iMovie for Beginners - Detailed Tutorial
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Published 2021-02-01
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0:00 Intro
0:43 iMovie on your Mac
1:03 Starting iMovie
2:33 Create a new iMovie project
3:40 Importing Media into iMovie (videos, images, audio)
5:00 Create an event in iMovie Library
6:05 Moving clips
6:40 Layering clips
7:23 Bring Media to timeline
8:30 Editing in iMovie (trimming and slicing and reordering)
10:50 Working with images in iMovie
12:14 Dragging clips on top of others
13:17 Bringing in and editing audio clips
14:32 Detach audio in iMovie
15:15 Trim to playhead and Show Clip trimmer
16:19 Change duration of a clip (speed up or slow down the video)
17:29 Adding transitions in iMovie
18:34 Adding titles or text in iMovie
21:24 Color Balance, Color Correction
22:33 Cropping and ken Burn in iMovie
23:53 Picture in Picture and Split Screen in iMovie
25:24 Clip filter and audio filter
27:20 Finishing or sharing your Movie
29:32 Creating a Trailer video in iMovie
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All Comments (21)
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I cannot thank you enough for this, Jamie. I come back to it again and again. Excellently clear. You are a fabulous teacher.
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Just found this tutorial. I had several things I wanted to do but didn't know how~ now I do! Thanks for a great tutorial!
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A really helpful tutorial with plenty of useful information without being overly long. Thanks
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Thank you very much, this is the kind of video I was looking for and its perfect way to learn iMovie. Great way of teaching and perfect pace to learn. Thanks once again
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Thank you so much for this tutorial! I am creating an animation on iMovie, and this has really helped me with adding special effects and achieving what I had in mind.
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Thank you so much for this video. I'm an art teacher...my students and I thank you for helping me edit my video so that they don't have to watch a video demo for the whole class period and they actually get to make art! Extremely well done, succinct - much appreciated, thank you again!
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This is a great tutorial, I found it easy to follow and got my first video edited perfectly by following it. Thankyou!
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I've been wanting to learn to use imovie for a long time, and I've watched a few videos, but yours is by far the best. Thanks.
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This is the best tutorial for iMovie I have found on YouTube. Bravo 👍👏
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This was so helpful and your explanations were so clear - THANK YOU for putting this together!!
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I absoluteoy love your style of teaching thank you. I have seen others which I thought were great until I found you...you are the best. Thank you for your generous information.
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Very well done and appreciated. I was struggling with PIP and you explained how to do it, well.
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Thank you for an amazing, descriptive video. I now think I can get this done.
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Very good! Nicely done at a pace you can easily follow. Thank you very much!
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Thank you SO SO much for this tutorial! Brilliant for beginners like me - you really conveyed all that information well! I can't wait to edit my first IMovie next week :-)
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Very well done video. Excellent overview, clear, and concise. Thank you very much.
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This is fantastic! I needed a starter on how to do video and you nailed it! Thank you.
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So helpful....You answered all the questions I had during my first try at this. Thank you much!!!
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Very good...I learned what I needed quickly and clearly. Thank you x
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You are absolutely the best! I totally love your style of teaching!
