iMovie 09

iMovie 09

Last year me and my group created a video using iMovie 09. We had never used iMovie 09 before so we didn't know how to do anything. So we taught ourselves and it was just trial and error whilst making our video. Using iMovie 09 we was able to make the video in black and white, add in transitions and cut down the clips to the length we wanted them to be. We was also able to cut out the sounds and put the music in with the video.

Once we understood how to do everything, we got the hang of it and knew how to do what we wanted to do.

Below is our music video. This video was the first video that we used iMovie 09 to create. 

To import clips onto iMovie 09 you will need to import the clips from either a camera which you have used to film or from the computer you are using iMovie 09 on. Once the clips have been uploaded they will appear in the event section at the bottom of the IMove 09 screen. The event section lets you keep your clips organised and if you use a clip, an orange line appears underneath the clip to show that you have used that specific clip. To then add these clips to the actual video you have drag the cursor over the part of the clip you want and then click on the clip and drag it into the top section of the iMovie 09 screen.

Before adding the clips, if you want to cut them down then you do this in the event section. You click on the clip that you want to cut down and an orange line should appear around the whole clip. Then all you have to do is drag the end of the orange line down to cut the clip down to whatever length you want.

Once you have added all of your clips to the top section of the iMovie screen you can then add transaction such as wipes to make the clips flow from one to the other. You can also remove the original sound from the clips such as background noises and voices. After you have muted all of the clips, you can add your music. To edit the original sound, you need to double click on the clip and select audio and then select the audio link, this will take you to the audio section of the clip. Once you have down this you need to turn the volume of the clip down or fully mute it. To change when the music begins to fade into silence you need to add a 'fade to black' transition at the very end of the video, and elongate the timing of the transition to, for example, 10 seconds, this means that the music and the video will start to fade out 10 seconds before the music video finishes.

You import any sound the same was as you imported the clips. As long as the sound is a file you can import it the same way as the clips and again, it appears in the event section at the bottom of the iMovie 09 screen and again, to add it you drag it to the top section of the iMovie 09 screen.

Transitions can be found at the bottom right of the iMovie screen. You can use these wherever in your video. It's best to use them to make clips flow from one to another. A fade is really effective at the end of a video, it is effective as if shows that the video has ended.

Text is useful for introducing your video, subtitles and annotations, identifying speakers, closing credits and more. In iMovie there are a variety of 'titles', many of which can be adjusted and customized. To access the titles, click the T button, which opens the title pane with all of iMovie’s pre-made title templates.