Basic iMovie help

I got ilife for X-mas (some of you might remember that I deleted it when I first got my ibook.

So now I have iMovie and I just have some basic things that I want don't, but I don't know how to do them.

First of all, I was wondering if it was possible to click on each clip, and it will show EACH FRAME of the clip. In quicktime player you can use the arrow keys to move through the video, when you tap the key once, the movie advances one frame. So I just want to be able to see the frames of the clip I have.

I know about the "create still image"

Thats all for now, thanks

If I understand your query aright, it is exactly the same for iMovie.

Certainly when I have a movie, either in the timeline or selected from the clips box I can advance or retard my movie 1 frame at a time by using the right and left arrows.

Remember that iMovie counts frames and not just seconds so 0.1.12 is 1.5 seconds, or 1sec and 12 frames ..... HTH?

The Stubster

I'm not sure If I dont understand, or if you dont.

Okay, well I want to cut down my clips, I know you can go to the side of the clips and cut them down from the side, but what if you want to cut them down from the middle or something? Or if you want to give a part of the clip slow motion, not the whole clip.

I basicly want improved clip editing using imovie, the thing is I dont know if imovie has it, or if it does, how to get it.

I hope someone understands this.

You can split clips in iMovie, but i don't know about slow motion. To split a clip, place your play head where you want to split the clip. Then under the advance drop down menu, you should find something about split clip at play head.

Yeah, the arrows keys should move the playhead one frame per hit. Then when you come to a place you want to split the clip for editing purposes hit command+t

Yeah iMovie does slow mo.

Click Editing, then click video fx, and look for "fast/slow/reverse"

Del beat me to the answer - yes there are slow mo effects or you could always add one of the multitude of plugins available.

So, you split your clip at the point where you want the slow mo to start and finish and then you select the specific cliiped clip and apply teh appropriate video fx to it.

Okay, thanks, now i need help with pictures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=341KJe4CXX8

I made that, but I need to make it better. So, how do I remove that zoom effect from the pictures?

Right Click the clip (photo) and select "Edit photo settings"

I did that, then it just goes to the iphoto section of imovie, what am I supposed to do then?

Couldn't you get iLife off the CD that came with your Macbook when you deleted it?

Jay Ray said:

I did that, then it just goes to the iphoto section of imovie, what am I supposed to do then?

Click to expand...

Edit the settings - in particular uncheck the check box for the Ken burns effect (zoom)

Ok, ill try that.