W200 Using Computers in Education

Creating a Video Montage with iMovie 08

This document details each step in the process of importing photos into iPhoto, thencreating an iMovie photo montage with text overlays, effects, transitions, and music,finishing with sharing the movie via a QuickTime video file useable on both theMacintosh and Windows operating systems.This document assumes you have your photos stored electronically in your flash drive(and that drive is available on your computer) and that you have an audio CD with themusic you’d like to feature in your movie.1.

Launch iPhoto

. Locate the iPhoto icon in the dock(it’s a sunset photo with a digital camera) and clickonce. If iPhoto is not available in the dock, double-click the Macintosh HD icon on the desktop, clickApplications in the left-side nav bar, then double-click the iPhoto application icon in right-side list of apps.2.Import your project photos into iPhoto.Click

File

Import to Library . . .

Navigate to your photos using the dialoguebox which appears. Once you’ve foundthem, click the first photo, scroll to the lastphoto, hold your

Shift

key and click thelast photo. All photos should behighlighted. Click I

mport

and allow iPhototo bring import all the photos you selected.3.iPhoto will bring the photos into an

event

and will default name it “untitled event.”You can rename the event by clicking once on the words “untitled event” in theupper left corner, pausing, then clicking once more. Type a more descriptivename for your group of photos.

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Project 6 – iMovie Public Service Announcement

4. You can do some simple photo editing in iPhoto such ascropping, rotating, red-eye removal, turn to BW and sepia.

Click

the photo you wish to edit, and then click the

Edit

button at the bottom of the iPhoto screen.A.Rotate: clicking this button rotates pictures 90degrees counter-clockwise. Continue clicking to continue rotating.B.Crop: cut away unwanted portions of the photo. Just drag a box aroundthe good stuff and click the crop button to cut away the bad stuff.C.Straighten: gives you a set of guides to which you can realign the photo;drag the slider to change the angle to align to a horizontal or verticalguide.D.Enhance: a single-click button that tells iPhoto to enhance the quality of the image. (No, it will not make a bad photo good . . . )E.Red-eye: to fix red-eyes (a result of the camera’s flash reflecting off human eyes), click the button, then click the red eyes in the image.F.Retouch: allows you to remove “blemishes” from images.G.Done: when you are finished with your editing, click

Done

to savechanges in iPhoto. (The image on your jump drive has not beenchanged.)5.

Exit iPhoto

. At this point, your image collection in iPhoto is ready to be usedwith iMovie. Remember that on a Mac, to exit an application, you choose

Quit

from the

pull down menu.

Notes about iPhoto

Launch iMovie

. Locate the iMovie icon in the dock (it’s agold and black star with a movie camera) and click once. If iMovie is not available in the dock, double-click theMacintosh HD icon on the desktop, click Applications,double-click iMovie.The iMovie interface will open, and you are ready to begin creating a new project.A.Click

File

New Project

. Give your project a name and decide what size(aspect ratio) you wish.B.If you are returning to work on an existing project, you should be able tochoose the project from the Project Library in the upper left corner.iMovie stores your projects in

Movies/iMovie Projects.

To delete a project you no longer want or need, select it from the Project Libraryand click

File

Move Project to Trash

The iMovie User Interface