April 2011
Beginner
540 pages
17h 8m
English
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Chapter 1. Importing Video
Let’s say you’ve filmed something. You’ve captured some video on your camcorder, digital camera, phone, or Flip, or maybe you’ve just assembled some videos on your hard drive. Now it’s time for the heart of this book: editing your footage using iMovie on the Mac. This chapter introduces you to iMovie and its importing window, which slurps up video from tape camcorders, tapeless camcorders, and old iMovie projects. It can also record video live, in real time, from a camcorder or an iSight video camera.
iMovie: The Application
So far in your moviemaking adventures, you’ve probably thought about nothing but hardware—the equipment needed to edit your raw footage. In the end, however, the iMovie story is about software, both the footage as it exists on your Mac and the iMovie program itself.
iMovie on a New Mac
If you bought a Mac after October 2010, iMovie ’11 is probably
already installed on your hard drive. To see, open the Macintosh HD
icon→Applications folder. Inside, you’ll find the star-shaped icon
for iMovie itself (
). That icon is probably in your Dock,
too.
iMovie for an Existing Mac
If your Mac didn’t come with iMovie ’11, you can buy it as part of Apple’s $50 iLife ’11 software suite. The suite comes on a single DVD and includes the latest versions of GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, and iDVD. (It’s available from Apple’s website, Apple stores, Amazon.com, ...
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