16. Making Your Own Movies

This chapter covers some of the in’s and out’s of creating a simple movie in iMovie.

iMovie is a great little video production program for home movies, YouTube videos, and other nonprofessional videos. It’s part of the iLife ‘09 suite that comes on every new Mac and also in the OS X Snow Leopard upgrade box version. You can import your video footage, edit out the parts you don’t want, add transition effects, include titles and credits, build a great audio track, and output your finished movie in various formats. I cover all these basic features in this chapter, but iMovie can do more. As you get proficient with iMovie, you may want to go to the next level and learn how to use themes, adjust the video saturation, add ...

Get Using Mac OS X Snow Leopard now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.