Once you grasp how to use iMovie’s full-blown Movie modes for mobile devices and macOS, you’ll be able to use simple editing tools to deliver effective videos from import to export. You’ll learn how to easily make your videos coherent and concise and flex your creative muscles with Magic Movie and the Storyboard mode. This book begins with an introduction to some of the core principles of editing.

Complete with step-by-step tutorials for essential tools and concepts and explanations for why you should use them, this practical guide to iMovie will leave you well-prepared for the world of post-production. iMovie offers Apple users the ease of creating engaging videos using the free video editing application’s support for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS devices. Storyboard projects feature automatic music that adjusts to fit the length of the shots you're working with.It’s not about having the shiniest tools it’s what you do with them. Storyboards takes templates to an extreme, giving you a series of kinds of videos (instructional DIY clips, gaming, online Q&A) and then a whole shot list for how to make your own.įor each step in that shot list, you can either import a clip you've already shot or just shoot that video right there on your iPhone or iPad. If you have an aspiring director in your home (yourself included), the other big iMovie 3.0 feature may be a bigger deal. iMovie 3.0's Storyboards are a mini film school Of course, you have total control, and can re-edit clips (trimming as need be) in Magic Movie, as well as adjusting transitions and so on. Magic Movie also sports 20 'styles' (think templates) so you can find the look that best matches the vibe in your videos. Of course, you can adjust that all you want. It even auto-balances its music when it identifies that people are speaking in your videos. For said music, you can use music you've purchased, Apple's own provided soundtracks and audio imported from Garage Band. IMovie will do the stuff you kinda don't want to do, adding titles, transitions and music.

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