iMovie History

• iMovie 1 - OS 9 - Free
  • Allocate lots of memory
• iMovie 2 - OS 9 and OS X - Paid upgrade from iMovie 1
  • Monitor Resolution: 800 X 600 or higher
• iMovie 3 - OS X only, part of iLife, Free download from Apple
• iMovie 4 - OS X only, part of iLife'04, Purchase from Apple
• iMovie HD (5) - OS X only, part of iLife'05, Purchase from Apple

iMovie Window

• Monitor
• Timeline
• Shelf

Changes from iMovie 2 to iMovie 3

• Floating Window
• Better integration with iPhoto, iTunes, and iDVD

Changes from iMovie 3 to iMovie 4

New in iMovie

• Edit multiple clips and transitions at once
• Trim clips directly in the Timeline without losing your original footage
• Sync video and audio with alignment guides
• Use an iSight camera to import live video directly into iMovie
• Share movies using email, .Mac HomePage, DVDs or Bluetooth devices
• Keep track of key frames in your Timeline with bookmarks

Improved in iMovie

• Render motion effects, video effects, transitions and Ken Burns pan and zoom effects more quickly
• Edit audio with graphical waveforms and scrubbing
• Use enhanced transitions and titles

Creating a New Project

Location: Where Are Your Movies Stored?

• Users/Your Home Directory/Movies/

Four Stages of a Project:

• Planning
• Production and Filming
• Post-Production and Editing
• Sharing

Stage One: Planning

The Director in the Classroom
http://www.thedirectorintheclassroom.com

Storyboarding

• Plan your story
• Who is your audience?
• What is your purpose?
• What is the story you are trying to tell?
• What will my audience learn from my production?
• How will I tell my story?
• Will my production entertain, inform, or demonstrate?
• Storyboard template

Digital Storytelling - Online Resources

Center for Digital Storytelling
http://www.storycenter.org/
http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html

The Digital Drive-in
http://www.nextexit.com/drivein/driveinframeset.html

Seven Elements - Digital Storytelling Cookbook
http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html

• A Point of View
• A Dramatic Question
• Emotional Content
• The Gift of Your Voice
• The Power of the Soundtrack
• Economy
• Pacing

Finding your story - Digital Storytelling Center
http://www.storycenter.org/

• Personal Stories
• Character Stories
• Memorial Stories
• Adventure Stories
• Accomplishment Stories
• Stories about Place
• Work Stories
• Recovery Stories
• Love Stories
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Stage Two: Production and Filming

Capturing Footage

• Using a Tripod
• Compostion of Footage - Think like a director
• Zooming and Panning
• Audio is Crucial -
  • Great Video + Poor Sound = No one watches

• Larry Bottjen’s Videography Tips
  http://www.asdk12.org/depts/itech/profdev/videography/index.htm

Stage Three: Post-Production

Basic Steps

1. Import video clips to the shelf.
2. Edit the clips.
3. Place edited clips into the movie timeline.
4. Add transitions, titles, effects, audio/sound, and chapters.
5. Export the movie.

Importing Clips

 

• Importing still photos
  • If using iMovie 2, photos must be .jpg and 640 x 480 in size
• Importing digital video

The Clip Shelf

Hard Disk Usage & Trash

Editing Movie Clips

• Clip Viewer & Timeline Viewer
• Arranging Clips
• Length of time for still photos
• Ken Burns effect for still photos
• Cropping Clips, Splitting Clips, Copying and Pasting Clips

Adding Transitions

• Rendering

Adding Titles

• Fonts, size, and color
• Over picture or over black
• Speed & Pause

Add Audio Effects

• Importing background music
• Adding sound effects
• Adding voice narration
• Adjusting volume levels

Free Play Music

Freeplay Music has a large "free" broadcast music production library.You can download instrumental music files to use in educational projects. See the terms of use on the site.
http://www.freeplaymusic.com/

Add Visual Effects

Add Chapter Markers for iDVD

Stage Four: Sharing Your Movies

• Exporting Movies to Quicktime
• Export to iDVD - Show a collection of your movies
• Transfer your movie back to your DV camera and then to VHS videotape
• Transfer your movie back to your DV camera for archiving
• Export to QuickTime for web or CD
• Publish online with a .mac account Homepage

iMovie Extra Effects

iMovie Plugins
There are many available if you do a search for iMovie.

Gee Three
http://www.geethree.com/

eZedia
http://www.ezedia.com/products/eZedia_plug-ins/

Virtix Video Effects
http://www.virtix.com/

CSB-Digital
http://fxhome.com/iplugins2/

BKMS Plugins for iMovie
http://plugins.bkms.com/

Stupendous Software - iMovie Plugins
http://www.stupendous-software.com