Apple iMovie HD User Manual

1 How to make Digital Stories using iMovie HD in Apple’s iLife ’06. Tutorial notes by Daniel Meadows _____________________________________________

10 Your choice of format will affect the size at which you need to prepare photographs for working in iMovie HD. On this workshop we will work in

11 …then the viewer is given the impression of looking AT the screen. So ask yourself: “Which of these illusions is the one I want?” iii. Picture

12 Scan each image in RGB mode (even black & white pictures) so that—neatly cropped—each one produces a file of about 5 MB. Save your pictures

13 chosen thumbnail images from the iPhoto “Library” window into your Album. (They do not actually move from the Library, the Album merely referen

14 If you have DV-NTSC and you wanted DV-PAL (or vice versa) go to iMOVIE HD > PREFERENCES > GENERAL and in the “New Project frame rate” box

15 the people who designed the software). We can also elect to break our movie up into chapters prior to burning it onto a DVD (again not a useful

16 Above the clips button the Assets Pane is divided into a series of boxes, each one of which can hold a clip. Note: as iMovie HD imports your cl

17 useful. Mostly we use the Timeline Viewer. The button to select it looks like this: Click on the clock which is the symbol for “edit your w

18 To view your Timeline from a distance or to zoom-in on any part of it, use the “Zoom Slider” at bottom left of your window which looks like thi

19 10. Editing in iMovie HD i. Making a Title Sequence: All Digital Stories need a title that runs for six seconds at the beginning; it fades in,

2 1. Digital Storytelling, an Introduction Digital Stories are short, personal, multimedia tales, told from the heart. Made on the kitchen table

20 First Note: Dragging and “Edge Dragging”. You can only move a clip along the Timeline by dragging in its middle, that is anywhere but on its en

21 Now, from the menu of possible title styles, choose “Centered Title”. b) Text Boxes: In the middle of the Assets Pane there are two pairs of n

22 select the named Album which you created earlier. The pictures themselves appear in the lower white panel while, at the bottom r-h corner of th

23 a) Photo Settings sliders. Numerical values to control the extent to which a picture is cropped and also a clip’s duration in the Timeline,

24 Playhead to the place from where you want to start viewing your story; hit the spacebar. To stop it playing hit the spacebar again. Immediatel

25 leftwards Edge Drag, you will see that the cursor turns into a bracket with two arrows on it, one pointing to the right, the other pointing to t

26 UNDO/REDO memory. Note: iMovie HD Trash is not the same the Trash which lives on the computer’s Dock. f) Drag Selecting: To select a number of

27 Note: if you want to keep a video clip’s audio but change the volume so that it doesn’t drown your voice-over, you must extract it first and the

28 to it, then everything in the Timeline to the right of your selected clip will go out of sync and the result will be a big mess. Now press the

29 There is, however, some good news; five of the Transitions do not behave destructively and these are the five that we can use: a) “Overlap”:

3 in 2006. The “HD” stands for “High Definition” which means that it can be used to edit footage created in a High Definition Digital Video camera

30 either one; or you can delete a clip by selecting it and then hitting the spacebar. If you do make a deletion in this way and then, at a later

31 When you are happy that you have chosen the tune you want, click-drag it into the Timeline. In fact you can import a music track from elsewhe

32 percentages in the “Clip:” indicator change as the yellow handle is moved. This helps you compare and match the various volumes of any number o

33 Your Digital Story will play edge-to-edge on your computer monitor. If you need to interrupt the screening, hit the esc key (“escape”, top left

34 which, when it is inserted into a DVD player, automatically plays your story and also—in the background—contains your entire iMovie HD project s

35 In the “Sound” pane click the “Settings” button and select as follows: Format: IMA 4:1; Channels: Mono; Rate: 44.100 kHz; Render Settings: Norma

36 conviction in 1952 for violating the homosexuality laws, he committed suicide by taking a bite out of an apple contaminated with potassium cyani

37 viii. Creating an on-screen Title for your Digital Story. Double-click on the words “Projector” to select them and then hit the delete key (o

38 Drag this .dv file from the desktop into the TV Safe Area of your iDVD project window and release the mouse (“drag and drop”). Notice that two

39 don’t accidentally upset the project’s file hierarchy. If, when you have completed the making of your DVD, you decide to delete your iMovie Pro

4 merely performing lines. You are narrating the story as you would tell it to a friend. If you “posh it up” or use a manner of speaking which is

40 “Ownership & Permissions” and use the pop-up to select “Read & Write”. Then click the little red button at the top left of the window t

5 _____________________________________________________________________ 4. File Discipline When you switch on your computer it is vital that you

6 simple-to-use and allows for high-quality recordings. JOMEC’s MacBooks all have Sound Studio 2.2.4 installed. iii. Recording with Sound Studio

7 f) Now start speaking into the microphone and, on the computer, notice that a double band of blue flickers in the Input window. When you speak

8 k) Save two copies: an original and a “cutting copy” as follows in 6 below. Use “.wav” as the file type. ___________________________________

9 clicking on the “+” magnifying-glass icon at the bottom of the Timeline. To zoom-out again just hit the “-” magnifying-glass icon. To remove an