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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 Preview button in the monitor window and the zooming-in
effect will play in the Preview monitor. If you like what you see, click the
“Update” button in the Photo Settings box (or click the big tick in the Monitor
window slider) and watch the clip render in the Timeline (developing a dark
red line which slowly fills up from the left with a brighter red strip).
b) Panning: Panning is the general term used to describe a lateral move on a
picture. When you make your Start and End positions in the Ken Burns
Effect, you will notice that you can also move the image around by placing the
cursor over the image in the Monitor window where it turns into a hand which,
when you click, makes a grabbing gesture. By click-dragging the hand you
can move the picture around inside the Preview monitor and choose an off-
centre Start or End position. You want to zoom in on a group photo to draw
attention to a particular face at one end of the line? Well this is how you do it.
vii. Splitting a Clip: There is no Razor Blade tool in iMovie HD. If you want to
divide a clip and shorten it by deleting a part of it, rather than Edge Dragging it, you
can place the Playhead at the place where you want to make the cut and go EDIT >
SPLIT VIDEO AT PLAYHEAD. Then you can select the part you want to remove
and delete it but… watch out for the Ripple Effect.
viii. Restoring a Video Clip: It is sometimes possible to lose your way with a video
clip. You’ve got it in the Timeline but you forgot to hold down the alt key when you
dragged it from the Clips Pane so there is no copy, and now you wish you hadn’t
messed about with it quite so much because you’d like to start with it all over again.
Well, you can. If you select it in the Timeline and go ADVANCED > REVERT CLIP
TO ORIGINAL it will do just that. But beware: this is not an operation which can be
undone.
ix. Using Transitions: Up till now all our changes between clips in the picture track
have been “cuts”, that is, we jump from one picture to the next. However, if we want,
we can use Transitions and thereby move more gently between clips.
In the Timeline, drag the Playhead to the “clip boundary” (the place where two clips
meet) at the exact place where you would like to insert a Transition. Select Editing in
the Assets Pane and (at the top of the screen) choose “Transitions”.
The Transitions pane offers you a selection of 16 different Transitions starting with
“Billow” and ending with “Wash out”. If you click on these one-at-a-time (just one
click), what each does is demonstrated in the Monitor window. Don’t get too excited
though, mostly they are all just more cases for the taste police and anyway, time spent
experimenting here is time wasted as, particularly for those of us working with still
pictures rather than video clips, most of the Transitions are completely useless. This
is because, when inserted in the Timeline, they become parasites, stealing time from
adjoining clips in order to make themselves work, with the inevitable result that
everything in the track from the point of insertion goes out of sync.
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