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1. Welcome to iMovie: Hi and welcome to this class on Skillshare. Over the next number of lessons, we're going to be talking about AI movie. I movie of course is an application that comes bundled with your mac, allowing you to edit and make great videos and movies. It comes free on every single mac. And in this class we're going to be covering the basics on how to import your clips, import your videos into iMovie, how to edit them, how to adjust the audio, how to adjust the color, had a crop cut and paste clips, how to use the timeline in your iMovie and then export that movie so that you can share with your friends and family and the world perhaps on social media. For this class, we're going to be using a newer Mac, were doing it on a MacBook Pro and we're using macOS, Big Sur. But if you're running a different version of Mac OS, that is fine. Also. Now even if you don't have a Mac or don't have iMovie and years checking these edges to learn more. That's also fine. But what I would highly recommend is for you to follow along and then going and trying to do this yourself. So if you do have a Mac and you do have iMovie, watch the first lesson and then go and try to do it your self. Then watch the next lesson and then build on your experience and edit your movie, your video, as you go through this class. So at the end of every class, go back, re-watch it if you saw a need to, and then go and put that into practice in your own eye, movie, movie or video. Also feel free to comment and reach out if you need any help, collaborate with other people who are also watching this movie class on Skillshare.
2. Getting Started: So here we are in our Mac. Now, the version that I'm running is macOS, Big Sur. But if you're running a later version or an earlier version of that MacOS version. That's not a problem. I'm movie has stayed pretty consistent depending on the version of macOS at you've got running. So that's not a problem. Now, for my case, I've actually got iMovie right here in my doc. You see that down the very bottom? He is my doc on macOS. And here is the eye movie icon. Okay, and that's how you actually open up iMovie. The other place if you don't have any, your doc is you could go into your finder right in here, navigate down to applications. And in HE, you'll have the eye movie application. And that's essentially how you open up I'm movie. The great thing is that iMovie makes editing videos and movies very, very easily. Now the one thing that I will note is that because you're going to be editing films, because you're going to be editing clips, because you're going to be editing home movies and travel videos and anything else that you want to edit around videos. It is going to take up a fair bit of space on your hard drive. So you've gotta just consider that before you even start making your own videos, because videos are very, very large. So the more videos you've got, the more complicated if you're recording in high definition, if you're recording in for K, if you're downloading things off the Internet and then adding them into iMovie and editing those. Then some of these file sizes could get quite large and they could fill up your hard-drive quite quickly. So do look into your macOS hard-drive right here is my MacOS harder on the very far right? If I right-click on it and go into get info, you'll see a little bit more information about my hard drive. So you'll see that the capacity is 250 gigs free, and I've currently got 84 gig free. And that may seem like a lot, but as you start using iMovie, as you start editing lots and lots of videos, long videos, That's going to fill up quite quickly. So you may even want to consider perhaps having an external hard drive somewhere that you can actually save your movies too if you need to do that as well. Now, when you do open up, I move for the very first time he's going to create a brand new iMovie profile for you, somebody that never has existed before. So what that will do is within the Finder area, you've got an area he called movies. Movies is the area where your iMovie library will be living by default. And then you can change the location of your iMovie library. But essentially when you open up iMovie for the first time, we'll show it will show you that in a little while. It'll create a file, which is the iMovie library. And that file will continue to grow and grow and grow as you start editing and adding videos into your iMovie library. Okay, and you see that at the moment there is actually nothing in here because we haven't opened up iMovie yet. So let's go ahead and now open up the eye movie application right here, and then you'll see how that actual iMovie folded the library gets created. You'll see that it's created a new library right here. Now, I've actually given it a name for this demonstration for the entire training course called iMovie library underscore demo. And this is the file will the single source of truth where all of your videos will sit at the moment, it's only a 181 kilobytes because there's nothing really in there, but that will grow and that will grow quite quickly. So that just forms a little bit of a foundation around the eye movie application and where it sits. Now, next video. In the next few videos, let's actually open up iMovie and show you how to use it.
3. Let's Look at iMovie: In this lesson, we're going to look at iMovie. We've now opened it up and we're going to show you the basic features and how iMovie is structured. So by the end of this video, you'll be able to at least understand a little bit about what I'm movie looks like. So then you can start actually playing with it yourself. So the first thing is once you do open it up, you will see this right here. You've got a big button that says Create new. You've got all projects and you've got a little search area where you can search videos as you start to create a whole bunch of videos in there. You've also got a media tab, Projects tab. Projects tab is what you're seeing right here. The Media tab we'll cover in a future video. But essentially this is a space where you can manage all of your video files and access your photos, your events, and other things of that nature. Okay. That is the projects and the media. Additional to that, you've obviously got your task bar at the very, very top. We've got the iMovie settings. We can go into preferences and actually customize a few things in here such as slow-mo clips. If you want to be able to enable that automatically photo placement of Ken Burns Crop to feel fit. We're going to cover all of these in future videos, the photo duration. So when you add photos into your timeline within iMovie, how long do those photos last fall? So are they on the screen for four seconds or longer? Transitions? How long is the default for the transitions? And then you can delete render files. All of these we're going to cover in a lot more detail in future videos anyway. But apart from that, you've got a file area, you've got edit, you've got Mark, you've got modified, you've got View, window and help. We'll cover a lot of the areas in here and essentially what each of these areas do. So straight away from here, you can click on the Plus against create new, and you've got a couple of different options. You've got movie and you've got trail up. Now movie is you essentially as it says, is combine videos, photos, and music to make your own movie. While trailer follows a template to create a Hollywood style movie trailer we'll cover trial are very, very briefly in a future video, but we're going to be spending most of our time across all of these videos on movie specifically. So you can do it by that way by clicking on the Plus movie or trail up. You can also go into the file area at the very top and select new movie or new trailer. You can also import media and you can also import iMovie iOS projects. So if you've got a iPhone or an iPad and you've got the iMovie app and if he didn't even know there was an app, the reason I move the app available for the iOS, sweet, so for iPhone and for the iPad. So you can download that and start actually recording and editing videos on the iOS devices. And then he can import them directly into your computers. I move it to be able to then manipulate them further. You can also open up another library. You'll see that by default we did select iMovie library underscore demo, that was the library that we created, can create a brand new library if you want to use multiple libraries. This is the area where you could possibly create a library on an external hard drive. So if you're, if you're conscious of your space, perhaps running out of space on your computer, then you could select knew right from here and actually point to where you want your new movie library to sit. And he could point it to an external hard drive. And then I move, you will remember that. And then the next time you open it up, it will then actually open up from your external hard drive, saving you some space. So there is a quick glance of iMovie. We're now going to go and actually go and create our very first movie.
4. My Media: Welcome to this next lesson. We're now going to go and actually create our first movie, showing you some of those features. So let's now click on the big plus and select movie. You can also do this as well by going into File new movie. What that will now open up is what's called the my movie tab. So this is the bread and butter. This is where we are going to be creating movies, editing your movies and your clips. This is where you can add audio. You can add titles, you can add backgrounds. You can actually crop your videos. You can create transitions between your videos. This is the place where everything happens, when all the magic happens. So what we've got right here is you've got an area he called Project media on the very far left. This is just your taskbar Xian, left area. Your mind movie is currently empty. There's nothing in here right now. You've then got your libraries. Now this is tied directly to the photos application on your Mac. So if you do have your photos app on your Mac and you're actively using it, and you actively adding photos from trips, family, friends, whatever it may be. And you've got a whole bunch of photos in there. Then when by clicking on the photos area right here, you actually then tie in into that photos library and you can actually use that import photos from your photo library into your iMovie area. Right there. It's created a new events which is currently blank. And then we've also got the all events and then a library demo, which is currently blank because we don't really have any media content in there yet. I can hide this left panel by clicking on this little button right there by doing that. But I like to have it there so I can say what's going on similar to that main screen. You've also got all clips you can actually select by high rejected favorites and rejected. So you can allocate what clips are your favorites, which ones you don't want, and that will be removed. And you can actually hide, for example, clips that you no longer want in your view. You can also do a search. There's a little customization section here to the very far right is your preview. This is essentially where you are seeing a live video feed of your videos as you're editing it. And we'll show you that, of course, in a lot more detail as we go. But then on the very top, you've got an area where you can actually go and edit and adjust the video itself. You can create filters, you can make it look better. You can adjust the audio settings, all of that through this area right there. You can do a play, you can back, you can go forward. You can make it full screen by clicking these two little arrows right there as well and reset all will then go and clear any settings that we have just set right there, additional to the My Media tab. We've also got an audio tab, a number of different settings here. You've got titles, you've got backgrounds, and you've also got transitions. We're going to cover each one of those in a separate future video. But that's a little overview of the My Media section that you see right here. The next video will now cover the timeline, which is this section right down here. And you see that it says Drag and Drop video clips and furnace from your browser above, which is right up here, to start creating your movie. So we are going to now go and import some videos into he in the next video and then show you how to physically start playing around with these video clips.
5. The Timeline & My Media: Welcome to this next lesson here on Skillshare, where we are talking about the eye movie application and go into a lot more detail. Now, we've given you a bit of an introduction. All right, so we covered the introduction, we covered getting started. We covered looking at a bit of an overview on iMovie and then showing you the My Media area, which is what you're seeing right in here. We now get into the bread and butter. We now go in and actually start creating something that is useful and showing you the different features of editing clips and adding filters and doing everything else over the next number of classes and lessons. So within this area right here under the My movie tab, we've now got the three main sections. We've got this section over here on the very far left, which is where we have all the media that we are importing. All right, so all of your clips, everything is all going to be imported into here. And this is essentially your single place where you're going to maintain and manage all of your clips. You've also got access to your photos, you've got access to audio, you've got access to all of these other things as well. On the very far right is a live preview of what's going on and what your video is looking like. And then down the bottom is what's called the timeline. The timeline is where you actually go and drag and drop different videos, crop them, cut them, duo, that sort of stuff. And then you can see what that looks like in this little preview section right here on the top right-hand corner. So of course the next step is what did we actually go and import some videos. Now there's a few ways to actually do this. You can click on Import Media right here. You can click on that. It will then open up this section right here called an import window, essentially. And in here, you can import videos from various, various locations. The great thing is that this is tied directly to different sections on your Mac. If you've also got a digital camera, this is where you can actually import videos and films and everything from digital media as well. So of course you will have video is potentially from many, many locations. So whether you've got yourself your own digital camera, that could be like a SLR camera, could be a mirrorless camera. You could even have like something like a GoPro. You may even have your iPhone, your iPad, any sort of medium that is used for recording video can be connected into your Mac via a USB port. Another common method is if your camera, for example, has an SD card inside of it and that's where all of your videos have been recorded. You can take out that SD card and then plug it into some sort of an SD card reader that is in connected into the USB port on the side of your Mac. When all of that is connected in, it will show up right in here. It should show up right in here. If it is discoverable on your Mac, you can open up these import area right there, and it will show up as an item where you can then import those clips, those video files, directly into your iMovie to on the very far left, you've got a number of different areas. The very first option is that your FaceTime HD camera. Now if you're like me and perhaps you're using this on a, you're watching this on a, on a laptop. I'm doing this on a MacBook Pro for example. I've got a built-in webcam into the screen of my Mac. You could have a different MAC, which has a screen like an iMac. You could have a Mac Pro and you might have an external webcam. You can use any of these, but by clicking on that, you can actually go and record yourself directly. And then you can actually use that as a video, a video feed, a clip that you can use as part of iMovie. You can also navigate to your Macintosh HD, which is your primary hard drive on your Mac. I've also got an external hard drive connected to my Mac called Untitled. And I could have some video files in there. And then there's a couple of favorite areas. And these of course, are just my desktop and my home drive, which are just locations, just shortcuts essentially that are on my Macintosh hard drive anyway. But within Macintosh hard drive, you see that that is selected. I can actually go and navigate to my hierarchy and actually find those video files wherever they may be on my computer. If you've got them on your desktop, you could select Desktop. And here is an overview of your desktop itself. And potentially you may have some video files right there on your desktop. And then you can actually import those into your iMovie to whether you're importing from a digital camera, whether you're importing from your face time that you've just recorded, whether you're importing from your hard drive on your Mac or on an external device, you can then select where do you want that actual data to guard? And this is what's called events. Now, if I just click close out of here for a second, you remember in the very far left, right here, I've got this section. He called all events and then I've got a first event that's bike default created on a date. This is the data for today and this is the date that it's created. It's just it's just a blank event. It's just more a timestamp, a folder with a relevant name. I could right-click on that one. I can actually say new event. I could call it whatever I want so I can say my demo video and that he's a new events and I could go and create another one, my demo video too. So there are two different events that I've just created. So when I, when I select Import Media, I can actually import those clips, those video files, into any of these different events. So I do know that I've got some video falls under my untitled harddrive. So in here I've got a folder and I'm going to go and navigate to some files that I've got. And here are a range of actual video files, video files and images. And I can select all of those and say Import selected, that will then be imported into this area called My Video Demo 2. That's the first way that you can actually import things. Another way that I can do that is actually import files directly from my finder. I can open up my Finder and I've got some files in my untitled harddrive, which we showed you just before. And this is made up of video files, mp4 files, and some image files which are in this format. Hai, see. So this is a combination of both video and images. And there's an M for a fall which is relevant to a audio file. Now, I'm not gonna go into details on the best practices around how to record videos, how to record audio. What I like to do is for any of my videos, for example, is our record, my video and my audio in two different feeds. And then import my video and import my audio and then try to sync them up so that I'm getting the superior quality of a microphone and also the superior quality of a camera man. And that's how I sort of mix those two together. So the other way that you can do these is I can go and select all of these and I could grab them and drag them in. And I can literally just drag them into my Import Media. And there's going to be moving it into my demo video too. So that has imported both the video, the audio, and the images into here. Now you will notice that some of these have got a little indicator right here. You'll see it's a little circle. And if you notice on the very top right-hand corner of the actual iMovie window. It's like a little pie chart here showing me the activity. If I click on this, I can see what's going on. Well, at the moment it's telling me that it's importing a number of these clips into my, into my iMovie. If you remember that the eye movie itself is sitting on my Mac hard drive, it's sitting within the movies folder. But all of the content that I just imported is on an external USB drive. So by importing them into my eye movie, you're essentially copying them and importing them into the iMovie library, which sits on my computer. So it's gonna take a little bit of time to actually get those videos to actually be imported to that and actually start using them and start editing them. What you'll see is that I can literally grab my mouse and dragging along he, and you'll see that on the very far right. I can see what's going on and see a preview of that particular video. This particular clip, as you can see, is 8.8 minutes long. Clip here is five minutes long. And then the next one is a image. You can see by the little icon right there. It's an image, et cetera. Now, I showed you this just before, the little configuration area. You can literally grab this and drag it over if you want your clip sizes to be bigger or smaller. So if you've got a lot of clips that may be smaller, just helps you manage them better. But if you want to see a little bit more of the preview and see what's going on can make them bigger. You've also think got to zoom area right there. Now what that is, so I've got an eye minute EIT, second clip right here. If I grab this and expand it, it actually will start to expand this a little bit more. So my clips are all still there, but I see a little bit more of that whole video right in here, just not as compressed as it was just before. Okay, that might be really useful to you. I personally don't like that very much. I generally like to keep them pretty small so I can say exactly what's going on. Because most of my editing, most of my clipping is all done in my timeline and not in here. Now, all this is, is just a dump of all of those files. That's all that is. Right. I'm not going to go and really change anything or touch anything within this section here on the My Media area. I'm not really touching anything. They're all of my clip manipulation. All of the changes is all going to be done in my timeline right here below. Let's also import some further videos. I'm going to go into File Import Media right there. And I know that I've got some stuff on my desktop that I want to import. Here's a couple of nice videos going to say Import. Now very important those two into there. So these are two videos that I've also got that I'm going to go and edit accordingly. All right, so the great thing of course, is that I can go through any of these videos and actually just use my little scroll bar. And I can scroll through to any particular section. On this video. Now what we then do is we now need to get these clips from this section under the My Media section, which are currently located in this event that we've created called my demo video 2, and import them and have them browsed within my timeline. As it says right here, you can drag and drop video clips and photos from the browser above, which is this right here, to start creating your movie. So let's go ahead and grab this one clip. Now I can do it a couple of ways. I can grab it and drag the whole thing over like so. Or I can also click on the little cross right here. And that will also add that into my timeline. If I don't want to import the whole thing, I can grab the little areas on the very far left here, select the section of video that I would like to use and then just import that section, okay, So you can do that as well. But I like to personally, I actually edit all of that stuff within my actual timeline itself. So I'm going to import the entire lot. I'm going to click on the Plus section right here. It will then add that video directly into my timeline right there. And that's great. You'll see that here he is my video itself on the top and on the bottom, I can actually see the audio itself. So these are the audio waveforms up and down. Of course, up means it's high or low means that it's lower. So I can see exactly what the audio is looking like on this particular video clip. At the moment, this particular clip here is 15.2 minutes long. And I can grab this little section over on the top, on the bottom right here and actually move this over to expand this section. What a scroll bar on the very bottom where I can drag this left and right to move through it. But I can expand this the same way that I was able to do the Zoom section over here, to zoom these clips in and out. To do the same thing in my timeline. I did say that in the browser area up here under my media, I don't like to do that because these are just the clips. But when you are editing within your timeline, it's almost inevitable that you will need to do this because imagine managing and editing a video like this, like where do you, where do I find the exact spot? It actually is going to make it very, very difficult. So to actually expand that timeline, I can see exactly what's going on in this video. I can see that this is where the audio starts. And there's a little bit of a quieter section here then builds up. And I can see as I'm dragging through exactly what's going on on the top right preview area. Okay, so that makes it really, really useful. And you can really drag that all the WIOA if you want to get very, very specific in a specific area, or I can just shrink it down. But what I would say is the way that I do video editing, and especially as you're using more and more clips in here, I like to actually flick between all of these depending on the actual video that I'm editing. And the great thing about this video is that can now change it. So I've just done a strike in Port of this video, and this is what it looks like. But now of course with iMovie, I can go and chop it. I can change it. I can add my own music, my own sound effects. I can add some backgrounds. I'm going to add some transitions. I can add additional clips and sort of add it next to it, and then sort of combine them together. So what do I mean by that? Say, for example, just go back to this view here and make it, shrink it down a little bit. Let's say this is my first clip. I've got a second clip over here. I can also grab that, drag it down. And now that he's a second clip right next to it, I can then grab this nice photo and this nice photo and drag and next to it. So now this is becoming my timeline. This is really what my end movie will look like. He's the first clip, he's the second clip, and he's a couple of photos which are at four seconds each. You'll also see an indicator right here of the estimated duration length of that video. Now, it's now marked as 23 minutes and four seconds at these, how long this particular clip will last. And you'll see that as I move my little cursor and select that, you'll see that at this point, it's sitting at three minutes 34. So three minutes 34, he's up to that point. As I move it to here, it then moves to 255. To the very end, the whole length is 23 or four. Okay, that makes it really, really useful. The other thing that you can do right here is I can literally grab a clip and I can just move it into there. I could grab this clip and I could move it into there. So I can really move along and move around all of my clips that are part of my timeline. And this is true of videos, first hours, and even of audio. So if you've recorded some separate audio in, added into here, and you can then move and adjust things as you need to. You can also then remove them by selecting them and deleting them. Can delete that one as well. And then ON delete that one just by pressing the Delete key, the backspace key on your Mac, and then it's gone. And now this is the clip in its raw form. I can right-click on this clip and I can get access to a few different things which we'll cover in a future video. But you can cut and paste, you can do add freeze frames. You can detach the audience. That's a really nice one as well. And you can adjust some other settings directly on this clip. I can literally just right-click on it and play it. And there it is, Toyama, Japan. So of course this is a video that I've already pre-recorded, right? But I can just drag over to here. And I can see what's going on. Beautiful. And as I said, I can make it full screen and escape to get out of that full screen. I'm also a controls over here where I can stop and play writing that area, something else that I use all the time. He's actually adjusting the actual video size itself. So if you grab your mouse to this section right here, just where the two, where the previous section and where the actual timeline meet right about there. Click on that and then expand the size of your video. You can also make it smaller. So you can get more space down the bottom for editing and have a smaller preview. Or if you want to take advantage of having a much larger preview and you can grab that. That really helps me out to be able to manage my timeline and my video is better. So with this video, it doesn't really have anything fancy about it. It's just the video file that I've imported, which has the video itself and also has the audio of me talking in the background, but it doesn't have anything else. So in the next number of videos, we're going to now look at how to add things like music and titles and other things and actually make video work a little bit better. We'll then look at how to trim and crop things, how to move things around, how to adjust the audio levels, how to adjust the filters, had to adjust the video temperature, add more color, remove color, add some nice graphics into your actual video as well to make it look a lot more professional. And that's the end of this lesson. Now I recommend that you just go in now start to play with this. Try everything that we've learned in this particular video. As I said, future lessons, we're gonna go into a lot more detail specifically around how to do the editing. But why don't you now get familiar with iMovie, import some videos, add them to the timeline, and play around with that for a little bit.
6. Adding Music and Sound Effects: We're now going to show you how to add some sound effects, add some music to this clip that we've imported into our timeline, remembering that we've got out my demo video 2, that is the event that we've created. You can create multiple events. In my case, this is a video about Japan. So what I could also do is I could create a new event riding he and I could call it Japan met. That maybe makes it makes a little bit more sense. And I can select this section right here. I can drag these videos, perhaps into there instead. That's probably gonna work a little bit better. So this one is actually going to be about this subwoofer that I've got. And then my japan event is actually got my clips about Japan. So that is a little bit more meaningful. And what you'll find is the more and more you use iMovie, more and more clips you're going to have. It probably does make sense to actually name things accordingly, give things a proper name because you'll save yourself a lot of headaches later on when you're trying to find those clips, trying to find those audio files, those images wherever it may be, can save you a lot of pain if you name everything correctly. So we showed you the My Media section. Let's now look at the audio section. Let's click on Audio, the tab at the very, very top. Now, on the very far left, we've got a number of different things. Again, very similar to the My Media area. You can click on these, on this little icon and remove that section. Like so. You've also got to search area on the very right here. But then this is broken down into three separate sections under the heading of audio. So this is where all the audio manipulation is done. This is where you get all your clips, your music, to be able to then import it into your timeline and then add it to your actual video itself. So I've got my music, I've got my sound effects, and I've got GarageBand. If I click on music that has a direct tie into my eye music library, if I click on music that has a direct connection, very much like the photos area to my, my music That's on my Mac. Okay, here is the number of songs and I've got, and you can grab the songs and actually use them. I've got my sound effects and these are a whole bunch of presets, sound effects that come with iMovie. So when you install or when you have iMovie installed on your Mac, the sound effects are bundled in it already. You can, of course, go and get yourself other sound effects. But this is the sound effect that is available for this. And then there is GarageBand. Garageband is used for actual audio manipulation for if you're doing any recording of music of audio, you can actually very much like movie iMovie for videos. Garageband is more for audios and then import them from GarageBand directly into your iMovie. So maybe a couple of sections that we can look at right here really quickly would be our music sections. So here is a music area, a song right here. I can just click on Play. I can grab this move around and grab just this clip right here. And what I could then do is I could literally grabbed that song and then drag it into my timeline. And there it is, that song has now been added into my timeline. Now you will notice that it actually added it underneath my video. Hey, I can add it over there. But by default, the great thing is you obviously want to lay out your actual files. You don't want to have just video and an audio separately. You would actually overlay your videos, perhaps with a photo or another video on top of another video. And then with audio because you want your sound clips, your effects, your music to play at the same time as your video. You want to overlay these together. So what I can do now is I can click on play. And straight away. It's added that audio against that particular video. And I can also expand this on the variety to make it a little bit bigger. Grab my scroll bar. There's exactly where it is. And the great thing is I can literally grab this and move it, move it wherever I want. He's the timeline. And that's where the song starts. So it makes it really, really easy. And you can grab that and drag that as much as you need there. So that's where the song, that's where the music file. What about a sand effect now sound effects, as I said, these are automatically added by iMovie. He's the genre, he's how long that sound effect is. You can sort these by the time. If you want something that's very, very short, just a one-minute and click on that, et cetera. You can get something that's a little bit longer. If you need something a bit longer. And they send effects, of course, as you just heard, does have some, some of them have a little clip, a little music clip as well. This one actually might be really, really relevant because this is a Japan videos, so I could add this one as well. So let's, let's actually use this on. This would be really nice. I could grab that and I could drag that and look at that occasionally, add it underneath my actual other clip so I could put it right over there. Let's just put it right at the very start. Stop playing that. And then the other clips starts playing. And of course it doesn't make any sense because it's very, very messy. It's very, very messy because I've got a couple of audio files on top of each other. So maybe I don't want this song anymore. And I just want to keep this one because it's actually quite relevant. So I'm going to find a nice clip via scientific clip, this May 1 be good camera shutter. Course I'm dialing ones. So one that actually might work quite well is this. Let's actually use the camera shutter because this is on a trip that I took. So I'm gonna actually put this at the very start, going to expand this a little bit more. And there it is. So what I can do, let's move that a little bit off. So I've got now the actual camera shut up. It's going to play first, and then it's going to stop the audio. Music. That's quite nice. Hey, there's some running water. So what did I emphasize the water that he's running right over here. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to search for to see if there's a sound effect. Cold water, the few here. What's the potential one? Let, let's use that one. Let's use the big waterfall. So grab that and drag it down over here. Really, that's about the right spot. So that started around there. Now can play that. They are. So it's just emphasized the sound of the actual water, that YZ plane right there. So I've added a couple of sand effects. I've got my music track playing over there. And that has just added it against my video itself. And something else that I can do with these clips is that you'll see that when I select this clip, I get this little circle area right over here and the little circle, little indicator right over here. What this is, this lets me actually do this. And what that will do that's now going to fade in this particular clip. So I'll show you specifically on this one here because it actually will show you a little bit better. And let's just play that. And if you notice that the audio sounded really, really soft and then built its way up. And then I can do the exact opposite on the other side. So if a fun the end of this clip, Let's actually just stroller down a little bit, makes it a bit easier to find it. And I could just do that and then it will actually fight out. Makes it really, really nice. And I would recommend almost always doing that for a lot of your audio. Whether that's spoken, spoken word stuff or whether that is actually music to fade it in, faded out. And if you're wanting to say have multiple audio files, you've got one song in a second song, rather than leaving the first time, you finish and then start the next song is equal to sort of layer the two songs together and then make a nice fade between each of them. So you fade one of them out while you're fading the other one in and just makes it really, really smooth. So that's actually a really, really nice feature. The other thing you could do is that by default, the audio of this particular audio clip is set. If you look at the very top right-hand corner, we'll cover this again in the future, in a future video. But the volume section he set to a 100 percent so that I can drag that down. That will drag my whole audio down. And you can see that on the timeline as I move it, it moves up and down. I can even expand my audio and make it a lot louder. Alright, you can also do that on the timeline. You can grab this little line that's in the middle of my clip and drag it down. Drag it up, drag it down. So it makes it really, really easy to be able to manipulate your music and your sound effects.
7. Backgrounds and Maps: This lesson covers some really, really cool stuff, specifically around backgrounds. Now backgrounds are absolutely great. You may use them a lot. You may not use them at all. And for me sometimes when I'm recording some videos, I do use them because they are cool, they are nice. I do add a little bit of a blink flair to some of my videos. But in other instances, I don't always use them. You could use just a background as a background to your text. So for example, we showed you this little text video right over here. Welcome to this trip. And you could add a background to that. So there's no longer a black background, but the text is on top of a background that is already being created within iMovie. So very much like audio. In order you've got all your sound effects that have been created already and come bundled with iMovie, very much like titles. These have all been created and bundled with iMovie, while backgrounds is very much the same, backgrounds themselves have also been presets within iMovie. And you can go and add any of these backgrounds to your iMovie timeline. Now, a background is essentially just a video clip. So think about the backgrounds as a video clip that I, we have provided for you. You will then add those into your timeline and they are treated the same. Why really as a video clip, but there's a couple of sections within the backgrounds era, you've got maps at the very top, which is a really, really cool feature by the way. And then you've got backgrounds down the bottom. Let's start with backgrounds first. So we've shown you that we've got these nice little trial of the Star Wars thing happening at the very start. We've also got another title that we've added, he called Welcome to my video, and this is for taka Yammer. Let's say I want to add a background to this. So here are some backgrounds and very much like everything else, I can say exactly what these background looks like. Some of these backgrounds will be animated, some of them won't be. So the curtains one, for example, that's animated, you've got underwater. That's an animated one. That's really, really nice. But then some of these other ones are just the plain backgrounds, plain colors, and there's no animation. So you're going to have to play around with some of these and sort of say what works best. But for example, I could have this curtain one. I could grab that and I could drag it in to my timeline like sorry. All right. And what's going to happen is of course that is my intro trial is now going to go into my fancy wallpaper on my background here. And then it starts, I can grab this and I can expand, can make it bigger. The nice thing about this, you can also do this with your titles as well. So you see that by default these tidal is ten seconds long. This title here is four seconds long. I can make these tidal lost a little bit longer. So maybe I want this title to last eight seconds and I can play that. And that now it will stay on the timeline for 8.3 seconds. Same with this one. I can shrink it, which means it'll make it just play Lou at fasta where I can expand it and make it a little bit longer. So I can expand that for my really fought for, for my backgrounds and for my titled as well. Now of course we can lay things so I can grab this title and add it to the top of this background. So now he's what this looks like. I've got the text with no black background now, it's now sitting on top of that background. The nice curtain background that we've just created right there. And I can do that really for everything. So perhaps before I didn't like the Welcome to my video today, I'm all on its own. But now, hey, now I've got this option. So I wanted to maybe now add this underwater background and put this one on the top. And do something like this where it's got this nice little water effect. And it stays on there because it's 8.3 seconds against my actual first clip there of my video. So that he's backgrounds is actually really, really, really, really nice. And just makes your titles just look a little bit better, a little bit smarter. So go play around with all of these are SXX of backgrounds, as I said. So play around with those for yourself. The next section he is the maps. Now the maps is great. And because this particular video that we are creating here in my timeline is a travel video. Maps come in beautifully and you're going to be using iMovie. You've probably for a whole bunch of stuff, but that may also include travel. When you go on a trip somewhere, having a map that is actually animated, the experience. Really, really cool and extra video look even better. So what I could do, for example, I've got an old world globe right here. Here it is, here he's a creative sense creating world maps. So there's a little bit of processing power to create this particular animation. But what I do now is I can grab this and I'm going to drag it into here, drag it into the front of my timeline. So here's a spinning globe pointing to North America and then my city, the Bain, San Francisco. Let's select this old world globe, double-clicking on it. You see that my little area at the top here, my taskbar, I've now got this little globe here. And I've got the section called routes. And it says San Francisco. And then choose any location. And then the style old-world watercolor educational blue marble, which is all relevant to some of the ones that are here. So what I could do, right, he is, I could say, well look, this is in Japan. So I'm going to go and select and he took a Yamaha. There it is. Done. There's taka Yammer. And maybe I came from, from Melbourne. You can tell from my accent, I'm actually from Australia. So there is Melbourne, Australia, right? They're done. So I'm gonna flip these two around. So actually flew from Melvin to tech IMR in Japan, my animation. Now, let's have a look at it. It's me flying all the way to my destination being techie AMA. And that's how my video now commences. Now I'm gonna make this a little bit shorter because it was actually quite long. So I could have a little cruel, but let's actually make it a little bit shorter. Seconds. We'll put this over here. We'll remove this one. Okay, this is now 11 seconds. Let's make a little bit shorter. So let's see what this looks like now. I've now got a little introduction. Crow. Welcome. This is a trip that I took. It was before 2020. Then it moves into my map showing me that I flew from Melvin all the way up to taka Yamaha. And here we started. Welcome to my video today AMA. Suddenly asset I could do is I can go into here and I can cite, zoom in. So just looks a little bit more zoomed in so I can go and change that. Let's make it a educational. Well look at that. Great. So of course this is really relevant more for travel videos. If you're not doing travel videos, that's probably not relevant for you. But it's a nice little feature there with your maps and we've shown you the backgrounds as well. So that's the end of this lesson. It's of course your turn now. Go, open up your iMovie, go and create a whole bunch of wallpapers, backgrounds, add text to them, play around with the maps. Maybe you're doing this for eight travel video. You've gone on a trip. Once you add one of these awesome apps, it a predefined within iMovie to create your next clips.
8. Using Titles: In this lesson, we're going to show you how to use titles. Last video we showed you how to use sounds, how to add music, how to add sound effects to your timeline, to your videos. But what about titles? One of that, making it look a little bit better by adding nice little text fields, little cool animated titles that can come in, that can come out. We're going to be showing you that in this lesson. So we need a timeline. He, he's the big video that we imported, as well as a long song and some sound effects that we introduced just before. We've then got our Events section at the very far left, you've got a Japan event and then of course two clips under my media right there. Now we've looked at the Audio tab. Now let's look at the titles tab right over there. Here are a whole bunch of titles. Now this is absolutely brilliant because you can add titles to your heart's delight. There are so many titles available and this is straight out of the box. So with iMovie, you get these titles with it and you can really go and change them. You can update them. You can make them look really, really nice. And you can just make your videos look really, really professional and stand out. Now you will remember that at the start of my video, if I look at my timeline, they actually already a title here. There it is. It's introducing Toyama, Japan. And that's because I've actually imported a video that I already had and I had already previously imported a actual title to that video. To the start of that video. That already is really nice, but let's, what we'll do is we'll show you how to click videos in a second. But I'm, what I'm going do is I'm just going to remove this. You're gonna do a few little changes, will cover all of this in the next, next little while, don't worry. Okay, so we've got our timeline down the very bottom, on the very far left, we've got our events, right. And I've got a Japan event where I had my two videos and I've got my My Media section. We've looked at audio. We're now going to look at titles. Now how great is this is right out of the box with iMovie, you get access to all of these precreated titles. Essentially, it's a section where you can add your own text and you can animate that text to make it look really, really cool and professional on your videos. Now in my timeline below, what I've done is if you remember in the previous, one of the previous earlier videos, we did have a tidal already here. It actually introduced the video. It said Takayanagi, Japan, I've now since remove that. And what we're gonna do is we're going to add a brand new on something that makes a little bit more sense that we can show you the process on how that actually works. Now very much like your, My Media section where I can literally just grab that video and drag it in with titles. I can also do the same thing. So I can actually grab that title and drag it in, much like your videos as well. I can see exactly what this is going to look like. Here is a animation of what that title is going to do. There it is. I can say this title. That's what that total is going to do. This title's gonna do that, et cetera. So there's a little animation showing me what that title is going to actually do. So it makes it great. This is a nice one. You may have seen that a lot of folks seem to use this one. There you go. So again, with a little progress bar, I can see exactly the animation of what that title is going to do. Now I have to go and find the right title for me. And then I actually import that and add that into the timeline and add my relevant text. He's a cool one. For anybody who's a Star Wars fan. He's a nice title of exactly. The style was real. Vienna, the entire real. He's a title showing you maybe a cast who's been involved in the creation of this video. So this title is really for everything. So let's actually find one that is really, really nice. This one looks pretty cool, doesn't it? That one's nice as well because some animations, so let's just add the standard slide one over here. And I can click on Play. Just says titled text T. And then he starts to play. Of course it still has the sound effects and the audio fading in the sound, the music fading in and out, which is nice. So here it is. It just says titled text. He doesn't really do anything just yet. So I can now double-click on this and I can now add in my relevant tick. So I could say, welcome to my video, like so. I can select that and I can actually go and change the font number of different fonts available. I could use this when he had that looks pretty cool. Welcome to my video. I can adjust the size, make it nice and small, make it a little bit bigger. I can make it left, medium or write more center or right. I'm just going to, so I'm going to just the actual alignment as need be. I can do bold, italics can add this really cool effect if I need to. To my actual title. And that's really nice. Now, these settings right here around the font. Now some of the settings up He, including the size, the alignment, and the sections over here. I'm not going to be available against every single title, so just be aware of that. Some of them will allow you to edit them a little bit more than others. That's really dependent on the title itself. I can also change the color. Click on this little white. Over here. I get this area over here where I can now adjust the color of the actual text so I can make it a read. It's now become red. Could make it a yellow. There it is. Like, sorry, right, Nice and easy. I've got a number of different palettes available to be able to change the actual font. Now that's going to do the same effect. Welcome to my video. And then the video starts to play, right? That's really, really nice. Now, the one thing is that that has created the title in its own separate section. So you'll see that it plays the title first against a black background, and then it plays the video. The other thing that you can do with titles is you can actually put them in a different layout within your timeline. So very much like how I've got my audio in its own layer right underneath my video. Alright, so our comply audio and video at the same time, I'm gonna do the same thing with my title. So I could grab this title and stick it right up there on top of my video. So now when I play it, it shows up imbedded against my video itself. So that is really nice. So it really depends on how you want to actually play around with your titles. Whether you want to have them all on their own, or whether you want to have them on top, lie it together with your videos. Okay. So I could add a whole bunch of stuff. I could add. When I stopped was real as I said. Welcome. This is a trip that I took. It was before 2020. And there we go. And there is my intro real. Okay, and you can really do that with any of your titles. You can add them on their rounding and add them on top of your videos. And you can really play around with this as much as you want. It actually makes the videos so much nicer, so much more professional. And rather than you just recording your videos on your camera and then just give them to your friends and family like that. You can now import them into your iMovie. You can add all your titles. You can section them off by chapters. So for example, you could have a video. So he's something that we'll look at, for example, these, let's, let's change these, some of these view. Remember you can change the view size. Thank you, The little one. Let's go back into my media and add the second video. So I've got two videos here. I'll just expand that. This was welcome to my video. Actually let's just say taka Yamaha. Welcome to my video. So this is my TOC, a Yammer one. There it is. I could also select, I didn't cover this just before, is I can select that and use the standard copy and paste. So I could right-click on this and say Copy, Cut, Copy. I could then go to the introduction of my second video right over here. And I can paste it right in there. And there it is. So now at the start of my second video, right there, that's the video that ends. And this is the start of my next one. And this could be kinda like so. You can see I've already added one. He previously, there is a little section right there, so I could just maybe drag that over. He lets will show you how to crop and do all of the stuff later on. But there you go. So I could add that. Here is my next video. Welcome to my video, Kaizala. And I can select that changed the car life. I don't like that color. Could change the font. If I don't like that font. I could make it a little bit bigger. I could make it to the right and up, you can add as many or as little titled as you want. Play around with this. There's a lot of titles, a lot of great effects makes the experience really, really, really nice. So that's the end of this lesson, are now encourage you to go and do this yourself. Go and open up your iMovie, add your clips and your audio, and now add your titles. Add titles at the start, at the end between your clips. You can have them all on their own. You can have them on top, whatever it may be.
9. Transitions: In this lesson, we're going to be looking at transitions between clips. You can have little things called transitions that make the move from one clip to another just look really, really clean. So once you've finished this video, I recommend that you go and try this yourself because I have brilliant. I use them all the time and I recommend that you should use them as well. So here on our timeline, we've covered a number of areas. So far. We've looked at the My Media section, right? We've looked at the events. We've looked at a Japan event that we've sort of been working with an inhibitor. A couple of clips that we have added, right? You can easily scroll through these clips. You can see exactly what's going on on the previous section on the very far right, we've then got the timeline on the bottom, which is of course the single source where you have all of your videos, your audio, your clips, your backgrounds are titled, all of that sort of stuff. So with that then we've yet we looked at the audio, we looked at sound effects and music would looked at titles, how to add titles, playing around with titles. And I recommend that you go and try this yourself because I agree, right? So you go and do all of that. And then we looked at the backgrounds area to be able to add backgrounds to your titles, play around with the world maps, which is a great feature that is built into iMovie itself. We then move into the section called transition, which is this tab up the very, very top. Now as I said, this is a little animation, little clips that you can add against between videos, between video clips. Now if you look at our timeline down here, if we actually make these a little bit smaller, you remember there are two different video clips right here. We've actually now got full video clips because we've added these two wallpapers. And if you remember from the last video, we actually talked about that the video that the backgrounds, I should say, are actually videos right there. The pre-created videos that I move you have created for you and packaged with this product. And they are seen just as a video clip. So you can actually have transitions between these as well when you add a title, right? So if I was to grab this particular title right here and grab that and drag that into here. That is now also seen as a video, will say an animation of a tidal between these other clips that are in my timeline. So I can also add transitions between those two. So what do I mean by transition? So let's have a look at something here. So I'm going to just put my cursor over here. I'm gonna make a little bit bigger. So here is the section where I'm moving from one clip to the other. Okay. Let's just do this for a second. Okay, we'll show you how to do that in the next video on how to crop and cut things out, gonna make it old gel together really, really nicely. But we move from one to another. Press Spacebar. Here is the old clip. And then he just goes straight into the new clip. I just cuts from one side to the other. Wouldn't it be nice to have something in between those two to make it just look that up and to flow better rather than a straight cut, you have a little transition to join those two clips together. That's where transitions comes in. Now, again, I recommend going play with this yourself. Some transitions will be great for you. Others won't be. Some people who use videos and make videos for living really use transitions at all. A lot of movies, TV shows that you may watch, they don't really use transitions. I may, from time to time, flip from one clip to another using maybe a fade or a little. Then move the video from one to another, like a little side swipe. But they're not always going to be very, very common. But let's look at some of these right now. So he's a, he's a, an example of what it looks like. And again, like every other sort of clip, you can see exactly what this does, what the sort of animation is. So lets just grab this one called Cross Dissolve. We grab it. I'm going to drag it right into there. There it is, there is the transition. So I can now play and let's have a look at what this looks like. There you go, you see it actually had a little transition between those two. It dissolved one and then brought the other one is called Cross Dissolve. Very much like your titles and your background, you can also change the length of this. You can actually make it longer or shorter. I can double-click on it and then actually make the duration 1 second or you can make it four seconds apply. There it is That maybe just a little bit too long. So what I like to do sometimes you just make it 5.5 seconds. Make it very, very short. There we go, nice and clean, nice and short there. You can do some other sorts of effects. What about a spin in? So let's just remove this, just deleted. And as I spin in, let's have a look at what that looks like. That was pretty cool. Yeah, we can delete it. Another one that's quite popular would be, as I said, the slide, the swipe slide, left, slide right. Let's see what that looks like. So that it's slid from one side to the other. Not so there's a lot of different sorts of transitions available. A mosaic that one's not bad, I guess sometimes through what that looks like. Okay. So a lot of different transitions and as I said, you can adjust the actual length of them as well. You don't have to use them at all. Fun that I personally like to do is have a transition, at least at the very start and the end of the full length of the video, the full timeline. So for example, recently with the video finishes to this video, just stops right there pretty abruptly. Doesn't really give me a nice algebra, doesn't do anything. So what is nice? Sometimes you could do a fade to black, so I could add that one at the very end. And you see that it actually then fades out. Okay, I can make it a little bit longer, like that to seconds. Could do a cross blur. So sort of blurs out like that and then fades to black. But what that will do is when you do add it at the end of a clip, it's sort of does cut off a second or a couple of seconds off the end of that clip. So just be aware of that. But i'm, I use, I use transitions all the time. It really depends on the actual video type. If you're going to be doing this to say record some YouTube videos for example. You may not want to use transitions all the time, but if you want to create a nice travel video and make it really, really cool, really, really punchy, something that your friends and family will watch, then transitions could be really, really nice for you. So I recommend going and playing with this yourself.
10. Splitting Clips, Freeze Frames, Detach Audio: Hi and welcome to this lesson on the class learning AI movie. This particular section is going to cover editing. We've now looked at all of the previous stuff. We're not going to look at how to actually edit some clips, had a split clips, how to do freeze frames, how to detach audio on the videos that you've got within your timeline. So we've looked at our timeline here. We've been playing with this for a number of videos now. So hopefully you are fairly familiar with it if you're not, go and check out some of the earlier content where we cover a lot of that. We cover the My Media, we cover audio titles, backgrounds, transitions. Now comes the fun part is now actually starting to do the editing. Had actually get these clips and make them useful. Had to split things, had to actually remove sections that you don't want. How to add sections, had to move sections around. Perhaps you said something later on in the video that you thought, hey, that actually may work better at the start of the video. So how do you take that and move it to the very, very start of the video. So we're gonna be covering that in this particular session. Sorry, let's look at something here. We've got a timeline, we've got a nice big video. We've got our little introductions heap. Here is the start of our video. Welcome to today AMA. What I'm gonna do is just to get started, we're going to remove this walker today, AMA and this lotus video, we're just going to move it, that the audio is going to move it and have it over here. Now something that you will notice by the way, is that this particular audio clip has this little line above it. You'll see it right up there. So right above the number two, there's a little line that he's pointing up to this particular section right here. And this is essentially saying that these audio is attached to this particular video. Okay, So what that means is if I go and delete this video, well, this this particular background that we've got, the wallpaper, the audio goes with it. Okay. If I had this over here and I delete that, the audio stays. Yeah. If I delete this section because this is still attached to this one, the audio stays nice and easy. Yeah, that's what that means. So I'm just gonna move this over here as well. And I've got one small little section over here. And I think that was just my sound effect. I'm going to remove that sand effect altogether so I can just delete those right from there. Okay, so now I've got these two audio fields to audio sections that are attached to this particular background over here. And I've now got my CLIA video. He, with nothing appended to it. All that It's got is my video and then my audio field down the bottom, I can see exactly the wavelengths of my audio where it goes up or it goes down. I can expand this to see exactly how my audio is performing. All right, Sorry. What I'm gonna do is you'll remember I've got my little navigation right here. This line that sort of goes lets me know exactly where things are at and I can see the progress of my video. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to now find a spot in this video that I don't actually need an audio part, a sound pod that maybe doesn't make sense. And I wanted just to remove it altogether. So I'm going to play my clip. And perhaps there's a section right here. We'll see that bit, right, that bid. So don't like the fact that I just pan the camera very, very quickly because it was a little, it was a little bit blurry for I do like that bid. Actually, I like it right when I walk over to that bit right there. It looks quite nice. So maybe that whole bidding between, I don't actually need. So let's just find where that ended. This is around here. Okay, so right there I'm going to click on my video, selecting it, and it's sort of phrasing that bar right there. You see that this is the almost like a preview, but the bar is marked here. That's where I've clicked. So what I can now do is I can right click, right-click with my mouse right there, and select Split, Clip. Okay, There's a couple of things you can do here. You could do that. You can go up to modify up the very top as well, and also select Split Clip right from there. What I like to do is a shortcut on my keyboard is Command B on the keyboard also does a split clip and you'll, you'll learn that the shortcuts on the keyboard make life so much easier. If you learn the shortcuts, it just makes it a lot easier to be able to edit things very, very quickly because I can just do Command B as opposed to doing Right-click split and makes it a lot easier. And you can see that the commands right there obviously cut and copy. We already know those. But to detach audio, to trim it, play head. Those other sections there are available. Okay. So we know that this area is where we want to do is I'm gonna do a Command B. And that has now split that clip. You'll see that it's actually got a line in between it and it's actually now seen as a different clip. I now need to find the next section so I like it when it comes to their a lot that spot right there. So I'm going to select my play head there. And again, right-click, oh, do a Command B to do a split clip. Now, this clip right there. Well, this section, this is the messy bit. This is the bit that I don't actually like anymore. So I'm gonna select that, I'm going to delete it. Now it's gone. So now literally my clip will go from here. And cuts straight to that. So let's say I do like that section. And we'll stop it around there. And what's the next key area right there. So I'm going to cut their split it, grab that section and delete it. So now it's moving, transitioning from there to there until my next section. All right, and that's essentially how you split your clips very, very easily. And now because these are individual clips, I could select that clip and perhaps I want this clip to be first. I can grab it, click Hold it. I can club. I can select that clip and drag it over to there. So now that is my first one. Right? Perfect. It's really, really nice. And I can do this as many times as I want. So I like to actually when it was there. And this is my next area, So don't need that anymore. You see that I'm doing most of this BY command B just to make it very, very easy. And you're just going through. There we go. There's another little transition. I didn't like that bit, so I'm going to split that. But I do like that pot. So I'm going to delete that section right there. I know it cuts and cuts to that area. There you go. So that's how you split clips. And the great thing is that you can do that as many times as you want. You can then move things around as you need to. Now, what if you've made a mistake? He's another thing we can do, a Control Z or Command Z to actually undo what you've just done. But we can also do is you can grab, you'll see that my, um, they don't get two little arrows right over heat at the end or at the start of the clip. You say that to the start of each clip I've got these two little arrows. So I can click on that and then drag. And now that he's dragging out the next section, drag that back. Maybe I made a mistake. And there is the next section that I originally had removed. So I can do that quite easily. Yeah, that's how you split clips. Now, very similar to the audio. You'll see that these particular areas he have got audio. Hear the audio. I can raise the audio. That way. I can decrease the audio. So by default, the audio here is at a 100 percent. Something else that's really, really useful sometimes is when you are splitting clips. So right here I can see it's actually a bit of sound that because there's like these little truck that drove past. So that's a little bit annoying because I want that to go down. I want the volume to go down. So I could literally just split it there. Control B or right-click and split clip. So I could literally just grab that audio and drag it down a little bit. Maybe just to around there. It's still there a little bit. But let's just say we move it down even more. Because if you remember that my music track behind it, which is sort of going to mask that. They got. So by reducing the audio, you were not able to hear that truck going pos, It's really, really useful and because you've split it, you can have that flexibility to do that. And very much like the music before as well, you can do these fade-in and outs if you need to as well. I can literally just two little arrows. They're fade that in. Fade that one out. Between each of my individual clips. I can select a clip. I can cut and paste it there. Right? I could select multiple clips, right-click and cut. Or I can even copy. What if I want to duplicate these? Wonderful, want these in a separate section on a copy them here. And then further down here, let's say I wanna make another split. And then I want to paste right into there and there they are. So I've just pasted them again. So you can really manipulate this as much as you want. Cut and copy and paste, trim. You can shrink this down, grab the ends, shrink these down as you need to adjust the audio up and down, fade in and out the audio makes it really, really good. Now here's another thing that's really, really good is to be able to detach audio. So why would I wanna do this? Well, sometimes you don't want that audio in there at all. I mean, you could do a couple of things. You could actually let's say we had this car, this these trucks are that drove past. I could just reduce the audio ad altogether. I make it 0%. But sometimes I may want to just maybe reuse at audio elsewhere because sometimes it's quite cool to, you know, maybe you're talking, you've got a really nice dialogue of something that you've said, but you want to use that in another clip, but you need to have the audio separate to that video because at the moment, this particular video clip has that audio appended to it, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to right-click on this clip and select detach audio. What that's done is actually put it down the bottom here and grab it and just move it back up, sort of problem. But it's essentially now detach the audio from that video clip. I can now grab that audio and really move it wherever I want. I can do whatever I want with that, I can reduce the audio volume up and down. I can add my failings, but I can actually now move some stuff around. So let's say I don't like the audio on this one. I'm going to detach the audio. I'm going to delete it. And I'm going to put the audio that I'd originally grabbed from here. And I like the centroid better because I think this is a nice introduction to me saying that, hey, welcome to talk i gamma and the viewer. So whoever is going to be saying, it's got no idea that I've just taken the audio from this clip, which really didn't really show me too much other than a flowing bit of water. To now this nice little introduction to what Toyama looks like. So I was able to just move that audio, detach it, and then move it. And you can do this really on any of your video files, detach the audio, and then move it and adjust it and manipulate it as you need to freeze frame you something that is also an quiet nice and I've used it from time to time. I don't use it too often, but let's say there's a nice little section that you like. Let's say over here. There's this clip right here. I like this clip right there. So I've just got that and I want to freeze that thought I could do is I can right-click again on my clip and I can say add phrase frame. What that's now just done is it's frozen, just that clip, just that section. Play. And it's frozen it and then play. Right? So I could put my audio here. I can maybe then just expand that, make it a bit longer. If I just need to fill in some space, fill in some time, and maybe got some audio that runs over. But I don't have enough video, but maybe there's just a clip that sort of works and it can be stuck and frozen for that portion of time. I can just freeze it and use it. And then if what I needed, I can just delete it, move it back. There it is, It's now gone. So it's a little bit more about our splitting of our clips, a freeze frame, and the detaching audio. But now this is the bit that you need to now learn and learn very well, at least the splitting of the clips, the splitting of the eclipse is something that is completely essential. You're going to be doing it as part of your daily editing. Learning how to split clips, how to move your clips around, how to find the right section in the video, selecting that area, splitting the clip, splitting the next section, moving things around, detaching the audio is something that's going to be very, very important, especially if you want your videos to look a lot more professional. Because when you're going out, if you're recording a travel video, you may sometimes say something and it might not make sense later on when you're watching you go. Well, why did I say that that point, it would have been a lot better to have set it at this point instead. So with this flexibility, you can actually move and manipulate things around to make it work a lot better for you. So now go off and do this yourself. That's the end of this lesson, learning about AI movie. So go and try this yourself. Get your video, play around with that. Move things around, split things, detach the audio play with phrase frames. And we'll look at the next video.
11. Cropping + Animating clips: In this lesson, we're going to be looking at how to crop videos, had a zoom in, zoom out, how to use this feature called Kanbans, where you can actually move the camera from one side to the other, vice versa. Really, really cool. You can actually animate your videos, animate any further that you've also got. Then you're actually going to be editing this on videos and photos specifically, let's first start with a photo. So I'm just going to minimize my, minimize my timeline. I'm going to go back into my mind movie area, you know, expand this and back into Japan and then onto my, my demo video 2. And if you remember that there was some photos and he that we'd important in the very, very start. So let's actually just grab one of these fighters. This one right here, this is just a plain photo and put it into there. So you can see that it's actually already animating this. So this is a nice animation that is called Ken Burn. Essentially it's just zooming in to this photo automatically. You'll see that this photo duration, which is crazy, a little clip, is four seconds long. I can make that a little bit bigger. So let's just make this last for nine seconds or so. And there is my ken Burns. So let's just select this photo. Now at the very, very top, you'll see that this icon here is selected. This is the icon that you can click on to do what's called cropping. Ken Burns and also this feature called fit under the Style area. You've also got a few other areas in here. Now, you'll see that by default what it's done, It's enabled this start rectangle and this end rectangle. So what it's gonna do is within this 9.37 animation is going to start with this section. And then I'm going to zoom into this section here. So all I can do is I could select this end area and put it in like that. So let's say I want to zoom in all the way up to the logo. So you can see that by clicking the plates playing that nine seconds and it's zooming all the way over to that logo. Why they can burn function. So you can select the start or the end just by clicking on it like so. So perhaps I want my Start to start here and then my end, end over here. You can take advantage of your photo is a little bit more because they now become essentially animated clips. So the other area is this crop to fit. So let's say I've got a actual photo. Again, you can do this on videos and I want to crop it. Maybe I don't like this whole thing. Maybe I just want the image of this sub alpha in there, maybe just that area. And press Enter. And now that is cropped it to that space right there. So now the photo is of just that because that's what I've cropped. And it can move this around over here into and now it's cropped that area right there. And then the fit, as the name suggests, it just puts the entire image in its original form right into there. Okay, so that's nice, really, really cool. Of course, one of the nice things around using Ken Burns and the crop feature specifically is that in the case of this photo, the dimensions of this photo is different to the dimensions of the video. You see that the video, the aspect ratio goes corner to corner of the full window here. Well, this one has these black lines on either end because the dimensions are different. So in this case, you may actually want to do I crop so that it crops it, something like that. And then when you actually play, it actually will flow a lot better because it is the full screen. Then you can also do this with videos. So let's say, let's just go back up to the very start. He, now one of my videos here in my timeline was this one here. Let's just move this all the way up to the start. And there it is. And that is the video itself. What if I want to actually use the same effects on a video? Well, yes, you can. So you can select the video, select these little crop icon over here, and you can also crop to fill. You can also do a Kanban crop defile could be, I want to actually crop it to this area right there because that's all I'm concerned about. I just liked the look of that. And there it is. It's now cropped automatically that video. Now of course, by cropping it, you're essentially zooming into that photo. So if you don't have a good quality video feed, when you may lose some of the resolution, some of the quality of that video, but that may be okay for you. And then Ken Burns, the same deal. So I could do a nd are the HI, I want to just zoom into these houses. I want to start it over here. And then I can play that. And their regards. And that's how it's essentially done it right there. So it's actually using the Kanban. And then I can just say fit and it just fits it back into normal. And the other option available in the crop section is of course, being able to rotate your video or rotate your photos left or right. And then you can click on reset. And that will just reset all of the settings that you've set there. So that's an overview there of the fits, the crop and the Ken Burns I a great, why don't you now go and try it yourself, but that's the end of this lesson. In this iMovie class.
12. Color Balance & Correction: In this lesson, we're going to look at how to actually adjust the coloring on your actual videos with the color balance, the color correction. Adjust the warmth in if you want to add more blue, more reds. If you want to just remove some of the brightness, increase the brightness, all of that stuff still recommend that you go and try this yourself, open up your iMovie in your timeline, adjusts those clips as you need to. So within our amide, Let's look at something that you're very familiar with, which is our timeline. And right down the bottom here in your timeline, we've got a video. This is a video that we've created, recorded this nice video. And perhaps there is an area that is just a little bit too bright. Maybe the light is a bit too bright and you sort of want to darken it a little bit. Or maybe you just want to add some additional color to your actual video itself to the clip. So we're going to select that and the very top, you've got two different areas. You've got this thing called color balance, which is this icon, or you've got color correction. These are two areas that we're going to look at a little bit now. But essentially in color balance, you can make iMovie do its thing and automate the entire process. So what this will do is it'll analyze that whole video clip and by clicking on Auto, it's just going to go and adjust the best settings that it thinks will work well for your iMovie clip. Now this could work, it may not work. You may look really good, it may not look very good. So just, I would recommend try it and see whether that makes any difference to you. So we're gonna click on automatically improve video quality right here. Now, you may or may not have noticed up and it actually did adjust something on the actual video. It actually made certain areas slightly DACA, are the areas slightly lighter and brightened up certain things and it's essentially automatically improved that video quality. Now the area is the match color. Now what match color we'll do is let's say for example, you've got different cameras. You've got one camera, that is your, you know, your SLR camera, your mirrorless camera, and then you're recording some stuff on a GoPro. You're recording some stuff on an iPhone while the actual quality of that will vary, but not just the quality, but the temperature of the color will vary. The colors will look slightly different. Maybe you're looking at something that is red. Well, the red will look slightly different depending on the camera that has recorded it. So what this area will do, the match color is you'll import various videos into your timeline, into your iMovie and you can make sure that all the coloring matches up as closely as possible. So what you could do, for example, is select match color right here. And then you can actually select the color of one and then apply it to the other. And it'll essentially adjust the color temperature on your clips to make sure that they are all consistent. There we've got the white balance. So this is an areas it says select a color on the video frame using the eye dropper. So you'll see that my icon is now changing this little eyedrop up. And what this will do is this is just what it actually looks like. So you've got a pure white band. You've got whites of different sorts of temperatures, different grades of different colors, more bright, slightly not as bright, et cetera. So what you could do is you can select something that you think looks white and it'll adjust everything else around that. So my case, I think my white, what I think white is is the Cloud right over here. So I'm going to select this right there. And then it actually just adjusted the coloring across my entire video feed. What if this is why, you know, maybe I was there and I realized, well, this is actually why it's but it's coming out a little bit yellow. So I'm going to select this and you'll see it's actually gone and adjust that to try to match a little bit more of a white color. While the rest of the video feed has actually been adjusted, sort of cater against that if you need to. All right. So I can cross on that and you just reduce it back to normal skin tone balances. Now the area now this will all really be relevant more for a person. Okay, so here's a clip of myself eating over here in Japan and he's my skin. So what I can do is with the skin tone balance as it suggests, right? He is that it can correct the color of the clip based on the skin tone. So if the skin tone doesn't look right, Essentially what I'm telling I'm movies at this sees somebody's skin. So you go and adjust the whole video, the clip itself based on that. So I'm going to select that. I'm going to say, well, this is the skin right here. I'm going to adjust it. And you can see depending on where I click, it's actually going to adjust it accordingly. And that's actually adjusting the entire clip. And I can keep going until I'm actually very comfortable with it. And I say, look, I'm happy with that right there. And as a result, that's obviously then applied that against that entire clip right there. And if I'm happy with that and click on the little tick. And that is now being applied. And that whole clip now has adjusted based on that skin tone balance. And I can obviously remove that by clicking on this clicking on the cross, and that will then just go and change that back to what it was. Okay. Alright, here's another clip of me eating some other food. It looks beautiful. Delicious Japanese food, that little soup there on the side. So I'm going to go into here and I'm going to click on this icon over here next to the one that we were just playing on, which is color balance. Well, this is now the color correction. So here I'm going to adjust the color itself and I've got a lot more control over this specifically, okay. Now, these are a number of different areas. Right here you've got adjust the shadows to make it dark, areas lighter or darker. This one is adjust the contrast to increase or decrease the differences between light and dark areas. You're going to adjust the brightness to make the clip light or Dukkha. If it adjust the contrast. And then you've got adjust the highlights to make a broad area it lighter or darker. So there's various options here. And all you do is literally grab that and you move it across. And it'll actually adjust accordingly. Okay. Grab that, move it across, grab that and move it down or up. Move it a bit darker. So I've got full flexibility to be able to adjust up and down the brightness and the contrast against this particular video clip. So if there's an area that you've recorded, it's quiet, dark and he can't say it or it's too lit up, there's just too much line in it. You can adjust, you can make it darker. You can make it light up. Right? Depending on any of these factors. So this is an area that I use consistently in iMovie and I recommend that you start to use it as well because you're recording will look good in some cases. But then when you put it onto your computer, you'll notice that it doesn't look as good as maybe you wanted. And it could be because there are areas that are a bit too dark, a little bit too light. The other area wherever he is, the actual, the saturation so you can make the clip more or less colorful. So over here, if I drag it down, so he starts to lose a bit of a color until it goes fully black and white. So this could be a nice feature if you're wanting to get a black and white clip, you can actually just remove all the color or you can add additional colors going to try to interpret what additional color actually means. It's going to be emphasizing the colors that are already in there and make them even more punchy and stand out a little bit more. So this is another feature that you may want to do. And it is quite helpful to be able to know how to adjust that. Then on the left is the actual, the blue and the yellow tinges of your actual color itself. So it can grab that and drag it to the left. And that changes the warmth of the color, makes it a bit more blue haze. Or to the right, makes it more of a yellow haze. And again, it depends on where you've recorded things, but sometimes you may want to adjust the actual temperature of the actual video clip. And I'll use this area quite a bit if I find that it's a bit too, too white or too yellow or too blue. I can just move that accordingly to actually adjust the actual temperature of that video. And of course, all of this, you can reset all of these by clicking on Reset. It will then just go and reset everything. Now the other thing is on the very far left. You've got this thing right over here. This automatically improves the video and audio quality of the selected clip. Now if you want this to just go and do its own thing, why don't you just click on this? And it'll actually go and adjust everything based on a number of algorithms that are built into iMovie. And we'll assume this is what you want. Now, do this sparingly, try it out, see how it goes, because it will adjust not only the video, but it will adjust the audio and move it up and down. But just be aware of what that does. It just automates a lot of the stuff that we just did manually. Alright, so that is how to adjust the video, temperature, the correction, the brightness, all of that on your iMovie. Now it's your turn to try and do this yourself go and open up your iMovie, import your clips into the timeline and play around with some of these different video editing settings.
13. Speed Up or Slow Down Clips: In this lesson, we're going to show you how to speed up and slow down clips or videos that have been imported inside your iMovie timeline. So here is my project is the one that we've been working on. We've called it iMovie. We can also give this a relevant name. Let's just call it Japan 2019. We can open that up. So this is of course, my timeline where everything has been at taking place. Now, I've got a particular video clip. This is my very first clip right here. And I just feel like it's maybe going a little bit slow. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually select it. We're gonna go up to the very, very top to my task by area right here. And I'm going to select this little icon, which is like a odometer on your chi inside your car. So it's little spade icon. We're going to click on that. And you see there's a couple of options. You can do a speed option, and then on the right you've got smooth reverse and preserve pitch. So we're going to select this spade option. He dropped down. There's a few different options. You've got slow, fast, freeze frame and custom. So if I want to slow down the clip, what I can do is I can click on slow right there. And that will actually slide on that clip. And you'll see that in the timeline it's actually expanded the actual clip, right? So this is now 31 seconds long if I actually go back to normal, so that the original length of that is 15. So it's essentially doubled the quantity, doubled the length of the clip by slowing it down itself. You'll see that I also get some options here around how slow don't wanna make it. You want to make it 10 percent, 25 percent, 50 percent. And then auto Of course, 50% is what we've got 25 percent makes it even longer as you can see in the timeline. And then 10 percent makes it even longer. So essentially it's expanded the ecliptic 2.5 minutes, which is quite a lot. And if I actually play that, I'm going to just reduce the volume of my audio there so that it is now extremely slow. Okay, but the audio has actually remained the same so that the audio who said the video is going very slow. But it does appear a little bit jittery. And the reason for that is when you're actually recording content on your camera, on your phone, there's this thing called frame rates. So how many frames per second on your camera? The more frames per second on your camera when you're importing that video, the more frames you'll be able to essentially use to slow down a clip. So if you don't have a very high frame rate than we are trying to slow it down. There is no frames within those per seconds to actually fill in the gap, which is why the video will appear a little bit choppy. So even if I make it 50 percent and I apply that, you'll see it's not super smooth. And that's because the frame rates are not built for this. So when I just go back to normal, Here's my clip, nice and smooth. And we're all like, Hey, so just keep that in mind that if you're ever going to be slowing something down, you are a little bit dependent on what the frames per second we're on the actual camera or find that you are actually recording those video clips on. So that is the slow speed. You've then got the fast speed and very similar, do you want it two times faster, four times faster, eight times or 20 times faster. Here we go. It's gone from 15 to 27.8. It is nice and fast now what's faster? And that by default, what that has done is that as made it two times faster, which is why it's now shorter. I can go four times faster. Or I can actually make it eight or even 20, which is really, really nice. So let's just, for this one we're going to go normal. Let's find a very, very long clip, one that I could maybe expand. We're just going to find something. So here's one that goes for five minutes and four seconds. And let's say for whatever reason, I want this to go faster because she's reduced my audio. Let's say if I want this to go faster, because there's just too much stuff, maybe I've recorded a lot of content, a lot of video, and a lot of it. I can just do a little fast, fast clip, which may look pretty cool. So I can actually select that, go into spade and say fast and say 20 percent. So look at that. It's actually reduce it under 16.2 seconds. And this is what it looks like. There's reduced the ordinary. So in this case it doesn't really make sense, but you might actually have clips. So for example, you've stopped yourself a camera. Maybe you've gotta go pro something and you've stopped it to your, to your chest or to your head. And you might be walking around a city, for example, and you're walking around the city fall a couple of hours and you don't want to really play two hours worth of footage, you just walking around. So you may actually make it a little bit faster so that it looks really punchy. And you still get all the content in the issues playing it a little bit faster. Okay, so that's what that does. Freeze-frame, we'll cover that in a second. But and you've also got custom, or custom could do is now you actually said it yourself. So remember we had slow, we had fast custom. You can actually make it even faster. So I could maybe say that I want it to be 4000 percent faster because he's even shrunk it down further to 8.1 seconds. Or I could make it. Eight % thousand and that he's now I 4 second clip. That super fast. I'm going to select it and go back to normal. And that just expands it back to the length which was 5.3 minutes. So that's how you do the slow, fast, So speed up and slow down and clip. Then you've also got this thing called freeze-frame. So for example, if you find a nice frame that you like, let's say for example, I like, I like that frame right there. I think that actually looks pretty cool. And I want this thing to go a little bit longer. I want it to be stuck on that. So I'm going to go up to here and I'm going to select freeze-frame. That is now frozen. That for a second, for a couple of seconds, I can play. And he's just frozen that frame. And you can put the duration on here. You can make that phrase for a bit longer. Maybe you want it to go for 10 seconds. So now that he's stuck on that frame for the entire 10 seconds. And of course, my underlying music, this lotus clip that I've got will continue to play. So that may be really useful in certain instances where maybe you don't have a photo of something, but you found something that really, really looks great on the video that you've recorded and you just want to capture that particular bit. Well, you can do that right in here with the phrase frame. Furthermore, you can adjust it by grabbing the little circle right here. So there is an icon right here on this clip that has a hand essentially saying stop. And that means that really this pot, so he's giving you, giving you an indication on this side, on this timeline, on this clip that this particular part from here to he is stopped and that is a freeze frame that is available on that. So we can just go back to normal and remove that freeze-frame as needed. Maybe I do like this, but I wanted to look backwards. I want it to reverse it for whatever reason I can click on that to reverse. That is now reversed the clip. And I can play that here is the reverse of it. But of course it reverses the whole lot. So you are going to see a car going backwards as you can see right there. Okay. But that's sometimes maybe a nice feature for whatever reason you don't like the way that it's moving. You want it? Oh, I wish I hadn't done it this way or panned left instead of panning right? Well, you can control that by doing the reverse area right there and you can just untick that. I've just mock these two clips accordingly when he's fast, one is slow. You'll also notice that on the top right, you can now do preserve pitch because of course, when you are speeding up or slowing down the clip, the audio behind it is going to go a little bit faster or a little bit slower. So preserved Pete, he's going to try to compensate for that. Sometimes will work, sometimes it white, so just be aware of that. And then the smooth option, as the name suggests, it actually just ensures that there is a smooth, smooth transition between your two clips as you need to have it that is speeding up and slowing down clips. You also looked at some of the reversing. So now I recommend that you go and try this yourself and let me know how you go.
14. Audio, Volume and Noise: This lesson on our iMovie class is going to be talking about the audio and volume settings, how to adjust the levels, had to remove background noise, had actually make the overall sound sound better on your iMovie clips. So I've got myself a clip here. This is a 4.62 clip, and this is one that we've looked at before where we've got a bit of background noise here. Now if I can apply, that may not come through perfectly, but essentially I've got a bit of sound there, a little bit of water running through. And there's also use a smudge of wind going through there as well. But what we're gonna do is we're going to do a few things to this particular short clip. The first thing is, of course, is you can raise and lower your audio. You can adjust the sound of your audio. You can remove some of the background noise. And we did cover this before. But the first thing you can easily do is on the eclipse itself. You've got the little audio down the bottom. Let's actually make this a little bit bigger so we can see what's going on. And you can raise and lower this. You see that by default it's at a 100 percent volume. I can lower it down altogether to 0. So then when I apply that, there's actually no sound other than some background music which I've already got put in the Oregon, raise it, make it really, really loud. Okay. So you're gonna adjust the volume right through there. The other area is I select that when he got to the little area up the top here, little speaker. This is the place where you do some of the volume controls. So you can do an order where it's automatically going to just adjust the audio based on a number of different things. So what you could do, for example, is if you've got a number of different videos with different audio levels, you can select them all and click on order and we'll try to adjust them so that they're all pretty level. I personally don't use this too much, but have a play around with that and actually do a real really good job for you. The other one here is to mute the audio. So here you're actually just muting it, just removing the audio altogether on that clip. And then of course, as exactly the same as what you can do right here, you can adjust the volume up or down from 0% to 400 percent higher. Alright, that is that one there. There's these other one called lower volume of other clips. This one's actually not too bad, especially if you've got some audio dubbing or some audio, you can click on this. And then by default, if there's some sort of video clip or another audio source coming through, it'll automatically reduce the volume of that. So what I mean by that is I've got down the bottom here, I've got my sound, which was I called Lotus. And this was a nice music pace. If I'll raise it up. That was just playing like that. And just have a look at the wavelength. If I select this and a tick on law of volumes, you'll see that it's actually just gone down. So by default, what's going to happen? Volume is high. And then it reduces the volume. And then at the end of the clip, it puts the volume backup. And this is actually really, really helpful if you've got a dialogue. So if you've got some somebody talking, this is exactly what you would do it. So your timeline is going to have clips of people talking perhaps, and then areas where there's no talking. So you could just literally embed a long song into your timeline and you don't have to manually adjust the volume of that song so you don't have to go into your song here. Cut it here, cut it here, cut it here, and cut it here. And then just reduce the volume of these ones when it comes to that specific clip, that would be really, really not useful. You can do that. Of course, you can go and manipulate this as much as you want. It's going to remove, undo all of that. But wouldn't be so much easier is if I could clip my video itself, the areas where I've got some dialogue and automatically say, Well, for those clips, I want to actually lower the sound, as you can see it right there. Lower the sound of this one or this one automatically when it comes to that portion. Now I can also adjust the intensity of that. You can see that the actual thing is moving up and down and move it up and down. So that if I want the volume to go up, well, if I wanted to reduce as much or not reduce as much on that particular clip that we've just trimmed. So that's a really, really nice feature. Let's just go back to this one. This is the running waterfall that we had right here too. We've already adjusted the lower clip, low volume on other clips on there next to the speaker icon to the right of it, you've got the area where you do the equalize up. This is it's called the noise reduction and Equalizer section. And here there are two primary areas. There's reduce background noise, and then there's the equalize up. So let's look at the reduce background noise first. Now, this is using an assumption that you want background noise in your clip to be reduced, hence the name. For example, you could be in a public place where you are trying to do some dialogue. There is some audio dialogue that has been taken, taken, recorded, and there is some background traffic noise or there's some background wind noise or whatever that may be. And you may want that to be reduced. So it automatically is going to reduce elements of that. This actually does work quite well. Sometimes it may give you a pretty good result, sometimes it may distort things, I may not sound too good. So you're gonna have to play around with this a little bit. And he's an example is I've got a clip. What I'm gonna do, I'm just going to remove, remove my audio over here, my sound, my music. I've just moved my music over. Okay, so that is me talking right there. And then there is some background noise of the water. Now perhaps what I wanna do is I want to enhance my voice and reduce the background sound of that clip so I can select that particular clip right there and tick reduce background noise. It's going to analyze the actual audio source itself and try to interpret what I'm sort of trying to get out of it. It's actually done quite a good job. It's actually done a pretty good job. So I cannot I can't see the the the running water the water as clearly as I did before. So if I remove it. Yeah, definitely. So the audio the audio sound of the actual water running has reduced. But then my sound, my voice my voice does sound like it's changed a little bit, so it's not the sound that was recorded naturally from my camera. It has actually changed it to try to compensate with the background noise. Essentially, it's just adjusting the frequencies, the equalizer itself. Adding more based, removing more base, removing or adding or removing treble, changing the mids and the highs and all of these different frequencies to try to give me a better sound of my voice and reducing the background noise. So you're going have to play around with this because it can give you a really good effect, a good result. But then sometimes you may not actually like what it does because the sound changes a little bit too much. But you can also adjust this by going up and down. And a more or less of the percentage if I just go to a 100 percent on this versus not much at all. Yeah. So definitely my my sound the sound of my voice has gone a lot more Tripoli. So a lot more treble unless base than the original, but it's not an overall good job, some sort of happy with that. You can actually do further changes if I'm going to untick this right here. So in the very far right, you've got what's called the equalizer. This is now where you've got some preset settings to actually change the sound of that particular clip equalizer. Here we go. Here are all the options have got flat, I've got voice enhance out music enhance or loudness based foods, et cetera, et cetera. This is going to be relevant for the sort of audio that he's being played on that clip. Okay? If you've got some music being played and it doesn't sound too crash hot. Maybe there's not too much base and you could add the bass boost in there. All right, so it's actually added a fair bit of base to the actual sound, which is quite nice. 11, that could be good as well as the voice enhance. So it's gonna go and review, find a voice and try to boost that up. Yeah, so that has actually adjusted my voice and added it more dominantly, but it's also a tweaked the equalized my voice a little bit where it sounds a little bit different, it doesn't necessarily sound natural. Now we'll mention that there are other applications, are the video or the audio editing applications, where you can actually have the full spectrum of the equalizer and adjusted levels as you need to move this bit up and down with this bit up and down, et cetera, et cetera. You don't have that flexibility with iMovie. You've just got these presets settings, these equalizer settings already predefined for you. So I highly recommend play around with these because some of them may be really good for you. Some of them may actually make the sound, sound worse, because in the case of voice enhance, well, what that is doing is yes, it's going to enhance the voice, but any other sort of sound that he's in that clip will also be affected. You're applying that equalize it setting right against the entire audio stream of that video clip. So just be aware of that. So there you have a bit of an overview of the background noise, the equalizer. I now encourage you to go and try this yourself, play around with it. You can get really, really good results. You may get horrible results, but try yourself and be gentle, right? So if you're going to adjust the noise background for example, and actually put that reduce one in there. Play around with it, put it up and down gradually until you're at a point where you are happy with it, you know, with this area. Lower clips of other volumes, play around with it. Get it to all, be the nicest mixed possible. If you're gonna be able to release something that sounds professional and sounds really, really well done. You are going to have to play around with these to an audio, something that is super, super important. A lot of people can handle bad video, but bad audio. You don't want to hear that. So get your audio fixed up and these two tools will help you do that.
15. Stabilization: This video we're going to be talking about stabilize Asian. And if you've gone off with your digital camera, with your video recording, with your phone, and you've recorded some footage. And it's been a very, very bumpy day. You've been going maybe in recording in the car and a train. You've been going for a run, perhaps you've got a camera strapped to your head, whatever it may be. Then you're going to go and play that footage back and you find that it is bumpy. Or perhaps when you're panning from one scene to another, maybe a nice view that you're doing. It isn't very, very smooth, ER, it's a little bit jittery and a little bit bumpy. While the great thing is with iMovie, you've actually got a feature or a function within the application itself that allows you to stabilize your video, essentially removing some of that bump and trying to make it as smooth as possible. It's a great feature and it actually works quite well. So let's look at that weight here on our iMovie. And of course we've been playing around with this clip right here. Let's find that one that is actually maybe a little bit bumpy, just to sort of show you a really good example of what this could look like. Okay, so he's a 17 second clip of me eating some food, really showing it. And you can sort of see that the video a little bit, Judah's up and down. And that's because when I was actually recording this, it wasn't a smooth recording. All right. So out of good practice, generally when you are recording video footage and you are moving your camera around, you want to try to do as smooth of a move as possible to try to remove that. Because then later on you're going to see your hands moving up and down, for example. So not all hope is lost. If you do have some footage like this, then we can actually at least fix it or improve it. What I'm gonna do is just to show you the comparisons. I'm just going to do a copy of this clip and I'm going to paste it right next to it. Now I've got two of them. And in what I'm doing is I'm going to stabilize one and leave the other one as the default. You can actually see the differences between the two. So let's go ahead with this one right here. Now in the very top, again, we've got a little task by area right here. And you've got a icon here of a camera with some lines on the top and on the bottom. And that's the stabilization area. We select that right there. We're going to now take on this area called stabilize, shaky video and a tick on that. What that's gonna do is now it's going to analyze for dominant motion. So essentially there's some really smart technology behind the software that he's checking that video. And it's going to try to remove the, any jittering that any movement that it's got. So it's already done that. So let's have a look at what that looks like. This is the original. Okay? And this is the new one. Considerably better. Now what you can also do is you can actually adjust how much you want this to actually improve and you'll see what it's actually doing is actually zooming in. So it's sort of cropping areas of the video and try to move that crop as it, as your video moves. So you can make it less subtle or more Sasso, okay, you can actually adjust it. So I'm going to maybe make it just a little bit like that. See what that looks like. So comparing that to the original, considerably different if you can actually see the differences, it can be really dramatic as well and really go a much higher percentage. And there's really none whatsoever. It's actually extremely smooth because you've zoomed in and you'll removing any potential movement. So you just have to be very, very well aware that if you do adjust the stabilization, you are going to see a bit of your video cropped out. But it actually is a really, really good feature and play around with it. The results of this can be really good. Sometimes on some video clips you may not want to use stabilization. So just play with it, be sparing with it, sometimes, play around with it, apply it, see what it looks like, adjust the actual percentage up and down, and then remove it if you're not happy with it. Another option is this fixed rolling shut up. Essentially, you can actually reduce the delay of your rolling shutter on your camera a little bit or a lot. Ticking on this, you can actually set that to low, medium, high or extra high. And we'll also have a effect there as well. So let's say remove this one here. Still a little bit there. But I like to normally when I'm doing this, I'm combining stabilization or the shaking of the video with the rolling shutter. Okay, so play around with those two. You can set it too low, you can set it to medium, high, et cetera. And just play around with those to settings. And you will find that your actual stabilization does improve quite a bit. So that's the end of this lesson. Now it's your turn to go and try to do this yourself. I would highly recommend get yourself some footage, some footage perhaps that is moving quite a lot, that is stabilizing, not very, very well. And try to play around with these settings and stabilize shaky video, the rolling shutter, and see how that goes.
16. Clip Filters and Audio Effects: So as part of this lesson in learning, I'm movie. We're going to be looking at clipped filters and audio effects in your timeline in iMovie, first look at clipped filters and audio effects. So here we've got our timeline. We've looked at a few things. You should never be an expert at least to be able to do some basic changes, basic manipulation, cut, crop, adjust some of the audio, adjust the speed, all of that on your videos. But now we're going to look at some further settings here. We're going to select this very, very first clip that we've recorded. We've seen this one now a few times. And on the very top right in our task by HI, we've got these three little circles into change there. And this is the clip filter and audio effects area inside iMovie. You've got clipped filter on the left and you've got audio effect on the right. So what we're gonna do right here is we're going to click on clip filter over here. I want to see what's available here. This window now pops up and it lets you put on some really cool effects against your actual video clip. Now this is different to the color correction and adjusting the brightness and everything. This is actually not adding effects, adding filters, adding changes to your actual video itself. So to give you an example, I could flip the whole thing. I could do black and white. I could do this. I could do this. Some really cool effects available. But with that, How awesome is that? Straight out of the book, this is built right into iMovie. You can do these X-ray. Going to try to simulate this x-ray. Do a negative, do this little sci-fi locally, that's like a post-apocalyptic world. Look at that. So these are great. You can, you can change these as much as you want. You can adjust them. So I can just do day and night the agar. So now let's have a look at what that looks like. That is also not so it's just made the daytime appear like it's night time or at least it's dusk. Absolutely brilliant. So these are great effects and I recommend using them, but use them sparingly because of course, if you're, really depends on what sort of videos you are making, whether you're going to use these. But some of these filters are really, really, really nice. And the great thing is if I, if I pull out a full on crazy 10M x-ray and select that one there. I can actually adjust how much of that effect, how much of that filter I want to actually apply against that you can adjust the filter strength. I can drag that down. You see that all the way down to 0, back to normal, but I can just add just a little bit. Here's sort of where it changes and there it goes. X-ray. I could do that for is black and let's do the sci-fi. When I quite like the sci-fi one. Here as I move it, it adds back all the color. So if you don't like it so dramatic like that, you can just play around with it and just added a little bit, a little bit of that sci-fi effect into that. Today you'll clip filters. Absolutely brilliant. I love this feature then, yeah, and that's that one. Now, audio effect that currently that's blank because I've detached the audio from this particular video clip. That's why it's not there. But if I select this clip, for example, where I do have audio, I should what I'll do, let me find one that I've got where I'm actually talking. That's probably gonna be a lot easier. So he's a clip of me talking, delicious. Place. Highly recommend you, Vega, That's absolutely delicious. And there's some audio. So I'm going to select some audio effects, right? He was very similar to the clip filter. I've got a whole bunch of audio effects that I can put in here so I can make muffled, can adjust robot. So it's scary. So there's affects a really, really cool, they do adjust your sound, your audio quite dramatically. Of course, in my case, I was doing this with me talking. But if you've got other sorts of sounds in the background, you wanted to sort of spruce up some of your videos, make them a little bit more fun. They have some audio effects that you can also use. And as normal, if you want to remove everything that you've just sets, you can reset and that will then just revoke everything that you've just done.
17. Green Screen, Video Overlays, Split Screens: This lesson in the movie class, we are going to be looking at a few things here around overlays, green screens and split screens. Green screens, Hey, what a cool feature within iMovie splitting strains. These are great. We're going to be showing you how to use these today. So I recommend you go and try this yourself as you are learning these steps. So scroll just to the very end of the video because just sort of show you something in here. This is just a final clip. This is the end of my video. I'm going to go into this, my videos to section. Of course, I've got a whole bunch of videos and photos and all that sort of stuff in here. And of course, you should already know that you can lie videos together. So I'm going to have this playing overheat, like Sorry. Or I can add this into here. And it'll play. And then it'll cut our Eva to this video. So I can literally just put a little section like this, play a bit, cuts over to the next video and then starts playing the next bit. And of course, the top layout will sort of override anything that's underneath it. Now because it is on a different layer right here, what you can do is you can select this video right of a heap and you now get a additional little area right over here on the taskbar called Video overlay settings. Now, that will only be available on these top options if I select the bottom one, so that that'll icon is not there. But if I select the top one, there it is. And you can also do this with your backgrounds. For example, if I select the background here, a number of backgrounds that we had. So I like these abstract background over here. I could add that into there and I can select that. You'll see that I also get this little area or the he could also do some background settings and actually adjust the background itself. 12 changes sorts of colors. So if I like that to be grain, I can do that. For like that to be yellow, I can do that. So I'm going to just all of those backgrounds by getting this little option up there if you need to as well. But we're not focusing on that here. We're looking at this video overlays. So what I could do right here, I can select this right over there, and I get this new set of options over here. Now I've got a little drop-down area on the left with some things. He I've got cutaway green, blue screen, split-screen, picture in picture. Now what you'll see by default when you play like this, that's called a cutaway. Okay, So the setting against this clip is saying that it will cut away to this particular video. That's really what it's doing. I can do a lot more than just that though, which is excellent. I could select the drop-down and I can say, let's let's keep getting him bluish color for the time being. I can do split screen. Well, that is now split it in half so I can play. Now splits it. So I've got that video on the split screen. Great. It's really nice. Okay, you can change the position left, right, top, bottom. So for example, what if I'm, let's say I'm demoing a product, Let's pretend that this is a product. I could be putting this and I could say split screen to the right. So I could be talking, yea, this is the product variety of, uh, he, and then my spice will stay on one while the other video is playing on the very far right one. So it's a really, really nice feature on there. The other option is picture. In picture. Let's select that one. What that has just done is now I've got a video inside my video, and you can see that I can literally grab it and drag it. I can make it bigger. I can make it smaller. So look at that. I can put that right over there, play this. And then here is the video inside of my video. And that is what's called picture. In picture. It's a really, really nice feature. And you can actually do an effect here. You'll see that when I played that it's sort of had that effect transition into the video and then out of the video. And say that you can actually adjust that. So you can make that that was a dissolve, a fake. You can do a Zoom affecting, do a swap affect. How long do you want that effect? The last, let's say we want that to last. Three seconds. Say like so. Great. And you can also adjust that length by clicking on the actual video itself and just moving this over and say he's down there. And that will have the same effect as may actually going in and changing the time over here. I can set a border. So I can I could do this one right here. No border. I can do this border. I can do this border. A thin one or a thick one. I can adjust the color of the border. I can create a shutter. Can't really say that you guys create a shadow on the very bottom of the actual embedded video. Great little thing, okay. So you can really play around with this quite a lot. I use these consistently, especially because I record videos on technology and things of that nature. I love to demo a product and sometimes I'll have a different phage showing you that product. And then I can just bring that video feed into these other video fade and actually just have it side-by-side or have it in its own little window right here. And you can just drag around, you can shrink it. Really, really nice. It's a really, really great feature that's built into your, into your eye maybe. Now one of that green screens we sort of looked at that before, green and blue strains. Let's just put this check as thing over here. Here is a nice background that we had. And what we're gonna do is we're going to adjust some of these colors. Okay? I'm going to say the color here is going to be grain. Now, if you know anything about how a green screen or a blue screen work, these are used of course, for people who make movies and TV shows and they want to have some special effects. Well, an act up in whatever movie in Star Wars, that background is not really them on a spaceship. It's the act up in films sometimes behind the grain screen, and then later on in post-production, which is really what we're doing in HE, they just then include the background behind it. So that's really what they're doing. So what you could do, for example, if let's just say that this is a video, I've got green. In this video, I can go into this section over here and select green or blue screen. And what we'll do is it actually has now substituted the green area and is now showing me the video underneath it. So it's just removed that green section. He's another usable way of doing it. So for example, I've got a video over here, this one here. So this is a video that I made of just for YouTube. Remember to subscribe. Here is a nice little animated video that I can put it the very end, for example, an ending screen. And at the moment all the video shows me is this. Remember to subscribe, and there it is. It's nothing, nothing special. But you will notice that there is a big green section over here. So I want this video to, for example, be the top layer and then have me speaking underneath it so that when I finished the video, it has this nice little overlay against it. But then I want to be able to see the video underneath it, which is this video stream right under it substituting that green section. So what I can do is I can select that. I can go into the green blue screen, tick on that and look at that. It's actually now put in that video underneath it. How cool is that? And that's it. And that's really how a grain blue screen works. So you can have a video clip that has some grain. You can have your own, you can create your own. You can have a background that has some brain. You put it in there, then essentially adjust that. Now there's another section up here. Without clean up, you can do this little icon over here which is cropped the green blue Screen clip or drag across a green or blue area that is still showing and you can sort of make it adjusted, for example. So an example would be, let's say I don't want this clip here. I could I could grab that and drag that over like that. And then that becomes part of the actual video. So now it's your turn to go and try this yourself. Go to your iMovie. In this class, we've learned a lot of stuff around how to do some of the movie magic sort of things. How to embed multiple videos inside of themselves, had to use green screens. So go and try yourself. These are great features for you to know.
18. Exporting Your Project: So in these classes we've been learning about AI movie, and this is now the lesson where we, putting all of these together, we've now created a really, really cool video. At least you've learned how to do that, at least the skills to go and do that yourself. And now, how do you export that particular video? If you already know, we've obviously created here ourselves out new movie. We call it Japan 2019. You can go and create yourself a brainy movie. Do what you need to do into there. When you click on back, it'll ask you what do you want it to be called? So this could be my trip to the coast. And that is now a new clip. I can create then another one and give it a name. There it is. And there are three different projects available for me. So we're gonna Japan 2019 trip to coast and name and of course he's a 0 seconds and this one has got a total of 22 minutes and 39 seconds for Japan 2019. So of course you go in, you edit your clip, you make your clip usable. You are happy with it. You're making sure that everything works as you expect it. The clips in the right order gone, and you've adjusted all of the settings of your actual video. You've adjusted the colors, you've adjusted the audio, you've cropped things. You've maybe added some overlay, some videos on top of other videos, you've adjusted the shaky notice of your actual video, whatever it may be, and you are happy with it. Now the first thing first is of course you wanna make sure that everything works well, that everything is to your liking because then once you've exported it is just annoying because you'll have to go back into iMovie, adjust things, and then re-exported again. So you only really want to export everything once everything is firing, your timelines would recommend go into he, shrink it down, making sure that everything consistently looks all right, that your clips are in the right order, that your audio is all level. Now something that I would do, for example, is let's say I've got all of these clips. I may select all of them. And the great thing is you can manipulate multiple clips at once. So you could go into the volume section, actually adjust the volume of your clips, of all the clips at the same time, I could select all of these and actually go into audio and say, well look, I want all of them to be throwing up a little bit. Maybe the audio is a little bit soft. Don't want them all to be at 174 percent. For all of them, I could adjust the actual color. I want to make them all slightly brighter. So that's great feature and it makes it very, very easy to be able to edit multiple clips at once. So then once you're happy with everything and it looks really, really good, you go into the file area on the very top left hand corner. And I'm going to select share here. I'm provided with four different options with e-mail, YouTube and Facebook, image and file. Generally, what I recommend is to always, always, always export in a file format. Yes, you can post directly to YouTube and Facebook. So if I select YouTube and Facebook right here and add the name, the description. If you know about YouTube for example, this is the description on YouTube videos, some tags, some resolutions. But he says actually right here that shared files will be saved to your Mac to upload your videos, follow the guidelines of your video sharing websites. It doesn't really let me do anything specific. So I generally don't even bother using YouTube and Facebook. If I go into email, is presenting me with his warning where it tells you that the estimate file size is going to be larger than 10 meg. So it may fail because some email providers will not allow you to send attachments that are larger than specific sizes. So you can add the name, you can add that, and you can have the resolution. You can make it bigger or smaller. And that will of course give you a recommendation on the size. And then you can share it and that'll open up your emails and do it that way. I generally don't do it that way. Either. File share and image export, what I'm seeing just as a simple image. So I'm not going to use that. So the one that I am going to focus on here is file. Now. Here, there are a few options. I can see a little preview of what I'm exporting and you give it a relevant name. So Japan 2019, I'm going to call it final, so that I know. Give it a meaningful description, any specific tags. Then I've got the format video and audio or audio early. So for example, what if I've used iMovie to go and just manipulate a whole bunch of audio, then you can actually export the audio only are generally wouldn't recommend doing that in here. There's really no point. It is a movie. It's called iMovie. If you wanna do audio stuff, I'll do something like GarageBand or similar to actually adjust all of your audio stuff. But this is really nice either way, if you do want to do that. So I'm going to leave it as video and audio. Then I've got the resolution. Do you want this to be in 540 pay in 720 P or in 10 ADP. You are recording in for K and you've actually imbedded and you've input videos that are in for K and all your videos in your feed are in for k. And you do an export. You'll also get yourself an option there to export in for K. Now I cannot export in for k Because the videos themselves that I've imported into iMovie are not in forecast, so just keep that in mind. That's also true of 10 ADP. If you're using videos in here that are not in 1080 P, then you won't have that option available to you. Now in my case, I want to explore in the best quality video. The resolution, I should say, then the quality itself. You've got a few options. You've got low, medium, high, and best, which is progress. So what is the quality of the video that you want to be exporting? Now you all keep in mind that in the bottom left-hand corner here it's giving you an estimate of how big that fall will be. That's not always accurate. I've generally found because a hi-fi export that he won't actually probably be 3.44 gig, it'll probably be a fair bit less. So I would use that as a guidance necessarily, but sometimes can be accurate. Sometimes it isn't accurate, but it will adjust based on the quality of the video. You'll see that if I make it low, it's going to adjust it to essentially 1.100 gig for make it progress is going to say, well, that's going to be a 25 gig video. Okay, I can also select custom. Or I can specifically say, well how many megabytes per second, and we want that video to be there. So I'm going to just that as need be. Now. It really depends on the sorts of videos that you're doing. Pro progress base is going to be really, really big. They're going to be very, very, very, very big file sizes. So you have to keep that in mind. So you may be okay with high, for example. So what I would recommend maybe play around with this. Export some videos in low, medium and high in best progress, export some videos in your resolutions and see what that looks like. Something else to consider is that the resolution is relevant to the screen size. If you're going to be only showing this on people who are on an iPhone, then is it really a point in going to the best quality, the best resolution? So you've got to consider all of these things. So play around with these, export the video multiple times, different resolutions, different qualities, and see what that looks like. Compress while do want it to be faster or better quality. I by default say that I want better quality. I prefer that as well. Okay, so that's where you're out. The next thing is just to click on Next. It will then ask you, where do you want to actually save that too? I want to save it to this location right here. And then I can click on save over there. And what will happen is in the very top right-hand corner, I've now got this little indicator window letting me know the activity that he's taking place. And in this case, it's exporting that video into my computer, into my external hard drive or wherever that may be. During this process, you don't quit out of iMovie. This is a process that will require a lot of your computers grunt. So if you are using your computer for other purposes, just be aware that I am movie to export the video. It's doing a lot of stuff in the background to get your video ready, converting your entire timeline into a usable form that can be them compressed and exported into a single video file. So this process is quite CPU and memory heavy, graphics card heavy. So your computer will run slower during this process. The faster your computer, the better processing power your computer has, the quick at this process will take. So if you're running an older Mac, just be aware that it will run slower, it will take a lot longer to export a video, then a faster Mac. And of course, the quality of the video, the sort of resolution and the quality itself that you set, as well as the length of the video, will also determine how long this process will take. The much longer videos will take a lot longer to export then shorter videos. So you have to, you have to consider all of this during the export process. But then at the end of that process, your video will be exported. You can then save it. You can upload it to YouTube, to Facebook, you can save it to an external hard drive, share it with a friend bernie to a DVD played on your media server at home to play it onto plex or whatever sort of media system you've got. And that's it. That's how you export a video on iMovie. Of course, as part of this lesson, you now go and do this. You've spent all this time they're creating your perfect video clips. Play around with it, learn how to use that better. And then when you're ready, go and export your own video.
19. What's next?: So now it's your turn. Grab your mat. If you haven't already been following along through all of these lessons, go and try everything that you've learned to be able to edit and make your own movie. And the great thing is because this is on Skillshare. It's available for you to watch whenever you want. So go back, re-watch any of these lessons to get those skills that you need to be able to make your great videos and your movies, and then export them, sharing them with your friends and family and with the world and even across your social media. But thank you so much you're spending their time watching this training class. Hopefully you did find it helpful. Please do check us out my other classes. I've got a whole bunch on other topics around other things, technology and a whole lot more. So thank you so much for spending the time. Really appreciated. We will see you next time.
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