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Edit Like a Pro with iMovie

Edit Like a Pro with iMovie

By : Regit .
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Edit Like a Pro with iMovie

Edit Like a Pro with iMovie

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By: Regit .

Overview of this book

It’s not about having the shiniest tools; it’s what you do with them. iMovie offers Apple users the ease of creating engaging videos using the free video editing application’s support for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS devices. Complete with step-by-step tutorials for essential tools and concepts and explanations for why you should use them, this practical guide to iMovie will leave you well-prepared for the world of post-production. This book begins with an introduction to some of the core principles of editing. You’ll learn how to easily make your videos coherent and concise and flex your creative muscles with Magic Movie and the Storyboard mode. Once you grasp how to use iMovie’s full-blown Movie modes for mobile devices and macOS, you’ll be able to use simple editing tools to deliver effective videos from import to export. Finally, you’ll explore Keynote for creating custom titles and animations and building a personal visual brand that makes your videos uniquely yours. By the end of this iMovie book, you’ll be on your way to becoming a creative problem-solver, using iMovie and other free apps to create high-quality, engaging videos for projects with different visual and technical requirements.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Part 1 – Get to Know Video Editing
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Part 2 – iMovie for macOS
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Part 3 – Customizing Your Videos

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we’ll be using an app that isn’t compatible with mobile devices, so you will need a Mac to follow the steps. ProRes exports, which we’ll be looking at further in the What is ProRes? section of this chapter, are is only available on the macOS version of iMovie.

This is also the first chapter in which we’ll be downloading something outside of the App Store: Handbrake. Handbrake is a free, open source app that allows you to customize video outputs, and we’ll be using it to convert our videos into different formats ready for exporting. It can be found on Handbrake’s website at https://handbrake.fr/, or on GitHub at https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake.

The version of Handbrake used in this chapter is 1.6.0. Older versions are available on Handbrake’s website, and you need at least version 1.4 to take advantage of speed improvements for Macs with Apple Silicon chips (M1, M2, and so on). If a...

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