Chapter 7. Getting Started with iMovie

iMovie enables you to create your own movies. Your movies can include video from different sources, most notably your own video camera, but also video you’ve downloaded from the Web or that someone else has provided to you. You can edit clips and put them together in projects. After you’ve created a basic video track, you can add all sorts of interesting transition effects between the clips in your movies.

From there, you can add still images, titles, and other visual elements. Of course, silent movies are long a thing of the past; with iMovie, you can add soundtracks to your movies that include music, sound ...

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