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If you know that the

footage you want

occupies just a

portion of the tape,

check this option

and specify how

many minutes of

video to capture.

The Magic iMovie

feature also stops

importing video

when it encounters

ten seconds of blank

tape or when it

reaches the very

end of the tape.

Turn off this option

if you want to start

capturing scenes in

the middle of your

tape.

Your movie’s open

ing title will contain

this text, so keep

it short.

Making a Magic iMovie

To make a Magic iMovie, connect and turn on your DV or HDV cam-

corder (page 226). Then put iMovie HD to work.

Step 1.

Choose Make a Magic iMovie from the File menu, and give your new

movie project a name. If necessary, specify the desired video format

(see page 224).

Step 2.

Specify Magic iMovie settings.

Step 3 (optional).

Specify music soundtrack settings and click OK.

To see songs from a speciﬁc playlist, choose

the playlist’s name.

You can rearrange songs after you’ve added them

by dragging them up and down.

With many movie projects, you want con-

trol over every step of the editing process:

timing cuts to match audio, trimming

clips with precision, and ﬁne-tuning your

soundtrack until everything sparkles.

But sometimes you just want fast

results. It’s Sunday afternoon, and your vis

iting relatives are (ﬁnally!) preparing to go

home. You shot some video of the kids at

the beach earlier that day, and you want to

send everyone home with a freshly burned

DVD. You can’t spend hours in the editing

room—you want a movie now

The Magic iMovie feature is for you.

Choose a few options, then sit back and

watch. iMovie HD imports video from

your camera, adds an opening title, tosses

a transition between each clip, adds a

soundtrack from your iTunes library, and

then ships the ﬁnished product off to

iDVD. It’s editing on autopilot.

You can edit a Magic iMovie in any

way you want, so you might also use the

feature to create a rough cut. After iMovie

HD gets you partway there, take the wheel

and drive the rest of the way.

Is it magic? Hardly. But Magic iMovie

is a fast way to spray some ﬁnish on your

footage.

Notes: To use Magic iMovie, you must be using a

DV or HDV camera; you can’t use an iSight or

MPEG-4 camera with Magic iMovie. And if you just

want to copy a tape to a DVD and don’t need tran

sitions, titles, or a music soundtrack, check out the

OneStep DVD feature in iDVD (page 299).

Magic iMovie: Editing on Autopilot

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Get a Head Start

If you’re using Magic iMovie to

give you a head start in editing

and you plan to trim clips after

wards, consider unchecking the

transition option. That way,

iMovie HD won’t waste time cre

ating transitions that you’ll end

up deleting anyway.

Tweaking Markers

Normally, the Magic iMovie

feature places a DVD chapter

marker at the beginning of each

clip. If you don’t want to divvy up

your movie into that many chap

ters, remove some or all of the

markers by using the iDVD pane

in iMovie HD (see page 266).

Adding Magic to a

Movie

You don’t have to use Magic

iMovie with a brand-new movie

project. If you use the Make a

Magic iMovie command when an

existing project is open, iMovie

HD simply adds the magic movie

to the end of the existing project.

Similarly, you can add a Magic

iMovie to a different project by

copying and pasting its clips.

This can be a fast way to put

together a montage destined for

a different project. Create a new

project, then make a Magic

iMovie. Then, open a different

project, switch to your Magic

iMovie project, and choose

Select All from the Edit menu.

Finally, drag the clips from the

Magic iMovie to the timeline or

clips viewer of the new project.

Note: Copying clips from one

project to another can take sev

eral minutes and devour disk

space. After the transfer is com

plete, consider deleting the origi

nal Magic iMovie project ﬁle to

free up disk space.

Tips for Making Magic

To set the volume of your

music soundtrack, use the

volume slider in the Choose

Music dialog box. If your video

contains dialog or other impor

tant audio, set the level fairly

low to keep the music from

overwhelming the other audio.

Or, if your video contains noth

ing but wind noise and car

horns, set the slider at Music

Only to have iMovie HD mute

the audio from your footage.

As with anything Magic iMovie

does, you can change the vol

ume level later if you like. For

details on working with audio

levels, see page 246.

To add a transition

between every clip,

check this box and

choose a transition.

Tip: Keep it tasteful

and avoid the

Random option.

To add a music

soundtrack, check

this box and click

Choose Music

(see Step 3

opposite page).

If you plan to ﬁne-

tune your movie

before burning a

DVD, uncheck

this box.

Step 4.

Click Create.

iMovie HD captures your video

and prepares the movie.

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