IMovie has a quick and easy Instant Replay tool that's great for videos of your kids or friends playing sports. By default, transitions are one second in length but you can change the duration by double-clicking the transition after it has been added to the timeline. Click the Transitions header at the top of iMovie and drag a transition in between two video clips in your timeline. Video transitions make going from one clip to the next less jarring and more interesting, and iMovie has lots of styles from which to choose. Drag it toward the middle of the clip to let the audio gradually fade in or out of a clip. You can gently fade audio in and out by mousing over an audio track - attached blue or detached green audio tracks - and dragging the little round button at the start or end of the clip. Other video sites, however, aren't as vigilant as YouTube.Ī transition from one video clip to the next can be jarring if the audio is loud at the end of one clip or at the beginning of the next. You can trim it and split it as you would a video clip.īe warned that if you upload your movie to YouTube, it might mute your video if it contains a copyrighted song. Just drag a song to your timeline it will appear as a green audio track below the video. Often I'll go hunting in iTunes for a song for a video. Click the Audio header on the left and you can choose a song you purchased in iTunes or one you created in GarageBand.

You can liven up the action by adding a soundtrack to your movie.

You'll see the blue audio portion of the clip will detach to become its own green audio clip below. To detach audio from a clip, just right-click the clip in the timeline and choose Detach Audio. You can keep the audio going and split a clip and insert a photo montage, for example - it will sound better than if the audio drops out while the photos play. You can do interesting things by detaching the audio from a video clip. To split a clip, just right-click the point in the clip on the timeline where you want to split it and choose Split Clip. You can split the clip into multiple clips and trim out the parts you don't want. If you've got an overly long clip, you might lose your audience's interest by the end of it. Double-click the photo in the timeline and then you can tweak the start and end points for the Ken Burns effect. You can change the duration of the photo by clicking on one of its edges in the timeline and sliding it - just as you would when trimming a video clip. To add a photo, click Photo Library in the Libraries section along the left edge and then drag photos to the timeline as you would a video clip.īy default, photos are given a duration of four seconds along with the Ken Burns treatment. You can add photos to your movie to break up the video clips, which can make the proceedings a bit more interesting.

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