iMovie 2020 **FULL TUTORIAL**

hey folks today I put together a full tutorial all about iMovie so if you are new to the subject of video editing this is the class for you iMovie 2020 coming up next on Tech Talk America Believe It or Not Apple originally released iMovie 21 years ago the year was 1999 and yours truly was a less than popular 16 year-old high schooler while many full time video creators eventually graduate to pro apps like Final Cut Pro Adobe Premiere or DaVinci Resolve a lot of people first started their journey using iMovie over the course of this class I'm going to be teaching you several keyboard shortcuts to help you edit faster and with higher efficiency and because it can be difficult to remember all of these shortcuts I have created a simple PDF guide which you are welcome to download and print at home you'll find a link to that guide in the description of the video and while I've decided to make this guide free to the public if you would like to contribute even just a couple of dollars to help support my youtube channel it is greatly appreciated at this point I feel like I need to give you a brief explanation as to the footage that you're about to see so a couple of weeks ago I was visiting friends of mine in Spain and one of the places that we went to was the Sagrada de Familia in Barcelona if you ever get the opportunity I'm telling you go it is one of the most spectacular human achievements of all time by the way just for some context I shot all of this footage days before they closed the church due to the corona virus pandemic everything you're about to see was shot on my iPhone and the only other tool that I used was a 3-axis gimbal if you're not familiar with the gimbal this is one of mine I have about seven at this point and what it basically does is it stabilizes your phone so you can get really smooth and steady shots now the prices of these gambles is all over the place you can get them for as little as sixty dollars and they go up to several hundred dollars I'll link a couple of my favorites down below in the video description I want to show you about 15 seconds of the final video if you want to see the whole thing I will be happy to post it at the very end let's take a look [Music] hey folks I hope you enjoyed that little preview so at this point let's launch iMovie and click on this plus symbol to create a new movie now the next step in our process is theoretically to import all of our footage but before we do we need to have a quick talk about file management because this stuff is important for this demonstration I have all of my footage here in a folder called Spain which I've located in the movies folder that being said this may not be the best storage solution for you in fact depending on how much space you have on your local hard drive you might want to consider keeping your footage as well as your iMovie library on an external hard drive and I need to explain the reason why any time you import footage into iMovie iMovie is ultimately making a copy of that footage which goes here into this file called iMovie library so just know that if your Mac is running low on hard drive space I strongly recommend that you move that file as well as your original footage to an external hard drive so let's now click import media and I'm gonna direct it to my folder of footage at this point we're gonna start to go through our footage and we're gonna start to find the best parts of each clip to use then we're gonna drag them down here to this bottom window which is referred to as the timeline you'll also notice that if I drag my cursor over any of these clips also referred to as scrubbing the window on the right will display a preview of the shot if at any point you want to play or pause all you need to do is tap the spacebar so let's start with this first shot and see how it looks [Music] we are now going to set what are referred to as the end points and out points this just tells iMovie which portion of the clip we want to use so let's say I want this shot to start here and then end here I can just place my cursor at the starting point and then tap the letter I on my keyboard now we can go to where this shot is going to end and tap the letter O to set the out point the next step is to bring this portion of the clip into our timeline which you can accomplish by either dragging it and dropping it there or you can use the e key which will send the clip to the very end of the project so now let's repeat those same steps with this next shot I'll start by playing it for you as is okay let's have it start here so I'll tap the I key to set my endpoint then we'll have the shot end right around here so I'll tap the Oh key to set the out point and now we'll tap the e key to send it to the end of the project I'm gonna speed up this part in editing because basically I'm just gonna be repeating those same three steps over and over again I'll set my endpoint set my out point and then send it to the end of the project now that I have all of my shots laid out in my timeline I can now start the process of reordering them whenever I make this type of video I have found it to be easiest to sequence the visuals around the music now if I click on the audio tab here at the top left you'll notice that I can access any song that's in my music library if I want to add it all I need to do is drag it and drop it into the timeline below the video now of course this doesn't mean you can legally use any song that you purchase through iTunes and these days if you post copyrighted music on platforms like Facebook they now can automatically detect it in seconds which usually results in them either muting your video or deleting it trust me it's happened to me many times and I like to bring this up because the last thing you want to do is pour your heart into making a video only to have it deleted over the last few years I have tried using several different music licensing services and the one that I recently switched to and absolutely love is epidemic sound calm if you want to try it and see if you like it I have a link with a free 30-day trial down below in the video description the song that I selected to pair with this video was composed by key guru I licensed this song through epidemic sound and because that file is outside of my iTunes library I'm just gonna download it from epidemic sound calm and then bring it from my downloads folder here into my timeline if you need to make adjustments to the timing of your shots for example if you need your shot to start earlier or end later you can just place your cursor at the edge of the clip and then drag it to the right or left this is also good to know about when setting your in and out points since they don't need to be a hundred percent precise because we are not going to be using the audio from any of these clips I am now going to select all of them and I'm gonna use the shortcut command shift m to mute everything except the soundtrack as I mentioned a moment ago whenever I create montage videos like this one I really like to make the shot sync with the music so what I'm gonna do is use this as an opportunity to teach you another shortcut which is the letter M which stands for mark what I'm gonna do is now select the soundtrack and I'm gonna play the entire song and don't worry I'll speed this part up in editing while it's playing I'm just gonna tap the M key on my keyboard what this will do is place a visual marker on the track itself that way when I go to rearrange my Clips I can use those marks as a general guide so that the shots sync to the music once again I'm going to speed up this part in editing as I now rearrange the clips to determine the order in which they will appear I'm not quite done rearranging my shots but I am at a very teachable moment here I have a shot that I want to split into two separate clips to create a cut we can use the blade tool just place your playhead where you want to create the cut and then press command and the letter B as in blade on your keyboard all right let's keep rearranging until we find the next moment [Music] at this point I have most of my shots in order but I want to teach you some other aspects of editing starting with transitions if you click here at the top left of the window you will see all of the available options to add a transition just drag it between two shots the default timing for a transition is 1 second which by the way you can change in preferences but if you want to change the timing for just one shot you can just double click on this bowtie icon just be careful about accidentally clicking apply to all transitions and keep in mind that if you ever do the universal command for undo is command Z while all of the clips that I've worked with thus far are video files I did want to take a moment to talk about working with still images when it comes to importing a still image into your video you can either bring it in just like we did with our video or if that photo is in the Photos app you can just click over here into photos and then I can locate it by either going into all photos or if you have it organized into an album you can just pull it up through this menu for now I'm just gonna import this photo of me which is technically in Madrid not Barcelona but hey close enough and for now let's just place this at the very beginning of the video there is a preference that I would like to bring to your attention which you can access by going to the top menu bar click on where it says iMovie and then go into preferences the second item on this list is where you can have iMovie automatically add something called the Ken Burns effect to still images which basically means it'll use a combination of panning and zooming in and out of your photo in order to give it a bit of motion if that type of effect does not appeal to you you might want to consider changing it away from the default setting to either fit or crop one thing to keep in mind is that iMovie doesn't really know what it's looking at so when it applies the Ken Burns effect you should anticipate having to give it a bit of guidance to do this we're gonna click here into the preview window at the top and we're gonna click on this little crop icon right when you have the Ken Burns effect turned on you'll see these two boxes these represent where the shop begins and where it ends my advice is to make the difference between these two boxes to be as minimal as possible a little goes a very long way ultimately the speed at which it takes to go from shot a two-shot B is going to depend on how long the shot is so if you find your movement is too quick you can just extend the length of the shot which will allow that transition to take place over a longer period of time when it comes to adding titles to your videos you have three options you can apply them as a video track in which case it will appear over a black screen option two is you can add them on top of a solid or animated background which is where the backgrounds tab comes into play and the third option is you can add your title so that it appears on top of other footage if you want to preview any of these you can just place your cursor over the preview box and then tap the spacebar something I'd like you to keep in mind when going through all of these various options is that all of the fonts that you see appear when previewing these various titles can be changed and that subtle change can dramatically change the mood in fact if your goal is to have your video not look like something that was made in iMovie you might consider using a font that did not come with your Mac I've posted a link to one of my favorite resources for fonts down below in the video description before we apply our title I'd like to take this opportunity to teach you one more shortcut instead of having to drag my title on top of my shot I can just position the playhead to where I want the title to come in and then I can tap the Q key on my keyboard the technical name for this is add two connected media let's now go over many of the tools that you'll see here at the very top which can all be used to improve the look of your video the first tool that you'll see here at the very top left is the magic wand tool this is where you can let iMovies a I feature take the wheel and make its call about how to improve the look of your video the next tool to the right is color balance in a nutshell white balancing is the process of adjusting the colors to make everything look natural if you're making a home movie this part may be overkill but for those of you who are trying to make your videos look a bit more polished this is definitely a process that you'll want to familiarize yourself with to properly white balance you would normally hold up something white when you're making a video and yes a white piece of paper works just fine then you would go here into this setting click on white balance and then click on the piece of paper now I didn't have anything with me at the time when I took this photo but just to prove my point you'll notice that when I click in two different areas of the photo it changes the overall tone the other two options are match color where you can reference the white balance from another shot or you can use the skin tone balance if your shot includes subjects that are on camera the next icon is our color correction options this first bar represents the shadows mid-tones and highlights of your video which you can slide to adjust the next tool is for saturation options and next to that we have color temperature so if you want to make things look a bit cooler you can slide this to the left and if you want to make it warmer you can slide it to the right next we have cropping options which of course includes the Ken Burns effect the other two options that we have not discussed are fit and a crop to fit the next icon that you see here is for stabilization and a one click option to eliminate a rolling shutter effect the stabilization tool essentially is punching in on your video so that iMovie can effectively crop out the shake of the camera iPhone this feature is best used with the settings set to low and I found it only works well if your subject is well lit rolling shutter is the effect that you'll see when filming something that is in motion and your camera is recording at a lower frame rate the next tool here is for making adjustments to the volume and if you have multiple clips that are stacked on top of each other you can check this box here to automatically lower the volume on those other shots this next icon is used for removing background noise or you can also add an equalizer so for example if you wanted to further enhance your vocals the next icon which looks a little bit like a speedometer is where you can go to re-time your shots so for example if you wanted to slow down or speed up your clip these three little circles here contain your video and audio filters so for example if we go into video filters I can make this shot instantly look black and white or I can use this filter here to make it look like it's in a sci-fi movie the audio filters are great when you're trying to manipulate your audio to make it sound like it's in a different environment for example if you want to make it sound like someone's talking to you on the phone hello mr. Cox this is nurse Anita calling I need a vaccine your test results came back and well I am very happy to report that you tested negative for cove 819 unfortunately you did test positive for vampire so stay inside and be safe bye bye and finally here at the top right we have our inspector which just gives us some basic information about the clip that is currently selected to add a voiceover just click on the microphone icon here at the bottom left of this window while technically you can use the microphone on your Mac I'd like to remind you of the famous saying that while most people will forgive bad video most people will not forgive bad audio if we go here to the microphone settings you can see that the mic that I'm using to record this video is the hype mic made by the company Apogee I only recently started using this voice over mic and I absolutely loved it if you want to check it out I'll post a link down below in the video description when you want to record a voice over just place your playhead where you want the voice-over to begin and then click on the red record button you'll see a countdown from 3 and when you're done recording your clip iMovie will automatically lower the volume of any other audio sources now that we've gone over all of these different tools which you can use to enhance your video I want to share with you probably the biggest trick of this entire video and I promise this will save you a ton of time many times when you're editing the video you are going to need to make the same types of Corrections to multiple shots so rather than having to adjust each shot individually instead you can create what we call a base correction and then deploy all of those changes or just some of those changes to the other shots I will let you know this is where your PDF guide is really gonna come in and II so let's say I have this first shot perfected and now I want to deploy all of those settings to a bunch of other shots all I need to do is click on my master clip copy it by pressing command and the letter C then we're going to select the other shots and we're gonna press command option V now if you only want to paste certain changes for example the volume correction or just the color correction I will put the hotkeys for all of those in your PDF guide when you're done editing your video I would recommend that regardless of where you are going to ultimately post it that you always use this method just go to the file menu then go to share and then select file at the very bottom before we export this file I want to point out a problem that a lot of people encounter you see here where it says quality right now we have it set to high quality but watch what happens in relation to the file size when I change it to best quality also known as ProRes you see how that file size just skyrocketed so if you're trying to post a video to Facebook high-resolution is going to be the best solution for you it will still look good and it will keep the file size small enough so that you don't have to wait a decade for it to upload ok folks the video is done but before I show you the final product I want to show you a few more handy tips as your project gets longer there are going to be points where you're gonna need to zoom in or zoom out of your project you can press the command key and the plus or minus keys on your keyboard or if you have a trackpad you can just use the pinch or pull gesture sometimes when you're dealing with audio you may need to create an adjustment to just a portion of a clip so for example if you look at my audio track here I have this one portion of the song which is starting to peak and by that I mean it's going to distort when people hear it at home in order to adjust a portion of a clip all you need to do is hold down the R key which stands for range and then select the portion of the clip that you want to change now to lower the volume I'm just gonna drag this little thin line down you'll notice when I do it automatically phase my Oh back up to its normal level at the very end another trick I wanted to throw into this class is how to instantly clone something so let's say you're making a home movie and you've got a funny sound effect that you're gonna use several times all you need to do to duplicate it is hold down the option key on your keyboard and then drag your cursor to instantly create another copy this works with everything including video clips sound effects music and transitions and now without any further ado let's take a look at the final video [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you for watching everyone I hope this video helped you I hope it inspired you to get out there and start creating content this is david a cox with Tech Talk America class dismissed [Music]

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Length: 23min 6sec (1386 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 01 2020