

The techniques described here are ones you can use in any movie project, and they focus on inserting clips and replacing existing clips with new ones.

So, you won't be surprised that iMovie offers shortcuts to make the work easier. Learn Advanced Editing Techniques ProjectĮditing video is a process of repeating a few movements-placing, trimming, adjusting-hundreds or thousands of times. In this chapter, I also dig into advanced editing techniques and building photo slideshows. For example, the color correction controls can boost saturation, adjust white balance, and apply eye-catching video effects. IMovie includes many tools for dealing with special situations, as well as for improving what you've already shot. But you're bound to run into special situations: What to do when you want to fine-tune the way a transition works between two clips? What if your footage suffers from unexpected camera shake, or if the audio is muddled? Having a firm grasp of the basics helps you edit projects faster, so you're spending more time enjoying your content and less time feeling your way through the software. Other Helpful Resources:Lynda.Using the techniques covered so far, you can make all kinds of great videos in iMovie. Over the right edge of the sound clip over the horizontal bar. Left edge of the sound clip over the horizontal bar. Fade the beginning and ending sound of a clip.Click on an anchor point and drag it up or down to makeįinally, try these steps:1. TryĪdjusting the sound with 4 anchor points.Ģ. Key, and click to make an anchor point on the horizontal line. Hover over those portions of the audio, hold down the option Figure out where you want the audio to go down and come back Hover your cursor over the mid-point of the audio clip. Do an overall volume adjustment of sound with an audio clip.Move audio clip to match up with the beginning of the video Hover your cursor over the beginning edge of the audio clip. Cut or Trim your video from the beginning portion of theĪudio. Hover over a portion of your audio where you want to split it In the adjustment menu, try the “Noise reduction &ĥ. Right-click on one of your video clips and select “DetachĤ. In the adjustment menu, play with additional effects: colorīalance, color correction, stabilization, and clip filter & Your content to adjust the framing of your shot. In the adjustment menu, click on the cropping effect.

Import your media by clicking the down arrow. To UWBox or save to a USB (File > Open Library > New).Ĥ.

Make sure to create an iMovie library that you can upload IMovie library that you can upload to UWBox or save to a USB Download media content from the folder.2.īegin an iMovie project.3.
