Hi, everyone. In today's video, I want to show
you this editing software called iMovie, and it's the default editing
software that ships with every Mac. So if you have a Mac, you
should already have it. And I'm going to focus
on the desktop version. They do have it for iPad and iPhone. I'll make separate
videos about those later. And iMovie is a great editing app to get
started with if you're new to editing. Once you get more advanced, the
software that I use for editing is called Adobe premier pro. And you could also try that out for free. And I have a tutorial to that as well. If you want to test it out, it's
a lot more advanced than iMovie. So if you just need it for basic
editing, iMovie should do the trick. And in this video, I'll focus on
the basics of movie and everything you need to know to get started. And if you were looking for
more information on iMovie, I'm putting together a masterclass
that's hours long to go through everything iMovie has to offer. So I'll put a link to that in the
description as well, when it's complete. And if it's your first time
here, I make these type of videos every single day on this channel. So please consider subscribing. Let's jump into the computer and
start using iMovie from scratch. iMovie should already be on your Mac. It does come with every Mac, but make
sure you update to the latest version. I'm just in the app store here
and I updated mine and I'm going to go ahead and press open. It's also in the application folder
of your computer if you search for it. And after the welcome screen,
this is the first screen where you want to create a new project. So I'm going to press plus here. And there's two options,
movie and trailer. We want to do a movie, so we
have all the control here. Trailer is a template that
lets you create a trailer. Very useful, but limited in
everything that you could do with it. I'll make a separate video about this. Right now, let's go ahead and choose
movie here and then it's going to bring you inside of iMovie. So let me show you
around here for a second. Then I'll show you the second step of
the process, which is importing media. Down here is where all your
editing is going to take place. And this section over
here is called a timeline. And over here is your viewer, where
you could view the different clips here and over here is going to be your media
panel, where you could import media and then view them over here as well. Anytime if you press this project
tab, it's going to take you back to the page we came from. If you press this movie icon, it's
just gonna make the movie screen full screen and collapsed this section. And again, this is the
import icon over here. And then we'll go on and talk
about these other options as we go through this project. So for step two, let's go ahead and press
import and bring in some assets here. Now assets are photos, videos, graphics,
music, those are all assets and media. I'm going to press this option. And I organized everything into an
external hard drive because I don't wanna use my internal hard drive. So I bought an external hard drive and I
put my footage from a card over here, my image, which is over here and everything
is nice and organized in that hard drive. So in this case, let me go ahead
and bring some footage over here. And I'm going to bring this drone
shot and I'm going shift, select everything else you see over here. And I'm going to press import selected. Again, make sure you get it from
your card or wherever you're importing your footage from. Now everything is going to have this dial. Meaning they're not ready to
export yet, but you can start editing, that dial is also up here. If I press it, you could see
their media is being imported. And until the importing is done, you
can't actually export the project. That might take a little bit of
time depending on your computer, but we don't have to worry about that. We could actually start
editing right away. We'll just have to pay attention
when we export that these are all actually completed. Okay for step three, we're going
to start using our timeline down here and begin some editing. So to do that, let's go through
some of these clips and how you would view the clips. They look like an image up here, but
as you could see, as I scrub through, I'm just having my mouse hover over
them in and out here, you could see the video is showing over here. So if I select this, and I
just moved my mouse through it. You could see the entire clip from
the beginning to the end, in the speed that I'm moving my mouse. And you could see the time over here. 1.6 minutes. That's how long the video is, a little
bit over in a minute and a half. Any video that you select, you could
see this, one's only 18 seconds. This one's one and a half minutes, so on. But as I go through this, let's say
this is a clip that I want to bring in. Let me show you how to do that. First, we want to select the
in point where the clip starts. So in this case, I want to show this
as the in Point right here, right where we take off from the sand. So as soon as I hover over
here, I want to press I. Now you see that in point, that little
yellow section just jumped over here. And if I go over here to this
point, I could press O, for out. So I for in. O for out and you could always
grab this little handle and change the selection here as well. So if I wanted to do that
instead of in and out, I can, and then this is my selection now. So in order to get this down to
the sequence I could drag and drop. I could press the little plus sign that
appears in the corner of the clip here. Or I could press E the shortcut E
will just bring it right down here. I could still make adjustment down
here and we'll go through that after we add a couple more clips. E basically adds it to
the end of your timeline. And right now my timeline was blank. So it was in the beginning. But if I do it again, let's do
it with another clip over here. Let's select this clip here again. I'm going to go over here, press
I go a little bit further press O. And then I'll press E. And just like that, I have a
second clip added to my timeline. So you could go ahead and do this
with your entire sequence, in again, O, again, for out, E again. So now I have three different clips on
my sequence down here on my timeline. This is also known as a sequence,
the timeline down here, now that I've started editing. Let me add a couple more clips here, then
I'll show you how to trim them down here. So I'm going to select
my timeline here now. And I'm going to press command
minus here to shrink it. So you could see the whole timeline here. So I have these four clips next. I want to show you changing
the order of the clips. So if you wanted this clip to come before
or after this clip, all you have to do is grab one of the clips and then move
it behind the other one, just like that. So you could change the order of clips,
just like that, by picking up the clip and then bringing it to exactly
where you want the clip to end up. Now what if you didn't make a good
judgment when you chose the In Point and the out point of the clip over here? Well, you could trim the clips still
while it's down here on your timeline. So let me show you how to do that next. The easiest way is if you want
the endpoint to start earlier or later, you could just take it
and then move it left or right. That will change the
duration of the clip here. And as you can see that time indicator
shows how many seconds the clip is now, depending on how far you go and when you
let go, the edits already done for you. So now if I grab this little time
indicator, this line here, I'm bringing it over here on this previous clip
on press space bar for playing. You could see, it just went to
the next clip, just like that. Now let me show you how to split
a clip into different clips. So I'm going to bring my time
indicator over to this clip. We're going to focus on this. Let me press play. And let's see what happens
at the end of this clip. It looks like I panned a drone quickly. Away from the shots. So I'll leave the time indicator here
and I'll bring my line over here. And I want to press command
B as in boy here, and that splits the clip into two clips. Now I could easily select the second part. And press delete. And this is called a Ripple delete. It means it takes the next clip and
brings it and attaches it to this clip. So now if I go back to this previous
clip, before the drone panned off, just like that, it cuts to the next shot. Now let's assume we
want to add music here. I haven't brought any music
in, so I'm going to go up here. And I'm going to go to the import option
over here again, and now I have my footage, images and logo I haven't brought
in, but I want to bring in my music. So I'm going to select the song and
I'm going to import that song here. And now it's up here. And again, I could either inpoint or
outpoint or I could drag the whole thing and bring down here on a different track. You could see right
underneath the video track. Now I have an audio track. Again. I could go towards the end of this clip
here, and then I could press command B. And now it's two clips. I could select the second
part and press delete. So now it's the same time
as my video right here. And he ends at the same time, as
you could see at the end, and you could always stretch it to make it
shorter or longer as you want to. And sometimes, you want to change
the audio levels on a clip. So if you change it, you see
this line at a hundred percent. If I click and drag it up, it
becomes 400% if I go all the way up and I can make it zero. So I could play around with this,
but I don't want it to get to red. You see now as getting to that
red portion, yellow is okay, but about a hundred, it looks
like it's just about right. But if you have vocals here,
narration and things like that, you might need to play with that audio
level using this line over here. And another thing you might
want to do with audio, specialty music is faded in and out. So let me go to this end right here,
and you see my arrow change to these two little arrows here, and that's the little
circle here that I could grab and drag in. And then there's one in the beginning too. You see it's right there. You can't grab the clip because that's
going to change the size of the clip. You want to grab that
circle here and bring it in. So now I fade in and I fade out
and if I move it, you could see how long the fading of fade out is. So usually about a couple of seconds
might be good for a music track here. So I'll go ahead and adjust this
to be about two seconds or so. And now I have a nice fade in. And fade out. So if I go back to the beginning of my
timeline and press play, you could see that it's nicely fading in the music. And I could always
increase that if I want to. Next, let me show you how
to separate video and audio. These video files that are used
here, don't have any sound to them because they're from a drone. But here I have a different video. I'll bring it down here next to this one. And this one has audio and
video on the same clip. You see how they're not on
two separate tracks here. They're on the same video track,
but maybe I want to make this more silent too and go with music. So in order to do that,
I select this clip. And if I control click on it, there's
an option that's called detach audio. If I press that, it takes that
audio that was just on this blue part and makes it his own track. Now I could actually delete it. So my video won't have any audio. I could always press command Z if I
make a mistake and bring something back. But in this case, if I deleted
it, then I could maybe stretch the music to be a little bit longer. So now if I press play here, you
could see that the video doesn't have my voiceover that was on previously. I could press command Z multiple
times to get it back if I want to. And now if I press play... My voiceover is right
there with the video file. So I'm going to press this and delete it. Now let's add some transitions. I actually do like these
just straight cuts here. So if I press play, that was a
straight cut going from one clip to another clip was a straight cut. But what if I want to add a
cool transition in between? Well, the best option is to come up here. And go to the transitions
tab and you have a bunch of different options to choose from. Now, a lot of these are kind of cheesy,
but the first four are very, very useful. Especially some of my favorites are
cross blur or fade to black or white. So let me go ahead and drag this
transition and I could put right between two clips and now if I go
over here and press play, I have a really nice blur transition. Let's try the fade to black again, bring
it between these two clips, put it right there and then I'll press play here. And it faded to black. And if you want it to make it longer,
you could just double click it and you could change the duration
to be maybe faster or slower. So right now, it's one second
but 0.5 seconds maybe would be more appropriate here. So our press play again. That's a little bit better. Now let's add titles. So up here, I had my media tab. That's where all our assets were,
you had your transition tab. And now you have title and background. Now you could use these together. For example, under background,
I could choose one of these backgrounds, bring it down here. Let's say this was the title
for the end of my movie here. I could go ahead and put it there as
the background, and then I could go to title and then grab one of these
texts here and then bring it on top. See this time I'm putting it on top
and not on the actual video file. And as you could see if I double
click it, I could change it. I could type in my text. I could change the font and
everything else you could do to a text, like making it bold, changing
the color, everything is up here. And now if I go back over here and
press play, you could see that title animation on top of that background. You could also grab a title and put
a right on top of your video too. And as you could see in
this case, if I press play. The text is right on
top of my video as well. So you don't have to always put
it on top of the background. And in fact, you could sometimes
put it as a slate between two shots. So in order to do that, I'm going
to grab a text and put it right here in between the two shots. And then if I do that now,
it's going to go from one shot. I'm just going to call the sunset. And now if I go over here and
press play, it's going to go from one shot to that slate and then
transition onto my other shot. So this is a really great way to
use text as a slate in between different clips and anytime you could
select any of them and press delete. And another very useful option that I use
all the time is this voice over option. So click voiceover here and then
give it access to microphone here. And then click this option
over here next to the record. And here choose a microphone that
you have as the external microphone. I'm using a Yeti mic and I'll
link it to the description. It sounds really nice and warm. So you don't want to use the internal mic. So I'm going to choose this one
and then you'll get your audio. And as soon as you press record, it
will record it right on the timeline. And now if you press this red
dot right here is going to give you a quick countdown. And now everything I say is
being recorded on this track. You could see this track going,
and if I press space bar to end it, it recorded my audio. And it didn't even
interfere with the music. So he put it on a
different audio track here. Very useful option with voiceover. But again, it's because I'm
using an external mic here. That's the reason why it sounds good. And I want to make sure a
mute project is turned on. So it doesn't create a reverb
and echo here when I record. And let me briefly show
you this panel up here. I'm just going to go over real
quick to show you what's available. I covered this much more in
depth in that advanced training. But over here, there's this one option. If you press this, it automatically
tries to solve everything for you, including color, contrast, even sound. I'm going to press command Z. I'm not a big fan because it
doesn't give you a lot of control. But over here you have some other
options, like color, balance, color correction, which is one of my favorites. You can make things more contrasty,
add some saturation and some warmth to things just like that. Using this slider over here. Very useful. You have your crop option. You have things like Ken burns effect,
which is an animation of photos. Very useful. Fixing shaky images here is included. You have your volume control, which
I already showed you down here. You have noise reduction here, which
is useful if you shot things in the dark and they're kind of grainy. You have speed change, again, very
useful options and where you could change things to be faster or
slower than the way you shot them. And you have filters where you could just
add bunch of different filters from the selection over things just like this. So you don't have to
manually change things. And you have I for clip information here. And when the clip was shot,
And what you were shot on. And finally, let's move on to
exporting our finished video. So in order to export the
video, we want to click this option over here, this up arrow. And you want to choose
from one of these options. I usually recommend choosing file and
exporting the file to your hard drive. And then you could use it to
go anywhere else like YouTube. So press file. And if you're importing is not done,
this is not going to pop up here. So I know that could be an issue. So look over next to this, pop
up over here to make sure the importing option is complete. And now let's go through
some of these options. You could obviously title, description
and tag your movie file, but formats, I obviously want video and audio. If it was =voiceover,
you could do audio only. Resolution, I could do 4k cause
I shot this in 4K, but in your case, 1080P might be the best bet. But typically between these two
is what I choose and then quality. This depends on your file size
and where you're going with it. If you're going to YouTube,
for example, high is great. But this is the file size
that's going to show you. If I go to Prores, it's going
to be a much, much bigger file. This is three gigabytes compared
to high was compressed for the web almost 10 times smaller here on high. So I usually leave this on
high and I do compression. Better quality if I'm not
in a rush and I press next. And then I choose a
destination here again. If I have that external hard
drive, I'll just go directly to the external hard drive and press save. And then that's how you would
export a video file from iMovie. And it's ready to be uploaded to YouTube
or shared via email with your family if the file size is not too big, but
I hope you found this video useful. Again, make sure you check out the more
in depth tutorial that's hours of iMovie training, if you want to take this to
the next level and you could always go to Adobe premiere pro training, if
you're really trying to make editing a more serious hobby or a profession. Please give this a thumbs up and
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