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USING IMOVIE TO EDIT VIDEO HOW TO
USING IMOVIE TO EDIT VIDEO MOVIE

There are a few ways that iMovie can displays videos or images that are stacked on top of each other in a timeline. IMovie has several tools to edit your video here are a few of the more common ones to use. Select your content in a variety of ways one way is to select Years, then locate your photo(s) to import, and drag them onto your project’s timeline.

To import photos, click on the Photos Library, and select the My Media tab.

Drag the video onto your project’s timeline. Select your content in a variety of ways one way is to select Albums, then select Videos.

To import videos, click on Photos Library in the Project Media section, under Libraries, and choose the My Media tab.

You can easily add these into your project by these steps:

You may have imported video or photos into the Photos app. Generally you can drag-and-drop your media from anywhere on your computer onto your project’s timeline, and the media will get copied to your iMovie project library. Later, you can sort your media by looking at only the clips you’ve favorited, which can be helpful when sifting through dozens of clips. Inversely, if you find a bad section within a clip, you can reject that portion of the clip by choosing Mark/Delete, or hitting the delete button on your keyboard. You can favorite that portion of the clip by choosing Mark/Favorite, or hitting the F keyboard shortcut. While reviewing video clips, you may find a good section within the clip. Quick screensaving real estate tip: You can hide the events names by unclicking the “Show Separate Days in Events” in the View menu. Within your iMovie library, media is organized into events, which are organized by date.

This can become rather cumbersome to sift through several years of different project’s media. Generally you should create a new library for your project, as otherwise you may eventually have several project’s media in your main iMovie Library. Timeline. The bottom is your timeline of edited media you can trim video clips in the timeline as well as adjust audio.The media viewer has a number of color- and audio-correction options above it, so you can perform adjustments to color, crop an image, apply a Ken Burns effect on a media clip, and a number of other helpful editing options. On the right side is a media viewing area of either your the media in your timeline, or media you have selected in your project media area.

You can also find titles, backgrounds, and transitions in this area. iMovie arranges media into libraries, which you can find here. This will include your collection of media that you may have imported, as well as quick views into your iPhoto library, and any music from your iTunes library and GarageBand. Project Media. On the left side of your screen is the media for your project.In this project view, iMovie is broken up into 3 distinct areas. iMovie will then bring you into the project view for your new project. If you haven’t created a project, create one by choosing File/New Movie. Generally, iMovie opens your last edited project.

USING IMOVIE TO EDIT VIDEO MOVIE

Theater: View movies you have exported/shared, or create a new movie or trailer here as well.

When you create a new project, you’ll be prompted to choose either a Movie or Trailer project choose Movie. Sometimes it’s useful to duplicate a project here if you’re doing a different edit on a project.

Projects: A collection of your edited projects.

Media: Where you store your content may have different libraries that contain different media.

IMovie is organized into 3 thematic areas, generally found at the top of the screen unless you have already opened up a project:

USING IMOVIE TO EDIT VIDEO HOW TO

Here’s a brief video that covers how to start a project, import footage, do a quick trim, then export the movie click on the “+” magnifier icon to view chapter bookmarks, which allow you to jump to a certain segment of the video. Note: There is a list of iMovie tutorials online at the bottom of this page that are extremely helpful.