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Edit Like a Pro with iMovie

You're reading from   Edit Like a Pro with iMovie Leverage Apple's free editor for iOS, iPadOS 3.0.1, and macOS 10.3.5 and enrich videos with Keynote animations

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Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238906
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Get to Know Video Editing
2. Chapter 1: Why and How We Edit Videos FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Automatic and Template Editing with Magic Movie and Storyboards 4. Chapter 3: Using Movie Mode in iOS and iPadOS 5. Part 2 – iMovie for macOS
6. Chapter 4: Understanding iMovie for macOS – Keyboard Shortcuts and the Magnetic Timeline 7. Chapter 5: iMovie Editing Workflow – Import, Edit, and Export 8. Chapter 6: Using iMovie Effects – Overlays and Keyframing 9. Part 3 – Customizing Your Videos
10. Chapter 7: Integrating Keynote – Titles and Animations 11. Chapter 8: Custom Export Formats,ft. Handbrake 12. Chapter 9: Common iMovie Problems and Their Solutions 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the Edit menu in Magic Movie

The Edit menu gives you a lot more functionality than the main menu in Magic Movie. If you want to add custom titles and voiceover to your Magic Movie, it’s the place to go. Here’s how to access it:

  1. Select a clip banner by tapping on it.
  2. Tap the pencil icon on the right of the banner.
  3. From the hover box that appears, tap Edit Clip.
Figure 2.7 – The pencil icon (circled) lets you retake, replace, or edit the clip

Figure 2.7 – The pencil icon (circled) lets you retake, replace, or edit the clip

Using the Edit menu toolbar

In Edit mode, clips are represented in a timeline format, with a preview window showing what the video looks like at the playhead position. Apple calls this window the Viewer. Below the timeline is a toolbar containing different options for customizing the clips. Let’s have a look at what they do.

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When you tap Edit on a video, three options hover below the playhead. The middle option splits the clip in the same way we looked...

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