Chapter 32. Editing Video with iMovie

In the old days, capturing and editing video was expensive. Nowadays, nearly every mobile phone contains a camera that can capture video and every Macintosh comes with a free video editing program called iMovie, which is part of the iLife suite. (If you don’t have the latest version of iMovie, you can purchase it from the Mac App Store.) Even if you don’t have aspirations to be the next great filmmaker, chances are good that you have a couple of home videos that you just want to show off to others.

iMovie gives you the option of editing video by trimming irrelevant footage or combining separate video clips. You can also add visual and audio effects and make your video look like a Hollywood film with scrolling ...

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