iMovie ’11 & iDVD · the Missing Manual by Pogue, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

iMovie ’11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

The Missing Credits

About the Authors About the Creative Team Acknowledgments The Missing Manual Series

Introduction

The Difficult Birth of the New iMovie iDVD iMovie: What’s It Good For? A Camcorder Crash Course

The Downsides of Going Tapeless High Definition AVCHD, MPEG-2, and Other Jargon

MPEG AVCHD AVCHD Lite iFrame

Camcorder Features: Which Are Worthwhile?

FireWire connector Analog inputs HD inputs Three chips (CCDs) Image stabilizer Manual controls Optical zoom Minutes-remaining readout Built-in light Scene modes Remote control FlexiZone or Push Focus Night-vision mode Still photos Progressive-scan CCDs

Useless Features

Title generator Special effects Date/time stamp Digital zoom

The Long-Term Storage Problem

About This Book

About the Outline Technical Notes for PAL People The Tech Specs of NTSC The Tech Specs of PAL

The Very Basics

About→These→Arrows

Online Resources

The Missing CD Registration Feedback Errata Newsletter

Safari® Books Online

1. Editing in iMovie

1. Importing Video

iMovie: The Application

iMovie on a New Mac iMovie for an Existing Mac “.0.1” Updates

Getting into iMovie Importing Footage from a Tape Camcorder

Automatic Scene Detection

Importing from Tapeless Camcorders Importing from an iPhone or iPod Touch Importing from DVD Camcorders Recording Live from a Camcorder or iSight Camera Importing Old iMovie Projects Dragging Video In from the Finder Importing with iMovie’s Drop Box Folder Importing Footage from Old Analog Tapes

Approach 1: Use a Camcorder with Pass-Through Conversion Approach 2: Record onto Your DV Camcorder Approach 3: Use a Media Converter Approach 4: Use a Digital8 Camcorder

2. The Lay of the Land

The Concept of Movie Projects The Project Library

Creating a Project Duplicating a Project Renaming a Project Project Folders Deleting a Project Undeleting a Project Moving a Project Consolidating Project Media

Aspect Ratios: The Missing Manual

Mismatched Aspect Ratios Changing Your Project’s Aspect Ratio

All About Events

Fine-Tuning the Events List Splitting Events Merging Events Renaming an Event Deleting an Event

Five Ways to Remodel Your Workspace

Hide the Projects or Events List Make the Clips Smaller Adjust or Relocate the Viewer Swap the Two Clip Areas Single-Row Editing: Return of the Timeline

3. Building the Movie

Phase 1: Review Your Clips (Skim + Play)

Filmstrips Skimming Playback

Phase 2: Select the Good Bits

Select by Dragging Select 4-Second Chunks Selecting Entire Clips Selecting Multiple Clips Adjusting a Selection Playing a Selection Deselecting Selecting Specific Project Elements

Phase 3: Build the Storyboard

Adding to the End of the Storyboard Adding to the Middle Advanced Insert Options The Orange Stripe Don’t Remember to Save

Phases 2 to 3 (Alternate): Paint-to-Insert Phase 4: Fine-Tune the Edit Storyboard Playback Full-Screen Playback Rearranging Video Copying and Pasting Video Shortening or Lengthening Clips

Select a Piece to Delete Select the Piece to Keep Use the Clip Trimmer Fine-Tuning with the Extendo Buttons

Splitting a Clip Cutaways

Adjusting a Cutaway Removing a Cutaway

The Precision Editor

4. Video Chunks: Keywords, People, Favorites, and Rejects

Marking Favorites and Rejects: The Two-Step Method Marking Favorites and Rejects: The One-Step Method Unmarking Selecting Marked Footage Hiding and Showing Favorites and Rejects Keywords

Editing the Keyword List “Painting” Keywords onto Clips The Select-then-Apply Method Removing Keywords from Filmstrips

People

Analyzing for People People Keywords

The Keyword/People Filter Deleting Footage for Good Space Saver

5. Transitions, Themes, Travel Maps, and Animatics

About Transitions When Not to Use Transitions Two Ways to “Transish” Creating Individual Transition Effects

Changing or Deleting a Transition

A Long Discussion of Transition Lengths

Why You Don’t Always Get What You Want How Transitions Affect the Length of Your Movie

Automatic Transitions

Adjusting Automatic Transitions Turning off Automatic Transitions

Transitions: The iMovie Catalog

Circle Open, Circle Close Cross Blur Cross Dissolve Cross Zoom Doorway Fade Through Black, Fade Through White Mosaic Page Curl Ripple Spin In, Spin Out Swap Wipe Down, Up, Left, Right

Themes

Choosing a Theme Custom Theme Transition and Titles Changing a Theme Adjusting Theme Transitions Customizing the Sports Theme Removing a Theme

Travel Maps

Adding a Travel Map Changing Travel Points Changing a Map’s Style Changing a Map’s Timing Removing a Map

Animatics

Building a Storyboard with Animatics Print Your Storyboard for Filming Build Your Movie from Your Storyboard

6. Video Effects

Video Effects

The Effects Applying a Video Effect Adjusting a Video Effect Removing a Video Effect

Fast/Slow/Reverse

Changing a Clip’s Speed Reversing a Clip’s Playback Direction Removing Speed and Direction Changes

Green Screen/Blue Screen

Preparing a Green Screen Getting the Shot Inserting a Green Screen Effect Adding Effects to a Green Screen Effect Removing a Green Screen Effect

Picture-in-Picture (PiP)

Inserting a PiP Adjusting the PiP Size and Position Changing the PiP Appearance Mixing PiP Audio Moving and Trimming a PiP Clip Removing a PiP Clip

Side-by-Side

Changing the Side-by-Side Appearance

One-Step Effects

7. Stabilization, Color Fixes, Cropping, and Rotating

Video Stabilization

Four Ways to Trigger Stabilization Analysis Fixing Shaky Footage

Degrees of stabilization Removing stabilization

Jellyroll Footage

Rolling Shutter adjustments Removing shutter adjustments

Color Fixes

Phase 1: Select the Clip, Find the Frame Phase 2: The Video Adjustments Panel Three Channels Exposure Adjusting the Levels Brightness and Contrast Sliders Automatic Correction Color Balance Individual Channel Sliders Removing or Adjusting Adjustments Copying and Pasting Adjustments

Cropping Video

Adjusting or Removing a Crop

Rotating Video

Adjusting or Removing the Rotation

8. Titles, Subtitles, and Credits

Setting Up a Title

Choose a Title Style

Theme-based titles

Drag the Title into Position Adjust the Timing Type the Text Special Notes on Scrolling Credits

Font, Size, and Style

The iMovie Font Panel The System Font Panel

Underline, strikethrough, color, shadow Secondary controls

General Guidelines Add Your Own Custom Title

Checking the Result Editing or Deleting a Title

9. Narration, Music, and Sound

Three Kinds of Audio

Audio Sources

Adding Audio to the Storyboard

The Music and Sound Effects Browser Adding Audio from the Finder

Background Music

Pinning and Unpinning Background Music Rearranging Unpinned Background Music Deleting Background Audio

Sound Effects (Pinned Music) Editing to the Beat

Phase 1: Add Your Background Music Phase 2a: Insert Beat Markers Phase 2b: Tapping Out Beats Phase 3: Add Your Video Clips Snap to Beats in Your Project Beat Markers in the Precision Editor The Beat Warning

Recording Narration Extracting Audio from Video Volume Adjustments

The Rubber Band: A Re-Introduction

Finding the rubber band Using the rubber band

Using the Other Volume Tools Adjusting Overall Clip Volume

Multiple Clip Adjustments Removing Audio Adjustments Audio Effects, Enhancements, and Equalizers

Audio Effects

Applying an audio effect The audio effects catalog

Enhance Audio The Equalizer

Editing Audio in GarageBand

GarageBand Basics Scoring in GarageBand

10. Photos

Importing Still Images The Photo Browser

Photos from the Finder iMovie Backgrounds

Two Ways to Add Photos

Photo Filmstrips Photo Cutaways Timing Changes

Photo filmstrips Photo Cutaways

The Dimensions of an iMovie Photo Crop, Fit, Rotate The Ken Burns Effect

Applying the Ken Burns Effect

Creating Still Images from Footage

Creating a Still Frame Creating a Freeze Frame

Exporting a Still Frame

The Resolution Problem The Long Way

11. Movie Trailers

Trailers Basics

Starting a Trailer Project The Outline The Storyboard The Shot List

The Trailers Catalog Building Your Trailer Customizing Your Trailer

Converting to a Project

12. Advanced Editing

The Power of Editing

Modern Film Theory

Tell the story chronologically Try to be invisible Develop a shot rhythm

Maintaining Continuity When to Cut Choosing the Next Shot

Popular Editing Techniques

Tight Editing Variety of Shots

Establishing shots Cutaways and cut-ins Reaction shots Parallel cutting

Back and Forth to iMovie 6

Transferring Your Project, iMovie ’11→iMovie 6 Transferring Your Project, iMovie 6→iMovie ’11

2. Finding Your Audience

13. Exporting to iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or Front Row

Exporting the Movie to iTunes From iTunes to iPod, iPhone, and So On

14. Exporting to YouTube and the Web

iMovie to YouTube

Posting to YouTube (The First Time) Posting to YouTube (After the First Time) After the YouTube Movie Is Up

iMovie to MobileMe

After Your MobileMe Movie Is Up

iMovie to Facebook

Posting to Facebook After the Facebook Movie Is Up

iMovie to Vimeo

Uploading to Vimeo After the Vimeo Movie Is Up

iMovie to CNN iReport

Uploading to iReport After the iReport Is Up

Custom Web Pages: Two Roads

iMovie to iWeb

What you get when you’re done Editing or deleting the web page

Posting a Movie on Your Site

15. From iMovie to QuickTime

Understanding QuickTime

A Crash Course in Video Compression

Spatial compression Temporal compression

About Codecs

The Export Pop-up Menu

The Video Settings Button

Compression Type pop-up menu Frames per second Key frame every _ frames Quality slider Limit data rate

The Filter Button The Size Button Audio Settings

Format Rate, Size Channels: Mono/Stereo

The Video Codecs: A Catalog Saving a QuickTime Movie

16. QuickTime Player

QuickTime Player X

Sharing with QuickTime Player X Trimming Your Movies Recording in QuickTime Player X

QuickTime Player 7 (Free Version)

Hidden Controls Fancy Playback Tricks

QuickTime Player Pro

Presenting Your Movies Editing Movies

Selecting footage Pasting footage

Exporting Edited Movies

The Save As command The Export command How to use QuickTime Player with iMovie

Advanced QuickTime Pro: Track Tricks

Flip a Clip The Video Wall

3. iDVD ’11

17. iDVD Basics

Why iDVD?

Getting iDVD

What You’re in For Phase 1: Prepare Your Video

Overscanning and You

The title-safe area The action-safe area

Phase 2: Insert Chapter Markers

Markers in iMovie ’11

Chapter-marker pointers

Phase 3: Export from iMovie ’11

Export Your Movie as a File

Phase 4: Design the Menu Screen

All About Themes Choosing a Theme The Inevitable Paragraphs About Aspect Ratio Drop Zones: The Basics

Filling drop zones Drop zones: the details

Redesigning the Theme

Phase 5: Add Your Movies Phase 6: Burning Your DVD

Previewing Your Project Checking for Errors Maximum DVD Playback Time One Last Techie Look Shopping for Blank DVDs The Burn

OneStep DVDs and Magic iDVDs

OneStep DVD Magic iDVDs

18. Dvd Menus, Slideshows, and the Map

Adding Movies

The Import Command The Finder The Media Browser

Submenus (“Folders”)

Navigating Submenus

The DVD Map—and Autoplay

Editing in the Map Autoplay Looping

DVD Slideshows

iPhoto Albums

Starting in iPhoto Starting in iDVD

Drag Folders from the Finder Add a Slideshow, Worry About the Pictures Later The Slideshow Editor

Adding or omitting slides and movies Reordering slides and movies Renaming slides or movies

Slideshow Settings Slideshow Options

Slideshow audio

Leaving the Slideshow Editor Burning Your Slideshow

19. Designing iDVD Themes

iDVD’s Built-In Themes Editing Buttons

Changing Button Names and Fonts Button Styles Justification, Drop Shadows, and Thumbnail Size Repositioning Buttons Removing Buttons Editing Picture and Movie Buttons

Editing Text Editing Backgrounds

A Still Photo A Group of Photos A Movie Some Notes

Menu Audio

What to Drag Where to Drag Replacing Menu Audio Removing Menu Audio Adjusting Menu Audio Volume

Saving Favorites

20. Advanced iDVD

iDVD: The DVD-ROM Maker

Adding Files to the DVD-ROM Area Organizing DVD-ROM Contents

Uncover Your DVD Project File Automator and iDVD Archiving Your Project

Copying an Archive to a Different Mac

Disk Images Professional Duplicating

Prepare to Copy Choosing a Replicator Working with Replicators Fulfillment

4. Appendixes

A. iMovie ’11, Menu by Menu

iMovie Menu

About iMovie Preferences

General Tab Browser Tab Video Tab Fonts Tab

Provide iMovie Feedback Register iMovie Check For Updates Hide iMovie, Hide Others, Show All Quit iMovie

File Menu

New Project New Folder New Event Duplicate Project Import from Camera Import Movies/Camera Archive/iMovie HD Project Project Properties Project Theme Move to Trash Move to Rejected Clips Trash Space Saver Consolidate Media Merge Events Split Event Before Selected Clip Adjust Clip Date and Time… Analyze Video Optimize Video Full/Large Page Setup, Print Project

Edit Menu

Undo Redo Cut, Copy, Paste Paste Adjustments Delete Selection, Delete Entire Clip (Reject, Reject Entire Clip) Select All Events Select

Select None Select to Playhead Select Video Clips/Transitions/Photos/Maps/Backgrounds/Animatics

Transition Overlap Spelling Special Characters

Clip Menu

One-Step Effects Duplicate Last Title Trim to Selection Trim Clip End Split Clip Join Clip Extend Over Next Clip Detach Audio Mute/Unmute Clip Remove Volume Adjustments Add Beat Marker Arrange Music Tracks Unpin Music Track

View Menu Text Menu Share Menu Window Menu

Precision Editor Clip Trimmer Clip Adjustments, Video Adjustments, Audio Adjustments Cropping, Ken Burns, and Rotation Show Projects Full-screen, Show Events Full-screen Hide/Show Commands Viewer Swap Event and Projects Viewer on Secondary Display

Help Menu

Search iMovie Help Welcome to iMovie Keyboard Shortcuts Supported Cameras Service and Support

Drag and Drop Menu

Replace Replace from Start Replace from End Replace at Playhead Insert Audio Only Cutaway Picture in Picture Side by Side Green Screen/Blue Screen Cancel

B. Troubleshooting

Two Golden Rules General iMovie Troubleshooting

Weird Inconsistent Problems Keeping Your Hard Disk Happy

Starting Up and Importing

iMovie Doesn’t See the Tape Camcorder iMovie Doesn’t See the Tapeless Camcorder Video Looks Interlaced No Sound from Tape Camcorder iMovie Crashes on Startup Can’t Import from DVD Camcorder Dropouts in the Video

Editing

Can’t Drag Certain Photos into the Movie Can’t Use Audiobooks in Soundtrack Filmstrips Don’t Reflect Changes Thumbnails Are Blank or Corrupted

Exporting

“Compatible Version of iDVD Required” YouTube Turns You Down Text Chopped Off on DVD

Where to Get Help

C. Master Keyboard Shortcut List

Panes, Panels, and Windows Event Browser and Storyboard Playback Editing Working with Clips Music and Audio Editing Titles

D. Visual Cheat Sheet Index

About the Authors Colophon

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