Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Today I'm going to show you three iMovie video editing techniques commonly used in YouTube
videos.
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So if you watch a lot of YouTube videos you may notice that they all seem to be edited
in a similar way.
You're going to see quick cuts and you're going to see some different cropping techniques.
Let me show you how to make these basic edit and crops using iMovie on your Mac.
Let's create a new project here in iMovie and I'm going to add a single big clip to
it.
So the idea here is this is one long clip that I filmed of myself just talking about
a topic and I want to edit it into a YouTube video.
Now some people do one long clip.
Some people do lots and lots of little clips.
Either way you bring it all here into iMovie into your Timeline to work with it.
So we want to adjust the environment a little bit here.
One thing we want to do is we want to zoom in a good amount so we can edit with a lot
of precision here.
So you want to adjust this here to something a little bit towards the higher end.
The other thing we do is want to go to View.
We're going to turn off Snapping because sometimes we want to get really close to the edge of
a video and we don't want to have it snap to the end.
We also want to turn on Audio Skimming.
That will allow us to hear the little bits of audio.
So we can tell, a little bit easier, where we start talking and end talking.
For this particular clip here I'm going to go into the Audio Controls there and click
Auto so it kind of normalizes the sound just a little bit.
Now it's time to start editing.
Now the first technique I want to show you is the Jump Cut.
So basically what people do in YouTube videos is they're not afraid to jump really quickly
from one point in the video to another point in the video.
No transition.
No fade.
Nothing in between.
So cutting out words, sentences, or even points where you're just breathing in, just cut those
out of the video to make it flow from one thing to another.
So to make a cut in iMovie all you need to do is position your cursor where you want
the cut to begin.
So notice here where I've got the line just before I start talking and when i get to the
point I want I don't need to click or do anything.
I just do Command B. In Command B you could see here under Modify is Split Clip.
But is works whether or not you click in the clip or not.
So now that I've split the clip here this part is selected and I can hit the delete
key and get rid of it.
So now the video starts right when I start speaking.
Now let's go and find a portion that I want to cutout.
So here we have a portion where I stop talking and I'm thinking about what to say next.
I want to cut that out.
I do a little false start here and then I really start there.
So I want to go right to here and I could see this is when I'm done talking.
Do Command B. Then go to this next portion here and get it to just before I'm talking
and Command B. Now I have that middle section and I could just hit delete.
If it's not exactly what I want I could do a bunch of different things.
One is I could click here and drag this line a little bit.
Another way to adjust it is to bring up the Precision Editor.
That's under Window and then Show Precision Editor or Command slash.
So I usually click on the second clip here to Command Slash.
It brings that up and now you could move each portion a little bit just to adjust it to
get it perfect.
Hit Command Slash again to close it.
So here's another place where I want to cut something out.
I'll get to here.
Command B and then I'll go to here.
Figure out where I want to start.
Command B. Select that middle portion and delete it.
Then test it.
The next technique I want to show you is to Crop and in close.
You see this a lot where it's just one video like this.
The camera is in the same location.
You're in the same location.
It's kind of boring having exactly the same shot the entire time.
You can fake a slightly different shot a little bit by just cropping in a bit.
So this is a little phrase here where I can kind of crop myself in a little closer.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to cut it just like I'm going to cut it out.
Command B here and Command B there.
Instead of cutting this out what I'm going to do is go to Cropping here.
Hit Crop to Fill.
I have to make sure the line here is over the clip I've selected.
Now you can see the crop marks.
You bring it in a little bit grabbing the corners and dragging in.
You don't want to do too much.
Then you adjust it right there however you want.
Then hit the Checkmark there and just Return.
Now what you get is a slightly closer crop for a limited time.
Now you may think, well wait a minute.
If I'm bringing the video in of course I'm loosing resolution, right.
Well I filmed this video in 4K.
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