Using iMovie ’11

Until now, you’ve learned how to assemble your movie manually by putting clips together, adding sounds and music, and interesting titles and transitions. But iMovie offers a few cool, semi-automated ways to make your movies look even better. In this chapter, you learn all about iMovie’s theme and movie trailers features that allow you to show off your movies to their fullest.

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Creating Movie Themes and Trailers

iMovie ‘11 offers budding filmmakers two cool ways to beef up their movies. The first way is by using a feature called themes. A theme applies a specific look and feel to an iMovie project by adding opening and ending titles and transitions to your movies. You might be thinking, “But iMovie already allows me to do all that stuff!” And ...