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Many of iMovie HD’s visual effects are

candidates for sound effects, too. Pair the

Fairy Dust effect with the Stardust sound

effect. Combine the Electricity visual

effect with the Electricity sound effect.

And if you’re adding a little tectonic

action with the Earthquake effect, try

using the Suspense sound effect along

with it.

You get the idea: think about enhancing

your visual effects with complementary

sound effects that add impact.

Movies from Your

Digital Camera

You can add movie clips taken by a digi-

tal camera to your iMovie HD projects. If

a movie you want is in your iPhoto library,

you can locate it using iMovie HD’s photo

browser. If the movie isn’t in your library,

simply locate its icon on your hard drive

and drag it into the iMovie HD window.

But let’s step back and look at the

greater question: why bother? Compared

to the quality you get from a real video

camera, the movies from most digital

cameras look genuinely awful.

And yet there are some good reasons to

consider using a digital camera movie in

an iMovie HD project.

It’s all you have. If you don’t have a

camcorder but want to include some

video in a movie project (as opposed to

still photos and Ken Burns clips), use

your digital camera. Adjust its menu set

tings to get the largest frame size and

highest quality your camera is capable of.

iMovie HD enlarges the video frames to

ﬁll the screen, so you’ll get better results

from larger movies.

For a special effect. Video producers

often spend big bucks to get video that

looks pixilated and has jerky motion.

With digital-camera movies, those

“effects” are standard equipment. Have

a video camera? Shoot some footage

using it and your digital camera’s movie

mode. Then cut between the two for a

cool effect.

For the sound. When I was in Paris, I

wanted to capture the sound of the many

street musicians who play in Metro sta

tions. I shot digital camera movies, then

brought them into iMovie HD and

extracted their audio tracks (see page

250). Then, I added still photos of the

street musicians to the timeline and

applied the Ken Burns effect to the pho

tos. The result: a montage of still photos

with an authentic soundtrack.

Incidentally, if you have a Sony digital

camera and you’re having trouble import

ing its MPEG movie clips into iMovie HD,

see www.macilife.com/imovie for a

workaround.

Copying and Pasting Clips

You can make additional copies of a clip

by copying it to the Clipboard and pasting

it into the Clips pane or the timeline. If you

want to experiment with different effects

or cropping schemes, select the clip and

choose Copy. Next, select another clip on

the Clips pane and choose Paste. iMovie

HD makes a copy of the clip and puts it

on the Clips pane for you. Another way to

duplicate a clip is to press the Option key

while dragging the clip—either to another

box in the Clips pane or in the timeline or

clip viewers.

You can even move clips from one project

to another by copying and pasting them,

though it’s often easier to simply open

both projects and drag clips between

them. If you paste clips into a project that

uses a different video format, iMovie HD

transcodes the clips into the destination

project’s format.

Moving Clips Faster

If you need to move a clip a signiﬁcant

distance—say, from the end of a project

to the beginning—you could just drag it

and let the clip viewer or timeline scroll

automatically. But there’s a faster way.

Drag the clip from the clip viewer or

timeline into any empty box on the Clips

pane. Scroll to the new destination, and

then drag the clip from the Clips pane

back into the clip viewer.

Multiple Clips at Once

Remember that iMovie HD lets you select

and manipulate multiple clips at once.

You can apply the same effect, transition,

or Ken Burns settings to several clips in

one fell swoop. Just Shift-click to select

a continuous range of clips, and

1-click

to select clips that aren’t next to each

other. To select a series of similar

clips—for example, all transitions—

select one clip and then choose Select

Similar Clips from the Edit menu.

Creating Color Clips

Want to create a text title with a back-

ground other than black? Here’s how.

In the timeline viewer, drag any clip to

the right to create a gap.

Control-click on this gap and choose

Convert Empty Space to Clip from the

shortcut menu. iMovie HD turns the gap

into a clip whose color is black.

To change the clip’s color, double-click

the clip, then click the Color swatch in

the Clip Info dialog box. (While you’re

there, consider giving the clip a descrip

tive name, such as Blue Background.)

Now you can add a title to this clip.

You can also use the previous tips to

move the color clip to the Clips pane, or

make duplicates of it for use elsewhere

in your project.

Another Way to Freeze

Frames

You can also save a frame as a JPEG or

PICT ﬁle for use in another program.

Position the playhead at the frame you

want to save, then choose Save Frame

from the File menu (

1-F). In the Save

dialog box, choose the JPEG or PICT for

mat from the pop-up menu.

You can add JPEG frames to your iPhoto

library and even make and order prints.

However, the images are small, so don’t

expect to get high-quality prints in large

sizes. You can email them, though, and

that can be a fun way to share a few

particularly good frames.

Combining SFX with FX

In the movie world, SFX are sound effects,

while FX are visual effects. As anyone

who has watched a Hollywood blockbuster

knows, they go together perfectly.

iMovie HD Tips

Get Around

Faster

Take advantage of iMovie HD’s

View menu to quickly navigate

a large project. If you’ve scrolled

a large distance and want to

jump back to the playhead’s loca

tion, choose Scroll to Playhead

(Option-1-P). The Scroll

to Selection command (Option-

1-S) lets you quickly jump back

to a selected clip. Zoom to

Selection (Option-

1-Z) zooms in

on the selected clip or clips.

And if you’re using bookmarks,

you can jump to the previous

bookmark by pressing 1-[

and to the next bookmark by

pressing

1-].

Control Your

Clicks

Remember that you can Control-

click on just about anything to

bring up a shortcut menu that

lets you perform relevant tasks.

Try Control-clicking on a clip in

the Clips pane, the playhead, the

scrubber bar beneath the iMovie

HD monitor, and on audio and

video clips in the timeline.

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