Summary

In this chapter, we looked at Movie mode, the most advanced and flexible editing mode on the iMovie app for iOS and iPadOS. Using a timeline, Movie mode allows you to piece together videos, photos, and other files of your choice to create a video with a creative direction of your choosing.

Movie mode has a blank timeline for which we need to choose our own clips. There is no preset format or gaps to fill, but this lack of a helping hand gives us greater creative scope to tell the stories we want to. We learned that unlike in Magic Movie and Storyboard mode, Movie mode allows you to edit transitions as well as layering sound, using sound as a transition through crossfading. These techniques are important for creating a polished and enjoyable video because the transitions between clips help create and maintain rhythm, and layering and fading sounds make the video feel more continuous and make the scenes within it feel more believable.

In the next chapter, we will start...