 This video is brought to you by the University Libraries Sanford Media Center. In this video, we are going to go over how to do basic video and audio editing inside of iMovie for short video projects. So first you want to get all of your materials together, any videos that you shot on your cell phone, any audio that you recorded, any music, any pictures. I've got some stuff on the desktop here, but I recommend you keep it organized. Just create a folder. Let's title it whatever the project is. Project for English 102 something like that and just dump all of your stuff in that folder. Keeps everything nice and organized. You know where it is and that is always a good thing. So we're going to open up iMovie and the first thing we want to do is create a new library and think of the word library here as project. They've just kind of changed some of their wording. So we're going to go new library. You want to make sure you put it somewhere where you can find it and we'll just call this in 102 since that's the name of my project and so it creates this little project right over here on the left side and you can rename that of course anytime you want just by double clicking right there and retyping. But then you also want to create a project inside of your project. So we're just going to create a new movie and we want to make sure it's inside of that library or project that we just created. We're going to click okay and now you are pretty much ready to get started. You just want to make sure that you import your materials. I've got everything on the desktop so it's super easy to find and they're all in a folder so I can literally just import that entire folder. That's why it's really good to keep everything together organized in a folder. Let's see we'll continue to import anyways and we've got my video clip and some I believe some voice and some music or actually that's a sound effect. Yeah once you have your audio files your video files pictures you just import all of that and then you are ready to start creating your video and it's literally as easy as drag and drop. You just drag stuff down in the order that you want it and put your video together. One thing I will add is that if you're getting images for your video off of the internet when you're using Google image search I'm going to do dog click on images. The trick with this is you want to click on tools and make sure your size is large because if you download an image that is too small iMovie will blow it up and make it large and it will appear fuzzy. So the standard size for HD video is 1920 by 1080. So you want to click on an image you find that you like and try and find something that is you know as close to 1920 by 1080 as possible. This one you'll see right here on the lower left corner is 1280 by 720 that is the lower bounds of HD video so we could still use this and it would get blown up a little but it won't be super fuzzy. Anything smaller than this size 1280 by 720 is going to look a little fuzzy when it gets blown up for video. The other big mistake I see people make is that they'd save these little preview images by right clicking and hitting save image. You want to actually make sure you click on the image and go to where that image is hosted and get the actual image that way you get the real full-sized image and that is definitely what you want. So we've saved that image and I'm going to try and find one that's too small so you can see what it looks like. See that one's huge that's plenty big enough. Let's try and find a small one so I'm going to go to small I'll go medium just to see that's still fairly big. This one's small so I'm going to do what I told you not to do and I'm going to right click and I'm going to save this preview image and I'm just going to go ahead and call it small so I don't get them confused. Okay so we've got a couple images here we're going to go ahead and import those and you can drag and drop from the desktop but I'm going to click file import media and those are on the desktop so we'll grab that one import go back and do it again grab the other one. Alright so I've got my images off of Google inside of my iMovie project so let's start putting this thing together. I've got a dog video here I just ripped off of YouTube I won't go over how to do that there's a lot of different ways a lot of different apps on how to rip video content off of YouTube a lot of different ways to do that so I won't cover that here but if you need assistance with that definitely reach out to us via email or phone and we can walk you through that pretty easily hopefully but basically we just drag our video down and it's good to go and if you've got more video clips you just drag them down put them in the order that you want and they're good to go but what about some stuff in the video clip that you may not want let's say you want to trim some of the fat off well you can do that up here on the top by clicking on the video and grabbing these yellow handlebars and then just isolating the piece that you want and then you just drag that piece down and you'll see it's a smaller chunk and I can put it wherever I want to you can also do the same thing down here in the main timeline by just clicking the edges and dragging those so that's kind of the two primary ways to trim off excess video that you don't want you can also split a clip if you need to do that for better you know better cuts you can just put the playhead which is this vertical bar that's moving around here click where you want it to be and then on that line right click and hit split clip and that now turns it split the clip and I can move stuff around anyway that I want it's just like putting a puzzle together really you just organize this stuff in the order that you want it to play stretch it out cut it split it any way you want to get it to look the way that you want and that's pretty much the foundation of any video project you just lay out the video and it's good to go as for pictures you might want to insert some pictures somewhere you can just do that by dragging and dropping but you can also put a picture on top of a video clip what that does is you'll kind of see here as I'm slowly mousing over it'll then play that picture over the video clip so let's say you have an interview of a person talking well it's not very interesting to look at a person talking for an extended amount of time so that's why we have pictures on top of that and that's commonly referred to as b-roll so it's good to have pictures or other video clips that you can use as b-roll over or on top of less visually interesting clips or to add emphasis let's say this bottom clip here is a person talking about puppies I might insert this picture above that while they're talking about maybe this specific breed of puppy or something like that just really helps sort of you know make your video more visually interesting to the viewer you'll also notice that this picture it's moving iMovie by default adds what is called the kin burns effect to all photos so it's usually a slow zoom in or a slow zoom out it's kind of random but you can edit that by selecting that picture and going up here to this crop icon and clicking that and you'll see kin burns is on by default but if you click that you'll see it's not showing my picture there here we go you'll see that you have a start box and an end box so this is doing a slow zoom in because it starts wide and then ends up closer so it's a slow zoom in let's say you don't want to do that you would rather have a pan from left to right well you just edit those boxes the start box and the inbox make them the same size and then just have one the left side and the ending one to the right side and i'm going to accept those changes by clicking the check mark and now watch how this plays you'll see that it did that nice slow pan from left to right so you can edit that kin burns effect to do whatever you want again i'll just do one more quick change so you can see it click on that crop let's say the video is talking about how good dogs can smell well we might want to start wide and zoom in on the dog's nose so we'll just make our start box as wide as the actual picture gotta adjust that size just a little bit looks like i'm off a tiny bit there we go so our start box is the whole image and our end box is up close to the nose so let's accept that now watch how it plays so that's how you can use photos to really add emphasis to whatever your video is about just a simple photo with the kin burns effect can really bring out whatever your video is about and add to it a lot so we've got our video clips we've got our b-roll let's take a look at this image that was supposed to be really small you'll notice here and zoomed in that's not really a super good example i thought i had grabbed one small enough you can kind of see it i'll select it here you can kind of see that this is fuzzy because it's blown up and it was a small picture originally so you get some of this fuzzy fuzzy pixelation and that's really not what you want for an hd video so let's look at this one for example so you've already got it down here and there's a lot less pixelation of course the background's out of focus but that's because of the camera but even as this zooms in we're not going to get as much pixelation as we did on this image so again that's the importance of making sure you grab large photos to use in your video so we've got our video laid out pretty much the way we want it everything looks like i expect so what about adding music well i've got a music file up here you'll see this track down here at the bottom that has the little music symbol right over here in the bottom left you just want to drag your music track music track down there and let it go there we go let's scroll to the end obviously you don't want music playing way past the end of your video so we're just going to grab the end of it and make it end at the same time as our video and maybe we want a fade in or a fade out that's super easy to do you just grab this little gray sphere at the beginning and drag it over to the right and you'll have a fade in same with the end you just grab the little gray sphere drag it over and you have a fade out and you can play with that to get the desired effect that you want but that's really all there is to it and let's say you've got sound effects i believe this one's a dog barking and just like a video you can trim that let's just say all i want to do is get that bark i might select just that piece and then add it wherever it is i want it okay so you might have noticed another problem there we have two sounds playing loudly over each other so it's hard to hear one thing over the other so one of the things you might want to do let's say in your video you have a lot of talking or even under your video maybe you have somebody recorded a voiceover and has laid that up underneath video or up underneath pictures you might want to do what's called auto ducking this is where whenever one audio file is playing the other one automatically goes low that way you can hear the important audio over the music so for example let's say this is a video clip and there's some audio here with it let's say that's some some important dialogue i'll select this clip go up here to my speaker icon that's my audio options and you'll see this option here underneath that called lower volume of other clips so since i have this video clip selected if i click lower volume of other clips you'll see that the music down here in the bottom left when i click that the music lowers i'm just doing it a few times there so you can see the effect and then now when i play that clip you will hear the audio from this clip which is music actually more than you hear the music from this music clip but ideally if you've got a video it's usually someone talking you would want to lower the music while someone is talking so you can do that by auto ducking or you can just grab the little bar on the audio section and lower it you can do that with your music as well you just grab the bar and lower that audio level a little bit and you just do this with all of your audio till everything sounds the way that you want it to sound like until the voices are clear and dominant and any music you have is kind of you know subtle in the background like it should be or even turned off in certain cases but we've got our music we've got sound effects we've got our video laid out so our video is pretty much done but one of the things everybody likes to do is add maybe some basic effects or some titles and iMovie makes this super easy you just click on titles and you get a whole bunch of animated titles that you can just kind of scroll over as an example if you click on it and then slowly pan across it it'll kind of show you what it does so you want to pick one out that fits your needs this is a pretty good title one there's two ways to use these by themselves by just dragging and dropping by itself or you can even put it on top of your video i'll show you both of those this one i'll do by itself and once you select it you just double click on it and you know make it whatever you want actually dogs there we go and you can adjust the color let's make it red change the font size the font all the usual stuff and just accept that and there's our title let's play that real quick that's all there is to it but you can also do that on top of a video if you don't want it to be by itself i'm going to grab a different one and i'll drop it on top of this video so you can see what it does we'll call that one dogs part two and i'll make it blue and we just accept those changes close the color wheel and here we go and there the title plays on top of the video so either way you want to do it is fine for credits there's kind of your standard credit here a lot of people like to slap that at the end you just select it and you know come in here and change that to whatever you want and then you've got a title sequence and now that we have a title hanging over the end of our music maybe we want to have that music play out to the end through the credits so we just drag it out that's really as easy as it gets drag and drop and stretch things out and good to go so we've got all of that done and what about transitions you might want to use some transitions i will say a word of caution here use these sparingly if you do a transition between every single video clip it gets kind of hokey and starts being kind of visually annoying so kind of use those sparingly fade to white might be good at the very beginning uh or at the very end but you just pick one you want and drop it between two clips and watch what it does that was just a nice fade to white and now that i've got a title sequence out here i'm going to stretch my music out or move it and stretch out the end again there we go so my video now has titles credits one transition let's maybe do one more one that looks kind of cool let's see that's kind of neat we'll drop that at the end here before the credits let's see how that looks okay let's look at that one more time and there you go there you have it what you need to do now is get your video out of iMovie where it will play on almost any device you can click the share button in the upper right and hit file or you can do the same in the top left and click file share file and the default settings here are going to be fine you've got 1080p that's standard hd that's fine it's going to ask you where you want to put it i'm going to put it inside my project folder just to keep everything organized i'm going to title it and hit save and then we have a progress circle up here we are not done yet until this circle fills up and turns blue you can just watch it or you can click on it it'll usually give you an estimation yeah one minute the longer the video the longer this takes but once that's done it'll turn blue here in just a second and that's it so i'm going to minimize iMovie here and we're just going to go and take a look at that video there it is it's an mp4 file that should play on just about anything and you're going to want to open it up and watch it to make sure it's what you expect that looks pretty good so it is ready to be turned in all right well if you have any questions just reach out give us a call or an email and we will help you with whatever you've got thanks