![]() Others are unheralded but less joyous, like a redesign of the main control-pane buttons that requires an extra click to view, say, your effect options. Some are unheralded but fantastic, like a revised Ken Burns effect (graceful zooming or panning across a still photo) that slows down, rather than speeds up, as it approaches the end. For example, what if you own a widescreen TV-and you try to play older, 4:3 videos on it? Or what if you have a traditional 4:3 TV-and you try to play widescreen material on it? A new preference lets you specify whether iMovie responds by stretching the video or by adding black letterbox bars.Īnother new preference setting limits the length of each incoming clip to, say, two minutes (or whatever you specify)-which, for complicated technical reasons described in Chapter 5, can help you keep down the massive size of your projects on disk. Things can get sticky, though, when you try to mix and match. iMovie can handle both standard-definition video (shaped roughly squarish) and hi-def video (widescreen). Some are totally undocumented but profoundly useful, like the Exposure control that can bring out lost details from deteriorating old VHS tapes. Cooler yet, you can actually export an iMovie movie to GarageBand-and then compose a soundtrack for it in real time as the movie plays! When your movie is finished, you can now fire it off not only to iDVD, a QuickTime movie, a cellphone, or a tape in the camcorder, but also to iWeb (for turning into a Web page or video blog) or your iPod for watching on the road. Now you, too, can create spectacular PBS nature documentaries! Speed up the blossoming of a flower, the setting of the sun, the clouds crossing the sky-by hundreds of times, so that what usually takes hours takes only a minute. iMovie, unattended, rewinds the tape, creates an opening title, imports all the footage, adds transitions between shots, backs it all up with music that you choose, and, if you like, hands off the result to iDVD for quick burning to disc. You connect the camcorder, choose the music and options you want, and then sit back (or walk away). When you’re pressed for time, check out the newly enhanced Magic iMovie-a completely automated movie-assembly feature. There’s a graphic equalizer to bring out (or throttle back) the bass, treble, or midrange reverb and delay for those echoey effects even a tool to change the pitch of someone talking, turning a man into a woman or a woman into a chipmunk. ![]() ![]() iMovie 6 offers a new, sweet suite of audio-processing effects. ![]() In fact, you can have 10 of them open at once, for ease in comparing versions or copying material (or drag-and-dropping material) between them.Īudio effects. No longer must you close one movie project before opening another. (The Themes match the menu-design templates in iDVD, too, so the whole thing can have a consistent look when burned to DVD.) Each Theme design contains big holes called drop zones that you can fill with your own photos or movies, so that the result looks like it was tailored just for your movie. A theme, in iMovie lingo, is a prefab, canned, professional animated graphic that you can use for opening credits, section dividers, end-of-movie “bumpers, “and so on. It loops over and over, changing its display in real time as you fiddle with the settings of your effect. In iMovie 6, though, the entire full-size Monitor window shows the preview. When you’re setting up a video effect, title, or transition (crossfade), you used to have to preview the results in a tiny, Triscuit-size window. ![]()
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