Fade in or out and cross-dissolve do the job in most cases, but novice moviemakers tend to get carried away. Sixteen transitions are included, and that’s probably enough. Repeating this process gives great flexibility – though you may need to zoom in on the timeline to find the right spot - but it’s unnecessarily fiddly if you’re just trying to stop the background noise coming in with a bang at the beginning of a clip. You can then click anywhere on the line, and drag the resulting control point up or down to adjust the volume. In iMovie HD, selecting Show Clip Volume Levels superimposes a purple line over each clip’s representation in the timeline. While that was great for most home movies, it was a bit restrictive if you wanted to get more creative. For any clip, you could adjust the volume and choose fade in or fade out.
Should you want to re-extend a previously trimmed clip and trim the adjacent clip by the same amount, hold down the Command key while dragging.Įarly versions of iMovie made it easy to work with sound, but at the expense of flexibility. If you decide you’ve trimmed the clip too severely, just drag that end back out. By default, the clip you’re working on and any that follow it will automatically slide along the timeline to close any gap. As the clip is displayed in the preview pane, it’s easy to find the right point to get rid of initial camera shake or other extraneous material. Select the clip in the timeline, and then drag the beginning or end towards the middle. IMovie’s non-destructive editing is the simplest way to trim either end of a clip. Apple distinguishes between the Clip Viewer (all clips are shown the same size regardless of length) and the Timeline Viewer (the length of the clip determines the amount of space it occupies on the timeline), but we just see them as two views of the timeline. To assemble the movie, you simply drag the required clips onto the timeline at the bottom of the window. iMovie (we’ll drop the HD unless it’s necessary to distinguish it from other versions) automatically captures each clip separately, storing them in the clips pane at the upper left of the main window.
Importing the source footage is very simple connect the camera to the Mac’s FireWire port and click the Import button. Importing, editing and exporting are all straightforward.
Two audio tracks are available for music and other sounds in addition to that in the source footage. Consequently, as the name now implies, HD 720p and 1080i are supported as well as regular and widescreen DV. In the past, iMovie was very basic, but since the introduction of affordable HDV camcorders, primarily from Sony, it had to be beefed up somewhat. IMovie HD is Apple’s basic consumer-oriented video editor, and it does a very good job for users who want to turn camcorder footage into a presentable movie without too much effort says Stephen Withers.
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