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iMovie HD
David WilsonInformation Technology LabSchool of InformationUniversity of Texas at AustinFall 2005
1. Objectives
Ten years ago, the revolution of digital nonlinear editing was available only to industry professionals onhigh-end systems like Avid. Now iMovie HD delivers many of the same tools to your Mac desktop.A sophisticated application in its own right, iMovie stands at the center of the iLife universe, seamlesslyintegrating iTunes, iPhoto, and iDVD to help you produce professional-looking films with music, titles, andeffects. Bring your media into iLife. Put it all together with iMovie. Now you can edit those home movies that have been sitting around for years, interview that eccentric manwho runs the corner store, or throw together an indie comedy with a few of your friends.The new version of iMovie is HD-compatible. You’ll be able to import and edit High-Definition Video, but only if you’ve shot your footage on an HD camcorder. There’s no magic button that will convert your DV home movies into Hi-Def. Since even bare-bones HD cameras run from $2000-3000, you’ll mostlikely continue to use iMovie HD to edit DV footage.In this tutorial, you will:
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Explore the interface, menus, and tools
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Manage your project on a portable Firewire Drive
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Import video from a DV camcorder 
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Build a movie by selecting and trimming your video clips
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Add transitions, titles, and effects
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Import and edit photos and audio
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Export your project to iDVD 5In short, we’ll show you how to take a project through iMovie HD from start to finish. It’s easy. Even wethrew something together!
Introducing Our Demo Movie:
the purple way
Starring: Brazos PriceiMovie cut by David Wilson
We thought the best way to demo the iLife components would be to shoot our own movie:
The PurpleWay
. Will Chet find inner peace in the world of I.T.?
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Throughout the tutorial, we’ll show you what we did and how we did it Also, make sure that you catchour iLife ’05 companion tutorials: iPhoto 5 and iDVD 5, where you’ll see how other elements of our demomovie came to be.
2. Opening iMovie HD
The first time you open iMovie HD, you’ll be asked if you’d like to Create a New Project, Open anExisting Project, or Make a Magic iMovie.
Warning -- Opening an older iMovie Project:
If you open a project that was created with anearlier version of iMovie, your project files will be updated and converted to iMovie HD.Then there’s no going back!In this tutorial, we’ll assume you’re starting from scratch.
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Select
Create a New Project.
A new window will open, prompting you to name your 
Project
and asking you
Where
you’d like to storeyour project files. Choose your Project location carefully. This is where iMovie will store all of the filesand media associated with your project.We’ll cover the two most common scenarios:
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Creating a Project on a Firewire Drive
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Creating a Project on your Macintosh HD
Creating a Project on a Firewire Drive
Follow these instructions if you’re working in a lab environment with a portable Firewire Drive:
1.
 
Make sure that your Firewire Drive has been properly connected. The Firewire icon should appear onyour desktop:
2.
 
In iMovie’s
Project
field, enter your name:
firstname_lastname
as the title of your movie. This willkeep it distinct on a drive packed with other people’s projects.
3.
 
 Now you’ll save this new project to your 
Firewire Drive
. Click the Arrow button beside the
Project
 field.
4.
 
A new menu will open, displaying the drives and folders located on your computer.
Click on theFirewire Drive icon in the lefthand pane
. You should see all of the folders and files located on your drive.
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SelectyourFirewireDrive
5.
 
 Now you’ll Create a New Folder on this Firewire Drive to contain all of your iLife work. On the bottom left, choose:
New Folder.
 Name your new folder:
firstname_lastname
. Click 
Create
.
[Note: If you’ve already created this folder during our iPhoto tutorial, locate that folder now].6.
 
 Now the Create Project window should show your Project title and the Firewire Folder (firstname_lastname) that you’ve just specified. Click 
Create
at the bottom right to save your projectto this folder.
 
The main iMovie interface will open a blank work space for your project.
 
Creating a Project on your Macintosh HD
In this scenario, you’re working on your own machine and portability is not an issue. You’ll save your iMovie project directly to your Mac hard drive in the
Movies
folder.This is Apple’s default. If you make no changes to your 
Where
settings, this is where iMovie will storeyour files.
1.
 
In the
Create Project
window, enter the
Project
title of your choice.
2.
 
In the
Where
field, select the default folder:
Movies
.
3.
 
Video format
. In this tutorial, we’ll leave this on the default setting:
DV
. In most cases, unlessyou have access to a $2000-3000 HD camcorder, you’ll probably be importing DV format video.
 4.
 
Click 
Create.
The main iMovie interface will open a blank work space for your project.
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