Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Let's take a look at some iMovie basics.
So we are using iMovie, version 10.0.
The most basic thing that you can do with iMovie is to take several clips, say take
them with your phone or your camera, and string them together to create one video that you
can then share.
To do this you want to create a new iMovie project.
First you want to make sure you are using the Library, not Theater mode, of iMovie.
I want to get some video clips into my iMovie Library.
I'm going to use the Import button here and then I am going to browse to find these videos.
I've got a set right here.
I'm going to select them all and hit Import All.
It will bring these then into my Library.
I have a sample ven here called Samples.
Let's put them all in there.
It is going to take a few minutes and it will render them all so I can see them here below.
Now at this point I can move my cursor through these video clips here below.
I can see at the top preview area the video.
So I can scrub around in them.
I can also click in one.
You can see I placed the timeline there and I can do that anywhere in any of these videos.
Then I could also drag and select an area.
When I select an area like that, or double click to select the entire thing, I can already
go to File and Share and share this out as a file or to different services.
So I can just share this one clip without ever actually creating an iMovie project.
But if I want to put some clips together I want to create a project.
So I'm going to go to File/New Movie which will create a new movie project.
I'm going to choose No Theme and hit Create and I'm going to create one called My Movie
and I'm just going to stick it here inside of the iMovie Library inside of Samples which
is already created there.
Now everything is going to change.
I can see my clips here are on the upper left.
I can see the timeline for the current project here at the bottom and I can see the preview
area has moved over to the right.
I can still scrub around inside of the clips here inside of the Samples event to see different
portions of it.
I can grab a portion or double click to grab an entire clip.
Now to combine several clips what I want to do is select an area and then double click
to select the entire clip and drag it down here below.
So I can select this other clip here and I can either put it before the first one, it
will insert it there, or I can stick it after.
I'm going to stick it after there and now I've got one clip following the other.
So you can do all of this a little bit better if you know how to control what you are seeing.
For instance, here for the clips I can decide to click here and change the clip size.
So I can maybe see a little clearer what is there and see more of what is there.
I can also change the zoom to see how close I zoom in.
I can go to All which basically puts every clip in a single image here no matter how
long it is.
I can show wave forms or not.
So I can do a similar thing here below.
I can show and hide the wave forms, I can change the clip size, I can zoom in or out
so I can fit more here on the timeline.
See these clips here will make it easier say when I add my next clip to the end.
So I can see all three together.
Now that I have put together three clips here I can export them using the Share function.
So I can hit the Share button right here and there are various different things I can share
directly to.
I'm going to go and share it out to a file.
I can select the size here and I can go down in size but I can't go up in size.
These are all 720P videos.
I can't create a video with more detail than exists in the clips of course.
I will leave it at that.
I'm also going to check or uncheck the Add to Theater checkbox.
Let's remove that for now and hit Next.
It will ask me for a file name.
So I'm going to save it as My Movie, replacing the one that is already there.
It will export out and you will see a progress button, right here, that basically show you
the progress it is making in the export.
You can click on it and you can see some details from the progress.
When it is done it opens up QuickTime player automatically with the video in it.
It also gives me a notification here.
So I've got the video now exported into a file.
Another way to share is to go to Theater.
What it will do then is it will take you to the iMovie Theater and it is going to place
several versions of different sizes in here.
Also going to upload them to iCloud.
So it will take a little while for it to complete.
Once it is done not only is it saved here locally as a finished project but it is also
synced into iCloud so I should see it on my other machines in iTunes Theater as well.
I've got some options here that I could remove it from iCloud but it will remain here in
the local machine.
You can even add regular clips to iTunes Theater.
So let me close the project here and then I can select a clip like this one and I can
go to File/Share or hit the Share button here and share just that clip to iTunes Theaters
and it would sync across my machines using iCloud.