iMovie Like a Pro Advanced Editing for iMovie '11 (The Down & Dirty Series): A concise practical guide to advanced video editing with Apple’s iMovie ‘11

iMovie
Down & Dirty
A concise practical guide to advanced editing with Apple’s iMovie ‘11
by G.J. Hoss

If you own a Mac you may already have a great tool to edit video like a professional. This small book is intended to present iMovie tips, techniques and tools in a clear and concise way (Down & Dirty) that will help you edit video in iMovie '11 like a professional and in an efficient working style. Also highlighted are some of the lesser known and truly fun iMovie special effects. It assumes some familiarity with the use of OSX and some basic understanding of editing video. You may jump in anyway but the specific design of this book is to be concise and to avoid unnecessary repetition of basic and commonly available methods and information, concentrating instead upon the essentials needed to produce clean and professional looking video utilizing all that iMovie ’11 has to offer.

Contents include:

Set by Step Overview
Getting Set Up
1. Set Event and Project Window Orientation
2. Set Preferences
3. Create your project
4. Project settings
5. Create New Event
About Projects and Events
Getting Video, Pictures and Audio into iMovie
Importing Video
Editing Your Project
Selecting segments/clips in the Event window
Creating favorites, rejects and keywords for clips
Editing on the timeline
Fine tune edits on the timeline
Adding titles
Working with video clips and photos
Replacing video clips
Chapter and Comment Markers
Transitions
Titles
Title tips
The Precision Editor
The Clip Trimmer
Clip Adjustments
Processing video and audio
Ducking audio
Editing to music beats and more
Export Your Production
Keyboard Short Cuts Used in this Book
Conclusion