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6 Adding Transitions and Photos

This chapter explains how to use transitions and place

photos from iPhoto into a movie.

You’ve arranged your video clips in the order you want them. But the change from one

scene to the next is abrupt, and you’d like to smooth things out. You can do this using

transitions.

Transitions blend the ends of clips together in a variety of ways—for example, fading

one scene into the next, dissolving one scene into another, or “pushing” the last scene

offscreen as the next scene comes on.

You can also add great photos to your movie and add movement to them for visual

impact.

Adding a Transition Between Scenes

You can place a transition between any two clips in your movie, or at the beginning or

end of the movie. Keep in mind that some transitions, like Cross Dissolve and Push, will

cut a few seconds from the length of your movie. For instance, if you put a 2-second

cross dissolve between two clips, iMovie HD overlaps 2 seconds from the first clip and

2 seconds from the second clip to create the transition. This shortens your movie by

2 seconds.

Note: You can’t place a long transition between two short clips that don’t provide

enough footage to make the transition.

As a rule of thumb, when planning the length of clips used with transitions, extend the

time of the clip by half of the transition. For example, when using a 2-second transition,

leave an extra second (1/2 the transition) at the beginning of the clip so that when the

transition is over, the clip shows the footage you want.

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