A low-end video editing software produced by Apple which allows for editing videos on a Mac, iPod Touch 4th generation, iPhone 4 and iPad 2.
Questions tagged [imovie]
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Change all photo durations at once in iMovie 10.1.1
I'm doing a quick project in iMovie but it's anything less than quick! I have imported all the pictures I want, no videos/clips. I have added them into the project and want them ALL to be the same length. I can edit them individually but not all at…
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How to join split clips back in iMovie?
After I split clip, now I have two parts of one clip. However my split was very useful, now I prefer to join it back, but my option to join clips is greyed out. Why?
Bartłomiej Semańczyk
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Multiple video track layers in iMovie?
I have a four videos of the same event (a band playing) all taken from different angles.
I'd like to make a concert video of the footage. Nothing special, just cut from angle to angle throughout the song -- use the guitar player close up on the…
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How do I add drop shadow to text in iMovie?
I am trying to add a drop shadow effect to text in iMovie. The problem I'm encountering is that there doesn't appear to be a drop shadow setting and the effect is applied seemingly at random. All the sites I have found online refer to this as the…
Brett White
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Split video in iMovie 10.1.1
I have a 45-minute long video; I've split it into about 20 segments (things separated by a black vertical bar in the timeline, produced using the ⌘ Command B "Split clip" operation).
I'd now like to export each of these, but when I select one and…
John
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Increase fade in/out from/to black time in iMovie 10.1.4?
Is it possible to increase the length of time that the fade in/out from/to black takes when editing a video in iMovie (added using the Settings pop-up menu in the video timeline(?) panel at the bottom of the iMovie window (apologies if I'm not using…
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Is it possible to resize video in iMovie?
I took a screen recording from my iPhone 5 and I want to convert its size from 640x1136 to 750x1134. For extra pixels I need black fill color. Is it possible in iMovie in OS X?
János
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How to move an imovie project from one computer to another?
I've been editing a video in macbook and it's running out of space..
How do I move the data to a new computer so that I can continue editing the video?
eugene
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Which iMovie Projects Contain Legacy Media
I received a warning when opening iMovie that some projects contain legacy media and won't work in the future. It gave me a link to Learn More. But it never told me which projects need to be updated. How can I determine what needs to be fixed?
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iMovie 9.0: how do you make clips shorter than 5ms?
I'm trying to make a stop motion animation and I can't seem to find a way to make clips shorter than 5ms. By "clip" I mean the images I drag into the time line. I try to adjust it by hovering over the timeline object, click on the cog, then go to…
Ramon Tayag
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Can I use iMovie to edit a .mov file without altering the aspect ratio?
I created a screencast using Snapz Pro X that gets saved in .mov format (H.264, AAC). I want to just cut a few seconds off the end of that file. The only video editor I know of that's installed on my Lion machine is iMovie '11. Can I use iMovie to…
Lorin Hochstein
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Does Apple still make iMovie HD available to iLife users?
When Apple "upgraded" iMovie back in 2008 from its previous version to the completely rewritten program with a star-shaped icon, they kept the previous version available for download.
Currently, I can't find the older version of iMovie on Apple's…
Daniel
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iMovie - freeing up space
I'd like to free up some iMovie space but not sure how to do it.
Here are a few files I have associated with iMovie:
389MB: /Users/snowcrash/Movies/iMovie Events.localized/Pads/IMG_0760.mov
and
1.81GB: /Users/snowcrash/Movies/iMovie…
Snowcrash
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Is there a way to randomize or shuffle clips in iMovie 10?
I've got hours of footage from a wedding reception.
I have about 100 short 5 second clips in a movie. They are all in sequential order.
I would like to shuffle/randomize all the clips so they are in a more unexpected order.
Is there an easier way…
Robert Hume
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How to slow down video, but not sound on the clip in iMovie?
I have a clip I want to show with slow motion. That clip has a soundtrack, but I need to slow only video without sound? Is it possible?
Bartłomiej Semańczyk
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