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Edit Like a Pro with iMovie

You're reading from   Edit Like a Pro with iMovie Leverage Apple's free editor for iOS, iPadOS 3.0.1, and macOS 10.3.5 and enrich videos with Keynote animations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238906
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Get to Know Video Editing
2. Chapter 1: Why and How We Edit Videos FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Automatic and Template Editing with Magic Movie and Storyboards 4. Chapter 3: Using Movie Mode in iOS and iPadOS 5. Part 2 – iMovie for macOS
6. Chapter 4: Understanding iMovie for macOS – Keyboard Shortcuts and the Magnetic Timeline 7. Chapter 5: iMovie Editing Workflow – Import, Edit, and Export 8. Chapter 6: Using iMovie Effects – Overlays and Keyframing 9. Part 3 – Customizing Your Videos
10. Chapter 7: Integrating Keynote – Titles and Animations 11. Chapter 8: Custom Export Formats,ft. Handbrake 12. Chapter 9: Common iMovie Problems and Their Solutions 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the automatic editing mode of Magic Movie and the template format of Storyboard mode, which mostly share the same simple menus and controls. Firstly, you let Magic Movie automatically edit your chosen photos and videos of Berlin into a memory of the trip. You then used the Edit menu to change styles and add titles. We also used the Edit menu to combine two videos into one.

We then looked at Storyboard mode. This mode places banners in a ready-made layout that changes depending on the type of video you want to make. All you need to do is find or shoot the right clips to go in those gaps. You used footage downloaded from Pexels, and maybe some of your own footage, to create an instructional video for making pizza.

Finally, we looked at the limitations of Magic Movie and Storyboard mode. Simplicity in an editing program almost always reduces your creative scope, and you need to think about the needs of your video to work out whether a simple...

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