iMovie For iPhone: Complete Guide For Beginners.

1. Introduction.: Hey, my name is Collin Michael, and in this course you'll learn iMovie for iPhone, for Complete Guide for beginners. Now, I've been creating content on line 48 plus years, so I know a thing or two when it comes to editing. And we're going to cover the basics that way you can create a YouTube video, possibly make short-form content, or if you're just looking to do a vlog or make a fun family video to share with friends. You're going to learn the exact basics, everything to do with iMovie so you can get started doing this right now as a beginner. Now, all you need for this course is just your iPhone. We're not going to get fancy. We're going to cover the basics of trimming, how to add text and music, and just anything you might need to know to create your first project. So if you're ready to start editing with iMovie, this is the course for you and I hope to see you on the other side. 2. Creating a Project and Adding Videos: Now for this iMovie guide, I will be doing this in the landscape mode just so that way it takes up more of the screen and it's a lot easier for you to see the tutorial. But iMovie does work in both landscape and portrait. And what we're gonna do is we're going to create a project and we're going to focus on adding our footage and our photos into the timeline. So we're gonna do is just going to slide up to the start new projects screen here. And we're going to click on movie because it allows us to make a video from scratch and add different elements. So I'm going to click on that. And then in the top-left corner, I'm going to click the Back button to media. Now this will give me the full range of options to look at my videos, photos, albums, as well as backgrounds. If I want to use a background image and have different things over the top of it. But we're just going to start with videos and photos. I'm actually going to click on album though, because I have a, an album here where it's videos to edit a bit of footage here that we can use to edit our project. So what I'm going to do, all you have to do is really click on one of those videos and I'll let you select it. You can click on those just like that. And you can also click on them again to de-select them. If you want to preview a video real quick, you can hold your finger down. And it will let you actually preview the video real quick just to make sure it's the right-click you want to add. You can let go and then select it so you can get a little quick preview there. And then at the bottom it will say create movie. And we can click that. I'll put all the footage together and we can start editing. Now on the top here we have the preview screen to let us see what our end product is gonna look like. And then underrate is the timeline where it shows all the video clips kinda put together. I can use my finger and I can scroll through the timeline and look at all the different video clips. I can also use my fingers to pinch, to zoom in, to get a closer look and do very specific edits. And I can also pinch to zoom out so I can see all my video clips in the timeline. Now you'll also notice on the far left side there is a plus button. This actually allows us to add more footage to our timeline if we forgot something, maybe we want to add some photos, which I actually do for this example. So I'm just gonna click the plus icon, takes us right back here, two videos, photos and albums. And just to note here, if you scroll down, there is also a voice-over option and in audio option. So if I click on audio in here, you can find soundtracks which is built-in music that you can use in your footage. If I go back, there's my music which will take you to your actual Apple Music. And then you also have sound effects, which will be fun sound effects you can put into your video. So that is here in that underneath that plus button. But I'm going to add a photo as well as another video to this project. Alright, and I've got that all added now. Now you'll also probably notice that in-between each clip is this weird like symbol here. And you'll notice it causes a fade effect That's actually built-in transitions from iMovie. So transition is the thing that happens between one clip to another. And for this, it dissolves and fades to the next clip and they're automatically added. It's just what iMovie does. If you actually click on those, you can move it to the none. And then do that for each of these. Just so that way you don't have any transitions added. If you want there to be cool effects here, they're all here. So for example, there's this slide effect. So that'll actually cause the video to slide on in-between the two clips. There's a few different ones here, and you can also set the on the side here how long those transitions are if it takes two seconds to switch to the next video, usually I have my transitions on none. I'm not the biggest fan of transitions in-between videos, but you do have that option there. But for now, I'm going to set those all to none. And with that being said, let's get into some of the settings that are found within iMovie. 3. Project Settings.: Alright, so let's get into some of the settings that can be found within iMovie. On the far right side, you'll see the settings icon. If we click on that, we'll get all of our project settings and we'll start at the top and work our way down. Now on the top, you have a project filter, which will apply a filter to the entire project. I'm not usually recommended, but that is an option that you can choose here within iMovie and it'll make that filter on every single video in your project. Next, we have something called theme. Now with themes, you'll notice that some of these are travel. Some of them are like this news theme on the far right. Basically what this is is if you choose a certain theme, There's different things you can customize in your video related to that. So for example, we'll probably see later in the news theme, if you have that set up, it'll actually do news text effects and allows you to add news transitions. Or if you do the travel one, there'll be travel, text effects and different things like that that you can use. So that is optional. You don't have to pick a theme if you don't want to. But it does give you some extra customization. Like if you're making a travel video, you didn't get some cool effects to do for your travel video if you're using that theme. So that's how you change it. You change it in the settings section. And then you have some other settings here you have themes soundtrack which you don't need to really worry about. You can just get your music from that music section that we just talked about. Then you can also control whether you want the video to and from black or fade out from black. So very self-explanatory. The video, you will begin with the fade-in or leave with a fade into black, which is optional. Then you also have speed changes pitch, which is already turned on. So if you speed up a video, it'll keep your voice the same versus they are. Your voice is getting really high pitched or slow down towards deep. It'll try to maintain your proper tone of your voice. So that's basically the settings of iMovie, those options there main thing you want to pay attention to is that theme section. But with that, let's get into actually trimming our clips. 4. Rearrange and Trimming Clips.: Alright, so let's get into rearranging and trimming our video clips. So if we want to rearrange a clip, well you have to do is hold down your finger on that clip. So if I hold my finger down on it, you'll see I've picked it up and can drag it around. I can slide it all the way over to the far right's and it'll move it. I can slide it all the way to the far left. And it'll drag it around the timeline here. And then wherever I want it to go, I just let go and it will have placed it there. So now this one is here and this money counting one is there. So I can easily grab these and drag them around. Now for trimming a clip, it's best to be zoomed in on your timeline. So I'm actually going to do that in a pinch to zoom in with my fingers for trimming my video clip just so I can get a better site of what I'm doing. And then for true and your clip, you're just going to click on the video that you want to trim. So I'm going to do that now. And you'll notice that there's really thick yellow bar is on the far left and the far right of this video clip. And basically what we can do is grab that and drag with our finger. And you can see I've made the video shorter. I can make it longer. And you'll also notice on the previous screen, I'm seeing right where the video is going to begin. So let's say I wanted to start right when he's typing on the calculator, I can just drag with my finger right there. Let go and it will start there. And maybe on the other side of this clip, I want to end on his face zoomed in here. So I can click on this and from the right side I'll grab that giant yellow thick bar in, drag it over to where it's zoomed in on his face. Like go, there we go. I have now trimmed my video clip. Now let's say you want to trim something out of the middle of a video clip. Just by clicking on the video, you can't trim something out of the middle just by grabbing the left or right. Thicker yellow bars here. How do you do it? Well, what you'll wanna do is make sure the video is selected and then also make sure you are under the scissors icon. You can then do is scroll over to the spot where you want to trim. So I might want to trim out him counting money here. I'm going to click on the video under that scissors icon, you'll notice on the far right side there is a split button. What I can do is click that and when it does is cut the video in half. So this is its own separate clip, and this part is also its own separate clips. So here I can trim from the left and the right, and here I can now trim from the left and right. So now I can drag this bar here and scroll over and get rid of this counting money part just to where it shows his head. Now, when I click Play is on the calculator and then it goes right to his head and I've cut something out of the middle of the video clip. Now, also with that video clip selected in under the scissors icon, you'll see there's a delete button as well. So if I click that, that'll delete the video clip. And if for some reason we didn't actually want to delete that clip, you'll notice that there is a back button right here on the screen. If I click this, it will actually reverse any actions I've made. So if I keep clicking, this will go back far enough where I've reversed the split down the middle and we have our entire video clip back. So that reverse icon, really important, just in case you make a mistake, you want to go back to something you originally did. You can click that back button and it'll do that. Alright, so now that you understand the basics of rearranging clips and trimming them how you want. Let's get into some more advanced settings in the next section. 5. Speed Up and Slowmo.: Alright, so let's talk about speed options when it comes to your video. So if I click on the video here, we've already talked about being either the scissors icon. So let's go over to the next one, which is the speed icon. Now, under this icon, we can actually control the speed of our video. So if I want, I could turn this knob all the way to the right. And now the video is playing at two times the speed. So now when we click play here, he's counting that money really, really quick. He is super-fast on the calculator. This is amazing. And also if we click on the video, we can turn it the other way. And now it's 1 eighth of the original speed and we click Play. And now it's really, really slowed down so you can adjust the speed just like that. Alright, let's keep going on with this tutorial. 6. Audio Settings.: Alright, so let's talk about audio settings. So if we click on a video that has audio, right now we're on the speed icon, as you can see on that far left side, we're just gonna click over to the next one, which is volume. And in here we can actually adjust the volume of our video. So if something is too loud or too quiet, we can always turn down the volume to make it quieter. Click Play and listen to it. Or you can make the volume even louder if you want to turn it up and be able to hear something. Now, the volume key actually works for audio effects as well as soundtracks. So if you add music or sound effect to your project, you can click the volume icon and be able to turn it up and turn it down and be able to use it that way. And that can be really useful, especially for music. You don't want your music to be overpowering your video, especially if someone's talking or you don't want an effect to Blair super loud or quiet part. So you can really customize the volume there and change the main track, and then also changed the audio track and really adjust those to make them work perfectly. So definitely useful. Just wanted to make you aware that even though it seems like a basic thing, It's really helpful so that way you can get your videos to sound perfectly. But with that being said, let's go over to the next section here, we're going to talk about text effects. 7. How To Add and Customize Text.: Alright, continuing on with our video effects, we've talked about trimming speed. We've talked about sound. The next thing on this little list of settings for a video is the text effects. So when we click on this, you can see that there's a whole bunch of different texts effects that we can use for our videos. Each with their own little animations in things that we can click on. Now, for example, here we'll just click on one of these texts defects. And what we can actually do is just tap lightly on texts and then we can click the Edit button there and we can type our text. Let's just do test text. There we go, and there we go. We've got test text on the screen. And then maybe we can do is with our finger, we can actually grab this text and move it anywhere we want. So if you want in the corner, if you want it just at the bottom, on the top, we can move it anywhere we want. We can also pinch to make it bigger or make it smaller. So you can also control the size of the text. And then on the far left side, you'll see the capital and lowercase a. If you click that, it will allow you to change the font of your text. I'm just going to click the X button though. You can also click on Colors, and this will let you change the color of the text. You can also go to spectrum and sliders and all that. And then on the three dots there, we can click on those. Here. We can change things like uppercase if we want to add a sound effect for the text, and also if we want the text to stay on the screen for the full, entire clip. So right now, the textual, if we actually go back here and click Play just to show you, and I click Play, the text comes on screen. And then in a few seconds it just ends up disappearing. If we were to click on this and the three dots and make it the full clip duration detects would stay on the screen the entire time. So that is optional. You can put that in there, but most of the time probably don't want that. Then this style option, it'll give you the option if you want to put it in the lower thirds, which doesn't make sense because we can already grab the text and move it to the lower third section if we really want to. So it doesn't really matter. Now the other part that is important is your theme. We were talking about this. So if I open up Settings again in the far right side here, I want to, I'm going to show you this. I'm going to change the theme to news and I'm gonna click done. And now when I scroll to the far, far right, you'll notice this news icon. If I click on this, It's actually going to do. And I'm actually just going to exit out of the text settings just so we can see it. You'll notice now there's this cool news effect that now appears on the screen, which is really, really cool. We're actually editing the text, blocks it there. But we can also do here. And this is where clicking those three dots might make sense. So I'll click on those three dots and I'll click style. And now there's a few options in this style right now around the middle style. But if I click this opening one and I go back here, now it's an opening, cool text effects. I'm going to close the text settings here. As you can see now, it has this cool test text and it does this cool news effect on the video. Not only downside with this, is it does stay on the screen the entire time. You'll probably have to do is leave it up there for as long as you want it on there. And then click the Split button. And that'll cause the text disappears. So then it'll just do a little zoom in. There won't actually be a cut. And that's an easy way to make a short in the text effect is you don't probably want those news effect down there all the time. But using those cool themes, you can do really cool things for your thing. Or if you were to do something like a travel theme. And we were to do a text effect. We could click on that like this opening effect. As you can see it does this cool photograph for a travel video, which is pretty cool. So use those Style effects for the text effects. It adds a lot of coolness to it. But other than that, that's pretty much the basics of tax. You can just add them to your video. Choose a cool transition or text effect within the text settings here you can click through these experiment with them. And yeah, you can put awesome texts on your videos. We'll keep moving on. 8. Overlays and Green Screen Effects.: Alright, so let's talk about adding things like overlays, B-roll, and green screen effects. So if we actually click on the Plus button here and we go over to our video section. I'm just going to scroll down to the videos to edit. If I click on one of these, we'll say, we'll click on this guy. Here. You'll notice that now there's these three dots that appear after we've created our project. If we click on these, it'll actually give us a few options of adding a video on top of the video. So here it'd be a few options here we'll start with cutaway. If I click on cutaway here, is if you click play here, it'll actually switch to this other clip that's above the other one. And then once it gets to the end, it'll switch back to the other one. While that's happening, the audio from this first original clip will continue to play. Now if I want, I can click on this video on top and I can trim it, does the exact same way. So if I want to make it shorter, I can do that and it'll sit there right above. And that's great. Now I can also from here by clicking this, you'll notice there's now this weird two rectangles. If I click that, it'll give me the other options. So one of the other ones is split screen. So if I click that, it'll actually switch to splitting the screen in half in showing both clips at the exact same time. The other options here would be the cutaway, which we already did. Picture in picture actually makes this video movable in the timeline. So I can click the moving button here and I can drag it around the screen anywhere I want. This would be good for a gaming video or a reaction video. There we go. Now it's in the corner there. And I can also click this other option down here, which will allow me to change the border. So if I want a white border around it to look nice, I can have that or I can de-select it and they'll have no border and it'll just be a video there, the green screen, since I don't have a green screen, I can still show it anyway. What you would do is you would just tap on the green part of your green-screen and make it disappear. Or you can tap on any color. So if I click his gray sweater here, it's going to make it invisible. Or if I click on the white, since it's not a green screen, it's not doing a good job, but you'd be able to remove the background of something if you actually had a, had a green screen there. But the overlay feature is definitely useful, especially if you have B-roll or clip state you want to show while you're still talking like a product or you're showing a location you traveled to while you're giving contacts. It's very cool thing to do. So using overlays, definitely a useful feature within iMovie. 9. Ken Burns Effect In Photos: I wanted to make this quick section here to talk about photos just in case that's your plan to add photos to your project. What you'll notice is when you add a photo into iMovie, that there's automatically some movement to the photo which is kinda weird. And what that is is something called the Ken Burns effect, which is basically movement in a photo. If we actually click on this photo here, you'll notice it says Ken Burns Enabled. If we click on that, we can disable it and the photo will just stay still and there won't be movement. You can also enable it. And what you can do is using these arrows, you can click the spot where you want the photo to start. And then using my fingers I can pinch to zoom in, say I want to start on my face. Then I can click the other arrow position where you want the photo to end. So I can actually align this and control the movements. So now that I've sent the beginning point and the ending point, it will actually move that photo like that. If I want that to be a longer effect, I can always extend my photos length just like you would trim a video. And now it'll take a little bit longer for it to zoom out. So very cool feature there. If you want to have movement in your photos, create a photo collage. You can do that with the Ken Burns effect and add some nice movement to a photo. You can cause slow zoom ins, really fast zoom in and depending on however you wanna do it. But that effect is in here within iMovie, and I just wanted to show you how that works. 10. Exporting Your Video.: Alright, so hopefully that was enough for you to create your project and now it's time to export your video. So all you'll have to do is click the Done button. And it'll do this. You can rename your video if you want, but it doesn't really matter. Usually the best way whether you're uploading to social media or YouTube or any of those videos sites, it's easier to click the middle Export button and just save it to your gallery. That way you can send it to wherever you want. And you're not just uploading inside of iMovie. So if you click Save video, it'll start saving it to your camera roll. And then from there you can export it to whatever camera roll you, Facebook or YouTube or whatever. Then I'll give you the best settings it can to give you some high-quality video there so that way you can use it wherever, but that is how you export your project. But before you take off, I would love to see the skills that you can do. So be sure to stick around for the class project. 11. Class Project.: Alright, so it's time to put the skills you've just learned to use with this class project. Now you've learned the basics of iMovie. You've learned texts, you've learned overlays, you've learned how to trim clips. So whenever you are planning on making a video on, I wanted, I want you to do is upload that as a class projects. So on this screen currently if you scroll down into the description or details of this course, there should be a Create, a project or course projects section. There should be a button there that will allow you to upload a video that you've created for this project. Now, if you didn't have anything really in mind, you're just trying to learn editing. Just shoot a 30 to 60 seconds video that you can practice with for making a video in iMovie, some ideas could be a product review of something that you enjoy. Or another idea could be to show just a lovely scenery in whichever part of the world you are in, trying to mess around with as many effects as you can. Add music to your projects, add some cool text effects. I want to see you utilizing those skills. So that way, by doing those actions, you'll get everything down in your head. So when you do end up creating a project, it'll look great. So I hope you'll do this class project. I can't wait to see what you guys make. And then we'll continue on with this course. 12. Final Thoughts.: Alright, so that concludes our course with iMovie. Now the most important thing is to just start working your video editing muscles. So what that means is actively making projects, even if they're a little, even if you don't end up showing them to anyone, just by practicing those skills, you're going to get better by doing a class projects, you're gonna get better. So mess around with the text effects. If you need to, just use some videos that you've already taken in the past, throw them in a timeline and just start messing around, add music, do different things with an iMovie practice. Because that practice is going to lead to getting better and getting more use to editing. So when you do want to make a project wherever that is for someone's graduation, you're doing a product review or a YouTube video. You can just already know what you're doing and be able to make an awesome video. So I can't wait to see what you guys do with iMovie. I'm so glad that you stuck around and watch this course with me. And I hope to see you in other courses here on Skillshare.