Chapter 8. Building a Movie’s Video Track

After you’ve created a project, you can build its video track. Start by adding clips to the project. You edit those clips so that they contain precisely the frames you want to include in your movie. You can also crop or rotate clips, adjust them, and apply effects to determine how the clips appear in your movie.

You can also add photos from your iPhoto library to include static images within your movie for content or visual effect. To smooth the flow of your movie or just to add visual interest to it, you can add and configure transitions between your clips. You can provide information about your movie or ...

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