Apple Products: Expert Guides and Resources

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Your movie may not be complete without a voiceover. Fortunately, you don’t have to hire a professional to record a voiceover in Apple iMovie. You can narrate a movie and add your voice anywhere you want in your video.Click the Voiceover button and then choose your actual microphone (or sound input device) from the window that appears.

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 also add other sound effects to movies in iMovie.Click the Music and Sound Effects button, which is on the right side of the toolbar, or choose Window→Music and Sound Effects.

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 (named for the famed documentary filmmaker). Here’s how:Choose Window→Photos.Optionally, you can click the Photos button, which looks like a camera in the toolbar.

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 your great movie?Click the Titles button in the toolbar or choose Window→Titles.A window appears, suggesting several title styles for you to choose from.

You can find music for your Mac's version of iTunes at the iTunes Store, where people have downloaded more than five billion songs since Apple opened it. Buying music online is useful because you have more selection, and every song in the iTunes store is always “in stock,” and you can start listening to the music you buy inside iTunes seconds after making a purchase.

Sometimes you need to display data in chart form. Snow Leopard’s Numbers application gives you the ability to use the data you add to a spreadsheet to generate a professional-looking chart. Follow these steps to create a chart in Numbers:Select the adjacent cells you want to chart by dragging the mouse.To choose individual cells that aren’t adjacent, you can hold down the Command key as you click.

Snow Leopard’s Numbers application offers plenty of formatting options for the data in your spreadsheet. After you enter data into a cell, row, or column, you may need to format it before it appears correctly. Number formatting determines how a cell displays a number. For example you might want data to appear as a dollar amount, a percentage, or a date.