Getting started with iMovie
This week we begin our exploration of Apple’s video-editing application, iMovie ’11. With it you can import bits of video (called clips) from your camera, add existing clips currently on your Mac, add still images from iPhoto, add music background tracks, edit clips so they contain just the parts you want to see, combine clips into a fully realized movie, add transitions such as fades and dissolves between clips, add effects and titles, and share the results with family, friends, and the world at large.
Powerful? Oh my, yes. Easy to use? After I complete this series of lessons, absolutely. In this first lesson we’ll focus on iMovie’s interface.
About cameras and file types
Before we look at iMovie’s interface elements, let’s briefly examine what kind of content you can use with the application. You can import video from a variety of devices, including digital camcorders (those that record to hard drive, flash memory, or DVD), digital still cameras that use some type of memory card (SD Card and CompactFlash being the most common), tape-based camcorders, and mobile devices that record movies (such as your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch). It supports both high-definition and standard-definition video.
iMovie can additionally import QuickTime and MPEG-4 movies. And via the application’s media browser, you can import still images from your iPhoto or Aperture library as well as bring in music files stored on your Mac.
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