Amaya Toman iMovie is an excellent and above all free application that allows you to cut, create, enhance and edit your videos in various ways on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. In today's article, we will introduce four useful tips not only for beginners, which will make using iMovie on Mac even more effective for you.
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If you're creating a video on your Mac that you'd like to focus on, you can do so directly while editing in iMovie. To focus in the clip you created, first clip highlight on the timeline, and then click above the preview window crop icon. choose Crop and fill in or Ken Burns and drag and drop to specify choice, to which you want to apply the effect.
Without sound
Sometimes the original sound of the video can be a nuisance - for example, in cases where you want to add a voice-over or perhaps music to the video. Removing the original audio from a video is one of the most useful and at the same time the easiest operations you can do in iMovie. To remove an audio track from a video clip, click above the video preview in the upper right part of the application window speaker icon so that she was crossed out. You can also set the sound control bar volume playback or adjust the sound for individual clips.
Play around with transitions
iMovie offers a really wide range of different video editing tools - so why not use them? One of these tools is transitions, which you can use to make your video clips special. Adding transitions is easy in iMovie on Mac. First, click on the timeline right click mouse on place, on which you want add transition and select Split clip. Then in the upper left click on transitions, choose desired transition and simply it drag into place where you split the clip. You can also customize transition length – on the timeline transition first click to select and then dragging adjust the length its duration.
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Working with keys
Creating in iMovie doesn't necessarily involve just clicking with a mouse or a trackpad - your keyboard can do just as much. Space bar for example, you can use to quickly and easily suspension or restart playback, and if before pressing space bar you aim with the cursor mice to the selected location in the clip, will start playback after pressing the space bar from this very place. if you want take back changes just made, press the key combination Command + Z.
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Impressive dimmers
Do you want to add a dramatic "fade out" to your iMovie clip, or perhaps a mysterious "fader"? If you click on the clip preview in the upper right part of the application window Settings, you can choose many Properties, such as dimmer, fader, clip size selection, theme selection or perhaps a filter.
