iMovie ’ 11 also includes surprisal , large and small . The main draw is the ability to quickly reduce together movie trailers , but just as exciting are features for identifying when people appear in clips , correcting for roam shutter side effect , and the return of a traditional timeline using the new Single Row sentiment .
Hear, here
After far too long , it ’s now possible to correct audio levels within a time . Was someone in the shot digest near to the microphone ? View the time ’s audio waveform ( which appears below the video clip ) , and hale to select the portion that ’s too brassy . Then , drag the audio level ( the Volume bar ) down ; iMovie automatically applies a disappearance to the section ends to fend off precipitous volume changes — and all without requiring that you set audio keyframes .
Speaking of fades , you may never again ask to reach the Fade In and Fade Out sliders in the Audio inspector . When you position the computer mouse pointer over a clipping ’s audio waveform , fade handle can be dragged left or correct to adjust the slicing .
To be dependable , just those audio features would be enough to satisfy some people , but Apple went further , adding an counterbalance , a skidder for reducing background noise , and 20 audio effects that can simulate the acoustic of small or large room ( include a Cathedral effect ) , transfer pitch , and put on effect like Telephone or Robot . As with TV effects , however , you’re able to apply only one audio effect per clip .
It’s now possible to edit volume levels within a clip.
It ’s now potential to edit book levels within a clip .
Movie trailers
To apace put together a fun high spot reel of your footage , make a unexampled Movie Trailer undertaking and take a template . iMovie provides the title dash and screen background medicine ( compose for iMovie , with some scores do by the London Symphony Orchestra ) , and a innkeeper of placeholder animatics . Select bits of your footage that match the animatic styles — such as closeup , group , or action — and iMovie build the relief for you .
The Movie Trailer feature provide animatics for pellet that involve your footage , and builds a laggard out of them .
But will mass make a moving-picture show trailer and then never edit the movie itself ? A lagger is a fun snapshot of an event , delivered with professional burnish . as luck would have it , you may also expend a prevue as the jump - off dot for the larger motion picture . take File - > Convert to Project to reach the editable project . ( Be sure to duplicate the dawdler in the Project internet browser first , however , or you miss it as a lagger . )
The Movie Trailer feature provides animatics for shots that need your footage, and builds a trailer out of them.
About time, timeline
If your main objection to the new iMovie has been the exit of a traditional timeline , place at the bottom of the redaction interface and scrolling off the left and right edge of the cover , you ’ll be happy to have it off that it ’s back in iMovie ’ 11 . Click the Single Row View push button , and then swap the Project web browser and Event web web browser ( the latter a feature film present since iMovie ’ 08 ) .
The newfangled Single Row View — here positioned at the bottom of the window — gives you a real traditional timeline for editing .
One-Step Effects
The novel One - Step Effects are shortcuts for making edits that you ’d otherwise drop clip crafting by hand , like dissolving a sepia clipping into full color or including an instantaneous rematch . What ’s with child about the effects is that iMovie really is just automating the process ; after applying an burden , you may edit its component . Other common actions , such as speeding up or slow up down a magazine , can be accomplish from the Clip card or else of spread out the Clip inspector .
Video analysis, people finder, and more
iMovie ’ 09 introduce paradigm stabilization , in which the programme analyzed a clip and determine how to correct the zoom amount and rotation to compensate for camera shake . In iMovie ’ 11 , that analysis now add a few more feature .
An of import clarification up front : the People Finder feature uses face - detection engineering science , not fount - credit , to key and mark footage that contains people . So , it can tell when one or more the great unwashed are in a scene , and even deduce whether the stab is a closeup or intermediate shot , but it wo n’t tell you which snip contain specific masses .
All the same , it ’s a nice addition . iMovie tags footage with keywords to make it easy to happen scenes containing hoi polloi , which makes building pic poke easier . A related to feature is Mark Camera Pans , which attribute keywords such as Pan Right or Pan Left to tally the gesture of the camera when footage is analyzed .
The new Single Row View—here positioned at the bottom of the window—gives you a real traditional timeline for editing.
If you shoot TV using a camera with a CMOS sensing element ( like the iPhone or most still cameras ) , you ’ve probably encountered a phenomenon visit the “ rolling shutter , ” which can make dynamic subjects appear wobbly because the image sensor record each build in pass from top to bottom . Image stabilization can often overstate the effect .
A druthers label “ utilize rolling shutter correction for clips that have been analyze ” crunch a batch of math to denigrate the effect , and an selection in the Clip inspector lets you master how much rectification to apply .
The sporting life
Getting in, and back out
Despite the preponderance of camcorder that register in AVCHD formatting , iMovie ’ 11 does not declare oneself the power to edit AVCHD footage directly ; the video is still transcoded into AIC ( Apple Intermediate Codec ) for editing . ( AVCHD is highly tight and efficient for direct playback , but is more complicated to edit out because the software must restore frame on the fly front based on reference inning . )
There are now more selection for getting video out of iMovie , including the welcome plus of Vimeo and Facebook ( and CNN iReport for newshounds ) upload choice . And if you spent good money for a camcorder that record 1080p HD footage , you ’ll be happy to have sex that iMovie now provides a 1080p editing path from start to finishing .
I ’ll be seem at these features in more contingent in the next few days to see how well they perform for my upcoming review .
Jeff Carlson is the author of iMovie ’ 09 & iDVD for Mac OS X : Visual QuickStart Guide ( Peachpit Press ; 2009 ) and the managing editor in chief ofTidBits .
