Once you begin trimming clips, youll 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 theyve been shortened. You can always extend a clip with straight ends.
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 youre moving pushes aside the clip and all the adjoining clips, moving them all in the direction youre dragging. Any time you move a clip to the right, a gap is created. 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.
Tip: A fast way to close up a gap is to view it in the clip viewer, where it appears as a black clip. Select the black clip and delete it. Another way to quickly alter a clip is to split it in two. 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. 2 Position the playhead where you want to divide the clip. 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.

Tip: You can also drag an audio file to the timeline viewer.
Did You Know?Working With Sound
You can enhance the sound in your movie by: Muting or quieting a videos audio track so that you can better hear a voiceover, sound effect, or music on another track. Adjusting the mix of the three tracks (for example, making the video tracks audio louder compared to the other tracks). Muting video clips entirely so that all you hear is the audio in the other tracks. Dragging one clip over another in the same audio track so that they overlap and you hear both clips at the same time. Using the iMovie HD graphic equalizer to remove wind noise or camera hum, or to adjust the bass or treble in a particular video or audio clip. You can also change the pitch of your audio and add reverb, delay, and other audio effects to make your movies sound better than ever. For more information about working with sound, see iMovie HD Help.
Adjusting the Length of Audio Clips
You can drag the ends of audio clips just like you do for video clips. Nothing is actually removed, so you can easily recover the audio you remove in this way by dragging the end of the audio clip back out. To shorten an audio track: 1 Click the View menu and make sure Show Clip Volume Levels is not selected. If it has a checkmark next to it, choose it again to remove the checkmark. 2 Position the pointer over the end of the clip you want to shorten. When its in the right position, the pointer changes shape. 3 Drag the end of the clip toward its center to shorten it. If you go too far, drag back out again. 4 Click the Play button to preview the results, then make any necessary adjustments.
Tip: If you need to lengthen a particular audio clip (for example, a sound effect), you can duplicate the audio clip and add it to the end of the previous clip. Then trim the new clip to keep just the part that you need.
Adjusting the Volume of Audio Clips
The volume of the sound in your movie is very important. If you set it too low, viewers may not be able to hear it. If you have audio playing in both audio tracks, youll also want to be able to adjust the volume for each track or for specific audio clips. To adjust the volume of the audio in your movie, you select the clips that you want to change and use the clip volume controls in the timeline viewer, shown below. These adjustments affect the playback volume of the final movie.

Tip: iMovie HD can also automatically import your video, compose your movie, and export it to iDVD using the Magic iMovie feature. When you create a movie with Magic iMovie, you can select the option to have your movie become a new iDVD project. To burn your movie to a DVD, youll need a computer with an optical drive capable of burning DVD discs.
Did You Know?Creating a Movie With Chapter Markers
If youre going to use your video in a DVD or video podcast, you may want to add chapter markers to your movie. This way, viewers can jump to a particular scene in the movie. You can even add URLs to chapter markers for your video podcast. When you share a movie with chapter markers to iDVD, iDVD automatically creates two buttons on the main DVD menu: a Play Movie button and a Scene Selection button. For more information, see iMovie HD Help and iDVD Help.

iMovie HD at a Glance

Welcome to iMovie HD at a Glance. Here youll find a quick overview of the iMovie HD interface and controls.
Take a look at these pages to familiarize yourself with iMovie HD features and terminology. Learning the names of the iMovie HD controls will help you follow the instructions in iMovie HD Help.

iMovie HD Project Window

When you open iMovie HD the first time, or when you close all open iMovie projects, the Project window appears. You can use the Project window to start a new project or open an existing one.

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Create a New Project button: Click to create a new project and import your footage. Open an Existing Project button: Click to open and continue working on an existing project already saved on your computer. Make a Magic iMovie button: Click to let iMovie HD create a new movie for you automatically. Just connect your camcorder, click this button, and find out how easy movie-making can be. Help button: Click to open iMovie HD Help. Quit button: Click Quit to close iMovie HD.

Main Window

The main iMovie HD window is your command console for movie editing. Here you can view your movie, arrange scenes, edit clips, and add professional polish to your movie.
iMovie monitor: View your footage and the effects of all your edits here. Scrubber bar and crop markers: Drag the playhead along the scrubber bar to move through the movie or a selected clip. When you move the playhead to a frame, the frames location is displayed next to the playhead. Position the crop markers to select parts of the video to cut or keep. Mode switch: Click to switch between camcorder mode and edit mode. Use camcorder mode to choose an input device and transfer your raw video into the computer. Use edit mode to work on your movie. Playback controls: Use these controls to rewind to the beginning of a selected clip, play or pause the clip, or play the clip full screen on your computers monitor. When you switch to camcorder mode, these controls change to capture controls and an Import button appears in the iMovie monitor. Volume slider: Slide this control to change the volume of the computers speaker while you work in iMovie HD. This wont change the recorded volume levels of your video or audio clips; to change those, use the controls in the timeline viewer. Disk space indicator: Monitor your free disk space as you work.

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Theme menu: Click the pop-up menu to choose a theme. Theme Elements: Select an item in this list to view and edit it in the iMovie monitor. Show/Hide Preview: Click this button to preview the selected theme in the iMovie monitor. Show/Hide Drop Zones: Click this button to see the drop zone editor. Drop zones are designated areas where you can drag your own video images and photos to customize theme elements. Title fields: Type a title and subtitle for the theme element. The font style is preset to fit the theme. The number of fields varies, depending on the theme and theme element selected. Apply button: Click this button when youre ready to add the theme to your movie. Themes appear where the playhead is located in your movie.

Media Pane

The Media pane provides easy access to your photos in iPhoto and audio content in iTunes and GarageBand. Click the buttons at the top to switch between Audio and Photos.
Click the Audio button at the top of the Media pane to see the audio sources available for your movie. You use this pane to add sound effects, record a voiceover, or import music from your iTunes music library or GarageBand.

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Source list: Select an audio source in this list. You can choose from built-in sound effects, your iTunes library and playlists, or GarageBand. Track list: Audio tracks from the selected source are listed here. Play button: Click to play or pause a selected track. Search field: Type some words from a title to search for a particular audio file in your iTunes library. You can search by title or artist. Place at Playhead button: Click to import a selected track into your movie. The imported track appears in one of the audio tracks in the timeline viewer. Record/Stop button: Click to record a voiceover or other sound through your computers builtin microphone or an external microphone. The input meter displays the sound level; sound quality is best if it stays within the yellow range. Click the button a second time to stop recording. The newly recorded audio clip appears in the audio track, where you can select and edit it.

Photos

Images in your iPhoto library automatically appear in this pane. Use the Photo Settings window to add motion to your still images using the Ken Burns Effect. Click the Photos button at the top of the Media pane to see the Photos window. When you select an image, the Photo Settings window appears.

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Source list: Select your iPhoto library or an iPhoto album in this list to see its contents. Images list: Select images in the list to add to your movie. You can select single images or an entire photo album and drag it to the clip viewer or timeline. Search field: Type the name of a photo or image here to quickly locate it. Ken Burns Effect button: Click to open the Photo Settings window, where you can add motion to images. Photo Settings: Use these controls to set up panning and zooming effects for your images. Select or deselect the Ken Burns Effect checkbox to turn motion on or off. Start and End Control: Click Start and set how the image should first appear. Then click End and set how the image should appear at the end of the effect. This control is not visible if the Ken Burns Effect checkbox is deselected. Zoom slider: Move the slider to make images larger or smaller for cropping or setting up pan and zoom effects. Duration slider: Move the slider to set how many seconds the image remains in view. Reverse button: Click to reverse the direction of the Ken Burns Effect. Play/Pause button: See a preview of the effect in the iMovie monitor. Apply button: Apply the effect to the photo. This creates a new clip in the Clips pane that you can drag to the location you want in your movie.

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Editing Pane
You can add titles, transitions, video effects, and audio effects to your movie in the Editing pane. Buttons across the top of the pane provide easy access to high-quality editing tools. Click the Editing button to open the Editing pane.

Titles

You can add opening titles, rolling commentary, end credits, and more in this pane. To see title settings, click Titles at the top of the Editing pane.

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Titles list: Select a title style to add to your movie. Click the disclosure triangle next to a title to see more titles in that category. Arrow buttons: For some titles, you can click the arrow buttons to set the direction in which you want the title to move. Color box: Click the box to choose a color for the text. Font controls: Choose a font, style (bold or italic, for example), and the font size. Over black checkbox: Select this checkbox to make the title appear over a black video clip instead of one of your video clips. Text fields: Type your text in these fields. If the style you choose allows multiple lines of text, use the plus and minus buttons to add or remove additional lines. Timing controls: Move the sliders to set how quickly you want the titles to appear and how long to pause before disappearing. The total duration is shown below the sliders. Other options may be available, depending on the title style. Update button: Click to apply changes to a title youve already added to your movie. Add button: Click to add the title to your movie. You can also drag the title or text to where you want it in the movie.

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.

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Transitions list: Select a transition style in this list. Arrow buttons: For some transitions, you can click an arrow button to set the direction you want the transition to move. For example, a transition might push a scene from right to left or left to right. Speed slider: Move the slider to set the speed of the transition. You can also type a duration in the text box next to the slider. Update button: Click to apply changes to a transition already in a movie. Add button: Click to apply the transition to a selected clip in your movie. You can also select and change multiple transitions all at once, and drag the transition from this list to where you want it to appear in the clip viewer.

Video Effects

You can add special effects to change the look of your movie clips. For example, you can change color video to black and white, adjust the image brightness and contrast, or add playful effects like fairy dust. To see video effects settings, click Video FX at the top of the Editing pane.
Effects list: Select an effect in this list to change the appearance of clips in your movie. Effect In/Effect Out sliders: Move these sliders to the points in the selected clip where you want the effect to appear and disappear. Appearance sliders: Move these sliders to make adjustments to the selected effect. These options will vary, depending on the effect you choose. Apply button: Click to apply the effect to the selected clip.

iMovie HD Getting Started
Includes explanations for importing video, editing footage, adding transitions, effects, titles, and more

Contents

Chapter 1
Introduction Using This Document Whats New in iMovie HD iMovie HD at a Glance iMovie HD Project Window Main Window Clip Viewer Timeline Viewer Clips Pane Photos Pane Audio Pane Titles Pane Transitions Pane Effects Pane iDVD Pane Creating Your First Movie Steps for Creating a Movie Movies in Just Minutes A Quick Tour of Video Editing With iMovie HD Bringing Video Into iMovie HD About Importing Video From Your Camera Before You Begin Importing Video From a Digital Video (DV) or High Definition Video (HDV) Camera Capturing Live Video With an Apple iSight Camera Importing Video from an MPEG-4 Camera or Device Editing Basics Building Your Movie From Video Clips Previewing Your Video Clips Removing Unwanted Video Editing Clips with Direct Trimming

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

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Splitting a Video Clip Undoing an Edit About Gaps (Black Clips) Creating Still Images From a Video Clip Copying and Pasting Clips and Images Saving as You Work Adding Transitions and Photos Adding a Transition Between Scenes Deleting and Editing Transitions Applying Transitions to Multiple Clips Adding Photos Adding Motion to a Photo Using Special Effects Motion Effects Video Effects Adding Titles and Chapter Markers Adding Titles Placing Titles Over a Black or Colored Clip Placing Titles Over Video Footage Editing an Existing Title Creating Chapter Markers for a DVD Working With Sound Adding Sound Effects Adding Music From a CD or iTunes Adding a Voiceover Working With Audio Clips Positioning and Trimming an Audio Clip Adjusting Sound Volume Adjusting the Volume of Your Movie Fine-Tuning Volume Levels in Clips Locking Audio Clips in Place Extracting Audio From Your Video Aligning Audio With Video Getting Well-Synchronized Sound Sharing Your Finished Movie Sending Your Movie By Email Preparing Your Movie for a.Mac HomePage Exporting to Your Video Camera Exporting to iDVD

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Appendix 80

Exporting for QuickTime Viewing Formats Sharing Your Movies Via Bluetooth Wireless Technology Keyboard Shortcuts

Introduction

Welcome to iMovie HD Getting Started. This document will get you on your way to having fun 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. Now iMovie HD is the perfect companion for the latest high definition video cameras and the smallest and most affordable flash cameras. Magic iMovie gives you a helping hand to get started with any new movie project by importing and organizing your video, adding transitions and even a soundtrack all automatically. And with faster, easier editing and a wealth of new video and audio effects iMovie HD makes it a snap to create an award-winner to share on the Internet or on DVD.

Using This Document

This document is organized into ten chapters and a Keyboard Shortcuts appendix, allowing you easy access to the information youll need. Chapter 1, Introduction: In this chapter youll get a brief description of the major new features of iMovie HD. Chapter 2, iMovie HD at a Glance: This chapter shows you the various views and controls in the iMovie HD window. Looking through these pages will enable you to easily follow the steps in the chapters that follow. You can also use the At a Glance for handy reference as you create your own iMovie HD projects. Chapter 3, Creating Your First Movie: Learn the basics for using iMovie HD to create your first movie. This chapter introduces iMovie HD in a broad overview, and provides just enough information and tips to help you get started. The chapters that follow provide the step-by-step procedures and details you need as a reference for using iMovie HD features. Chapter 4, Getting Your Video Into iMovie HD: Follow these instructions to connect your camcorder and import your video. Chapter 5, Editing Basics: After you import your video into iMovie HD, learn to how to clean up your video footage, editing out the parts you dont like and keeping only the best footage to include in your movie.

Chapter 6, Adding Transitions and Photos: In this chapter, youll learn how to use
transitions and place photos from iPhoto into a movie. Chapter 7, Using Special Effects: Learn to use special effects to change the look of motion in a video, perhaps speeding up or slowing down your video, or add visual effects such as electrical flashes or fog to a scene to increase visual impact. Chapter 8, Adding Titles and Chapter Markers: Learn to add titles, credits, and other text to your footage to identify people, places, and dates, add commentary, or anything you like. For movies that you want to share on a disc with iDVD, learn to set up your movie in chapters so that viewers can play specific scenes. Chapter 9, Working With Sound: Learn to add sound effects, music, and voiceovers to your videos to give them a professional flare. Chapter 10, Watching Your Finished Movie: Learn to export your project into a finished movie format so that it can be viewed on the web, on DVD, as a QuickTime movie, or with format options used by experts. Keyboard Shortcuts: Common keyboard shortcuts are presented for easy reference in the appendix.

Whats New in iMovie HD

iMovie HD adds many new features that make movie making faster and easier, with more professional results than ever: Support for High Definition (HD): iMovie HD continues to lead with support for the most advanced standards and cameras. Import high definition widescreen video (HDV 720p and 1080i) from the latest HD cameras. Do everything you expect from iMovie HD with HD content; edit, add effects, and share. Support for More Video Formats and Devices: More choices to use even the smallest and most affordable video cameras, including support for MPEG-4 from flash media video devices. Natively capture from iSight without converting formats. iMovie HD also supports 16:9 widescreen standard definition DV. Automated Movie Making with Magic iMovie: Just plug in your camcorder and iMovie HD automatically imports and arranges your video on the Timeline, creating a movie from start to finishoptionally adding titles, transitions, chapter markers, and even a soundtrack. Even send to iDVD, automatically. Editing Is Faster and Easier: Creating even the most advanced projects in iMovie HD is fast and easy with dramatically increased overall performance, including launching, editing, and savingno matter how large or complex your project. Copy and paste clips between iMovie HD projects, and even drag and drop clips to and from the Timeline. Even rearrange your clips in the Timeline.

Audio Pane

Click the Audio button to open the Audio pane. You use this pane to add sound effects, record a voiceover, or import music from a CD or your iTunes music library.
Audio pop-up menu: Use this pop-up menu to display lists of music and sound effects that you can add to a movie. You can choose a track from your iTunes library or a music CD, or an iMovie HD sound effect. You can drag an audio clip from the list to one of the two audio tracks in the timeline viewer to add it to your movie. Eject button: Click the button to eject a CD from the optical drive. Play: Click the button to play or pause a selected track. Search field: Type some words from a title to search for a particular audio file in your iTunes library. You can search by title or artist.
Place at Playhead: Click to import a selected track into your movie. The imported track appears in one of the audio tracks in the timeline viewer. Record/Stop: Click to record a voiceover or other sound through your computers built-in microphone or an external microphone. The input meter displays the sound level; sound quality is best if it stays within the yellow range. Click the button a second time to stop recording. The newly recorded audio clip appears in the audio track where you can select and edit it.

Titles Pane

Click the Titles button to open the Titles pane. You can add opening titles, rolling commentary, end credits, and more. You can also choose a title style, font, and text color.

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Preview: Click to see how the title will look. Update: Click to apply changes to a title youve already added to your movie. Arrow buttons: For some titles you can click the arrow buttons to set the direction you want the title to move. Preview monitor: Use this monitor to view title styles and preview your settings. Timing controls: Move the sliders to set how quickly you want the titles to appear and how long to pause before disappearing. Other options may be available, depending on the title style. Titles list: Select a title style for the text you want to add to your movie. Click the disclosure triangle next to a title to see more titles in that category. When youre done setting options for the title, drag the title style from this list to the timeline viewer to place the title in your movie.

If you have more than one camera or device connected to your computer, click the camera button and choose your camera from the pop-up menu.

Camera mode Rewind Pause

Fast forward
7 Use the capture controls, shown above, to view the tape in the iMovie monitor. 8 Rewind the tape to a few seconds before the point at which you want to start importing. 9 Click the Play button. 10 Click Import when you see the start of the scene that you want to import. 11 When youre done importing, click Import again to stop. If youre having trouble getting your video camera to communicate with iMovie HD, click the Connection Help button in the iMovie monitor. It connects you to useful information in iMovie HD Help.
About Automatic Scene Detection
As you import your video footage from a standard or high defintion camera connected via FireWire, iMovie HD detects where you made a break in recording, and automatically divides the video into separate scenes or clips. Each sequence of recorded video is then made into a video clip that is stored in the Clips pane, shown below.
You can also have iMovie HD automatically place clips in the timeline, if you prefer. To have clips placed automatically in the timeline: 1 Choose iMovie HD > Preferences. 2 Click Import. 3 Select the Movie Timeline radio button. If you prefer, you can turn off automatic scene detection and manually create the breaks between video clips as you import. To turn off automatic scene detection: 1 Choose iMovie HD > Preferences. 2 Click Import. 3 Deselect the checkbox labeled Start a new clip at each scene break. To manually create scene breaks, click the Import button to start or stop importing as you import each scene. Or, you can import long scenes and then split them in the Clips pane using the Split Video Clip at Playhead command in the Edit menu.
Did You Know? About Video Formats and Frame Rates
When you create a new project, you can specify whether the project is for standard definition DV, high definition, DV widescreen, MPEG-4 video, or the format for an iSight camera. iMovie supports the following video formats: DV NTSC DV PAL DV NTSC Widescreen DV PAL Widescreen MPEG-4 iSight HDV 720p HDV 1080i In most cases, you dont need to specify anything for your video format. iMovie HD is preset to import standard definition digital video (DV), and it can automatically detect whether you have connected a high definition video camera or an Apple iSight camera and switch your project to the appropriate settings. However, with standard video formats, you may at times want to specify a particular format, such as DV widescreen. To specify a video format for a new project, choose File > New Project or click the Create a New Project button in the iMovie HD project window. In the Create Project dialog, click the Video format triangle to display format options. Choose the video format options you want. Different video formats use different frame rates. Most video formats, including standard definition, high definition, and widescreen, use either 29.97 frames per second or 25 frames per second. For example, NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) and PAL (Phase Alternating Line) are two common digital video (DV) formats. NTSC format, which is used in North America and Japan, has a frame rate of 29.97 frames per second (fps). PAL format, which is used in most of the world outside North America, has a frame rate of 25 fps. When you first import video into a project, iMovie HD automatically detects the correct frame rate of the incoming footage.

Capturing Live Video With an Apple iSight Camera
If you have an iSight camera connected to your computer, you can use it with iMovie HD to capture live video. Follow the instructions for connecting your camera via FireWire and importing video footage found in Importing Video From a Digital Video (DV) or High Definition Video (HDV) Camera on page 32. When you switch iMovie HD to camera mode, iMovie HD first looks for a video camera. If it doesnt find one, it looks for an iSight and displays your iSight video in the iMovie monitor. If you have both a camera and iSight connected to your computer, set the mode switch to camera mode and choose iSight from the pop-up menu. Your iSight video is directly imported into iMovie HD project. You can edit and use it just as you would any other iMovie HD footage
Importing Video from an MPEG-4 Camera or Device
MPEG-4 video cameras or devices may use a USB connection to connect the device to your computer. When you connect an MPEG-4 camera or device, it appears as a hard disk icon on your desktop. You can open the devices icon and drag the footage directly into an iMovie HD project, or to your desktop for later importing. When you drag MPEG-4 video into an iMovie HD, project, iMovie HD imports the video as a single clip which you can then break up into scenes and edit, if you want. If your device uses a USB connection, you cannot directly import video into a project using the import controls and procedure used for cameras connected via FireWire, or use the Make a Magic iMovie feature to import video and automatically create a movie.
Did You Know? Importing Clips From Your Hard Disk
If you already have digital video or still images on your computers hard disk, or an external hard disk, you can import them into your iMovie HD project. You can drag video clips from your desktop into iMovie HD or choose File > Import. Choose the images you want to import and click Open. When you import clips in a format different from your project, they are converted to the video format of your movie. For example, if you have created a movie using high definition video format throughout, any standard definition clips that you import are converted to the project's high definition format. Tip: If you want to use clips from another iMovie HD project, open the project and select the clips you want, and copy and paste them into your new project. You can also drag the clips to your desktop and then open another project and drag them into it.

4 Drag the right crop marker to the last frame that you want to remove. The selected frames in the clip appear yellow in the scrubber bar, as shown above. 5 Choose Edit > Clear (or press the Delete key) to trim the selected frames from the clip.
Cropping a Video Clip Using Crop Markers
To crop a clip, you select the frames that you want to keep and delete the rest of the clip. Cropping is often the easiest method when you want to preserve the middle part of a clip and delete the beginning and the end. To crop a clip: 1 Select a clip in the clip viewer or timeline viewer. 2 Position the pointer over the scrubber bar to display the crop markers. 3 Drag the right crop marker along the scrubber bar until you see the last frame that you want to keep. 4 Drag the left crop marker along the scrubber bar until you see the first frame that you want to keep.
5 Choose Edit > Crop to delete the frames outside the range of frames you selected. The selected frames are preserved.

Splitting a Video Clip

When you split a video clip, you simply break it into two clips, preserving both parts. You can then delete the part you dont want or save it to use elsewhere in your movie. To split a video clip: 1 Select a clip in the Clips pane, clip viewer, or timeline viewer. 2 Drag the playhead in the scrubber bar to the frame where you want to split the clip. 3 Choose Edit > Split Video Clip at Playhead. A new clip immediately appears.

Undoing an Edit

If you make a mistake as you work, you can always undo your action.
To undo an action: Choose Edit > Undo. You can choose Undo multiple times to undo your changes one after the other.
Did You Know? Undoing Your Changes
When you trim a clip, the footage you delete is not lost. You can choose the Undo command multiple times to cancel your changes one after another. You can also undo all your changes to a clip at once by selecting the clip and choosing Advanced > Revert Clip to Original. If you trimmed too much from a clip, you can also bring back the trimmed footage using the direct trimming method, explained next.

About Gaps (Black Clips)

When you drag clips to the right in the timeline viewer, you can create a gap between clips. The gaps, or empty spaces, are called black clips When you switch to the clip. viewer, you see a black clip has been added to the project. When you view your movie, you see only black video where gaps appear. You can change these black clips to any color you want by creating a color clip.
You can use color clips as spacers or placeholders in your movie, or you can use them as background for text or titles. You cant select or move them in the clip viewer.
To create a color clip: 1 In the timeline viewer, drag a clip to create a gap. 2 Select the black clip in the clip viewer and choose File > Show Info or double-click the clip. 3 Click the color box and choose a new color. 4 Click Set. 5 Close the Colors window.
Creating Still Images From a Video Clip
You can use photos and still images as backgrounds for titles or to hold a particular image on screen for a period of time. You can easily create a still image from any frame in a clip. For example, you might want to show a title over a still image of a dog and then show that image coming to life as a real dog. To do so, you create a still image from first frame of your dog clip. The new image appears as five-second clip in the Clips pane. You can then place that still image before your video clip and add the title you want. To create a still frame from your movie: 1 Select a clip and position the playhead to display the image you want. 2 Choose Edit > Create Still Frame. After a still image appears in the Clips pane, you can rename it and change its duration to match the needs of your movie.
Copying and Pasting Clips and Images
You can cut, copy, and paste selections of your video as you edit. For example, you can copy an image or clip and paste it into different places in a movie. You can replace a section of video by selecting it and pasting another clip over it. You can delete video or move it to different locations in the movie. You can also copy a video clip from a different iMovie into the one you're working on. To edit your video, you drag clips to different locations or use the Copy, Cut, Paste, and Clear commands, much as you do to edit text in a word-processing application. To copy a clip to a new position in the movie: 1 Select the video clip or frame range you want to cut or copy, then choose Edit > Cut or Copy. 2 Move the playhead where you want the chosen clip to appear. 3 Choose Edit > Paste.
Did You Know? Copying And Pasting Clips Between Projects
You can easily transfer clips from one iMovie HD project to another. Select the clip you want and choose Edit > Copy. Open another iMovie HD project and paste the clip where you want it. Its that easy. You can also drag a clip out of your movie to the Finder desktop, then drag it from the desktop into another iMovie HD project.

Clip speed slider

Chapter 7 Using Special Effects
To adjust the speed of a video clip: 1 Click the timeline viewer button (it has a clock on it) to open the timeline viewer. 2 Select the clip you want to speed up or slow down. 3 Click Effects. 4 In the Effects pane, choose the Fast/Slow/Reverse effect. 5 Move the speed slider left or right to adjust the speed of your video clip. 6 Click Apply. Move the slider one tick to the left to make it play twice as fast, or one tick to the right makes it twice as slow. Adjust the slider to the speed you want. Play the clip in the iMovie monitor to see the effect of slowing down or speeding up the clip. The size of each clip in the timeline viewer corresponds to its length in the movie, giving you a visual indication of how long each of your movie elements is. When you adjust the clip speed slider, the selected clip in the timeline viewer grows longer or shorter.

Video Effects

iMovie HD provides an array of interesting video effects that are easy to add to your movie. You can change a whole clip or parts of clips. Like transitions, video effects take time to render, but you can preview the effect before you apply it. Different effects have different attributes that you set to get just the look you want. For example, if you select Adjust Colors, you can adjust the Hue Shift, Color, and Lightness using the sliders that appear at the bottom of the Effects pane. Some effects allow you to set where the effect will appear in the clip. For example, if you select Fairy Dust, you can choose where the fairy dust will arc, or choose where the electricity will strike for the Electricity effect. If the pointer changes to a crosshair when you click in the preview monitor, you can click again to select the origination point of the effect. If you dont see a crosshair pointer when you click in the preview monitor, you cant set the position. Note: If a clip has a transition attached when you apply an effect, iMovie HD warns you that the transition will be invalidated. iMovie HD then allows you to re-render the transition to include the effect. To add a video effect to your movie: 1 Click the Effects button to open the Effects pane. 2 Select the clip you want to change in the clip viewer or timeline viewer. 3 Scroll through the list of effects and select the one you want to apply.
4 Drag the Effect In and Effect Out sliders to indicate how quickly you want the effect to fade in and out. Setting the sliders to 00:00 will make the effect appear and disappear suddenly, rather than fade in and out gradually. 5 Once you have the effect set up, click Preview to see what it will look like. You can continue adjusting the attributes until you see the results you want. 6 Click Apply to render the effect. You can apply more than one effect to the same video clip. Just repeat these steps for each effect you want to add.

Did You Know? iMovie HD automatically adjusts footage to better fit the screen
Different formats of footage, such as widescreen or high definition, potentially may not fit the format of your video well. For example, if you import widescreen footage into a standard definition DV project, the widescreen footage wouldn't fit well within the normal screen size of standard definition DV. iMovie HD solves this problem by automatically adjusting incoming footage to fit the screen size. Digital video footage is recorded using standard ratios of width to height, called the aspect ratio. Standard definition video has an aspect ratio of 4:3, meaning for every four pixels of width the frame has 3 pixels of height. Widescreen video has a 16:9 aspect ratio, meaning that the width of the frame is nearly twice its height.

Editing Effects

You can layer effects to create a unique look. For example, you could have fairy dust streaking across a foggy scene. If you change your mind, you can remove an effect. There are several ways to remove an effect. To remove an effect: Choose Edit > Undo after adding the effect. Select the clip with the effect you want to remove and press Delete. Select the clip and Choose Advanced > Revert Clip to Original to remove all changes to the clip and restore the original footage.
Applying an Effect to Part of a Clip or Multiple Clips
You can apply video effects to multiple clips or to parts of clips, rather than to the whole clip. To apply an effect to part of a clip, you must first select a frame range, or a portion of the frames within the clip. (You can also select a frame range across a series of contiguous clips in the clip viewer.) To select a frame range: 1 Select the clip or series of clips that include the frames that you want to edit. Hold down the Shift key to select more than one clip. 2 Drag the crop markers below the scrubber bar to select the frames to which you want to apply an effect. The selected frame range is yellow in the scrubber bar. 3 Add motion or video effects as you would to a clip, as described above. You can hold down the Command key to select discontiguous clips. Then apply the same effect to all the selected clips.
Adding Titles and Chapter Markers
Any text you place in your movie is called a title. You can add titles to introduce and end a movie, identify people, places, and dates; to add commentary; or anything you like.

If you want to burn your movie on a DVD with iDVD, you might also want to set up your movie with chapters so that viewers can easily navigate to or select specific scenes, just like a Hollywood DVD. iMovie HD also lets you create chapter markers that export to iDVD.

Adding Titles

You can have text appear onscreen in interesting ways. You might have text bounce in, do a cartwheel, or even change color and shine. iMovie offers you many choices of title styles.
Each title style has a different set of options, and each lets you put different amounts of text on the screen at once. Use the Titles pane, shown below, to add titles to your movie.
To set up a title: 1 Click the Titles button to open the Titles pane. 2 Select a title style in the list. 3 Type the text you want to appear onscreen in the text fields. 4 Choose the font, text size, and text color. 5 Set the duration sliders. The Speed slider sets how fast the titles move into and out of the movie. The Pause slider sets how long the words hold still on the screen (most of the title styles incorporate word movement or fading in and out). The titles duration is shown at the bottom of the preview monitor. This duration represents how long the title is from beginning to end. 6 If the title style you chose has arrow buttons, click them to select the direction from which the title should enter the screen. 7 Click Preview to see how your title looks. To find out how to add the title to your movie, see the next section.
Chapter 8 Adding Titles and Chapter Markers
Placing Titles Over a Black or Colored Clip
You can place titles over movie footage or over a black or colored background. To place a title on a black background: 1 Choose a title style and set up the title as you want it. 2 Select Over black and drag the title into the movie. Placing a title on a background adds a few seconds to your video. To place a title on a colored clip: 1 Add a black clip to your movie by dragging a clip to the right in the timeline viewer and then switch to the clip viewer. 2 Select the black clip and choose File > Show Info. 3 Click the color box. 4 Choose the color you want in the Colors window (shown below).
5 Click Set. 6 Drag the title you want onto the color clip. You can change the color of colored clips.
To change a titles background color: 1 In the clip or timeline viewer, select a title clip with a background color. 2 Press the Delete key once to delete the title. 3 Choose File > Show Info. 4 Click the Color box. Close the Colors window and then click Set. 5 Add the title to the clip again.
Placing Titles Over Video Footage
You can place a title over video footage by dragging a title in front of a clip. iMovie HD then renders the title over the clip. To place a title over a video clip: 1 Choose a title style and set up the title as you want it. 2 Drag the name of the title style in front of the video clip over which you want it to appear. Make sure the Over black option is deselected. iMovie HD renders the title over the footage. If your footage is longer than the duration of the title, iMovie HD splits the clip at the point where the title ends. You can delete the split-off portion of the original clip or use it in your movie.

Chapter 9 Working With Sound
Adding Music From a CD or iTunes
You can add music to your movie from a CD or from your iTunes library. To add music from a CD: 1 Click the timeline viewer button to open the timeline viewer. 2 Click the Audio button to open the Audio pane. 3 Insert a CD into the disc drive. 4 Choose the CD from the pop-up menu. A list of CD tracks appears. 5 Move the playhead to the frame where you want the music to begin. 6 Select the track you want and click Place at Playhead. Preview your work by selecting the clip where you added the track and clicking Play in the iMovie HD playback controls. You can continue to adjust the position of the clip until you get it where you want it. To add music from your iTunes library: 1 Select the video clip in which you want the audio track to begin in the timeline viewer. 2 Click the Audio button and choose iTunes Library from the pop-up menu. 3 Move the playhead to the frame where you want the music to begin. 4 Select the track you want. You can search for a particular track by typing some words from the title in the Search field. Click the Play button to the left of the Search field to listen to a track in the list. 5 Click Place at Playhead. The audio file appears as an audio clip in the second audio track. Preview your work by selecting the video clip where you added the audio and clicking Play in the iMovie HD playback controls. You can continue to adjust the position of the audio clip until you get it where you want it. Note: You must have QuickTime 6.5.2 or later installed on your computer to hear your iTunes music play in your iMovie HD project. You can download QuickTime from the QuickTime website at www.apple.com/quicktime/download.

Adding a Voiceover

You can record sound directly into iMovie HD if you have a built-in microphone or an external microphone connected to your computer. You can use this feature to create your own voiceover narrations or commentaries. Your microphone records at the input level set in the Sound pane of System Preferences. To turn the recording level of a mike up or down, use the Input volume slider in the Sound pane. To set the recording level of a microphone: 1 Open System Preferences and click Sound. 2 Click Input. 3 Select the microphone you want to use. 4 Adjust the Input volume slider to raise or lower the volume that the microphone records at. To record a voiceover: 1 In the timeline viewer, drag the playhead until you see the frame where you want the voiceover to begin. 2 Click the Audio button to open the Audio pane. 3 Click the Record button.

Record/Stop button

4 Speak clearly into the microphone. While you are speaking, the input meter should be yellow. If it turns red, you are speaking too loudly. 5 Click the Stop button to stop recording. The sound you recorded appears in the first audio track. Like any other audio clip, it can be dragged to a new position in either of the audio tracks.

Locking Audio Clips in Place
When your audio clips are lined up with your video the way you want, you can lock them to the video so that if you move a video clip, it wont misalign your audio. To lock audio to video: 1 Position your audio clip where you want it to begin in your movie. 2 Choose Advanced > Lock Audio Clip at Playhead.

Locking pins

The pins indicate that the audio clip is locked to the video clip.
To unlock audio from a video clip: 1 In the timeline viewer, select the audio clip. 2 Choose Advanced > Unlock Audio Clip.
Extracting Audio From Your Video
The video you import has an embedded audio track. Sometimes you may want to separate the audio track from your video and delete it or move it to a different place in the movie. With this technique, called extracting audio, you can move the sound or dialogue from one video clip to another. For instance, you might have recorded video of your grandmother telling stories about her youth, and you may also have some old photos of her that you scanned into iPhoto and imported into iMovie HD. Using the audio extraction feature, you can easily separate Grandmas narration from the video of her telling stories, and then add her narration to the photos. When you extract the audio from a video clip, it appears as an audio clip in one of the audio tracks. You can then move it around as you would any audio clip.
To extract the audio from a video clip: 1 In the timeline viewer, select the video clip. 2 Choose Advanced > Extract Audio. The extracted audio clip appears in the first audio track directly below the clip from which it was extracted. The audio is locked to the video, but you can unlock it if you want to move it to another part of your movie.
Aligning Audio With Video
To synchronize an audio clip with specific frames, you align the audio clip so that it begins with the video frame you want. To align an audio clip with a specific frame: 1 Click the timeline viewer button (it has a clock on it) to see the timeline viewer. 2 Drag the audio clip along the track until you see the frame you want to start with (you can watch the frames play in the iMovie monitor).
3 Select the clip where you added the audio clip and click Play in the iMovie HD playback controls to preview your work. You can continue to adjust the position of the clip until you get it where you want it.
Did You Know? Play Audio as You Move the Playhead
To help align sound with video, you can play the audio tracks as you drag the playhead. Hold down the Option key as you drag the playhead.