When you're ready to review your movie, there are various ways you can play it to see how it looks. iMovie allows many easy ways to make sure your movie is exactly what you want.
A soundtrack can make a good movie great, and it's easy to create. You can add music from your iTunes library or your Garageband projects to your iMovie project.
Adding narration or voiceover to your movie is an excellent way to enhance your story. You can use the built-in microphone on your Mac, the built-in microphone from a connected iSight camera, or an external microphone connected to your Mac.
So far, you've only used straight cuts to move from one clip to another. Another option is to apply a transition to your clips. This gives your movie a smoother and more professional feel.
One of the best ways to spice up your movie is to apply a visual effect to it, such as speeding up your clip, reversing the direction, or adjusting the color.
If you're creating a series of movies, you can use a video podcast to share your movie with team members and friends. A video podcast can be a series of videos you post to a website over time. Others can subscribe to your podcast and watch your latest movies whenever you add new episodes. Preparing a movie to be a video podcast is easy to do from iMovie.
A brief overview on sharing using iMovie. iMovie makes it easy to share your movies, whether you want to show them on your own TV, carry them with you, or post them on your website.
iMovie makes it easy to share your movie on a portable device like an iPod, PDA, or phone, so you can show your friends your new movie wherever you go. Just export your movie to whatever device you choose.
Once you've taken some photos, you'll need to move them from your digital camera to your Mac. Just connect your camera to the USB or Firewire port on your Mac with a cable. iPhoto will open automatically.
In iPhoto, you'll use album to organize and arrange your photos the way you want, kind of like a playlist in iTunes. You can also use albums to publish webpages, create slideshows, and produce photobooks, calendars, and greeting cards.
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This video covers how to stitch consecutive photos together to make one large panoramic shot using a free program called Autostitch ( http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/ autostitch/autostitch.html)
If for no other reason than the fact that you're bored beyond belief during spring break or holiday and you need something involved and fun to do fast, this tutorial shows you a great way to pass the time. And unlike simply sitting on the couch and pigging out or shopping with your mom and sister it actually involves some brain work, too!
Adding ratings, titles, or comments to your photos can help you easily find them later. It can also help to remember important information about each photo.
When you're ready to create a slideshow, just select the ones you want to include. It's easiest to create an album with all of the photos you want in your slideshow. You can even add music to your slideshow.
With iPhoto and Mac OS 10 Mail, or other email programs, you can easily share photos with friends and family. You can send a single photo or multiple photos.
Using a MobileMe account and iPhoto, it's easy to publish your photos on the internet, whether to a webpage or a blog. NOTE: MobileMe is the replacement for .mac accounts.
With a MobileMe account and iPhoto, you can publish albums to the internet and allow your friends and family to subscribe to them using photocast sharing. Then, as you add new photos, iPhoto automatically updates the published albums for your subscribers. NOTE: MobileMe is the replacement for .mac accounts.
You can view photos on your iPod or iPod nano or show them on the big screen by connecting your iPod to a TV. You can transfer all of the photos and albums in your library or create an album with just the photos you want to transfer.
When you create a CD or DVD of your favorite photos, your photos won't be resized or lose any resolution, so it's a great way to back up and archive your photos for safekeeping.
With a photo printer and photo-quality paper, you can create high quality prints of your photos. Using iPhoto, you can print a single image, multiple images, an album, or a reference page of thumbnails called a contact sheet.
If you want more control of your book's layout and design, you can make layout decisions yourself manually. iPhoto allows you to deviate from its provided template.
You can use iPhoto to create and purchase calendars so you can showcase your photo year-round. Calendars contain photos that are relevant to certain months, so start by creating an album for the calendar project.
To get started using your iPod, you'll first want to put some of your music on it. You'll use iTunes to manage your music and video. If you don't already have the latest version installed on your computer, you can download it for free.
A great place to start a new song is with a beat, or a drum section. Then you can add layers on top of your beat to create a more complex song. Garageband provides drum loops that are easy to use.
A song is more than just a few beats long. You might want to create a song that lasts exactly as long as your iPhoto slideshow or your iMovie project. Garageband makes it easy to make your song a specific length.
Adding a melody to your rhythm section can make your song memorable and provide some variation. GarageBand makes it easy to add and change melodies from various instruments.
Your song is starting to take shape now. You can create some tension with your loops in GarageBand by varying how your song develops over time. So, rather than a simple repetition of loops, you can create what's called a call and response, where the tracks play off each other.
