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How to Play Back Video in iMovie
You can play back your video in Apple iMovie from any starting point. You can place the pointer where you want to begin watching your video and press the spacebar. You can double-click to start playing [more…]
How to Mark Video in iMovie
Individual segments or video clips that make up an entire event look like filmstrips in Apple iMovie, and a typical event has several clips. As you skim your video in iMovie, you’ll prefer certain parts [more…]
How to Crop Video Clips in iMovie
Just as you can crop a still image in Apple iPhoto, you can improve your video in Apple iMovie by cropping to the best part of it. You can highlight an area of a scene or focus in on an otherwise distant [more…]
How to Improve the Sound of Video Clips in iMovie
Your Apple iMovie video clip looks great, but the sound in one video clip is barely audible, while in another you must turn down the volume. Fortunately, you can tweak the audio in your video so that the [more…]
How to Create a Project in iMovie
When you have finished video, you’re ready to create an Apple iMovie project. You can combine all those segments from an event, taken at various times during the day, into one project so that you can edit [more…]
How to Add Music or Sound Effects to Your iMovie
Music is a vital part of most movies (even non-musicals), setting the tone for your video, and Apple iMovies are no different. You can add music to your iMovie as a background score. Even better, you can [more…]
How to Remove and Restore Frames in iMovie
If you want to delete blurry close-ups, accidental shots, or something else from your video project, you’re in luck. Using Apple iMovie, you can trim unwanted frames from your project clips. All you have [more…]
How to Add Transitions between Clips in iMovie
To move from scene to scene in your movie smoothly, you need to add a transition. Apple iMovie gives you a choice of dozen transitions that you can add to your movie. To view these styles in the Transitions [more…]
How to Add Titles to Your Movies in iMovie
No matter what the topic of your movie, you need a decent title to hook an audience, and perhaps even closing credits. Because adding titles is so easy in Apple iMovie, why not give yourself credit for [more…]
How to Add Photos to Your Movies in iMovie
Adding still photos inside your movie is a great way to show off your artistic prowess in Apple iMovie. You can even add motion effects to those pictures in what is known as the Ken Burns effect [more…]
How to Share Your Movies in iMovie
Take one last look at the movie you’ve produced in Apple iMovie: If your movie is ready to go, you can share it to with an audience, in a suitable format for the device you’ll use to view it. The iMovie [more…]
How to Add Themes in iDVD
iDVD is a program for authoring, or designing, a DVD. iDVD works well with iMovie (and also with iTunes and iPhoto). iDVD is based on the concept of themes [more…]
How to Create an iDVD Slideshow
iDVD is an Apple program for authoring, or designing, a DVD. iDVD works well with iMovie (and also with iTunes and iPhoto). One of the many things you can do in iDVD is create a slideshow presentation [more…]
Using iDVD's Lesser Features
iDVD is a program for authoring, or designing, a DVD. Apple iDVD works well with iMovie (and also with iTunes and iPhoto). Using iDVD, you can alter DVD buttons, edit in Map view, utilize OneStep DVD, [more…]
How to Create a GarageBand
GarageBand ’08 is iLife’s digital recording studio for making records, creating podcasts, and more. You don’t even have to read music, play an instrument, or possess musical talent to compose a song in [more…]
How to Add Loops to Music in GarageBand
GarageBand loops are professionally recorded (and royalty-free) musical snippets that supply drum beats, rhythm parts, melody lines, bass sections, and so on for your music. Apple includes more than 1, [more…]
How to Connect Real Instruments to Your Mac
If you’d rather not use the Apple GarageBand on-screen music keyboard to control software instruments, you can connect a real MIDI keyboard through a USB cable [more…]
How to Use Regions in Apple GarageBand
Adding loops or recording your own music (with real or software instruments) creates a region in a track. You can cut, copy, and paste these regions or resize them to play as long as you need them to. [more…]
How to Make Multitake Recordings in GarageBand
You can keep recording part of a composition in Apple GarageBand until you feel your performance is perfect. You can even combine the best performance from one take with the best take in another. To make [more…]
How to Display Standard Notes in Apple GarageBand
You may want to display your composition with standard notes, clef signs, and so on. Select a software instrument region and open Track Editor by clicking the button at the lower-left corner of the screen [more…]
How to Use Magic GarageBand
If you’re not a real musician or composer, Apple had you in mind when it added its new Magic GarageBand feature to GarageBand. The idea is to let you conduct a virtual band. When you choose Magic GarageBand [more…]
How to Create Podcasts in GarageBand
Podcasts are like your own Internet radio or TV show, with music (from iTunes or elsewhere), pictures, sound effects, video, or some combination of these. Fans can find your podcasts on the Net [more…]
How to Share Podcasts in GarageBand
When you’re ready to share your GarageBand podcasts with the public, you have a few options. Before sharing, however, remember that you are responsible for owning or getting permission for any copyrighted [more…]
How to Share Music and Ringtones in GarageBand
You can share the music you created in GarageBand in several ways. You can send a song you created in GarageBand directly to a playlist in iTunes. You can create your own ringtone for an iPhone in GarageBand [more…]
The iMovie '09 Workspace
When you open iMovie '09 and clear the Welcome dialog box, this workspace, or main window, will appear. iMovie'09 gives you many options for editing and organizing your video clips. [more…]
