Constructing an iMovie project
Given the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States and all that comes with it, in the near future many of you are likely to be launching a copy of iMovie to piece together movies of family and friends. For this reason, we’ll skip many of the finer points in our “Getting Started With iMovie 10” series and move directly to creating a straightforward iMovie project.
You’re familiar with iMovie’s interface, and you know how to import media. Now it’s a matter of placing the media you want in the timeline, adding transitions and titles, and exporting the resulting movie to a form that other people can view.
Creating a movie and adding clips
Speaking broadly, iMovie 10 allows you to create two kinds of projects: a movie or a trailer. We want to create a movie. To do that, choose File > New Movie or press Command-N. You’ll see a Create window that contains iMovie’s themes. I’ll discuss using themes in a later lesson. For the time being, just choose No Theme, click the Create button at the bottom of the window, and then name your movie in the sheet that appears.
iMovie’s themes.
Leaving still images aside for now, let’s look at adding video clips to your movie’s timeline. Select an event in the Libraries pane, and any clips that belong to that event appear in the Browser pane to the right. You have many ways of adding clips. To add an entire clip, click the clip and press the keyboard’s X key. Click the Plus (+) button that appears when you hover your cursor over the clip, and it joins the timeline below. Alternatively, you can press the E key to add the selected clip. Or, if you like doing things the old-fashioned way, you can drag the selected clip into the timeline.
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