How to edit A Clip In Imovie
iMovie Basics: Video editing tutorial for beginners
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hi everybody and welcome today I am
going to be showing you the basic
features of iMovie today we are using
version 10.1 point 5 and I'll be taking
you through from a fairly beginner
friendly perspective all the basic
features you are likely to want to use
for most video editing so let's get
started so after you open iMovie here's
how we're going to get started we're
gonna click on the project's tab up here
and now we would go create new and we're
going to create a movie not a trailer
trailers are preset templates we just
want a movie a blank slate one thing to
note before we get started is that
iMovie always auto-saves you never have
to file save your project or anything
like that
it's just going to autosave throughout
so the next thing we're going to do is
we're gonna want to get our video in
here now I've got some media Clips you
can see right here that I can drag down
to my timeline in the video but the way
I usually like to do it is just get it
on the desktop or in a folder somewhere
and drag it in the drop and drag feature
is really nice so I'm gonna be using
this lets see video file right here for
setting up a green-screen so I'm gonna
drag and drop that in alternatively you
could use the import button right here
and import it and then drag it down to
your timeline
either way it works fine alright so now
we've got our video there and I'm going
to zoom in you can see here that this
slider right here if i zoom it over to
the right it zooms it on the video which
is kind of nice
helps me work and so you can customize
that as you need to another thing to
note here is that the spacebar is the
pause and play button so if I click over
to the beginning of the video hit
spacebar then I can hit spacebar again
to pause and that's a really good
feature that comes in handy
also when you're recording via voiceover
you can hit spacebar to stop recording
another shortcut that you'll likely be
using a lot is the trim shortcut which
is command B so if I hit spacebar to
play right here I want to stop right
there and I want to get rid of this dead
space at the beginning of the video so
I've got my cursor right there and I'm
going to hit command B command B is trim
and now I can click on that and then hit
delete likewise if I had a section in
the middle here that I wanted to get rid
of if I click there hit command B click
at the end of it
command to be again now I've got it
split and I can delete that section and
you can edit your video in that way so
under the my media tab here you can
insert other video clips as an overlay
you can get photos or audio and just
drag it down to your video there there
is also a lot of built-in stuff here
that's kind of nice you've got some
sound effects and other jingles and
other things that we can put down in our
video just by clicking and then dragging
him down here and you can adjust where
you want that to go let's say I want
this to go over here simply click and
drag it something you'll definitely want
to do if you're adding multiple audio
sources is adjust the audio as needed so
if you click on this center line here
you can see the volume can be adjusted
and you'll almost definitely have to
adjust that sometimes you even have to
kick the music way down in order to hear
your voice you can do that up here with
the voice recording - you may need to
kick that up a bit to get a little more
nuanced you can click on this speaker
button here and you can adjust the audio
this way as well if you're wanting music
and sound effects and you're not finding
what you want in iMovie I definitely
recommend checking out the YouTube free
music library - all you have to do is go
to your YouTube account if you go to
your creator studio then you can click
on the create button that you see right
here and it will take you to this huge
audio library with lots of free songs
for you to use now the next section that
we have in iMovie here is titles titles
very useful if you happen to want a
little intro to your video you can click
and drag one of these titles here and we
can just put it right there so I can
just double click on this now and I can
start typing green screen and there we
go
and I've got my title there if you
didn't want it as a separate title you
can always put it as an overlay by just
dragging it above your video and now
we've got it over the video there's also
some nice backgrounds which can be
useful for all kinds of things including
some of these titles so if we wanted for
example a nice organic background here
we can put our text over as an overlay
over that and you can see how that looks
now this one happens to be a little too
white for the white ish background so
we're going to change
color we simply click on our title then
we click on the text and we can change
the color and we'll make this one red
and there we go that we've got a nice
red font you can adjust the font size
you're going to make it bold all that
formatting stuff is right here under the
text area now maybe you're wanting to
put a lot of photos in here and make it
more of a photo story than an actual
video if that's the case you can simply
navigate to your photos in your finder
and drag and drop them in or you can use
this import button once again let's try
using this import button here and we're
going to go to my desktop and find a
photo I think here we go grass field
wallpaper we'll just select that and
import it here that will put it up here
in our my media section and I can just
drag it down to wherever I want it in my
video you can have it cut away to that
picture like we have right here or you
can make it as an overlay and do sort of
a picture-in-picture thing and so we can
decide here if we want picture in
picture there we go now it is a little
image there and we can adjust the size
and placement of that if we want to or
we can also if we have it down here you
can adjust the cropping method the
default here you can notice it's kind of
slowly zooming in on a certain part of
the picture and sometimes that might not
be the way you want you're probably
going to have to customize that quite a
bit so you can see if we click on this
button right here this is the cropping
button on the image and now we can hit
where we want it to start and we can
adjust that you can also just decide no
I don't want it to do that at all I just
want it to fit and then it just stays
still the next thing we'll go to here is
transitions there are lots of
transitions for you to choose from and
sometimes you might like to get a little
bit fancy with them but I generally
recommend people stick to cross dissolve
and cross blur just because they're kind
of neutral and inoffensive so if we just
take one of these transitions and drag
it down here you can see how what that
does and we get a nice little cross
dissolve there from one frame to another
one other important feature that you'll
likely be using especially if you have
photos like this let's take and let's
drag the
photo a little longer here you can make
it longer or shorter and you can also
trim video this way by the way just
clicking on the edge and saying I want
to get rid of this right here you can
just drag the end there but let's say
that I want to have a little voiceover
with this photo here so I'm actually
explaining it and narrating over it I
just click at the beginning of the photo
then I click on this microphone button
here and I can select which microphone I
want I'll just use my built-in
microphone and now I can hit the record
button and it will give me a countdown
to start recording as you can see here
we have a lovely grass field hit
spacebar or the stop recording button
there and you can see that the volume is
pretty high I should probably adjust
that and kick it down a little bit there
we go that's probably better and then
we've got some nice voiceover and you
can move that around if you decide no I
actually want it over here or I need to
trim it a bit you can trim the edge of
it and yeah you can do all the same
things you could do with other media now
there are many other features of iMovie
but these are some of the basics the
last thing that you want to keep in mind
is you need some way to finish your
project if you click the share button up
here you can do that we're going to
share and then the best way to do it is
to hit file even if you want to upload
it to YouTube I've had lots of problems
uploading directly to YouTube so what I
usually do is save it as a file and then
I upload that file to YouTube when I'm
done it will give you a little white
circle on the upper right hand corner
and so let's see that this little circle
here and that will tell you how much
progress is being made with a video like
this it might take a good 5-10 minutes
but this will eventually fill up and
become all white it just takes a little
while alright so those are some of the
basic features of iMovie so that's gonna
do it for this one I hope you've enjoyed
it and found it useful and if you are
interested in learning more about green
screen in iMovie you can check out the
video I'll put a link right at the top
here and I want to thank you very much
for joining me have fun making movies
